Report by Rev. Flip Benham with Brenda Spurlock 7/14/2009
As most of you know, praise be to God, in recent days one of Las Vegas' infamous abortion mills was shut down. Now the citizens and visitors of "Sin City" are starting to wonder if those people arriving in their "Jesus is the Standard" t-shirts are the culprits. Flip said media attention for our annual event has been unprecedented. He and Chet Gallagher did a television show on a Christian network that Flip classified as "Awesome!" The show got the Gospel truth about abortion out and, we trust and pray, stirred the hearts of Christians to action.
According to Flip, one of the things that Operation Save America is going to do this year that is extraordinary is that we will be at the Freemont Street Experience. This is the old city of Las Vegas. "We are going to set up Tom Raddell’s incredible street display that tells the awful truth about the Nazi and the Abortion Holocausts," Flip said, "And we're going to read the entire Bible through, there, in three ½ days." This means that literally thousands of people will see and hear this Gospel outreach. "No one has been able to do this before the Ninth Circuit Supreme Court declared on July 1, just in time for us to be there, that Freemont is open!" he said.
As Flip traveled to Las Vegas, he said he literally felt they were descending into hell. "We arrived at Grandjunction, Colorado and it was 64 degrees," he said. We thought, "Hey, this is going to be wonderful!" As they drew closer and closer to Las Vegas, however, the temperature went up and up. Current reading in Las Vegas is 112 degrees!