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From Mail Room To Missionary Evangelist: Meet Reinhard Bonnke’s Successor

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World-renowned German Pentecostal evangelist Reinhard Bonnke preached his farewell crusade in Nigeria over the weekend, and now he passes the leadership torch of his international ministry, Christ for all Nations, to missionary evangelist Daniel Kolenda.

Who is Kolenda? He is the president and CEO of Christ for all Nations, and according to the ministry, “has led more than 17 million people to Christ face-to face through massive open-air evangelistic campaigns in some of the most dangerous, difficult and remote locations on earth.”

“Daniel is a gifted, fifth-generation preacher whose ministry is marked by a powerful evangelistic anointing and incredible miracles after the model of Jesus; preaching, teaching and healing,” according to the ministry’s website.

“The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear — he has even seen the dead raised — but most importantly, the poor have the gospel preached to them,” the website continued.

Bonnke presented Kolenda to those attending the farewell crusade and prayed for his successor, asking them to pray for him as well.

“The Lord specifically told me that He has appointed and anointed Daniel Kolenda as my successor,” Bonnke said, according to TheNewsGuru, an online news outlet in Nigeria.

Kolenda has been under the guidance of Bonnke for around a decade. He graduated from Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida and the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in Pensacola.

But according to the Christ for all Nations website, Kolenda’s “greatest education has come from the years of ministry side-by-side with his mentor and spiritual father Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke.”

“Daniel Kolenda is an outstanding preacher with a message of salvation. He knows how to throw the net out and he knows how to pull it back in,” Bonnke told Charisma Magazine in 2011. “Many people are coming to salvation as a result of it.”

Charisma reported that Bonnke originally met Kolenda when he served as a postal clerk at Christ for all Nations’ headquarters in Orlando, Florida. Kolenda took the job for additional income to provide for his family while serving as a church-plant pastor.

From Mail Room To Missionary Evangelist: Meet Reinhard Bonnke’s Successor

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World-renowned German Pentecostal evangelist Reinhard Bonnke preached his farewell crusade in Nigeria over the weekend, and now he passes the leadership torch of his international ministry, Christ for all Nations, to missionary evangelist Daniel Kolenda.

Who is Kolenda? He is the president and CEO of Christ for all Nations, and according to the ministry, “has led more than 17 million people to Christ face-to face through massive open-air evangelistic campaigns in some of the most dangerous, difficult and remote locations on earth.”

“Daniel is a gifted, fifth-generation preacher whose ministry is marked by a powerful evangelistic anointing and incredible miracles after the model of Jesus; preaching, teaching and healing,” according to the ministry’s website.

“The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear — he has even seen the dead raised — but most importantly, the poor have the gospel preached to them,” the website continued.

Bonnke presented Kolenda to those attending the farewell crusade and prayed for his successor, asking them to pray for him as well.

“The Lord specifically told me that He has appointed and anointed Daniel Kolenda as my successor,” Bonnke said, according to TheNewsGuru, an online news outlet in Nigeria.

Kolenda has been under the guidance of Bonnke for around a decade. He graduated from Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida and the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in Pensacola.

But according to the Christ for all Nations website, Kolenda’s “greatest education has come from the years of ministry side-by-side with his mentor and spiritual father Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke.”

“Daniel Kolenda is an outstanding preacher with a message of salvation. He knows how to throw the net out and he knows how to pull it back in,” Bonnke told Charisma Magazine in 2011. “Many people are coming to salvation as a result of it.”

Charisma reported that Bonnke originally met Kolenda when he served as a postal clerk at Christ for all Nations’ headquarters in Orlando, Florida. Kolenda took the job for additional income to provide for his family while serving as a church-plant pastor.

Momentous Crusade – Reinhard Bonnke’s Farewell Gospel Crusade

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Reinhard Bonnke (born April 19, 1940) is a German Pentecostal Evangelist, principally known for his gospel missions throughout Africa. Bonnke has been an evangelist and missionary in Africa since 1967. Bonnke has overseen 75 million recorded conversions to Christ.

Reinhard Bonnke was born on 19 April 1940 in KönigsbergEast PrussiaGermany. He was born again at the age of nine after his mother spoke with him about a sin that he had committed.[3] He left for missionary work Africa at the age of 10 and says that he had the experience of Baptism in the Holy Spirit. He is the son of a pastor and ex-serviceman in the German Army.

Bonnke studied at The Bible College of Wales in Swansea, where he was inspired by the director Samuel Rees Howells. In one meeting after Howells spoke of answered prayer, Bonnke prayed, “Lord, I also want to be a man of faith. I want to see your way of providing for needs.” After graduation, he pastored in Germany for seven years. He began his ministry in Africa, with which he is principally identified, preaching in Lesotho in 1967. He has subsequently held evangelical meetings across the continent.

Early on, Bonnke encountered poor results from his evangelistic efforts and felt frustrated at the pace of his ministry. Bonnke claims to have had a reoccurring dream featuring a picture of the map of Africa being spread with red and heard the voice of God crying “Africa Shall Be Saved”. This led him to adopt large-scale evangelism, rather than the traditional small scale missionary approach. He rented a stadium in Gaborone, and preached with little cooperation from local churches. Beginning with only 100 people, the stadium meetings grew.

In 1974, Bonnke founded the mission organisation ‘Christ For All Nations’ (abbreviated CfaN). Originally based in JohannesburgSouth Africa, the headquarters were relocated to Frankfurt, Germany in 1986. This was done primarily to distance the organisation from South Africa’s apartheid policy at the time. Today CfaN has 9 offices across 5 continents.

Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, Founder of Christ for all Nations (CfaN) will return to Nigeria for his final African Gospel – Crusade in November, 2017. While certainly not CfaN’s final African crusade, Evangelist Bonnke’s return could inspire another historic global attendance as that of the Lagos, Nigeria Millennium Crusade in 2000, CfaN’s largest crusade to-date.

During the Lagos Millennium Crusade in 2000, over the course of 5 nights, 6 million attended and 3.4 million decisions for Christ were made. In November 2017, CfaN anticipates many decisions for Christ in response to Reinhard Bonnke’s farewell message. One of the highlights of this amazing crusade will be during the day sessions, to have a PASSING THE BURNING TORCH Conference for leaders and all kind of church-workers. Evangelist Bonnke is believing for many thousands of pastors and evangelists from around the globe to be inspired to evangelism.

Ever since God gave Evangelist Bonnke a vision for a blood-washed Africa—a continent washed in the blood of Jesus Christ—over 40 years ago, he has been filled with a burning commitment to win the continent for Jesus. Evangelist Bonnke has said, “Whether I am eating or drinking, awake or asleep, the vision is ever-present. It never leaves me.”

Will Christians In America Face More Persecution?

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A New Jersey teacher was suspended for giving a student a Bible. A football coach was placed on leave for praying on the field. The Atlanta fire chief was fired for self-publishing a book defending Christian morality.

A Marine was court-martialed for refusing to remove a Bible verse on her desk. A senator castigated a political nominee for his evangelical theology. Christian groups like InterVarsity Christian Fellowship have been expelled from college campuses.

It’s hard for evangelical Christians not to feel that our culture is increasingly antagonistic toward our faith and values today.

I raise this topic because of a fascinating report released yesterday. Sociologist George Yancey shows that those who oppose evangelical Christianity have become wealthier in recent years and thus have more money to bankroll their viewpoint. In other words, we can expect intolerance to continue and even escalate in coming years.

Obviously, American Christians should not compare the opposition we face with the persecution being suffered in countries such as North Korea, Somalia, and Iraq. But Mary Eberstadt is right: “Something new has snaked its way into the village square: an insidious intolerance for religion that has no place in a country founded on religious freedom.”

How should we respond?

God wants his people to work for the common good regardless of how society treats us. He instructed his people exiled in Babylon to “seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf” (Jeremiah 29:7). The apostles led a movement that met physical, social, and spiritual needs so effectively that they won “favor with all the people” (Acts 2:47).

Conversely, one of the ways God redeems persecution is by using it to remind us that this world is not our home: “Here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come” (Hebrews 13:14). We are “sojourners and exiles” in this fallen world (1 Peter 2:11), knowing that this life is a journey and heaven is our destination.

In The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis famously noted:

“The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, he has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy.

“It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with our friends, a bath or a football match have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.”

Paul called his ministry team “ambassadors for Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:20). He courageously advanced the agenda of his King in distant lands while preparing every day to return home.

Whose agenda will you advance today?

EU Suing Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic For Refusing Islamic Migrants

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The European Union (EU) is accusing Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic of refusing to share the “burden” of allowing Muslim migrants into their countries.

On December 4 the European Commission — the governing body of the European Union that proposes legislation and implements the EU’s decisions — launched “infringement procedures” against the three countries, claiming they are “in breach of their legal obligations.”

The EU ruled in 2015 that 160,000 refugees be distributed throughout most member countries of the EU.

Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were required to take in about 8,000 Muslims migrants. Poland and Hungary have not taken in any migrants while the Czech Republic has taken in 12 people.

After the massive jump in Muslim-perpetrated crimes in countries like Great Britain, Germany, France and Sweden — Poland’s leaders have pledged to protect Polish citizens.

Beata Szydło, Poland’s ex-Prime Minister, maintained “it is impossible not to connect” the uptick in European terror attacks and the influx of Muslim migrants.

Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister asserted, “No one will lift the duty of providing public safety from the Polish government.”

Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s Prime Minister, has called Muslim migrants “a poison,” claiming “every single migrant poses a public security and terror risk.”

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He has been fighting his own battle against globalist George Soros, a secular Jew born in Hungary who has been using his billions of dollars to fund progressive programs like Muslim immigration, the acceptance of homosexuality and legalization of abortion and euthanasia.

Orbán slammed the EU in August when he declared there was a concerted effort to de-Christianize Europe and that Muslim migration was part of that program.

“We can never show solidarity with ideologies, peoples and ethnic groups, which are committed to the goal of changing the very European culture, which forms the essence, meaning and purpose of the European way of life,” he warned. “We must not show solidarity with groups and ideologies which oppose the aims of European existence and culture because that would lead to surrender,” he asserted.

Hungarian government minister András Aradszki called Soros’ work “satanic,” commenting that Europe is bowing to a “globalist agenda,” noting that Christianity itself is under attack:

We see this with abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage and the forced politicization of gender theory. The Soros mercenaries do not cite the Holy Father’s thoughts on this. We see the great European attacks against families, in which Soros and his comrades want to destroy the independence and values of nation states for the purpose of watering down the Christian spirit of Europe with the forced settlement of tens of millions of migrants. But the fight against Satan is a Christian duty. Yes, I speak of an attack by Satan, who is also the angel of denial, because they are denying what they are preparing to do — even when it is completely obvious. They frantically try to prove that there is no quota, there is no compulsory settlement and the Soros Plan does not exist.

Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are claiming the EU cannot interfere with their sovereignty and that they will fight to keep the Islam out of their nations.

Reaching The Farthest With The Gospel

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The die was cast.  A choice made. His life was poured out as He bled and died.  It was finished.

Not many days after, He ascended up into heaven.  Then He poured out His spirit on them – the ones who walked closest and followed hard after Him.
They were baptized with fire. An unquenchable fire.  A fire that consumed their very being.  Their zeal knew no boundaries. They spread the message. They cast out demons and healed the sick. Thousands gathered to hear the good news.
They preached till their last breath, offering up their lives for the one who lay down His life for them. Today the message is still the same – clear as crystal.
Preached by a different generation living in different times. But with as much fire and fervor. Their zeal knows no boundaries. Casting out demons and healing the sick.  Thousands gather to hear them.
And oh how they preach! Preaching till their last breath! Offering up their lives for the one who lay down His life for them.  Evangelist Dag Heward-mills and his unrelenting crusade team. Going into all the world preaching Christ and Him crucified!  It’s a great time to be alive! We’re reliving Bible days!!
Chili

5 Faith Facts About Doug Jones: Quiet Christian

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Democrat Doug Jones wasn’t supposed to have a chance in the Senate race that pits him against Republican Roy Moore in the ruby red state of Alabama.

But in recent weeks, as women began to accuse Moore of inappropriate conduct with them when they were teenagers, suddenly Jones seemed to have a shot.

Jones, a former U.S. attorney, slammed Moore on those allegations as they campaigned to take the seat once held by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying, “I damn sure believe and have done my part to ensure that men who hurt little girls should go to jail, not to the U.S. Senate.”

Tuesday’s (Dec. 12) election will determine whether Alabama could actually elect a Democrat to the Senate. But even as his national profile has risen, most people still know little about Jones and his faith.

While Moore has rallied with pastors and enjoyed the backing of the Rev. Franklin Graham, Jones’ religious life has remained one of quiet, consistent worship and church involvement.

Here are five faith facts about Jones.

1. “I am a Christian.”

Jones told The Birmingham News he would be a senator “who cares about all people, not just a select few. That’s what I think the teachings of religion are, is the caring about the least of these, the caring about all people, and making sure there’s a fairness to everything.”

2. He’s Methodist.

Jones has belonged for 33 years to Canterbury United Methodist Church, one of Alabama’s largest United Methodist congregations, in the Birmingham suburb of Mountain Brook. He’s a regular at worship and has taught Sunday school on occasion.

3. Jones’ most famous case involved a notorious attack on a church.

In 1963, Ku Klux Klan members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, killing four young girls. One Klansman was convicted of the murders in 1977. But two eluded justice for decades until Jones successfully prosecuted the two surviving Klansmen in 1999. Jones still calls their conviction “the most important thing I have ever done.”

4. Jones supports abortion rights – within limits.

He said if a woman considers abortion it is “an intensely, intensely personal decision that only she, in consultation with her god, her doctor, her partner or family, (can make) that’s her choice.” However, Jones qualifies his support for choice by saying he also agrees with Alabama law limiting some late-term procedures.

5. He says his goal is to treat people “as Christ would do.”

Asked a question about Southern culture, guns and religion, Jones said:

“If culture means that you have to put down people, if your culture means that you would discriminate against somebody, that you would not treat anybody in the same way that Christ would do, then I’m not going to protect that. I’m not going to protect discrimination of any sort, in any way, whether it’s race, religion, sex orientation or whatever. … My faith is, well, we take care of everybody.”

Gospel Trail

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Christ promised signs and wonders will accompany those who do. Believers of this 21st century seem to have relegated preaching the gospel to the background. 

Indeed preachers of pure salvation have other colleague preachers describing them as preachers of basics.
But can the message of salvation ever be described as basics? Where would we be without our salvation? Should believers o today not be encouraging their pastors to leave the ninety nine and search for that lost sheep?
Let us encourage one another and so much the more as we see the day approaching.
Let the Gospel trail not end in your town.