Downtown Devotion
"Robert L. Brady, Jr."
Lunchtime is a good time for spiritual food, too. A church in Kansas has afresh way of reaching working men, while one in California has found working women eager for midday Bible study. Several Christian businessmen in downtown Topeka, Kansas, are in the habit of meeting for lunch. When one of them told the group about a series of video tapes he'd seen on "How to Overcome Roots and Strongholds of Sin," the rest wanted to see it, too. But when? Lunch was the only time they were together. And where? No one lived downtown. "Why not meet in my showroom during lunch?" asked one, a furniture store owner. "We've got plenty of room around the corner from the main display area, and I've already got TVs and video equipment set up." So the men, two of them members of Shawnee Heights Baptist Church, ordered the tapes through the church and viewed a tape a week. As word spread, 12-15 men would gather to see the tapes and informally discuss the ideas presented. When the series ended, they took a couple months off before deciding they wanted to view a series on prayer, which took the next eight weeks. "It's a low-structure, low-pressure group," says Pastor John Yeats. "We find it works best to have short series, take a break, and come back a few weeks later with another short series." The men have enjoyed the spiritual input in this unusual setting. "I gained a new understanding of prayer from the tapes," says one group member. "And I never would have sat down on my own to see them if it weren't for the noon hour group." For eight years the Fruitvale Community Church in Bakersfield, California, has had a Thursday morning Bible study for women, but the working women felt cut off. So a team from the Thursday study began a Wednesday noon ministry ...
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