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California: Seven Thousand Receive Christ During Pastor Greg Laurie’s Evangelical Outreaches

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – American evangelist Greg Laurie, who came to faith in Christ during the American “Jesus Revolution” of the late 1960s-early 1970s, is again seeing thousands of people respond to the Gospel message and be baptized.

The protagonist of the “Jesus Revolution” movie, which documents his conversion amid a US movement that saw vast numbers of societal outcasts, including drug addicts and hippies, turn to Christ, Laurie has been rejoicing as some 7,000 people came forward to receive Christ at two recent events he led in California.

Laurie reports that some 5,000 people gave their lives to Christ during this year’s annual Harvest Crusade, a California event hosted by the Harvest Christian Fellowship church he leads. The people accepted Christ in their thousands after Laurie explained the Gospel message and spoke on the “Sinner’s Prayer.”

Then, on Sunday, July 28, Laurie held an evangelistic event at California’s Pirate Cove, where he himself had been baptized decades ago. “Pirate’s Cove, where we did our baptism today has a lot of memories for me,” Laurie said in a post on X. “Not only was I baptized here myself, but it’s the place where I gave my first evangelistic message. It was like a ‘sneak-peek’ of what I would do later in my life. Check it out!”

“I see that God is working. As you know the last great spiritual awakening, the Jesus Movement, happened in California, and we’re praying, ‘Lord, do it again,'” Laurie said.