Gfly history
Here's a little history about the Gospel Fly and how it came into being.
My name is Rocky Bemis...a Christian for many years...not perfect by any means and never will be until I go to Heaven. I came up with the Gospel Fly as a way to introduce Jesus to folks who need Him. Sometime around 1970, yep, the stone age, I was living in Eureka, California right on the Pacific ocean coast, heart of the redwood country. My Mother was active in Child Evangelism Fellowship then and conducted Good News Clubs. One of CEF's teaching tools was (and still is) the Wordless Book. The Wordless Book has colors instead of pictures, the same colors as the Gospel Fly. The colors are black, red, white, yellow and green. The GFly has a black tail, red body, white wings, yellow hackle and a green head. Each color can be related to Bible verses explaining the plan of salvation...end result, eternity in Heaven. : ) Very cool. At that time I was doing a lot of fishing and some fly tying. Somehow the phrase "fisher of men", Wordless Book colors, and flies came together and the Gospel Fly was born.
My name is Rocky Bemis...a Christian for many years...not perfect by any means and never will be until I go to Heaven. I came up with the Gospel Fly as a way to introduce Jesus to folks who need Him. Sometime around 1970, yep, the stone age, I was living in Eureka, California right on the Pacific ocean coast, heart of the redwood country. My Mother was active in Child Evangelism Fellowship then and conducted Good News Clubs. One of CEF's teaching tools was (and still is) the Wordless Book. The Wordless Book has colors instead of pictures, the same colors as the Gospel Fly. The colors are black, red, white, yellow and green. The GFly has a black tail, red body, white wings, yellow hackle and a green head. Each color can be related to Bible verses explaining the plan of salvation...end result, eternity in Heaven. : ) Very cool. At that time I was doing a lot of fishing and some fly tying. Somehow the phrase "fisher of men", Wordless Book colors, and flies came together and the Gospel Fly was born.