Waiting for the Rose Parade, crowds hear Gospel’s call

PASADENA, Calif. (BP)--Sitting along Colorado Boulevard about 12 hours before the start of the 2006 Rose Parade, Laurence Rocha had nothing better to do than hear the Gospel and watch a mime group perform to songs depicting the death and resurrection of Christ.“I’m just sitting and watching football on my little TV,” said Rocha, who had heard an announcement over a hand-held megaphone to see the performance in front of a Pasadena pizza shop a few yards away from where he had set up for the night. “There is no other entertainment.”

That is exactly what Martin Davis, in his 11th year heading up the annual outreach, wants to hear.Davis, two mime teams and more than 50 other volunteers joined together to spread the Gospel to a captive audience Dec. 31.Amid the pink and green silly string being sprayed and marshmallows being thrown into the streets, thousands of people heard that Jesus loves them and that He died for them.As a result five people prayed to follow Christ and many others heard the Good News for the first time.“God’s doing things we don’t see,” Davis said.Last year, one of the mime teams from San Diego was contacted in April by a man who had just given his heart to God. >Complete Article (BP)