In 1983 I left teaching in a large comprehensive school to work full time as a travelling evangelist.
Before then, evangelism had been my life, so that when God called me into this work, it was a natural progression from what I had been doing. In the last quarter of a century there have been huge changes not only in society and church, but also in methods of evangelism. Some of this has been rapid.
Event based outreach
One of the differences in evangelistic approach over recent years is the development of event-based and targeted evangelistic meetings. Undoubtedly, focusing our outreach for particular groups of people can be effective. So events aimed specifically at men, women, the young or the elderly, lawyers, students, sports people, diabetics, gardeners, etc., does seem to help to draw along a group of unconverted people.
