Peter Derek Prince birthed a teaching ministry that would touch 6 continents over 7 decades. Derek was a Pentecostal Bible teacher whose daily radio program ’ Derek Prince Legacy Radio’ was/is broadcast around the world in various languages.
He was born in India of British parents. He went to Eton College, Windsor and then Cambridge University.
When WW11 interrupted his academic career he joined the army as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps where he ‘met’ the Lord in a billet in Yorkshire in July 1941.
At the end of WW11 he was posted to Jerusalem where he witnessed the jewish people returning to Israel from across the world.
In 1946 he married his first wife,Lydia Christensen, from Denmark. She ran a children’s home near Jerusalem. He became a ‘father’ to 8 girls 6 Jewish, 1 Arab and I English.
In the 1950’s he became principal of a college in Kenya.
1975 Lydia died
1978 married an American Ruth Baker, a single mother with 3 adopted children. Together(1978-98) they continued with his teaching, healing and deliverance ministry which had an expanding worldwide reach. Between 1993-8 they visited many countries including England, Germany. Hungary, India, Kenya and Russia. Ruth died in 1998 but he continued for the rest of his life to distribute his teachings and train missionaries, church leaders and congregations.
Derek Prince Publications became Derek Prince Ministries in December 1990.
His life and work has impacted the Christian world like few others. He left a legacy of over 80 books, 600 audio and 110 videos ( sources vary on exact numbers). The material covered devotionals, works on the Holy Spirit, faith, marriage, deliverance, haling. prayer , fasting and Israel. He was a ‘pillar of the Christian Zionist movement’.
He is survived by 11 adopted children and an extended family of over 150 relatives.
His daily radio broadcast, * ‘Derek Prince Legacy Radio’ , which has has been translated into many languages, continues to reach many people across the world
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