Rick & Dovie Moore -- Open Air Campaigners, USA

Rick & Dovie Moore

ON STAFF SINCE 2007

I was not raised in a Christian home and attended church maybe only five to ten times during this time for the obligatory Christmas and Easter services in my first 10 years as I was growing up. I hadn’t been to church for several years when a friend invited me to go when I was about 17 years old. During the service, I became convicted of my sin and accepted the invitation of the preacher to invite Jesus into my heart and walked down to the front when he gave the altar call. I was crying and realized that I was a sinner and wanted forgiveness so I made a profession of faith. I believe it was the following week when I was baptized.

Unfortunately for me, that was the last time I attended church until I was close to 30 years old. At 17, I had made a false profession of faith. I was convicted of my sin and I wanted forgiveness but I didn’t want to forsake my sin. I was sorry for it, but it was worldly sorrow and not godly sorrow which produces repentance leading to salvation. I had invited Jesus into my heart, whatever that meant, but I had not repented of my sin and trusted in Him and His work on the cross for the forgiveness of my sins. I had not been born again. I was a false convert and still lost in my sins an bound for hell.

I lived a hellish lifestyle for the next 16 years or so. I drank all the time, got into fights and caroused around until all hours of the morning. I was morally bankrupt and often talked and acted like a drunken sailor. Of course, all of this was putting a tremendous strain on my marriage and I wanted to do better for my family. But, I was a slave to all of my sins and the harder that I tried to do better, the worse it seemed I got. The more I tried to clean up my life, the dirtier I was. I tried everything to change, even religion, but nothing seemed to work.

In late 1988, God began to work in my heart and H gave me a desire to read His Word. My wife got me a Bible for Christmas and I began to get up early every morning and read it. God was preparing my heart for what he had in store for me and in April, 1989, an evangelist came to the church that we were attending. At the very last service on Wednesday night, he preached out of Matthew 13 about “The wheat and the tares.” At that time, I was under extreme conviction concerning my sinfulness and the lost condition of my soul but my pride prevented me from responding to the call of God. I went home and read and re-read the passage from Matthew and many others. The following Sunday morning at our church, I spoke with the pastor and while in his office, I truly repented of my sins and placed my trust in Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sin and to save me from the wrath of God.

Dovie and I heard about Open Air Campaigners through the Ray Comfort ministry web site and ended up taking the OAC one-week training seminar in Boston during June of 2006. I applied to become a staff evangelist and was approved in February of 2007 to minister under the direction of the Open Air Campaigners Boston Branch.

Anniversary: 1/31/75

BIRTHDAYS:
Rick 7/11
Dovie 9/25

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