Victory Reports for 2023

Script Used: RECKONING

Total Guests: 491

Salvations: 10

Rededications:

Victory Report: There were so many people with prayer requests we needed to put chairs outside. One young lady was a friend of a cast member. She got very upset after Hell. Turns out she had been trafficked by her father and treated cruelly. One of our prayer warriors talked with her and they are starting a study together of women in the Bible.

Script Used: 59 MINUTES

Nights Presented: 6

Total Guests: 1253

Salvations: 101

Rededications: 50

Nights of JH: 6

Years of JH: 4

Victory Report: We presented our drama in two languages, English and Russian. In our area we have lots of refugees from Russia an Ukraine that need salvation. Alot of them heard the gospel for the first time and dedicated their lives to Christ. Also 20 of our cast members were saved!

Script Used: HARD - HEARTED (written by the church and approved by JH leadership)

Nights presented: 6

Total Guests: 1173

Salvations: 188

Rededications: 68

Years Presenting: 20

Victory Report: God blessed our church family with several big milestones as we hosted our 20th year of Judgement House.

1. We greeted our 40,000th Judgement House Guest!

2. We witnessed the 5,000th Judgement House Salvation!

   All praise, honor and glory to the One True God!!! The praise reports don't end there!

The Lord blessed us with a second-generation Judgement House salvation experience on opening night! A gentleman stopped to share with one of our Senior adults that he was saved as a teenager during our 2008 Judgement House production (2008 Script was "Web of Lies"), and had not been back through another Judgement House since that time.

Although he is not a Youth Pastor, nor Youth Leader, the Holy Spirit inspired him to bring a group of young people so that they could experience Judgement House, just as he had 15 years ago. We praise God for this gentleman's obedience, because a few of his young guests received Jesus that night! Hallelujah!

The Lord's favor fell upon our cast and crew the first Sunday evening, in a very special way. The Lord saved the soul of a young lady who is Jewish by birth and is an observant Jew!

We thank and praise God for opening her eyes and ears, and softening her heart to the truth of His Word! When the counselor asked her, "What was it about the drama that God used to reveal your need for Jesus to be your Savior?" She responded, "They [Her Jewish Teachers/Rabbis] never told me that there was a Judgment after death." Immediately, the counselor opened her Bible to Hebrews 9:27, so that the young lady could see it and read it herself.

As their conversation continued and the counselor talked with her about her decision to accept Christ as her Savior, the young lady openly affirmed that Jesus is the MESSIAH! WOW!!! All glory, honor and praise to God - our Father, Jesus - His Son/our Savior, and the Holy Spirit, for this marvelous work of salvation!!!!

The last night of Judgement House, we were fully booked for every tour slot; but God! His divine hand moved in a mighty and creative way to help us accommodate a family that had rented a van, picked up several kids from their neighborhood, drove 3 hours to our Judgement House, and arrived about an hour before closing, with the hopes of being worked in as walk-ins.

The mom shared that she had been through Judgement House when she was younger, and wanted her kids and their friends to go through it. So, they did what was necessary to make sure that happened. There was no way that we could turn this family away... So, we prayed for God's wisdom and began consulting with our Judgement House and Pastoral Leadership Team, Registration, and the family.

After dismissing some extras in a particular scene to free up additional seating, we raised the group limits on 3 tours, and spread the family out over the 3 groups to ensure they could all go through. We're so glad that we did! Two of the older kids/teens accepted Jesus as their Savior! Glory, hallelujah!!!!

In general, we were blessed to receive awesome feedback about this year's storyline, the Judgement and Hell Scene changes, and the sweet intimacy of the conversation between Bella and Jesus, in the Heaven Scene.

Our Counseling Crew leveraged the fact that no one, not even Pastors or Church Staff, are immune to Satan's schemes. Jesus' salvation is needed by everyone, regardless of status or position.

There are so many more praise reports that we could share... But we'll wrap it up with this one from a cast/crew perspective.

The first Sunday night our bride in Scene 2 got sick. After asking a handful of young adult ladies to fill in, only to be told that they were not comfortable doing so, one of our older teen girls from Scene 1, graciously agreed to fill-in.

Without batting an eye, she said, "I'm willing to do whatever is needed to make sure that Judgement House can run tonight." We thank and praise God for her servant's heart! God's goodness and provision didn't stop there.

Our fill-in bride needed a wedding dress. Because this situation did not catch God by surprise, He helped us craft a simple, but beautiful and elegant wedding gown for our fill-in bride, out of random costume pieces, from prior Judgement Houses!

God is SO GOOD! He provides for our every need, before we even know that we have a need!

We thank and praise YOU, LORD GOD, for another blessed Judgement House season!!!

Script Used: BEHIND THE FAMILY PORTRAIT

Total Guests: 320

Salvations: 17

Rededications: 33

Cast Member Salvations: 4

Nights of Presentation: 3

Years Presenting JH: 1

Victory Reports: A college age male who had stated he was an atheist and had been coming to our young adult classes, gave his life to Christ after going through Judgement House.

Script Used: SHELTER

Total Guests: 907

Salvations: 59

Rededications: 67

Cast Member Salvations: 1

Nights of JH: 5

Years of JH: 23

Victory Report: Working together as a church and seeing people excited and being saved.

Script Used: 59 MINUTES

Total Guests: 931

Salvations: 51

Rededications: 20

Nights of JH: 4

Years of JH: 22

Victory Report: This was a great year! The church working together and seeing God work through the members.

Script Used: INVASION

Total Guests: 678

Salvations: 45

Rededications: 149

Cast Member Salvations: 0

Nights of JH: 4

Years of JH: 17

Victory Report: After a 4 year break a large percentage of our people were new to JH. Everyone was amazed to see the UNITY that JH helped to foster within our church body. It was a real blessing to see God work in and through us to reach so many for Christ. Everyone was excited to be on mission and can’t wait til next year.

Script Used: HEART’S DESIRE (written by James Neal, approved by JH leadership)

Total Guests: 1346

Salvations: 27

Rededications: 25

Nights of JH: 6

Years of JH: 20

Victory Report: We rejoice over the decisions that we have a record of.

There were many who raised their hand signifying that they had made a decision but for whatever reason were unwilling to leave the invitation room and speak with someone.

As always, the Lord bonded us closer together as we served, creating new friendships and memories that will last a lifetime.

It was especially exciting to see people rejoice over the decisions that were made by the family and friends that they had invited.

Script Used: COLLISION

Total Guests: 685

Salvations: 71

Rededications: 0

Victory Reports: Pastor Tom and Karen Hudgins brought a small JH team to Cullman to help with their first JH presentation. The Redemption Church family worked so hard along with the JH team. Tremendous unity was experienced and GOD blessed the work of everyone’s hands with MANY salvations and rededication’s! At one point there was a traffic jam due to people coming and going to the presentation. All Glory and Praise to King Jesus!

Script Used: COLLISION

Total Guests: 523

Salvations: 23

Rededications: 66

Nights of JH: 4

Years of JH: 1

Victory Report: Our first year doing Judgement House was an incredible experience for everyone. Up until I introduced this ministry to our church, no one had any idea what it was or what to expect, but they served to the name of the Lord and with all of their heart, and it brought people closer together in Christ as we saw God work in us and through us for His good pleasure (Phil. 2:13). So many Christians were refreshed in their faith, and 23 souls who were lost found Jesus!

A particular story was of one of our own cast members, a young high school girl who felt an encounter with the Holy Spirit in the heaven scene, and was overwhelmed with how God loved her and saw her and had her life in His hands.

Another story was how a young man who came through our production: he repented of his sins and trusted in Jesus, and before he left he threw out his vape because he didn't want anything to hinder his new walk with Christ.

Script Used: COLLSION

Total Guests: 339

Salvations: 35

Rededications: 24

Nights of JH: 4

Years doing JH: 1

Victory Report: A mission team of fifty JH volunteers came alongside of the Orange City Christian Center in June 2023. What an amazing experience! There was a beautiful blending of different cultures and brand new friendships being made as we served side by side through the week. The Holy Spirit moved mightily and many salvations and rededication’s occurred! Thank you King Jesus for your presence and blessing!

Script Used: CROSSWALK

Total Guests: 400

Salvations: 30

Rededications: 5

Nights of JH: 5

Years of JH: 5

Victory Report: “The Spirit did dwell and spoke to many hearts. “

Script Used: OVERDOSE

Total Guests: 1395

Salvations: 141

Rededications: 128

Nights of JH: 6

Years of JH: 19

Cast Members Salvations: 2

Victory Report: Cast members had family members who have overdosed. Addicted guests were saved. Our church was drawn closer.

Script Used: REMEMBER THE MAGIC

Total Guests: 818

Salvations: 79

Rededications: 10

Nights of JH: 4

Years of JH: 4

Victory Report: A COACH from our local basketball team was saved as well as numerous men.

Script Used: COLLISION

Total Guests: 351

Salvations: 42

Rededications: 10

Nights of JH: 3

Years of JH: 1

Victory Report: God was so good to bless in a mighty way! Just seeing our church family come together and work for the common goal of seeing souls saved was a huge blessing. We had over 90% support from our church family, and they had a lot of fun doing it. Seeing the emotions from the community and then knowing some got saved, made it all worth it. This was our first year doing JH, but it won't be our last! Thank you so much!!

Script Used:

Total Guests: 862

Salvations: 20

Rededications: 21

Nights of JH: 3

Years of JH: 3

Victory Report: Watched God work in amazing ways helping people understand the truth of how they choose to believe. The hell scene helped many understand that Hell is real and they did not want to be there.

Script Used: GONE IN A FLASH

Total Guests: 1058

Salvations: 39

Rededications: 40

Cast Members Saved: 1

Nights of JH: 6

Years of JH: 21

Victory Report: Our church sanctuary had a minor fire just a week before our Judgement House presentation that God kept from becoming a major fire that could have claimed our entire building.

We know that the Lord protected our sanctuary from that catastrophe, and I'm sure that part of the reason is the salvation decisions we were going to see during Judgement House.

We also mourned the loss of one of our long-time JH guides, just days before our presentation. Her family members came through our presentation the next week and two of them were saved! We rejoice along with them to see their loved one again in the presence of Jesus!

Script Used: TREASURED

Total Guests: 1138

Salvations: 74

Rededications: 24

Nights of JH: 4

Years of JH: 22

Victory Report: We witnessed 98 souls who will never be the same, because Jesus is both Savior and Lord of their lives from this day forward.

We know the Holy Spirit planted many, many more seeds and at least one church will use us as a mentor to start their own program next year.

God is still using us to tell His story after 22 years. As long as He is working, we will be following alongside to claim souls for His Kingdom.

To God be the glory! Amen, and Amen!

Script used: OVERWHELMED

Total Guests: 1600

Salvations: 101

Rededications: 491

Cast salvations: 1

Nights of JH: 5

Years of JH: 10

Victory Report: We are still hearing from other churches of people being saved after attending JH. I have spoken to 2 churches one in North Alabama and one in Mississippi about their church holding a JH next year.

This is my 29th year as a JH Director. Thank you JH for working with us each year.

Script used: Deadly Encounter

Total Guests: 763

Salvations: 24

Rededications: 10

Cast salvations: 1

Years of JH: 13

Nights of JH: 5

Victory Report: People are coming out to JH more since covid. We may have to add another night next year.

Script used: OVERWHELMED

Total Guests: 396

Salvations: 33

Rededications: 26

Nights of JH: 3

Years presenting JH: 23