Former Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center of Evangelism Pens Book on Sharing the Gospel
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. February 21, 2017—New Hope® Publishers announces the release of (im)POSSIBLE: Discover the Joy of a Prayer, Care, Share Life by Lon Allison. (im)POSSIBLE will inspire and persuade you to engage in a life of personal witness for Jesus Christ. Offering years of personal experience, author and teacher Lon Allison’s Prayer, Care, Share method of evangelism clarifies and simplifies the witnessing life. See Lon share his heart for sharing the gospel.
“My friend Lon Allison has written a helpful, practical, and encouraging tool for believers to engage wholeheartedly in evangelism. Through his simple model of praying, caring, and sharing, we learn how to lovingly engage those outside the church with the hope of the gospel. Lon’s many years sharing his own faith and teaching others how to effectively and compassionately evangelize make this is must-have resource. (im)POSSIBLE will surely encourage and compel you to embrace the Witness-Life wherever God has called you!” —Ed Stetzer, The Billy Graham Distinguished Endowed Chair for Church, Mission, and Evangelism, Wheaton College
“When starting on an important, exciting, and challenging journey, we all want a guide who has traveled this road before and can show us the way. Lon Allison is our guide, mentor, encourager, and friend on our adventure into introducing more people to Jesus Christ.” —Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals
“Lon Allison lives a life of organic outreach that is an example to me and anyone he encounters. If you have people in your life who need to know that God is real and loves them, this book will prepare your heart, hands, and mouth to be used by God in the work of the Great Commission. Filled with clear lessons and compelling stories, Lon has given us a book that will prepare us to do the one thing we all long for in the depth of our soul, share the life-changing message of Jesus.” —Reverend Dr. Kevin G. Harney, pastor and author of the Organic Outreach trilogy
While in his twenties, Lon Allison first learned to share his faith through Young Life and Campus Life and has since shared Jesus Christ as a way of life for more than 45 years. Moreover, he has motivated and trained tens of thousands of people to do the same. Although he has served as a church plant pastor on the west coast, lead global evangelism efforts, and served as executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, he enjoys staying active and being back in the local church where he currently serves as the pastor of teaching and outreach at Wheaton Bible Church in West Chicago. He and his wife Marie call West Chicago home.
The mission of New Hope® Publishers is to provide books that challenge readers to understand and be radically involved in the mission of God. New Hope Publishers is the general trade publishing division for WMU®, a missions auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. New Hope Publishers is a member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).
