Cola Clash Updates

Pastor Stacey Wilder was saved at Calvary Bible Church as a teenager. Shortly after his salvation, a family in the church took him under their wing as his “prayer parents” and mentored him into the ministry. He is now that family’s and that church’s pastor. You can hear more of his story here. It was a privilege to work with … Read More

Supernatural. That’s really the only way to describe what happened in Shawano, WI last week. Pastor Matthew Weber, a graduate from Baptist College of Ministry planted Shawano Baptist Church a year ago. The church is growing and they are excited, but they’d never quite done an outreach like this in Shawano before. What God did blew us all away! Our … Read More

We were last in New Lisbon at First Baptist Church in the Summer of 2014. Last time, we were excited at the crowd the Lord gave us. We had exceeded 100 teens in our overall attendance. This year, though our crowds were not as large overall, the Lord was definitely setting us up for some victories! Through recruiting and various … Read More

This past week was our team’s “homecoming” week to reach out in conjunction with our home church, Falls Baptist Church. David Rains, the youth leader, and his wife, Summer, are not only excellent youth leaders, they are former team members and good friends. Much prayer preceded the week and a whole lot of work. Though our week had its definite … Read More

First Baptist Church of Napoleon is situated just outside of Jackson, MI and sits in the center of town. Pastor Reggie Coleman is a good friend to the ministry and has had our teams several times over the years. Each time, the team had a small amount of contacts, but many attended. However, this year was different. When we arrived and … Read More

Five years ago in September of 2011, Abi and I were asked to come speak at Grace Baptist Church to introduce them to Baptist College of Ministry. We came and met Pastor Tim Stratton for the first time. Since then, we’ve gotten to know the family and Charlie, his son, who is a student at BCM. This last February, Pastor … Read More

Marquette Manor Baptist Church is the birthplace of The War and therefore of Minutemen Ministries. Years ago, then youth pastor Wayne Van Gelderen Jr. and his brother Jim came up with an idea to reach teens with the gospel. 37 years later, the program has been repeated thousands of times! Furthermore, the church still has a heart to reach teens … Read More

In September of 2011, my wife and I traveled to Sun Prairie, WI to present our youth evangelistic ministry to Calvary Baptist Church, pastored by Rick Bloom. Last December, their new youth directors, Dan and Karen Kahlhamer,  contact me about bringing the Cola Clash to Sun Prairie. They had attended one of our rallies elsewhere in 2014 and wanted their church to experience … Read More

It was so good to be back at Grace Baptist Church of Kettering, Ohio. This was our third Cola-Clash here with Pastor Shaw and Pastor Kagin. It was great to see again what God is doing in this church. It is truly a church on the move! God blessed our recruiting by allowing us to get 435 teenagers recruited before … Read More

This week at Vallyview Baptist Church in Northampton, PA, we definitely experienced showers… of blessings. There has never been a Cola-Clash so thoroughly drenched with rain like we experienced this week. The Lord definitely tested our faith as we struggled with the fact that humanly speaking, nobody would want to drive to a church out in a corn field during … Read More