Where We’ve Been / Where We Are Going
I started coming to Africa in 2003 because a pastor said I had the message for Africa. I had no idea what that message was and resisted the invitation to come. I finally came to Nairobi and God gave me a vision of a vast field of wheat stretching across Africa that was so dry it had turned white and brittle. I watched as I stepped into the grass and dropped a match into it. The field exploded into fire, and the Lord spoke to me, “That’s my people in Kenya”. But not only Kenya. We went all across Sub-Saharan Africa.
As the Anointing would fall on service after service, more and more churches wanted me to come to them also. I made over 60 trips to a dozen countries and preached at over 1,000 churches over the next 18 years. It was the same everywhere I went – the Anointing would pour out on us, the miracles and healings would follow, and souls by the thousands would come to the altars.
I went everywhere I was sent, mostly to the places no one else would go. The people in some of these places had never seen a white man before. Some had never seen an evangelist or a preacher!
As I preached, the message of Four Steps to Revival began to develop until I was finally asked to put it in writing so that they would have the message after I had gone. The book went through many revisions and grew into the book we now offer on Amazon. The book developed a life of its own, and well over 60,000 copies were printed and given out across Africa.
I went everywhere I was sent, mostly to the places no one else would go. The people in some of these places had never seen a white man before. Some had never seen an evangelist or a preacher!
My basic message was to go out into the streets and win souls. They began to plant churches everywhere. One pastor in Dar es Salaam planted 300 churches based on Four Steps to Revival. Another pastor planted 72 churches in 3 years. One pastor in Uganda, over the next ten years, planted a thousand churches and fellowships through the network of evangelists we started. It kept growing and growing.
I was hoping I would be like a “Johnny Appleseed” and just keep going to new places, but the pressing call to return to the places we had started revival in kept bringing me back to the places we had set on fire. A network began to develop that latched onto me and would not let go. The hunger and need were such that we won over 122,000 souls in 2022 alone. That is more than all the churches combined in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and yet we are unknowns without any support from the churches in America.
Today, we have established an NGO so that we can be considered an official organization. Where this will go, I have no idea. We have come so far since I saw the vision of the Field of Harvest in Nairobi so many years ago, that I no longer can guess what will be next. It has not been easy. The challenge is still an uphill battle, but we are not in control. We never have been. We have not done this the way the traditional Church would say it should be done. But neither do we have the same message that the traditional Church would entertain. Perhaps that is what has given us the incredible results we have had.
What is next? Only God knows. What a ride it has been! I can only imagine what He has in store for us next.
Uh, let me take that back …. I have no idea what He has in mind for us next. But I am sure it will be even more exciting.
How can you help?
We need partners willing to shoulder the burden to reach the millions of souls, not just in Africa, but around the world. In one year alone, we saw over 122,000 souls get saved. That’s more than all the souls saved in all the churches combined in any city you can name, and yet we are desperately short of finances to purchase Bibles, print books, hold meetings, and feed the hungry and poor.
What we could do if we had the means to do it!
Our goal is to win a million souls a year, and we are well on our way to reaching that goal. We can do it, but we need your help to make it happen. I’m not asking for a personal snap decision; I am asking you to please pray and ask your Father what He would want you to do.
Follow that path and it will invariably lead to victory.