A senior pastor of a local church in Southern California has outdone himself again by hosting the annual Harvest Crusade at Angel Stadium with a total of 105,000 people in attendance through the weekend of August 26th-28th.

When Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship first started the evangelistic outreach in 1990 at Costa Mesa’s Pacific Amphitheatre, the event started out small, with only about 90,000 in attendance and a total of 4,125 people who’ve made professions of faith. Fast forward 27 years later, Laurie’s small evangelistic community has not only grown but he has had over 5,714,708 attend the annual crusade and has even helped lead almost half a million people to make professions of faith; 488,177 to be exact. Not to mention the 1,889,414 people who watched the livestream from around the world.

The SoCal 2016 Harvest Crusade was a free event (other than the $15 fee for Anaheim Stadium parking) the Crusade offered free and current music from many award winning christian artists such as “America’s worship leader” Chris Tomlin, Pop duo For King and Country, contemporary artist Phil Wickham, Alternative Rock band Skillet, RnB Rapper KB, Grammy winner Tobymac and up and coming singer Hollyn. After a time of great music and worship, Pastor Laurie took the stage with a smile and his Bible in his hand each night and shared the good news with fellow believers and nonbelievers.

On Sunday night, Laurie surprised the crowd with actor and director Mel Gibson, who made the movie Passion of the Christ. Gibson exclusively confirmed that he and screenwriter Randall Wallace will be making a sequel to the Passion of the Christ.“And you know, it’s not the ‘Passion 2.’ It’s called ‘The Resurrection,’” says Gibson. “Of course, that’s a very big subject and it needs to be looked at because we don’t want to just do a simple rendering of it — you know, read what happened,” the actor added.

As the night continued, Laurie shared briefly the story of his mother being married and divorced seven times and how he didn’t know the Lord until he was a teen. It was like as if God himself was speaking through Laurie. He then reminded the crowd, “I’m only the delivery boy.” he says, as he shared the gospel and good news to those who have struggled in the past or those who don’t believe in God.

The Los Angeles Times ironically calls Greg Laurie ‘A delivery boy’ for God’ because when Laurie was younger, he delivered newspapers for the Daily Pilot. Laurie goes into further detail with the Los Angeles time explaining,  “I’m a delivery boy. I don’t write the gospel. I just convey it. I’m here to tell people the good news. You learn as a paper boy how to clear hedges, sideway throws, that kind of thing. My job was to get it on their doorstep, and they could decide what to do with it.” The same way Laurie would approach his neighborhood with simple newspapers is the same way he approaches the gospel to people of all kinds.

Laurie then invited anyone to make a profession of faith. Those willing to make a profession of faith were invited to come down on to the field to pray for salvation. A total of 4,125 people were saved that weekend.

Sophomore Joshua Luna Solano attended Saturday night’s event. This wasn’t the first Harvest crusade he has attended. Back in 2014 he attended his first crusade with his aunt who had invited him. “I thought it was really fun, it was filled with the holy spirit for sure,” he says. “I can tell it was filled with the holy spirit because even after the Harvest Crusade, my worldly friends really felt God’s presence at Angel Stadium. That’s actually really cool.”