The Fort Fairfield Journal, a bi-weekly
periodical published in Aroostook County, has given the Christian
Civic League of Maine's Banquet, an event League President Rev.
Dallas Henry called exhilariting, a front-page piece in its October
10, 2007 edition. The Fort Fairfield Journal was represented at the
Banquet by publisher and editor David Deschesne, who wrote the piece.
The article details both speeches by
keynote speakers, former Boston Red Sox player Bernie Carbo and Coach
Dave Daubenmire as well as the Maine Values Voter Summit. The straw
poll, billed as the first in the state, was won by Fred Thompson
(21%), Newt Gingrich (20%) and Mike Huckabee (15%). The Republican
party received 96% of the votes.
Bernie Carbo, founder of Diamond Club
Ministry, explained how he came to know Christ while in a hospital
bed. A man sharing a room with him talked about Christ for two days.
It was revealed that the man was a Baptist pastor and Bernie
acknowledged that “God knew I neded that man at that point in my
life.”
Coach Dave Daubenmire, the founder of
Pass the Salt Ministries, followed Bernie Carbo and delivered a
high-octane message on the current state of the church, a reoccurring
theme appearing in his columns on newswithviews.com. He opened with
his own testimony about being delivered from sin and his prominent
battle with the ACLU over prayer. Coach reflected upon Romans 1 and
said the church has become ashamed of the Gospel and questioed why
Christians are “hiding out in their stained glass fortresses if the
Word is so powerful?” He then called for Christians to “get in
the game.”
About 150 people were in attendance at
the Christian Civic League of Maine's Annual Fall Fundraising
Banquet. Among those attending were representatives of Family
Research Council, Focus on the Family, District Superintendent of the
Nazarene Church Rev. Cecil Jones and Rev.
Dennis Marquardt, the Superintendent of the Northern
New England District of the Assemblies of God and
many League
supporters.