First class response.

This class, we had a very exited, interesting, and very "Honest Abe" seeming and looking man come in for our discussion/interview time. His name is John Wega, and he is the re-founder of the United States Christian Commission (USCC). John is hosting a variety of amazing outreaches in the Gettysburg area, and doing this with his own money, family, and time.

He rents a small outdoors place in Gettysburg, which has a wooden frame with a realistic feel for the civil war. They built the frame with accounts of civil war soldiers describing the chapels that they helped build. The chapel is used for services every week, often with 50 - 80 people; however, they only have a dozen or less regulars. People will often come and sit down off the sidewalk, attracted to the history, and get a service while sitting there!

John (his family, and a few backers) also has use of the house in which the famous Jennie Wade grew up. This attracts those who are interested in the civil war to become interested in what God did in that time. John shows what the USCC did when the civil war was in Gettysburg, as well as other parts of the country. The USCC was a huge force of God, being used to witness to dying soldiers on the battlefield and in hospitals. Men would be saved the week, night, and even minutes before they died.

The group also does living histories. They recently made an entire village that would be very accurate to civil war times. The park service now asks John to do services in the park, because he has proven to them that the USCC was so forcefully present in this time. This gives him the freedom to pass out whatever he wants, such as bibles, texts, etc., and for people to take them and accept them as history.

He pays for his outreaches with money from his own job selling supplies to pharmaceutical companies. While there are churches backing him, it is with the greatest limit - usually 25-100 dollars a month, and the bulk of the cost (thousands of dollars), comes from his own pocket.

As you can tell, this ministry has tons of outreaches, and many were not listed here that were given. The "win" for him, it seems, would be to get people thinking about Christ, and how much Christians, with God's help, have done and how much God loves his kids.