I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
Harvey Ben Kinchlow was an American evangelist best known for being co-host of The 700 Club from 1975-88 and again from 1992-6, He aslo other shows on the Christian Broadcasting Network such as Straight Talk and a radio show Taking it to the Streets.
Ben was the son of a Methodist minister. He was raised by a strict , loving, church attending family, in Uvalde, Texas. He received his schooling at Nicolas school in San Antonio - it was the last segregated campus for the city’s black students. It operated exclusively for African-Americans from 1938-55
Ben served in the United states Air Force for 13 years and earned his MBA.
He met and married Vivian bur soon their marriage was on the rocks.
For a period he was a Black nationalist under the influence of Malcolm X and the Black Muslims.
A white Christian named John. who radiated the love of Jesus, touched the angry hard cynical Ben. He discovered that Jesus was the key to John’s life. Twice, while Ben was testing tyres on a race track - that was his job , these words sprang to his My heavenly Father watches over me. On the second time he gave his life to Christ and wept. Ben changed and his marriage was restored.
He became a born again Christian and was ordained as an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister in 1971.
He became the executive director of a Christian drug and rehabilitation center
He appeared on The 700 Club to speak about the people he saw coming to Christ through the centre. When Pat Robertson , the regular host, was in Israel, he stepped in.
In 1975 he became The 700 Club’s Director of Counseling. In 1982 he became co-host and Christian Broadcasting Network’s vice-president for domestic ministries. In 1985 he was promoted to executive vice-president. He left CBN and The 700 Club in 1996 to pursue an independent ministry
He was the founder of Americans for Israel and co-host of the Front Page Jerusalem radio show.
He was president and co-founder of Brio TV launched in 2015. It isa subscription based streaming service with TV affiliates focused on providing positive, faith driven content for individuals and families. He hosted the platform’s flagship program Ben Kinchlow Real America.
On the day Ben died, 18th July, 2019, aged 82, followers of Ben’s official Facebook page received a prayer alert asking for emergency prayers.
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CBN.com
wikipedia
Kay Lee Arthur is an international Bible teacher, 4 times Evangelical Christian Publications Association (ECPA) Christian Book Award winning author and co-founder of Precept Ministries International (1970).
Kay was born on 11th November, 1933, in Jackson, Michigan. Her family honoured God to the extent when they moved, which they frequently did, they looked for the church first then the house.
She graduated from nursing school, aged 21, in 1955 and married her first husband Frank Thomas Goetz Jr. They divorced in 1961.
After becoming a Christian she tried to reconcile the marriage but he committed suicide before they could reconcile.
She continued in her nursing career and moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to attend Temple University. There she gained a diploma.
She met and married Jack Arthur on 16th December 1965. Before they met he had spent 10 years working for The Pocket Testament League covering 70 countries.
Together they went as missionaries to Mexico but due to health problems they returned to Chattanooga. Kay taught the Bible to teens in their living room. Jack became the station manager of a local Christian radio station.
Kay’s study group steadily grew and so they bought a 32 acre farm to accommodate the expanding ministry, They called it *Reach Out Ranch.
In 1972 the radio station was sold. Jack became the full time administrator of the ministry. The ministry was eventually renamed * Precept Ministries International ( PMI).*
Precepts for Life
Kay hosted a daily radio, television and online Bible Study Teaching program called Precepts for Life She walked listeners through the Bible, book by book and verse by verse using the Inductive Bible Study Method ( a set of steps to follow). It had an audience reach of over 75 million households and broadcast to over 30 countries. In 2004 and 2009 it was voted Best Television teaching program by the National Religious Broadcasters The series was broadcast from 1996-2019.
Precepts for Life is available as a video series and online.
In 2007 Tennessee Temple University awarded her a Doctor of Humane letters.
Kay and Jack served as co-chief executive officers (CEO) until their son David assumed the position in 2012.
In 2012 Kay was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Christian Women in Media Association.
Jack Arthur, Kay’s husband and co-founder of Precept Ministries. died on 9th January 2017 aged 90. They were married for 51 years. He battled cancer and died from Alzheimer disease.
An author of more than 100 books and Bible study workbooks Kay continues to collaborate with the Precept team on Bible study resources. Kay is now 92 years young.
Through Kay’s warm , engaging guidance on the videos, you will learn to observe God’s Word, interpret its meaning, and apply its truth to your life and circumstances.
Sources used
Amazon
Precepts for Life
Wikipedia
Fulton J. Sheen, in full Fulton John Sheen also called Bishop Futon Sheen or Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton was an American religious leader, evangelist. writer, Roman Catholic priest and television personality.
Fulton as a child served as an altar boy at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the immaculate Conception in Peoria, Illinois. Aged 8 he dropped a wine cruet on the floor. Bishop Spalding predicted Fulton would study at Louvain In Belgium and become a bishop.
He earned a BA (1917) and a MA (1919) at St. Viator College in Bourbonnais, Illinois. In 1919 he was ordained. He also has a degree in canon law (1920), PhD. (1923) and Doctor of Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (1924).
In 1925 he served as a priest in London. In 1926 moved back to Peoria, to join the philosophical faculty at the Catholic University of America (1926-50). He spent 6 hours preparing each lecture.
Many who worked with him attested that he never failed to keep his holy hour from the day of his priestly ordination until his death.
Fulton’s first radio broadcasting experience was in 1926. He gave a series of Sunday Lenten evening sermons on a New York station.
His talents as a preacher were noticed and in January 1927, aged 30, he preached on the patronal feast of St. Aquinas.
In 1930 he began his 22 year radio career on the The Catholic Hour program. At one stage up to 4 million listened. He received a steady stream of letters 75-100 daily, many demanding personal attention.
1934 made a monsignor by Pope Pius X1.
14th March 1940, Easter Sunday, he appeared on the world’s first broadcast of a Catholic religious service.
In 1951 he became a titular bishop and served as an auxiliary bishop of New York (1951-66). In New York he hosted Life is Worth living (1951-7) which attracted 30 million viewers. With a chalkboard and no script he discussed practical matters of faith and criticized communism.
1958 appointed director of Society for the Propagation of the Faith (1958-66) and raised millions of dollars to support Catholic missions…
The Bishop Fulham Sheen Show (1961-9) proved a popular program to watch.
1962-5 attended all the sessions of the second Vatican Council.
1966-9 appointed Bishop of Rochester, New York.
1969 he was appointed archbishop of Newport, Wales.
1976-9 he served Pope Paul V1 as assistant to the Pontifical Throne.
Fulton wrote 66 books and had a syndicated newspaper column.
He died on 9th December 1979, aged 84, on the floor of his private chapel. This was shortly after having had open-heart surgery.
Fulton is being considered for a saint hood. He has been called a *Servant of God *
He was recognized by Pope Benedict XV1 in 2012 .
JUly 2019 Pope Francis approved a miracle attributed to Fulton.
18th November Pope Francis called for him to beatified on 21 December.
December 3rd indefinitely postponed the ceremony.
Sources
Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Catholic University of America
Robert Harold Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker and author.
In his 40 years of television he was principally known for the weekly Hour of Power television program which he hosted from 1970 until his retirement in 2010. He began the program after he had been encouraged by a visit from his long time friend Billy Graham in 1969.
Robert was also the founder of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California where the program was later broadcast from.
Robert’s grandparents were Dutch Immigrants. He was youngest of 5 children. When he was still only 4 an uncle, who was a minister, told him to become an evangelist Single most defining moment of my early life he called it.
He studied at Hope College, located in Holland, Michigan and in 1950 received an MD degree from Western Theological Seminary.
He was ordained in the reformed Church of America. He worked first in Ivanhoe Reformed Church in Riverdale, Illinois before moving to Garden Grove, California.
He opened it at a drive-in movie theatre! 4 miles away he rented a 300 seat former Baptist church. On the Sunday he presided firstly at the church and then drove with his organ to the drive-in for another service!
As the congregations grew he bought some land and combined the 2 congregations! Started in 1958, finished in 1961 at a cost of $3 million. Dedicated 5th November 1961. Architect was Richard Neutra. He was able to preach his sermon to both the drive-in (500 cars) and the church congregation.
In 1968 the Tower of Hope building (13 storeys high) was added with a 90 foot illuminated cross.
After purchasing more land Crystal Cathedral was built. Architect Philip Johnson
The church has glass walls and ceiling and dedicated 14th September 1980.
Cost $18 million (Found colour photos on Google but unable to download)
Robert, in his lavender and purple vestments, was viewed on Sundays on the world’s most widely watched hour long church service Hour of Power.
It was one of the first USA megachurches. He had an imposing pulpit from which to reach his global flock. The stage was so roomy for the Christmas Nativity he had live camels and horses. with angels overhead on cables.
In 2006 Robert stepped down as senior pastor. He had built an Empire Preaching Self-belief.
His son, Robert, became senior pastor, but resigned in 2008. His eldest daughter Sheila Schuller Coleman took over in July 2010.
October 2010 the Crystal Cathedral (CC) sort bankruptcy protection in the midst of what became known as the ’ Great Recession’. CC sold in 2012 .
( Read - Final years and death)
Robert's wife, Arvella died in 2014. They were married for 63 years. Robert had cancer and died on 2nd April, 2015. He was interred next to his wife in Garden Grove , California.
Sources used
The New York Times
Wikipedia
George and Hazel Miller have always a passion for helping those in the Caribbean, its now expanded to included the races of Africa.
Reconciliation Ministries International (1996), formally known as Impact Missions (1986) was founded by Rev. N. George Miller and his wife Hazel.
The name was changed in response to the multi cultural and multi racial needs he encountered among the nations he visited. The name reflects that the ministry now serves a collage of races in Africa and the Caribbean
Its core objects are to preach the Gospel, show practical concern for people;s needs, to encourage and equip the church to meet those needs and to release Christians in all walks of life to fulfill their calling in God.
The Word for Today, written by Bob Glass, since 2000, has a Caribbean issue.
I have met George and Hazel several times. He is a very approachable person and his sermons are impassioned. The Holy Spirit is upon and within him when he preaches.
George has been in full time ministry for over 40 years and continues to preach the good news and mentor the next generation of evangelist.
Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation ( born Rita Antoinette Rizzo), also known as Mother Angelica, was born on 20th April 1923 in Canton, Ohio.
She was a Catholic American Poor Clare nun best known for her television personality. She was the passionate founder of the internationally broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Nerwork (EWTN)(est.1981) and the radio network WEWN.
She began her broadcasting career on the radio. EWTN was established in a monastery garage. Under her leadership it became the largest and most influential Roman catholic media organization in the USA and one of the largest in the world. For her TV show Mother Angelica Live(1983-2001 a twice weekly homily she dressed in a traditional full habit and spoke in a straightforward and unaffected manner. It became the the voice for Catholics worldwide.
Mother Angelica came from a community of African-American and Italian immigrant workers. She was the only child of John and Mae Helen Rizzo (nee Gianfrancesco). Her father was by trade a tailor. He left after Angelica was 5. Parents divorced 2 years later. It was at the time of the Great depression and her mother struggled with chronic depression and poverty. They lived with her maternal grandparents -grandfather had a stroke which left him paralyzed.
*We pinched pennies just to keep food on the table.
She began to believe she had a vocation in the church when the effects of a stomach ailment ceased after she had visited a Roman catholic faith healer
In 1944 she joined the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. In 1946 she was transfered to Canton. She took her final vows in 1953 and injured her back thet year. She made a commitment that if she was healed she would establish a new monastery. In 1962, with 4 other nuns she moved to Irondale Alabama, to establish a new community.
The TV and radio stations she started had 500 employees. They reached millions of households world wide.
In 2001 Mother Angelica had a stroke. her station EWTN continued to broadcast her homilies,
On 27th March 2016, aged 92, she died in the cloistered monastery she had founded in Hanceville, Alabama.
Mother Angelica probably reached more people than any other religious leader on earth, with the exception of the pope. Stephen Bates - The Guardian
EWTN currently broadcasts in 3 languages, 24 hours a day on satellite channels in more than 140 countries - potential audience 250 million households.
Sources used
Britannica Online Encyclopedia
The Guardian
Wikipedia
Hillsong Church, commonly known as Hillsong, is a charismatic Christian megachurch based in Australia. The church was originally called Hills Christian Life Center was established in 1983 in Baulkham Hills, New South Wales by Brian and Bobbie Houston.
Hillsong is known famously for its worship music. Through the 1980s and 1990s the congregation grew from 45 members to nearly 20,000. This was the result of strategic marketing to target the younger generations. Hillsong’s successfully established a global music standard.
In 1997 the church moved to Baulkham’s Hills Norwest Business Park. In 2002 a new convention centre on the 'Hiils’location was opened by John Howard - the Prime Minister at that time.
During the 1990s Hillsong Kiev and London were planted. In 2007 planted in Moscow. Planted in 2008/9 South Africa and Sweden. Israel planted 2017. Canada and Mexico planted 2018
2018 Statistics . 150, 000 members in 23 countries. In Australia 30 churches and 43,000 members.
September 2018 Hillsong,. lead by Brian Houston, left the Australian Christian churches to become an autonomous denomination - identifying itself more as a global and charismatic church.
Music has been central to worship at the church. Worship leaders have generally enjoyed a high-profile international position They have included Geoff Bullock, Darlene Zschech and Reuben Morgan
Hillsong achieved international acclaim during Darlene’s ministry. *Shout to the Lord *was an early hit
Hillsong has released over 40 albums since 1992 - one platinum status and many gold status in the mainstream Australian album charts. Sold 11 million copies.
In 1999 to make Hillsong Music mainstream an agreement was reached with Warner Music Australia. In 2003 Sony Music Australia also signed.
In 2012 they produced* The Global Project* - a collection pf the their most popular songs, in 9 languages.
9th March USA religious broadcaster Trinity Broadcasting Network announced a partnership. The Church Channel re-imaged as the Hillsong Channel on 1st June 2016.
2018 Hillsong Worship won its first Grammy award for *What a beautiful name *.
HIllsong can be found on most Christian Channels across the world. (eg.Sky 595 this morning in th U.K)
Hiilsong: Let Hope Rise documentary released September2016 explores its rise to prominence as an international church
The two founders responsible for getting this to happen are Brian and Bobbie Houston who are the current global senior pastors of Hillsong Church.
For 12 years Brian was the national superintendent/ president of the Australian Christian Churches (1997-2009)
In May 1999 Brian took over from his father, Frank, the role of senior pastor at Sydney’s Hills Christian Life Centre.
Brian is an executive producer for Hillsong Music Australia which is the music ministry of Hillsong Church.
I greatly enjoy singing and listening to their songs. May Hillsong continue to be driven by the Holy Spirit.
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wikipedia
Dag is an African evangelist, pastor, author and conference speaker based in Accra, Ghana. He is the founder and presiding Bishop of United Denomination Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (UD-OLGC). He is also the founder of the Anagkazo Bible Ministry Training Center (ABMTC) located in the eastern region of Ghana.
Dag also serves on the board pf directors of Church Growth International and the Pentecostal World fellowship.
Dug was born on the 14th May 1963 in London to a Swiss mother Elizabeth and a Ghanaian father Nathaniel Heward-Mills. The family moved to Accra, Ghana, soon after his birth.
He was converted at Achimota Secondary school. he joined Christian youth campaigns ,Scripture Union and Calvary Road Singers.
He trained to be a medical doctor at University of Ghana medical school.
He started the Lighthouse Chapel International (1987) while still a student having felt a strong call from God to start a church. it started in a classroom in the School of Hygiene, Korle-Bu with a group of 15. They moved to the canteen. They moved to an old cinema hall in 1992. It became the first Korle Gonno Cathedral. It continued to grow until in 2006 he commissioned the construction of The Qodesh - one of the largest church complexes in Africa. (Unable to down load pictures).
Dag has inspired many of his members to become missionaries, pastors and workers to help build the denomination into an international reputable ministry. He has since planted 3,000 churches in more than 90 countries worldwide.
Dag holds many camps each year across the world to encourage as many people as possible to work for God.
Dag is a best selling author… His writings are now available in 27 languages.
Loyalty and Disloyalty* accredited by Ghana Christian Book Awards body in 2007.
He has invitations to speak at conferences and conventions. His conferences bring together 1000s of pastors, ministers, church leaders and workers of different denominations across the globe.
He has founded Anagkazo Bible school. It is a full time Bible seminary with 1000s of students worldwide. It is more than a Bible school it trains some people to be shepherds of real sheep!
Dag started the Healing Jesus Campaign in 2004, it has massive outdoor appeal using a convoy of trucks, 4x4s and buses. They have had gatherings of 500,000 souls in one night. They have recorded 11 million decisions for Christ.
In 2018 Dag visualised one hundred million souls would be won through this idea. 100,000,000
The campaign includes free medical provision - Dag is a qualified doctor
For more data on media, humanitarian efforts and First Love Center see page 4.
Adelaide, his wife, an insightful speaker to women, works alongside him. Together, they are a wonderful team.
Source used and information
wikipedia
Anagkazo Bible school
Charisma News
Church Growth International
Pentecostal World Fellowship
Healing Jesus Campaign
Jack Williams Hayford is an American Pentecostal minister, hymn writer (Majesty), author and Chancellor Emeritus of The KIng;s University. He is the former senior pastor of The Church of th Way in Van Nuys, California (1969-99) and was the 4th President of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
He was born on 25th June 1934 in Los Angeles, California. He was born with a muscular condition in the neck, his condition improved. His mother, Dolores, was a Bible teacher who spoke at interdenominational women’s classes and what is now known as Aglow International. Although his parents did not regularly attend church he credited them with providing him a Christian upbringing.
HIs parents moved to Oakland, California where he attended Oakland Technical High school. He moved back to Los Angeles to earn a bachelor degree at Life Pacific University (formerly Lighthouse International Foursquare Evangelism (LIFE). (1956).
He served as the National Youth Director of International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and joined the faculty at LIFE and went onto be dean of students there. He got his second degree at Azusa Pacific University (APU)(1970).
In 1969 he was asked to pastor a small congregation of 18 members, average age 65 at Foursquare Church of the Way, Van Nuys, California He was only going to stay for 6 months. He stayed for 30 years (1969-99) and turned it into a pioneer of the megachurch movement - reported membership exceeded 10,000. Jan and Paul Crouch, founders of Trinity Broadcasting Network, regularly broadcast from the church.
In the 1990s he felt he wanted to establish a Pentecostal Seminary in Los Angeles. In 1999 he resigned as senior pastor and founded The King’s College and Seminary ( now The King’s University). He returned briefly to run the church when his son-in-law, Scott Baner,the new pastor suddenly died., In 2004 he was elected to a 4 year term as President of the Foursquare denomination. In 2013 the college was moved to Southlake Texas.
In 2015 he was honored with the Title of Pastor Emeritus at The Church of the Way.
In his lifetime as a songwriter he wrote over 600 hymns. In 2014 he was inducted into the Religious Broadcasters ’ Hall of Fame. His most famous Majesty , a personal favourite - happened when he was visiting the UK in 1977.
(Read John’s account *The Birth of Majesty * )
John has also written several books (See Books)
He was also involved with Promise Keepers - a Christian parachurch organization for men started in 1990.
In 2017 he lost his first wife, Anna, to cancer. John has now remarried and lives in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
Majesty, worship His Majesty- wonderful words
Sources and information included
Amazon
Jack Hayford Ministries
Wikipedia
Life Pacific University
Promise Keepers
The church on the Way
The birth of Majesty
The Foursquare church
The King’s University
Percy Bartimus Crawford was an evangelist and Fundamentalist leader who especially emphasized youth ministry, During the late 1950s he saw the potential of FM radio and UHF television. He had a number of FIRSTS. He was the first to build a successful Christian Broadcasting network. He was the first to create a coast to coast religious program. And the first to create a religious station in the world. He also founded The King’s College and Pinebrook, a Bible conference in the Pocono Mountains.
Peter was born on 20th October 1902 in Minnsdosa, Manitoba, Canada. His family moved to Vancouver. He was the youngest of 3 boys. His father left his mother so he had to drop out of school to help support the family. While still a teenager he moved to the USA.
After high school he prepared to go to the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).
23rd September 1923 he was converted at Reuben Torrey’s church under the evangelist Willie Nicholson. Instead of going to UCLA he went to the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (BIOLA). At BIOLA he discovered his gift of evangelism and committed himself to a full time Christian service. I’ll give every drop of blood I have. At Wheaton Collge he earned his BA (1929) and obtained a US citizenship.
During the summer months at BIOLA and Wheaton he took evangelistic tours, with his gospel quartet, across the country.
He then went to Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. In the summer while there he conducted a series of open air meetings.
October 1931 he broadcastYoung People’s Church of the Air.from
Barnes Memorial Mission. In 10 years he built the first radio ministry that aired on over 400 stations.
In 1931 he met Ruth Duvall, a gifted pianist and arranged. They married in 1933 and they began their life long partnership in evangelism. Ruth assembled a musical entourage -this distinguished them from evangelical ministries in their era (1933-60).
They kept mass evangelism alive nationwide using radio broadcasts and rallies in the 1930’s and 1940s.
1933 he founded Pinebrook Bible Conference for young people. This was followed by Shadowbrook and Mountainbrook camps. Peter directed both for over 28 years.
I1936 he founded The King’s College, a Christian Liberal arts college -since 1955 located in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Peter was president for 23 years.
1949 Peter’s Youth on the March went onto network (ABC) television - first coast to coast religious program.
1956 Youtharama started. Chuck Pugh directed large scale musical productions with Peter closing with the invitation and altar call .
1958 he began to build a Christian Broadcasting network.It eventually included
17thJuly 1960 world’s** first** religious television station
Peter died of a heart attack on 31 st October 1960 aged 48 . Billy Graham at his funeral said I don’t know anyone who could communicate in so a short a time the Gospel Of Christ.
Sources
Aechives Bulletin Board
Wikipedia
David Paul Jeremiah is an American evangelical Christian author, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, California.
Jeremiah was born in Toledo, Ohio on 13th February 1941. His father, James T. Jeremiah was a baptist pastor and former president of Cedarville University.
He earned BA from Cedarville University (1963) and an MA from Dallas Theological Seminary (1967). Cedarville awarded him a honorary D.D (1981).
In 1969 he became senior pastor at Blackhawk Baptist Church in Fort Wayne (1969-1981).
In 1981 he moved to California where he succeeded Tim LaHaye as senior pastor at Shadow Mountain Community Church (1981-present day).
In 1982 he founded Turning Point Ministries - a non profit organization which is solely supported by listeners and viewers. It focuses on multi-media Bible instruction. Its flagship programme is Turning Point - a 1/2 hour radio programme.
In 2000 he developed a national television programme.
The radio programme is now available to nearly 1/2 a million listeners.
The television programme reaches a total of 2.7 billion households world wide.
Each message that is aired, whether over the radio or television is presented by David himself.
Besides the radio and television there are resources for internet content, mobile applications, books, magazines and devotionals.
Turning Point for God’s mission is to *deliver the unchanging Word of God to an ever changing world.
Besides being a pastor and leading Turning Point Ministries he is also an author on numerous books on Christian Theology and morality . (See partial Books list and Amazon sheet))
Dr. David Jeremiah is shepherding his flocks in as many modern multi-media ways as possible besides his sermons and books ( Some in Kindle form).
With the present pandemic he is streaming a special online event on September 30th - See* It’s Time to FORWARDMOVE* poster
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Amazon
DavidJeremiah.org
daystar.com
Turning Point
wikipedia
Greg is an American pastor and author who serves as senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship with campuses in California and Hawaii. He is also the featured speaker of the nationally syndicated radio programme *A New Beginning. *
Greg was born in Long Beach California on 10th December 1952. He was raised by a single mother who had 7 marriages in vastly different locations such as New Jersey and Hawaii. He was not raised in a Christian or church environment.
His first job was working as a newspaper delivery man for the Daily Post in Los Angeles.
In 1970, aged 17, he became a devout Christian under the evangelist Lonnie Frisbee at Newport Habor High School.
Aged 19 Greg was given the opportunity to lead a Bible study of 30 people by pastor Chuck Smith, at Calvary Chapel.
Harvest Christian Fellowship was formed from this group.
In 2013 it celebrated its 40th anniversary and has become one of the largest churches in the USA (15,000). It has another dedicated campus in Irvine and 4 satellite campuses - Woodcrest, Eastvale, South Corona and Lahaina, Hawaii). Harvest recently merged with Kumulani Chapel in Maui, Hawaii and that churchis now called Harvest Kumulani. In 2017 it became affiliated to the Southern baptist Convention.
In 1990 Greg began holding large scale public evangelistic events called Harvest Crusades. Since that time 7.9 million people have participated in person or online around the USA and 400, 000 have made public professions of faith. The crusades have been held in a number of American cities plus Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
In 2012 Harvest Crusades launched Harvest America - a nationwide simulcast from one location to 2,400 venues.
Greg is the featured speaker on A New Beginning a 30 minute daily radio programme, broadcast to 800 radio outlets, featuring relevant biblical teaching. Greg Laurie,tv is a weekly television programme on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) . He is a regular speaker on a number Television channels.
In 2013 he was the Honorary chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force.
Greg serves on the board pf directors for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He is chaplain for the Newport Beach Police Department.
In 2017 he organized a movement called The Year of Good News. After all the fake/depressing news he wanted to - call upon Christians in America to make 2017 The Year of Good News.
He has found time to author 70 books including his autobiography Lost Boy, which was turned into a documentary… He also wrote the notes for the Start! Bible in the New King James Version.
His tremendous Christian work has been recognized. He holds honorary degrees from both Biola and Azusa Pacific Universities.
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About Greg Laurie
Christian Podcast Network
What Harvest America
Wikipedia
50 years later, Orchard Road Centre pastor still going strong
Marilyn Allene Hickey is an American Christian minster and televangelist who teaches Bible studies both nationally and internationally. Born on 1st July 1931 she is 90 next year.
Marilyn, aged 11 was told she had an enlarged heart which grew worse until she had surgery. She became a born again Christian when teenager. She gained a BA in Collective Foreign Languages at the University of North Colorado.
According to her daughter, Susan Bowling, her father was the first to fully commit to a life of ministry but said both were passionate about God.
Marilyn met Wallace Hickey at an Assemblies of God Church, where he served as pastor. . They married on Boxing day -26thDecember 1954 and were married for over 50 years (1954-2012). Together they founded and pastored at Gospel Chapel in Denver (1956-2012) . The church grew from 25 and peaked at 4,000 and was renamed Orchard Road Christian Center and enlarged 4 times. ( now called The Encounter -congregation 1,000) … They had two children.
Since 1973 one pulpit has not been enough for Marilyn. The once shy teacher, leading 22 Bible study groups, encouraged by her admiring students, was nudged onto the radio. She responded to God’s call 'to cover the earth with the Word that’s when she became a televangelist. She was the founder, president and host of Today with Marilyn For nearly 50 years Marilyn has been teaching the Bible on television.
The Lord has continually opened doors of opportunity for Marilyn in 138 Countries. ( Read Live the Word, Live the Miraculous/ Global Miracle Ministry)
Since 1996 she has co-hosted a daily television programme with with her daughter, Sarah Bowling, Today with Marilyn and Sarah. This programme can be seen on various Christian networks - DayStar Network Channel and independent stations both in the USA and internationally.
In 2012 she held a 3 day prayer and faith healing rally in Karachi, Pakistan, attended by over 400,000.
2016, on 12 th November, on her 7th visit to Katachi she aimed for 1 million in
a single meeting.
Sarah and husband Reece Bowling are now the senior pastors of The Encounter. Together they share the pulpit with Hickey the ‘rock star.’ Sarah is also the founder of ‘Saving Moses’. (See notes)
Reece Bowling, on 31st July 2010, said of his mother-in-law.
She’s as good as she’s ever been. She’s amazing.
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Global Miracle Ministry
The Denver Post
Who is Sarah Bowling
Wikipedia
Kenneth was an American preacher. He is known for pioneering the Word of Faith movement.
His most frequently quoted verse was
For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be removed, and be though cast into sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he hath saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever ye desire, when you pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Mark ch 11 v 23/4
Kenneth was born with a deformed heart and what was believed to be an incurable blood disease. Aged 15 he became paralyzed and bedridden. In April 1933 he converted to Christianity. During the conversion he reportedly died 3 times over a period of 10 minutes, due to his deformed heart condition. He remained paralyzed.
On 8th August 1934 he was raised from his deathbed having reading read Mark 11 v23/4 and was miraculously healed.
Jesus appeared in visions to Kenneth 8 times over several years. They changed the course of his ministry.
In 1936 he founded his first non-denominational church. He preached his first sermon in a small community Baptist church in Roland Texas. In 1937 he became an Assemblies of God (AOG) minister and pastored for the next 12 years in 5 AOG churches. He started to travel.
On 25 th of November 1938 he married Oretha Rooker. They were married for 64 years and had 2 children -Kenneth Wayne(1939) and Patricia(1941).
He began an itinerant ministry as a Bible teacher and evangelist in 1949 after a vision.
Between 1947-58 he joined the Voice of Healing Revival in the USA.
He was given full admission to the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International -established in 1951…
On 23rd January 1963 he formed the Kenneth E. Hagin Evangelistic Association (now K.H. Ministries) in Garland, Texas. This grew to include numerous media outreaches and ministries. ( Read notes on Evangelistic Association)
1966 , now in Tulsa, started selling reel to reel sermons. November he taught on KSKY radio for the first time.
1967 ordained minister by the North Texas District Council of AOG. Began regular radio broadcast ofFaith Seminar of the Air (2020 still being broadcast by son.)
1973 Kenneth, at a camp meeting, announced the creation of a ‘Bible training center’. 1974 founded Rhema Bible Training Center (now college). The college is known locally for its annual Christmas display (2 million lights)
( Read notes on Rhema Bible College)
He wrote over 40 books. ( See Publications)
Kenneth lived to be 86. On Saturday 13th, 2003 he went to bed feeling ill. He died 6 days later on Friday 19th September
His son, Kenneth, is currently the pastor of Rhema Bible church and President of Kennith Hagin Ministries
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Encyclopedia.com
Kennith Hagin Ministries
Wikipedia
Michael Amerhom Youssef is an Arab-American pastor and televangelist. He is the senior pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia and the executive president of Leading the Way.
Michael is fortunate to be alive. His mother, who was in poor health, was advised by the doctors to terminate the pregnancy. An abortion was scheduled. God intervened. Her pastor reassured her that God was involved in the pregnancy and not to be afraid. His parents accepted the pastor’s advice . Michael was born on 25th September 1948.
Aged 16 he surrendered his life to the Lord.
He was born in Egypt and lived in Lebanon and Australia before moving to the USA in 1977. While in Australia he studied at Moore Theological College in Sydney, was ordained a minister and met his wife Elizabeth.
For 10 years he worked for the Haggai Institute, where he rose to the position of managing Director. He travelling around the world teaching courses in evangelism and church leadership to church leaders.
The family settled in Atlanta, Georgia in 1984 and he became a U.S. citizen.
In 1987 he founded the Church of Apostles in Atlanta. He started with a congregation of 40 adults; it now has a congregation of over 3,000. The vision of the church is Reaching the Lost and Equipping the Saints for the Work of the Ministry.
In 1988 he founded Leading the Way The focus is on reaching Muslims in the Middle East. It began broadcasting on 2 local stations in 1989. Today the radio programme can be heard on 800 outlets around the USA, Canada, U.K., Australia and New Zealand. It also produces other resources including a devotional magazine (2002) to help Christians grow in their faith.
Michael has also written more than 35 books including Jesus, Jihad and Peace.
Michael and Elizabeth live in Atlanta and have 4 grownup children and 8 grand children.
The path he has walked has given him a thorough cross-cultural understanding and a firm grasp of Scripture. He preaches, teaches and exhorts with straightforward and uncompromising delivery, based on the authority of the inspired, Infallible Word of God.
Jerry is known around the world for talking people into winning.
Jerry is president of Jerry Savelle Ministries International (JSMI). He has written over 70 books and has preached in more than 3,000 churches and 26 nations. JSMI has offices i Tanzania, U.K., Australia, Canada and USA headquarters in Crowley. Texas.
As a child he was torn between cars and the ministry.Aged 9 he wanted to own an automobile business like his dad. At the age of 11 , while watching Oral Roberts on the television, he felt called to the ministry.
His first job was working as an autobody repairman .In 1964 he went to college and in 1965 he married Carolyn Creech. In 1968 he opened Jerry’s Paint and Body shop. In early 1969 he felt another call into the ministry February 1969 he gave his life to Christ.
He began to travel and study under Kenneth Copeland. Jerry established his ministry in 1974 as a travelling ministry. He has a weekly broadcast at JSMI.org and on Daystar Television Network.
He has written over 70 books (See Partial list of JSMI publications and Recordings)
Jerry’s ministry organization is dedicated to sharing God’s message of love, acceptance and hope across the globe.i
Sources
Jerry Savelle Ministries with Jerry Savelle
wikipedia
Charles Edward Fuller was an American Baptist minister, a radio evangelist - known for his Old Fashioned Revival Hour and one of the co-founders of Fuller Theological Seminary.
Charles was born in Los Angeles into a devout Methodist family. As a youth he showed little interest in religious matters.
In 1910 he graduated from Pomona College as a chemist and married his high school sweetheart Grace Payton. Between 1910 and 1918 he worked in his father’s citrus packing business in California.
He was converted in 1916, under the preaching of Paul Raderand and began to teach an adult Sunday school at Placentia Presbyterian Church in Ls Angeles. He then entered the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (BIAS) (now Biola University) -where he eventually became chairman.
He was initially a Presbyterian but in 1925 he was ordained as a Baptist minister and pastored a group named Calvary church. He held revival meetings down the West Coast of the USA and soon began using radio as a method to get his message out.
In 1928 he was drafted in by BIAS as vice-president to find a new dean and president.
By 1930 he was regularly broadcasting Calvary Sunday school services as well as Bible programmes in the local area. In 1933 he resigned his pastorship because the time he spent on the radio was in conflict with the time he spent with his church.He formed a nonprofit Gospel Broadcasting Association to support hie radio evangelistic efforts.
The Old Fashioned Revival Hour (TORH), (1937-68) a weekly Sunday broadcast. on which he acted as both host and speaker, gained him serious recognition. The first national broadcast was on the Mutual Broadcasting System on 3rd October 1937.
The broadcasts were noted for the music, TORH choir, a quartet, an organist and pianist.Those who tuned in heard great hymns sung by a quartet followed by a short message from Charles. Aided by his wife Grace it created a family-like atmosphere . By 1942 he had attracted an audience of !0 million listeners worldwide.In 1951 the programme was carried by ABC Radio network on 650 radio stations.
Since 2015 re-broadcasts of TORH are streamed weekly on the Internet.
Charles with Harold Ockenga, the pastor of Park Street Church in Boston, founded the Fuller Theological Seminary in 1947. The founders sought to reform fundamentalism’s separatist and sometimes anti-intellectual stance during the1920s-40s. Charles envisaged the seminary would become a* Caltech of the evangelical world * His seminary work was incremental and thoughtful.
Charles died on March 18th 1968 shortly after his last TORH.
Kraphol and Lippy said his legacy was not appreciated at the time
Yet, his organizational skill, his masterful use of the radio medium, his vision for Christian higher education and his willingness to moderate the more divisive aspects of his own fundamentalism background made him a significant force in the development of modern American evangelical ethos.
Kenneth is an American televangelist and author associated with the charismatic movement. His organization, Kenneth Copeland Ministries, is based in Tarrant County, Texas.
He was born in Lubbock, Texas. He was raised near a US Army Air Forces airfield which inspired him to become a pilot.
Prior to becoming a minister he was a recording artist on the Imperial Records label. He had one Billboard Top 40 which reached number 17 on 20th April 1957.
Kenneth became a born again Christian in November 1962. He has devoted the last 50+ years of his life to the Gospel and ministry work. In the fall of 1967 he enrolled in Oral Roberts University where he soon became pilot and chauffeur to Oral Roberts.
He has been married 3 times. His present wife, Gloria, he married in 1963. Together they co- host the ministry’s flagship broadcast The Believer’s Voice of Victory. (BVOV)
For decades KCM held 3-6 day conventions across the USA. The longer set has waned in recent years. They hold week’s an annual Believers Conference in July.
Kenneth and Gloria, along with family and friends, preach at other conventions and conferences throughout the world. These events are are streamed live on KCM 's website and on Christian television stations such as GodTV and Daystar Television Network.
In July 2015 KCM launched the BVOV network on Channel 265 of Dish TV.
In 2019 BVOVN was renamed Victory Channel and is now a free-to-air channel available on subchannels around the USA. Probably in October 2020 it will be replaced by programming by Steven Furtick of Elevation Church.l
He has written at least 15 books (See Selected KCM publications and recordings)
He has been identified as preaching the prosperity gospel. He calls for donations - some of which have financed his mansions, private jets , an airport and other lavish purchases.
Kenneth has been involved with a number of controversies.
2006 Angel Flight 44
2008 Mike Huckabus
2013 Vaccinations
2015 Last Week Tonight criticism
Covid 19 ( See Wikipedia for full information)
The Copelands run the Kenneth Copeland Ministries from their base in Tarrant County, Texas.
KCM’s motto is *Jesus is Lord * Romans 10 v 9
In an interview Kenneth claimed the ministry has brought over 122 million people to the Lord Jesus
Sources used
KCM
wikipedia
Dr Paul is an Indian evangelical preacher, Chancellor of the Karunya Institute of Technology and Science (deemed to be University) -which he owns and an operator of the Jesus Calls ministry He operates Rainbow TV an evangelical channel. In 2003 he established Samiti for Education Education Environment Social and health Action (SEESHA).
Evangeline, his wife, ministers by his side powerfully with grace and compassion for the millions.
Dr. Paul received his B.Sc. degree at Loyola College. From Madras University he received a MBA and a Ph.D, degree in marketing.
His journey of faith began when he accepted the Lord Jesus as his personal saviour when he was 18. He dedicated his life to serve people. His mission has touched millions positively.
He heads The Jesus Calls Ministry where he along with his family and team conduct Prayer Festivals across India, having the profound impact of gathering up to 500,000 during each service. 126 Prayer Towers, under his leadership, have been established across the world where nearly 500,000 call for prayer each month.
Nearly 20,000 prayer intercessors , from 12 countries have been trained personally by Paul. The Jesus Calls telecasts 400 programmes a month in 10 languages across the globe.He and his family bring hope and encouragement to 10 million people social media alone.
At the Karunya Institute of Technology, ranked in the top 50 institutes in India, 8,000 students are studying.(27,000 have graduated).
In 2003 he established SEESHA. In the lst 17 years it has brought hope and care to 3.5 million individuals - it is a humanitarian outreach mission. It works in 42 of the poorest communities in remote tribal, rural and urban slum areas to improve people’s standard of living and quality of life.
(Read in full the SEESHA information)
He conducts special prayer meetings to seek the Lord’s blessing for the Government in each State of India.
God is using Dr. Paul mightily in His service. Many thirsty souls are being drawn close to God because of Dr. Paul’s Prayer and Ministry.
Sources used
Dr. Paul Dhinakaran
Jesus Calls Ministries
The Incredible Disappearing Evangelist was the newspaper headlines in May 1926. She was already a phenomenon before she went missing.
Aimee was born in 1890, in Ingersoll, Ontario,Canada, into a religious Methodist family. Her mother was for the ’ tambourine thumping Salvation Army’. She rebelled by reading novels and attending movies.
Aimee Semple McPherson (nee Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy) married twice.
Aged 17 she married an Irish Pentecostal missionary evangelist Robert J. Semple. They went to China as evangelists. They both caught malaria and Robert died in Hong Kong. A month later she gave birth to Roberta Star.
In 1912, while working with her mother and the Salvation Army, she met and married accountant Harold Steward McPherson. After having given birth to Rolf McPherson she felt a sudden calling to preach the Gospel. In 1915 she ran out on him taking the children with her.
1915 was when Aimee gave her first official sermon. it happened at Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada. Right from the start she worked in spiritual healing and encourages speaking in tongues. Under her mother’s management she travelled through the USA and other countries.
In 1918 she made her headquarters in Los Angeles. For almost 20 years she preached to large audiences in the Angelus Temple built for her by her followers at a cost of $1.5 million. In 1923 she founded there the The Foursquare Church
(Jesus Christ, the saviour, baptizer, Healer, Coming King), seating 5,300 people in Echo Park. She also built what is now known as Life Pacific University close by.
She was a flamboyant celebrity in her day, participating in publicity events, such as weekly Sunday parades through the streets of Los Angeles, along with the mayor and movie stars, directly to Angelus Temple.
Aimee preached every night at the temple and Sunday services were attended by 1000s of worshipers who were spell bound throughout by extravaganzas that included patriotic and quasi- religious music played by a 50 piece band, prayers and singing all climaxed by a dramatic sermon. Her style was light hearted and whimsical at times, yet she spoke and sang with power and passion.
In 1922, In San Diego, more than 30,000 turned up for one of her events.
The temple radio station broadcast her services. She published magazines…
In May 1926 she disappeared for 5 weeks. The newspapers had a field month putting forward theories and rumors. When she reappeared in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town she claimed she had been kidnapped. A judge thought there was enough to charge her but the trial , scheduled for January 1927 never happened.The kidnapping was never solved. In the Service of the King: The Story of my Life is her account of the event
She was mocked in the media for my years but the scandal did not diminish her popularity.
In 1944 she died of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. Rolf, her son, took over the reins.
Sources
Foursquare church
Brtitannica
wikipedia