| Telling Tourists |
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If you’ve walked through the streets of London or another of our big cities and noticed a crowd gathered around a  sketchboard, the chances are that it belongs to Open Air Campaigners (OAC). OAC workers use it as a way of explaining Christian truth in a way that’s clear and understandable, and holds people’s attention. During the summer months they’re particularly active, with Tell-A-Tourist campaigns in London and elsewhere contacting some of the hundreds of thousands of people from overseas who holiday here. Reaching out to people from diverse cultures and backgrounds is a strong point of Tell-A-Tourist. “  One young female team member, on a mission for the first time, had a conversation with a young woman from a country closed to the gospel,” explains OAC director Peter Kennelly. ‘In the goodness of God, this young woman was open to hear the good news about Jesus. “Team members are equipped with Christian literature in many different languages. Hundreds of tracts and scores of Gospels were given out.” OAC evangelists are trained in open-air work and creative outreach. Innovative ways of teaching the gospel include sketchboard illustration, drama, juggling, puppetry, escapology and illusion. 
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