Times Square Subway Preaching- Brother Shawn Pt.1

Times Square Subway Preaching- Brother Shawn Pt.1

On Friday afternoon 11/16/2007 Brother Solomon took me down into the Times Square Subway in NYC to meet Brother Shawn. Brother Shawn attends the King James Bible Baptist Church on Lexington Ave between 36th & 37th St. This ministry, preaching the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the first of its kind in NYC. They are located on the mezzanine level of the #7 train and are there 24hrs a day 7 days a week warning people of the judgment to come.


42nd Street Soul Saving Station

“We don’t have to ‘go unto all the world.’ The world comes to us,” says 42nd Street Soul Saving Station Pastor Brian Kelly. God has given him and his church an amazing place to witness at one of the main crossroads of the world: the New York 42nd street, Times Square subway station by the number 7 train. The thousands of people per hour who use that station are greeted by a banner that asks: WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? They also cannot miss the 100 scripture signs along the wall and 4 tables of tracts in dozens of languages. They are able to browse until they find something that catches their interest.

Members of Kelly’s church, King James Bible Baptist, along with his wife, Rose, have staffed the outreach 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, since January 2007. They will go through 100,000 tracts in a couple of months. Over one million have been given out since the beginning, including 200,000 Chick tracts. Many KJV Bibles and New Testaments have also been distributed.

Many people will pause in their haste to catch the trains to scan the display. Kelly has file cards in front of some of the rack pockets stating the language in that pocket. Non-English speakers are delighted to find something in their native tongue and will read it avidly. Over 1000 tracts go out every day in languages other than English. For some, this is the first time they have heard the gospel. Kelly remembers one Finnish woman who broke into tears after reading the tract, Somebody Loves Me. Early in th

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