FEBRUARY 2014

In 2013 - 53.2 million homes around the world received the message of the Lord Jesus Christ and 8.8 million people have responded to receive Christ.

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"The harvest is plentiful." Matthew 9:37

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Praise the Lord for another year of incredible harvest for the kingdom! At Every Home for Christ, 2013 has been a year of God-sized dreams, bold prayers, and big miracles.

This year, EHC projects have launched (or relaunched after years of inactivity) in 11 new nations, including four Creative Access nations where sharing the Gospel is dangerous or even illegal. With reports only finalised through the month of October, EHC workers have carried the Good News to over 53.2 million homes around the world. Already over 8.8 million people have responded to the message of Jesus, and more than 18,800 Christ Groups have been planted for the discipleship of new believers—just this year! When focused prayer and faithful,

fully-resourced “going” combine, the power of the Gospel is truly unleashed to transform the nations.

Africa: Ghana

Last year, the EHC Ghana office received a call from a man named Richmond. “I received your booklet about Christmas and salvation when your worker brought it to my home,” Richmond said, “and this message could change my life. Please, can I meet with someone from your ministry to discuss this?” The EHC National Director, Karl Menyah, invited Richmond to meet him the very next day—Christmas day!

When Richmond came to the office, he told Karl he had read the booklet and wanted

to accept Jesus. “But,” Richmond asked, “is every detail of this booklet true? Will God really forgive all my sins?” Karl answered, “Oh, yes! Even if you are an armed robber or a murderer, God will still forgive you.” Little did Karl know, he was talking to just such a man.

“I am an armed robber,” Richmond confessed, sharing his life with Karl. “I work for a gang leader and have done many terrible things, robbing businesses of thousands of dollars and even murdering people.” Karl assured Richmond that God would forgive him even of these things if he committed his life to Christ, and Richmond was so relieved! There in the EHC office on Christmas day, Richmond the robber committed his life to Jesus.

After that day, Richmond left the gang and the EHC team helped him escape to a new city. Now he is studying an EHC follow-up Bible course and Karl stays in touch with him over the phone, encouraging him to stay strong in the faith. EHC workers also helped Richmond find a church near his new home. “I am praying Richmond will one day join our EHC team,” Karl says, “and preach the Good News to many more armed robbers so they will also come to know Christ!”

Central Asia: Russia-Novokuznetsk

EHC teams in the Russia-Novokuznetsk region reached the inmates of two women’s prisons. This special outreach involved several visits to connect with the women and their families. On the first visit to the prisons, EHC workers met the women and learned about their lives. The workers talked with the women about their children.The EHC workers then went and helped the children write letters and took photos for their mothers. The workers took

the letters back to the women in the prisons. During these second visits to the prisons, the team held gatherings to share the Gospel with the women.

“We have done this for two years now in different prisons,” EHC Director, Sergey Kostuskin, says, “and almost all the women accept Jesus at the end. This outreach is so effective because it reaches people on so many levels—the women, their children, the families, and beyond.” Praise God for the opportunity to take the hope of Christ to these women and their families!

India: Bangalore-Karnataka

When EHC India workers arrived in Thandagole Village during last year’s outreach, they knew it could be a challenge to reach the people because the village priest might stand in their way—so they decided to start by reaching the priest himself! The priest’s name was Patil, and when the workers knocked on his door he gladly received them. One of the EHC workers gave Patil a gospel booklet and began sharing the Gospel.

When Patil heard that Jesus had come to the world to die for the sins of the people, he was eager to learn more. “I believe this,” he said when the worker finished, “and I want to receive Christ! Please, come and share this with all the people in my village.” After sharing the Good News with the rest of the village, the EHC workers began training Patil in the Bible so that he could lead others to Christ. Praise God, this village priest became a minister of the Gospel!

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GOD HAS A PLANwith Dick Eastman, International President of Every Home for Christ

Because I believe God has called me, at least to some degree, to be a mission strategist, I have pondered the relevance of intercessory prayer and worship and the fulfilling a particular ministry mandate - any mandate. Specifically, at Every Home for Christ our mandate is to participate with others in helping fulfill the Great Commission by seeing a presentation of the Gospel taken to every home in the entire world. Most often two messages are given

to most homes in a targeted area - one for adults and one for children.

It is estimated that as many as 2.7 billion people in the world may never have heard the name of Jesus even once, or, at best, have never received a clear presentation of the Gospel. What would it take for our ministry to reach all of these people (living in some 500 to 600 million homes) in the space of a single decade?

As our global leadership team took a strategic look at this ambitious goal, we were repeatedly challenged by what seemed to be insurmountable obstacles. Consider, for example, the more than 100 million Muslim homes (500 million people) in the Arab Middle East, where restrictions seemingly stopped us dead in our tracks. This could have been cause to give up, were it not for similar circumstances faced in Soviet Russia prior to the 1990s. In that part of the world, things changed almost overnight, as I have described earlier. EHC has now visited more than 40 million households in Russia and the form Soviet Union, now known as the C.I.S. (Commonwealth of Independent States).

Besides government restrictions, there were other formidable obstacles as well. The cost of fulfilling our total mandate was daunting - approaching a billion dollars. We knew we could not do it alone, and we also realised that, although the Body of Christ already easily has the resources needed to accomplish the mission, much of what is presently being done is uncoordinated, often unnecessarily duplicated and frequently overtly sectarian.

So, we knew we had our work cut out for us. Obviously, we could not do it all, but we could do our part. Further, if all the critical parts came together in Christ, then all of us could, indeed, do it all!

In the midst of drafting our long-range plan, I was particularly encouraged by a promise from Isaiah that fell into one day's Bible reading assignment. I read:

"I have a plan for the whole earth, for my mighty power reaches throughout the world. The Lord Almighty has spoken-who can change his plans? When his hand moves, who can stop him? (Isa. 14:26-27, NLT)

God, indeed, has a plan, and it is a plan for the whole earth. We didn't have to come up with our own plan; we just had to tap into God's. It quickly became obvious to me that the restoration of intercessory prayer and worship was central to that plan. Of course, I readily realised that something of an unprecedented unity and spirit of cooperation would have to sweep across all spectrums of Christ's Body. Still, I wondered, could intercessory prayer and worship somehow help make all this happen?

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BILLY GRAHAM WARNS'SECOND COMING IS NEAR' Famed evangelist talks to Whistleblower just before delivering 'final, most important' message

On his 95th birthday Nov. 7, the most famous Protestant evangelist of the 20th century, Billy Graham gave what he called his final and most important message to the world. Called “My Hope America with Billy Graham,” it was viewed by millions on multiple television networks. His message? Not surprisingly, it was much the same core message Graham has steadfastly shared for seven decades – the love of God for mankind, as manifested in the sacrifice of His son on the cross, and the resulting free gift of salvation and eternal life through individual repentance and faith.

Shortly before last month’s television event, however, Graham declared in an exclusive interview with Whistleblower that signs of the end of the age are “converging now for the first time since Jesus made those predictions.”

“We have been going down the wrong road for a long time,” Graham told Whistleblower. “Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

“And yet mankind is also adrift morally and spiritually, confused and fearful because he does not know where he is or where he is going. He lives in a world dangerously torn by hate and violence and conflict, and yet he feels powerless to do anything about them. He also knows his own heart is driven by destructive passions and motives he cannot seem to control or change.”

In his most recent book, “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation,” Graham wrote that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is “near” and

that the United States “can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.”

Graham – who has preached to more people, 2.2 billion, than any Protestant in history and has appeared on Gallup’s list of the “Ten Most Admired Men in the World” 56 times since 1955, more than any individual on the planet – told Whistleblower that people need to repent of their sins, turn to God and “take the narrow road that Jesus talks about in the Bible.”

“The narrow road means that you forsake sin and you obey God, that you live up to the Ten Commandments and that you live up to the Sermon on the Mount desiring to please God in everything. The narrow road is hard and it is difficult; you can’t do that yourself. You need God’s help and that’s the reason we ask people to come to receive Christ because when you receive Him, the Holy Spirit comes to live within to help us live the life.

Our world is desperately seeking answers to the deepest questions of life – answers that can only be found in the Gospel. That is the reason for my hope, that there can be changed hearts and a changed society as we yield ourselves to Christ.”

In what the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association describes as the largest outreach in its six-decade history, Graham gave a powerful pre-recorded message the week of Nov. 7. The “My Hope” programs are available for viewing online, including on YouTube. “The Cross,” the primary program in the “My Hope” series, was broadcast on the Fox News Channel, TBN, Christian networks

Famed evangelist talks to Whistleblower just before delivering 'final, most important' message

and local television stations in a number of cities across the country.

Heartache for America

The current outreach began after Graham, who provided spiritual counsel to every president from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush, released an open letter to America in the summer of 2012 titled “My Heart Aches for America.”

In the letter, Graham wondered what his late wife, Ruth, would think of a nation where “self-centred indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”

Graham, who has appeared on the covers of Time, Newsweek, Life, U.S. News and World Report, Parade and numerous other magazines, compared America(and could have included Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom) to the ancient city of Nineveh, the lone superpower of its time. When the prophet Jonah finally travelled to Nineveh and proclaimed God’s warning, the people repented and escaped judgment, Graham wrote, adding that he believes the same thing could happen in America now.

Graham, who founded Christianity Today and Decision magazines, was reared on a dairy farm in Charlotte, N.C.

Growing up during the Depression, Graham learned the value of hard work on the familyfarm, but he also found time to spend many

hours in the hayloft reading books on a wide variety of subjects.

In 1934, the 15-year-old Graham committed his life to Christ through the ministry of travelling evangelist Mordecai Ham. He was ordained in 1939, graduated from Wheaton College in 1943 and married fellow student Ruth McCue Bell, the daughter of a missionary surgeon who spent the first 17 years of her life in China.

After college, Graham pastored the First Baptist Church in Western Springs, Ill., before joining Youth for Christ. He preached throughout the U.S. and Europe after World War II.

But the Los Angeles Crusade in 1949 vaulted Graham into international prominence. At the time, William Randolph Hearst, the publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and many other newspapers, told his editors to “puff Graham.”

Over the ensuing decades, Graham preached at crusades on every continent, from remote African villages to major cities, including a crusade at Madison Square Garden in New York City that ran nightly for 16 weeks.

Hundreds of millions of people have seen him preach at stadiums and arenas around the world.

Test of time

“At 94, he hasn’t lost his vision,” Franklin Graham said. “At 94, he is still concerned about people being lost and separated from God and spending eternity in hell, and it’s a burden to him. I would just hope that others would see this and do likewise. We need to have that burden for the lost. And my father, even at this age, hasn’t lost that burden.”

The best is yet to come

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, author of “The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that holds the Secret of America’s Future,” said one of the mysteries contained in “The Harbinger” is the parallel between the fall of ancient Israel and the fall of modern America.

“In this ancient template, the nation undergoes a metamorphosis in which those who simply hold true to the ways of God, to that which the nation as a whole once held to, now find themselves increasingly at odds with the culture around them,” said Cahn, whose book has remained on the New York Times bestseller list since January 2012.

Cahn, the senior rabbi at the nation’s largest messianic congregation, the Beth Israel Worship Centre in Wayne, N.J., and a descendant of Aaron, the brother of the biblical prophet Moses, noted that Graham has been known as the “pastor to presidents” and has prayed at numerous presidential inaugurations.

Amid this growing immorality, Graham told Whistleblower that the greatest hope of the Christian faith is the return of Jesus.

“That promise will someday become literal history, and with God’s help we’re going to be a part of that history that is yet to come,” Graham told Whistleblower. “Only Jesus Christ when he comes back again is going to bring hope. He will defeat every enemy. Sin will be eliminated. Death will be eliminated. War will be eliminated. Crime will be eliminated. The hope of the Second Coming of Christ generates energy and sacrifice and faithfulness and diligence and zeal.

The best is yet to be. Heaven is yet to be, along with eternal life, Graham said.

It is the hope of the Second Coming that thrills me every day of my life, he added.

I know that he’s coming again, and I know that he’s going to set up a kingdom of which there will be no end,” said Graham. “In Titus 2 it says, ‘Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.’ Our hope centres in a person, not in circumstances, not in a political party, but in a person.”

Billy Graham article by Troy Anderson, an award-winning journalist at the Los Angeles Daily News, The Press-Enterprise and other newspapers for two decades. Troy Anderson writes for Reuters, WND, Whistleblower, Charisma and many other media outlets. He’s also the president and

editor-in-chief of the World Prophecy Network, described as “an online newsmagazine and community spreading the hope of Jesus in the End Times.” He lives in Irvine, Calif.

whistleblowerCopyright 2013 WND.com. Reprinted with permision.

Some years ago Billy Graham's wife who after reading of America's low moral standards and idolatry of worshiping the false gods of sex and technology said....

"If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologise to Sodom and Gomorrah."

The 95 year old Billy Graham sets the pace and is as Mark Batterson puts it in his book "The Circle Maker"when he writes on pages 44-45.

Just something to think about!

"God wants you to keep dreaming until the day you die.

You're never too old to go after the dreams God has put in your heart. And for the record, you're never too young either. Age is never a valid excuse...

If you keep praying, you'll keep dreaming, and conversely, if you keep dreaming, you'll keep praying.

The more you pray the bigger your dreams will become. And the bigger your dreams become the more you will have to pray. In that process of drawing ever-enlarging prayer circles, the sphere of God's glory is expanded.

Our date of death is not the date etched on our tombstone.

The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying."

East Asia: Myanmar

In the nation of Myanmar, EHC teams reached an astounding 193,945 homes with the Gospel during last year’s outreach. Over 1,300 people responded to the Good News, and 30 new Christ Group fellowships were planted as a result.

“The work was challenging,” the National Director said. “There were clashes between ethnic groups; people were being killed and houses burned. There was also strong tension between Muslims and Buddhists, and some extremist youth gave our workers trouble—following them and stopping them from sharing gospel booklets. But the local authorities did not ban our work, so we were able to complete it.”

Despite the challenges, the Lord allowed the EHC Myanmar team to reach thousands of homes with His love. Workers reported signs and wonders of healing, open hearts and minds, provision of transportation and meals, willing volunteers, and miraculous travel through extreme weather and dangerous roads. Praise God for making a way when there seemed to be no way, opening doors to reach thousands with the Gospel in Myanmar!

South Asia: Nepal

“Christmas is the best time for sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ in Nepal,” EHC Nepal National Director David Lepcha says, “because now Christmas day is granted as a public holiday by the government! There are

two important Hindu festivals celebrated by the Nepalese every year, and they celebrate these festivals wholeheartedly. Now, because Christmas is considered a holiday, the people think Christmas is the ‘festival’ of the Christians, so they are very interested in and open about it. We can go from home to home and offer to explain the meaning of this holiday.”

During EHC Nepal’s Christmas outreach last year, teams reached 74,218 homes with the Gospel—sometimes trekking through mountainous areas to visit distant villages. In addition, workers shared over 8,500 special Christmas gospel booklets in schools, 11,345 booklets on college campuses, and 735 booklets in prisons. Through the Christmas outreach 475 people responded to the Gospel, and nine new Christ Groups were formed. Praise the Lord for this incredible harvest!

Caribbean: Haiti

Dear EHC Haiti,

Thank you so much for the wonderful work you are doing in Haiti! I accepted Jesus Christ many years ago, but soon after I felt very discouraged and stopped going to church. But when your team came to my house, they took time to talk with me and encourage me. Since that day I have begun attending church again, and my heart is full of joy. Thank you for coming to my home!

Your sister in Christ,Mrs. Edouard

8.8 million people have responded to receive Christ through Every Home for Christ in 2013.