Reinhard Bonnke - Masihi Sandesh Christian Messages
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Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke
A Biography
Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke is known for his Great Gospel Crusades
throughout the continent of Africa. The son of a pastor, Reinhard gave his life
to the Lord at age nine, and heard the call to the African mission field before
he was even a teenager. After attending Bible college in Wales, he became a
pastor in Germany for seven years and then went on to start mission work in
Africa. It was there, in the small mountain kingdom of Lesotho, that God placed
upon his heart the vision of ‘the continent of Africa, washed in the precious
Blood of Jesus’ – an entire continent, from Cape Town to Cairo and
from Dakar to Djibouti that needed to be reached and to hear the proclamation
of the signs-following Gospel.
He 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 – a tent capable of seating 34,000
people! Soon, attendance at his meetings even exceeded the capacity of this
huge structure, and he began open-air Gospel Campaigns with an initial gathering
of over 150,000 people! Since then, he has conducted city-wide meetings across
the continent with as many as 1,600,000 people attending a single gathering
using towering sound systems that can be heard for miles.
It has now been some thirty years since Reinhard Bonnke founded
the international ministry of Christ for all Nations (CfaN), which currently
has offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Africa, Singapore,
Australia, Hong Kong and South America.
Since the start of the new millennium, through a host of major
events in Africa and other parts of the world and aimed at seeing 100,000,000
souls record a decision for Jesus Christ in this decade, some 44 million have
responded to the Gospel call.
As part of the discipleship-training program, 190,000,000
copies of CfaN literature have been published in 143 languages and printed in
54 countries. Millions of books have been printed and freely ‘seeded’
in nations around the world. All this is in addition to the ‘Reinhard Bonnke
School of Fire,’ an online, self-study course, aimed at inspiring others
to Holy Spirit Evangelism and leading to either a certificate or university
credits. Other soul-winning projects are in development, including one that
is aimed at inspiring the next generation of evangelists also to reach the unreached,
to further the Kingdom, and to see the Gospel message proclaimed throughout
the world.
Reinhard Bonnke is also recognized for hosting ‘Fire
Conferences’ in many different countries of the world, events that are
aimed at equipping church leaders and workers for evangelism… for distributing
over 90,000,000 copies of Minus to Plus, a profound salvation message, to homes
around the world and for seeking every opportunity to reach and to save the
lost. He is known as one with a burning passion for the Gospel, a vision for
Africa and a message for the world.
