Men of God: Testimony of life and dedication to God
REINHARD Bonnke
A Life On Fire.The legacy of a life changer
Evangelist Bonnke began holding meetings in a tent that accommodated just 800 people, but, as attendance steadily increased, larger and larger tents had to be purchased, until finally, in 1984, he commissioned the construction of the world’s largest mobile structure at the time — a tent capable of seating 34,000 people! Soon, attendance at his meetings exceeded the capacity of even this huge structure, and he began open-air Gospel Campaigns with an initial gathering of over 150,000 people per service! From then on, he conducted city-wide meetings across the continent using towering sound systems that could be heard for miles. The largest recorded attendance in such an open-air meeting was in the city of Lagos during the “Millennium Crusade in November, 2000, when over 1.6 million people thronged the field to hear the Gospel!
Reinhard Bonnke held the first Fire Conference in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1986. Since then these events have taken place around the globe, equipping church leaders and workers for evangelism. He was also the visionary behind a program to mail a compelling Gospel message, written by him, to every home in many countries around the world. It was known as ‘Minus to Plus’. As always, he sought every opportunity to reach and save the lost!
Christ for All Nations continues to be committed to linking new believers with the local church and integrating them into a life of discipleship. As part of the follow-up program, over 185 million copies of the CfaN booklet, “Now That You Are Saved,” have been published, in 103 languages and printed in 55 countries. Both these Gospel booklets Evangelist Bonnke gave to CfaN royalty free, a gift that keeps on giving! There is a great hunger for the Word, and millions of other teaching books have been produced for free distribution, and “seeded” into nations around the world. He also spent several years developing the "Full Flame Film Series" – eight inspirational films aimed at activating the church to Holy Spirit evangelism. These are made available free of charge in many languages online. In the almost 50 years since he founded the ministry, CfaN has opened offices across the globe, staffed by team members who all display the same call to soul-winning that he was known for.
Reinhard Bonnke’s passion for the Gospel endured until the day he died. He preached it “in season and out of season,” wherever in the world the door opened to him, but Africa always remained his primary call. He loved to thunder “Africa shall be saved!” and these words still echo wherever the name of Reinhard Bonnke is known.
Evangelist Bonnke is survived by his beloved wife, Anni, three children, Kai-Uwe, Gabriele, and Susanne, and eight grandchildren.
REINHARD BONNKE - LEGACY OF HARVEST
(1940 - 2019)
PDF Book : Now that you are saved.
Kathryn Kuhlman
Believe in miracles !
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was born on May 9, 1907, in Concordia, Missouri, to German parents, Joseph Adolph and Emma Walkenhorst Kuhlman. She was one of four children: Myrtle, Earl, Kathryn and Geneva. Kuhlman was converted in 1921 at a revival meeting held in a Methodist church and led by a Baptist evangelist, a Rev. Hummel.
By 1923 Kuhlman had completed the tenth grade, which was the extent of public education available in Concordia. Her sister, Myrtle, had married a traveling evangelist from Moody Bible Institute, Everette B. Parrott. She urged the Kuhlman parents to allow Kathryn to join them for the summer, which they reluctantly did. The Parrotts’ itinerary took them to Oregon that summer, and Kuhlman assisted in services by giving her testimony several times in the revival meetings. At the end of the summer, the Parrotts, intending to return Kuhlman to Concordia, allowed her to stay with them and Rev. Parrott promised that she could preach occasionally, a promise which he never fulfilled. Kuhlman remained with the Parrots for five years. During that time, the Parrotts were influenced by Dr. Price, a Canadian evangelist, who instructed Parrott on the baptism of the Holy Spirit. As a result, they incorporated a healing ministry in their services.
It was Everette Parrott’s failure to join the team for a series of meetings in Boise, Idaho, in 1928 that gave Kuhlman her first opportunity to preach. The team at that time consisted of the Parrots, Kuhlman, and the pianist, Helen Gulliford. Mrs. Parrott covered for her husband by doing the preaching in Boise, but later rejoined her husband. Kuhlman and Gulliford decided, at the urging of the pastor of a small mission church in Boise, to stay and work on their own. Kuhlman handled the preaching and Gulliford the music. They toured Idaho and other parts of the country for the next five years.
In 1933, Kuhlman and Gulliford moved on to Pueblo, Colorado, where they held meetings in a Montgomery Ward warehouse for six months. At the urging of a businessman, Kuhlman moved to Denver, and began holding meetings in another Montgomery Ward warehouse in the downtown area of the city. The “Anderson Trio”, help with the musical portion of the ministry. In 1935, the team moved into an abandoned truck garage, which they named the Denver Revival Tabernacle. The programs attached to the Tabernacle grew along with Kuhlman’s ministry in Denver. These included a Sunday school program and a women’s society. She also began broadcasting a fifteen-minute radio program called Smiling Through on station KVOD.
Kuhlman shared her preaching ministry in Denver with many visiting evangelists. It was through one of these collaborations that Kuhlman met evangelist Phil Kerr, who among other topics preached on divine healing, and whose influence later became more significant.
In 1937, Kuhlman met evangelist Burroughs A. Waltrip, who had been invited to preach at the Denver tabernacle. Waltrip and Kuhlman formed a professional alliance which later led to their marriage. It also resulted in the deterioration of Kuhlman’s ministry in Denver and Waltrip’s in Mason City, Iowa. The central issue was the fact that Waltrip had left his children and wife in Texas and was shortly afterward divorced by her. Despite the urgings of friends and the congregation, Kuhlman and Waltrip married in 1938. Shortly afterward they established their base at the Radio Chapel in Mason City, where the news of Waltrip’s divorce had not spread. Having been married six years, Kuhlman finally left Waltrip in 1944 and in 1948 Waltrip divorced Kuhlman.
The turning point came in 1946 when Kuhlman was invited by Matthew J. Maloney,
In the previous phase of her career, Kuhlman was preaching to a salvation message. While in Franklin, she occasionally preached on healing, and would call people to the front not only to indicate their commitment to Christ but also to be healed.
In 1947, she preached her first series on the Holy Spirit. During the first meeting a woman was healed of a tumor while listening to Kuhlman preach. Later during the series a man was also healed. These events marked the beginning of Kuhlman’s healing ministry.
In 1965, Kuhlman extended her ministry to California with a meeting in Pasadena and in the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles,
In 1973, Kuhlman held her first Canadian service in Ottawa. Her activities included being a regular speaker at Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship meetings and conducting a charismatic clinic at Melodyland, a charismatic center in California. While she encouraged individuals to seek the Holy Spirit’s blessing and speak in tongues, she remained silent throughout her career on her personal experience.
To extend the scope of her ministry, she began broadcasting television programs sometime in the 1950s after her move to Pittsburgh. This program was called Your Faith and Mine and was filmed in Pittsburgh by Warren R. Smith, Inc. and produced by Kuhlman. The weekly programs, of which there were at least 22, appear to have been filmed during her evangelistic services. Later, in 1965, she began another program, I Believe in Miracles. This program was shot at CBS Studios in California, with Dick Ross working as her producer.
Kuhlman’s health declined dramatically in 1975. She was hospitalized in Tulsa during the summer, and in Los Angeles near the end of the year. Kuhlman died on
February 20, 1976, in Tulsa, following open-heart surgery.
A Teacher of the Scriptures
In Truth and Faith and Love
Which are in Christ Jesus for Many
God is Faithful
DEREK Prince
Early Life
Derek Prince was born into a British military family in Bangalore, India in 1915. At the age of 14 he won a scholarship to Eton College where he studied Greek and Latin. He continued his education at Cambridge University, England, where he received a Fellowship in Ancient and Modern Philosophy at King's College. Derek additionally studied several modern languages while attending Cambridge University, including Hebrew and Aramaic, which he later refined at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Although Derek was raised in the Anglican Church, he abandoned his Christian roots at Cambridge University and adopted an atheistic worldview. Reflecting on those years of tertiary study, he later said:
“I knew a lot of long words and phrases, and had tried a lot of different things. But, looking back, I would have to admit I was confused and frustrated, disappointed and disillusioned, and did not know where to find the answer.”World War II
Derek's academic career was interrupted with the onset of World War II. In 1940 he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a non-combatant soldier on the basis of his personal convictions. To further his studies during active military service, Derek took a Bible with him which he considered at the time to be a philosophical work rather than the inspired Word of God.
On the 31 July 1941, while stationed at a training barracks in Scarborough, Yorkshire, he experienced a powerful encounter with Jesus which would change the course of his life. Recalling the experience he said:
“I heard the voice of Jesus, speaking very very clearly through the scriptures, the Bible. And from the day I heard His voice, to this day, there are two things I’ve never doubted. I’ve never doubted that Jesus is alive, and I’ve never doubted that the Bible is the Word of God.”
So began the spiritual journey of one of the 20th century's most prominent Bible teachers.
Almost immediately after his Christian conversion, Derek was transferred to active duties in the deserts of North Africa where he spent three years serving as an army medic. He dedicated his spare time to studying the Bible and developing a personal relationship with God.
At the conclusion of the war, Derek was discharged from the army while stationed in Jerusalem, witnessing the fulfillment of biblical prophecy with the return of the Jewish people to Israel.
Lydia Prince
In 1946, Derek married his first wife, Lydia Christensen, a Danish missionary who ran a children's home near Jerusalem. In doing so, he became the father of eight adopted girls.
Derek and Lydia lived in Jerusalem until after the founding of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948. Caught between Arab and Israeli forces during the War of Independence, they were evacuated from their home and reluctantly migrated to England. Once settled in central London, Derek began preaching at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, often accompanied by Lydia and some of the girls. In time, attendees were invited to the family home for further ministry, and a new church was born. This continued until 1956 when the Prince's responded to the call of God and moved to Kenya as missionaries in January 1957.
In the ensuing years, Derek and Lydia saw much fruit as they ministered to the local people, including one girl who was raised from the dead through prayer.
By 1962, the couple had adopted an orphaned Kenyan infant and were on furlough in Canada. Lydia, 25 years Derek's senior, was in her early seventies and longed to settle close to friends and other believers. Spurred by this need, Derek accepted an invitation to become a Bible teacher at a Pentecostal church in Minneapolis.
Derek and Lydia Prince.
Before the end of the decade, however, the Prince's would move a further three times; Seattle, Chicago and Fort Lauderdale, respectively. Developments in the ministry opened new and unexpected doors, but the couple remained faithful to the ever-present call of God.
By 1968, Derek's teaching ministry had grown to fever pitch in the emerging Charismatic movement. He travelled extensively, preaching the Word with power and authority.
On October 5th 1975, Lydia Prince passed away peacefully at the age of 85 surrounded by family. She is the author of "Appointment in Jerusalem" which was published shortly before her death the same year.
Ruth Prince
In 1978, Derek married his second wife, Ruth Baker, an American single mother of three adopted children. They met in Jerusalem while Derek was visiting Israel with friends.
Together, a new phase of ministry emerged with the launch of a daily radio programme titled "Today with Derek Prince". Originally broadcast on eight radio stations, audiences quickly grew and the ministry's legacy solidified. Today, these recordings have been distributed across the globe and are available in a wide variety of languages.
Details of Derek and Ruth's love story is documented in the book "God is a Matchmaker" which they co-authored and published in 1986.
Derek and Ruth Prince pose for a photo beside the Zambezi River, Zambia, in 1985.
Ruth passed away in Jerusalem on the 29th December 1998 following a relatively short illness that was never properly diagnosed. She was 68 and had ministered faithfully by Derek's side for over two decades.
Overcome with grief, a well of bitterness began to rise in Derek's heart. Sensing an unclean force that would ultimately distance him from God, he made a public declaration at Ruth's funeral that would define his remaining years. As the casket was lowered, Derek thanked God for all He had done in Ruth's life, sincerely affirming his love and trust for his heavenly Father. Reflecting on that juncture, he later said:
“It was a significant moment in my life. I knew I could never go forward with the lament I felt over Ruth. I would always blame God, and the door of my life would have been shut. This was the only way I could continue.”
Derek Prince died of natural causes on the 24th September 2003, at the age of 88.
https://www.derekprince.com/en-us
DEREK PRINCE
1915 - 2003
The purpose of Rolland and Heidi Baker Ministries is to advance the Christian faith and expand God's Kingdom through obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ's commission to go and make disciples of all nations.
Heidi BAKER
Rolland and Heidi Baker Ministries is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the support and fulfillment of Rolland and Heidi’s personal callings and ministries.
Our Roots
Heidi and I began Iris Global (previously Iris Ministries) in 1980, and have been missionaries since then. We were both ordained as ministers in 1985 after completing our BA and MA degrees at Vanguard University in southern California. I majored in Biblical Studies, and Heidi in Church Leadership. I am a third-generation missionary born in China, and raised in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. I was greatly influenced by my grandfather, H. A. Baker, who wrote “Visions Beyond the Veil,” an account of the extended visions of heaven and hell that children received in his remote orphanage in southwest China two generations ago.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
— Matthew 5:3
Heidi was powerfully called to the mission field at age sixteen when she was living on an Indian reservation in Mississippi as an American Field Service student. Several months after she was led to Jesus by a Navajo evangelist, she was taken up in a vision for several hours and heard Jesus speak audibly to her and tell her to be a minister and a missionary to Asia, England and Africa. When she returned home to Laguna Beach, California, she began ministering at every opportunity and leading short-term missions teams. We met at a small charismatic church in Dana Point, and got married six months later after realizing we had the same radical desire to see revival among the poor and forgotten of the world
MOZAMBIQUE
For years we longed to get to Africa in fulfillment of our calling to prove the Gospel in the most challenging situation we could find. We wanted to see a continuation of “Visions Beyond the Veil,” and believed with my grandfather that the most likely place to see such revival again was among the most unlikely! So we were drawn to Mozambique, officially listed at the time as the poorest country in the world.
A few days into my initial visit to Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, I was offered an orphanage that no one could or would support, not even large churches in South Africa or European donor nations. It was horribly neglected and dilapidated, with eighty miserable, demon-afflicted orphans in rags. I thought it was a perfect test of the Sermon on the Mount. Our Father in heaven knows what we need. Seek first His Kingdom and righteousness, and these things will be ours as well … Take no thought for tomorrow. Why worry? Jesus is enough for us, for anyone.
Alone and without support, Heidi and I offered to take over the center and provide for the children in return for the opportunity to bring the Gospel to them. Within months the children were saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, weeping while still in rags with gratitude for their salvation. Jesus provided miraculously, more all the time as our children prayed night and day for their daily food. We brought in teams, improved the center, and took our children to the streets to testify to more orphaned and abandoned children. Some were lost in visions, taken to heaven and dancing around the throne of God on the shoulders of angels.
But abruptly, after we got up to 320 children, the government evicted us and denied our children permission to pray and worship on our property. Totally without a back-up plan, our children marched off the property barefoot without a home. We lost everything. We also lost tremendous amounts of support because we welcomed the increasing Presence of the Holy Spirit in our meetings.
But we were only beginning to taste the power of God in Mozambique. Land was donated by a nearby city. We got tents and food from South Africa. Provision came in from supernaturally touched hearts all over the world. Soon we could actually build our own dorms. Bush pastors longed for a Bible school, and to receive what our children had received from the Holy Spirit. Graduates went out and began healing the sick and raising the dead. Church growth in the bush exploded.
Then revival was fueled exponentially by the desperation caused by catastrophic flooding in 2000 when three cyclones came together and brought torrential rain for forty days and nights. More damage was caused by that flood than Mozambique’s many years of civil war. A cry for God rose up like we had never experienced or imagined, and our churches across the country multiplied into thousands. God provided a bush airplane, which we used constantly to spread the Gospel through remote “bush conferences” at dirt airstrips in every province.
Iris Ministry
The primary mission of Iris Global as a family is to seek the face of God with all our hearts, that we might glorify Him and enjoy Him forever. We proclaim Jesus. He is our salvation, our prize, our reward, our inheritance, our destination, our motivation, our joy, wisdom and sanctification — and absolutely everything else we need, now and forever.
Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya
Disgraced satanic agents, emptied hospitals by the healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ, rendered witchdoctors jobless...
Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya (DKO) was born in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria to Mr. Olukoya, a Police officer and Mrs. Olukoya, a trader. While registered at St. John’s CAC Primary School, Akure, he was recognized as an exceptionally intelligent child coming tops throughout his stay at the school. Later when his family moved to Lagos, he was enrolled at St. Jude’s Primary school, Ebute metta from which he graduated with excellent results.
Dr Daniel Olukoya then proceeded to Methodist Boys’ High School (MBHS), Broad Street, Lagos (established in 1878). Incidentally, this is where he became born again. It was also at MBHS that he encountered an Indian teacher who once said in class “Boys, if you want to escape poverty, READ YOUR BOOKS!”. Dr Daniel Olukoya doggedly followed this advice, studying from 9pm to 3am daily. By the time Dr Daniel Olukoya finished from MBHS, he was the best graduating student of his set.
In 1976, DKO was admitted into the University of Lagos (Unilag) to study Microbiology. He graduated from Unilag in 1980 with a first-class degree in Microbiology. He was the first person to have achieved a first-class in the course at the university and his G.P.A is still the highest recorded so far (as at February 2010) in that course.
Soon after graduation, DKO won a scholarship to study for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Molecular Genetics at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. Despite the natural difficulty of the programme, DKO earned his PhD in 3 years and returned to Nigeria.
Upon his return to Nigeria, DKO joined the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Yaba, where his reputation as an exceptional Geneticist of African origin became established. DKO emerged as an authority in the study of genetics, publishing over 70 scientific papers in a short span (a remarkable feat by any standard). He also taught Genetics and was external examiner in a number of universities. Moreover, he has attended and presented papers at scientific conferences in almost all continents of the world. Even today, DKO continues to contribute to the field of genetics and biotechnology via the Daniel & Fola Biotechnology Foundation, a registered NGO established to empower Nigerian citizens with modern and contemporary laboratory skills in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.
DKO’s father, apart from being a policeman, was also a pastor at the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC). Thus, he was raised in a Christian home with Christian beliefs. Throughout all his years in school, DKO was committed to the service of the Lord Jesus Christ. His passion for Jesus and his spiritual fire increased tremendously during his doctorate degree in the United Kingdom. DKO’s ministry is heavily influenced by the work of the late Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola, the founder of the CAC church. In the dedication pages of the Prayer Rain and Prayer Passport books, DKO writes of Apostle Babalola:
Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola was a minister of God who understood the power of prayer. He was a man mightily used by God to ignite the fire of the first Christian revival in Nigeria in the 1930s. Brother J.A. and his team of aggressive prayer warriors entered forbidden forests, silenced demons that demanded worship and paralysed deeply rooted, anti-gospel activities. Sometimes, beginning from the highest places, they openly disgraced satanic agents, emptied hospitals by the healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ, rendered witchdoctors jobless, and they started the first indigenous Holy Ghost filled church in Nigeria. So far – and we stand to be corrected – none has equalled, let alone surpassed this humble brother in the field of aggressive evangelism in this country.
Dr. Chris Oyakhilome
Train and equip ministers of the gospel of Christ, building in them the realities of God’s word and empowering them to carry the message of eternal life in Christ Jesus to their world, with a great demonstration of the miraculous power of God.
Reverend Dr. Chris Oyakhilome DSc. DSc DD.
Through an anointed ministry spanning over 30 years, Pastor, teacher, healing minister, television host, and best-selling author Rev. Dr. Chris Oyakhilome Dsc. DSc DD. has helped millions experience a victorious and purposeful life in God’s word.
He is the author of the best-seller Rhapsody of Realities, the number one daily devotional around the world. Several millions of copies of the best-selling daily devotional and Bible-study guide have been distributed in over 8123 languages of the world including Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, Croatian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Mandarin, Myanmar, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili…and still counting! New languages are added regularly, making the devotional accessible to many more in different parts of the globe, thus bringing the richness of God’s Word into their lives. Little wonder the devotional, oftentimes, is referred to as the “Messenger Angel”.
Presiding over an ever-widening network of Christ Embassy Churches and campus fellowships on all five continents, Pastor Chris also pastors one of the largest congregations in Africa. He holds massive teaching and healing services like Healing Streams Live healing services and Your Loveworld Specials with over 7 billion in attendance globally.
The world-renowned Healing School is a ministry of Pastor Chris that manifests the healing works of Jesus Christ today and has helped many receive their healing and miracles through the gifts of the Spirit in operation.
Pastor Chris in the year 2003, pioneered the first 24-hour Christian Network from Africa to the rest of the world, and this gave rise to more satellite stations on other continents of the world, the Loveworld USA in America, Loveworld TV in the UK, Loveworld SAT in South-Africa and LXP in Nigeria, Loveworld Mena, Loveworld India, Loveworld Persia and still counting. Through this medium, millions of people have been reached with the beautiful message of salvation and many lives have been transformed. These stations are also available on the mobile platform via the LiveTV App.
Pastor Chris is also the host of “Atmosphere for Miracles”, a program airing on major television networks in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Asia, Europe, and around the world, which brings God’s divine presence right into the homes of millions around the world. With a burning desire to bring God’s word to all men in simplicity and with the power of the spirit, the man of God,
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Dsc. DSc. DD, established the International School Of Ministry, specifically to train and equip ministers of the gospel of Christ, building in them the realities of God’s word and empowering them to carry the message of eternal life in Christ Jesus to their world, with a great demonstration of the miraculous power of God.
Pastor Chris also pioneered the establishment of the Inner City Mission of Christ Embassy, a ministry to children living in the inner cities of our world, to give them hope and a future.
