Saturday was a long, but very rewarding day! Typically, numbers tend to drop from a Friday night to an all day Saturday session. Today around 1400 turned out! People were hungry for the messages.
During the breaks, people lined up to speak with me and Dr. Menton---lots and lots of questions and lots and lots of positive comments. People can't wait to see the Creation Museum open---there is so much interest in this. People also purchased a lot of resources. It's great to see the hunger for learning! I believe this conference will make a tremendous impact in this area.
It was thrilling to meet doctors, scientists, teachers, homemakers, students---in fact, people from all walks of life. Here are just some of the highlights.
One man came down to Dr. Menton at the end---he was an atheist. He was very angry with Dr. Menton. Now you have to know Dave Menton to see this in context. He is brilliant, engaging and very even keeled. When he speaks, all of that is in evidence. Well, this young man came up to Dave shaking and screaming---he was screaming something like "you lie---you lied for an hour and a half---you lied." Dave had talked about death and the resurrection. He then told Dave he wanted to be there when he died so he could do something (which we won't repeat here) on his grave!! Wow---what antagonism! What a spiritual battle we are in. Dave kept his cool---he has such a great attitude and people who were there commented on how gracious Dave was compared to a number of the profs./students who attacked him.
During the conference, the committee chairpersons, Rob and Robin Smith-Weaver presented me with a tube of vegemite (one of my favorite "foods" from Australia). They also presented me with a PICKLE (they know I hate pickles!). They said they would go and personally drag 500 more people off the street to the conference if I ate the pickle in front of everyone! I answered, "Those that are here at the conference are those God wanted here!!" They also presented Buddy, Dave and me with "cheese" hats. See the photos below. For those who don't know, Wisconsin is the home of the "Green Bay Packers" (football team)---and Wisconsin is known for producing cheese---so the Green Bay Packer supporters have these "cheese" hats! They presented us these hats in front of the audience. It was a lot of fun.
One more thing I wanted to share with you. On Thursday, when we visited the Living Waters Camp and their Nature Center (Creation Museum) outreach---one of those involved gave us a taste of how they teach the young people and adults. Without any warning, he dropped a glass plate on the floor that smashed to pieces (see the photo). That shocked us---then he told us how they used that to talk about sin and what happened to the world---it's a broken world. I just love to see what others are doing and the creative ways they've developed to teach peole the truth about God's Word.
Well, thanks for stopping by and keep praying!
Ken
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