White Horse Impact in 2008 and Beyond!

The ultimate race of life continues everyday on tracks, training centers and horse farms all around the world and especially in the USA with the work of our chaplains and the RTCA National Home Office.

A year ago the RTCA launched a national evangelism and discipleship program with the initial grant from the Foursquare Foundation and with matching funds from various ministries and contributors.

The Evangelism outreach were called the "White Horse Family Festivals" that were large scale all-day events that included family activities like bounce houses, pony rides and clowns, raffle prizes, welcome gifts, buffet "Carne Asada" meals, foot races, large scale stage settings and live bands along with Kevin Thornton and Pat Day. They hit the large racetracks such as Fairgrounds, Churchill, Belmont and Arlington Park. Smaller Festivals called "White Horse Super-ALPHA" covered smaller tracks such as Evangeline Downs, Delta Downs and Los Alamitos with a smaller evening venue but still offering welcome gifts, prizes, dinner, a musical concert by Kevin Thornton and the message brought by Pat Day.

All the tracks offered the discipleship class that was centered around the "ALPHA" program and over 15 of these events were held from coast to coast, from the midwest to the southeast and at the end over 5,200 hundred people attended with just over 1,000 accepting the Lord as their personal savior and hundreds completed the discipleship course.

One year has just passed and we just concluded the 2nd annual White Horse outreach at Del Mar with 40 coming to the Lord and we will be offering ALPHA follow ups at Hollywood Park and Santa Anita!

The White Horse Festivals are again being targeted for outreaches in 2009 that will take the team to tracks in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and many other places.

We need your prayers. We have applied for a new grant from Foursquare Foundation to launch these festivals and ALPHA programs and it has passed phase one! We will need to pray that matching funds will be raised as well.

An international grant has been applied for as well. It looks to launch the first White Horse Festivals in the world with outreaches planned for Peru, Chile and Argentina in 2009! We need your prayers for the international contributors to finance the ministries in South America and around the global horse villages.

But the Festivals, outreaches and discipleship programs are more than reported numbers. They are about the transformation of lives. At graduation after graduation I have watched and listened as racetrack workers get up and share their testimonies of deliverance from addictions or immoral life styles and they call upon their peers to come to the Lord.

At each graduation I "charge" the new believers to take the word to their peers as Salty Roberts and other RTCA founders did for them over 35 years ago. I charge them to be the salt and light to the backstretches and farms in their workplace.

There is excitement and joy in watching the passion they exhibit in the graduation classes!

And the White Horse Riders is serving an ever increasing role of relevancy as we respond to disasters such as barn fires, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes- with more and more appearing on the near horizon.

You are going to hear more as we seek to secure equipment and materials for deployment and for more training and to increase the number of people who can respond with us.

The RTCA in partnership with our chaplains and councils is making a difference in helping transform people through God by presenting the gospel or handing out a bottle of water to the horse racing community.

Keep lifting up the RTCA in prayer and that God will give us the resources and the wisdom and discernment to do what is right for the people and to glorify His name!



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