Annual ‘Walk Through Bethlehem’ Event to Hold in December

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Annual ‘Walk Through Bethlehem’ Event to Hold in December

2022-11-26T12:31:14+01:00

By Church News

The Church family of Montalba Baptist Church in Texas, USA, is set to host an annual ‘Walk Through Bethlehem’ event from December 9th – 11th 2022.The event which will be held from Friday to Sunday celebrates the birth of our Lord and Saviour. The walk is a literal walk rather than a drive-through, although it starts with an old-fashioned hayride.The hayride takes guests, past shepherds watching sheep and stops at the Bethlehem city gates, where passengers disembark and are led by a costumed guide through an East Texas version of the streets of the town of Jesus’ birth.“Then we take them through the ‘time tunnel,’” Wayne Frazier, pastor of Montalba Baptist Church said, describing it as an archway of lights.“The heart of the walk is the sharing of the gospel, our church hasn’t grown a lot physically, but its outreach has grown exponentially,” he said, explaining that Montalba Baptist’s location in a primarily retirement-aged community with no school nearby precludes some traditional outreaches.“We try to do all we can,” Frazier said. “We want to invest in people so that when they go back to Fairfield, Crockett, Dallas, or wherever, they impact their communities.”With 50–700 visitors per year, a conservative estimate says the walk has been used to present the gospel to more than 10,000 people, making it a massive outreach for a small congregation.

Wayne Frazier is the senior pastor of Montalba Baptist Church, where he has faithfully served for nearly 20 years. He has led the church in countywide evangelism opportunities, reaching thousands of people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ each year, as well as an annual Pastor’s Care Conference.

In addition to being active in pastoral ministry for over 2 decades, Wayne has served as an SBTC (Southern Baptist Texan Church) Executive. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies from Criswell College in 2007 and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Biblical Exposition at Liberty University.

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