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Our Heritage of Grace
Stories of Learning the Message of God's Grace |
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Donald Sommer
Indianapolis, Indiana USA
My maternal Grandfather, who died before I was born, was a hard drinking, rough talking Norwegian farmer from Northern Illinois. At some point in the 1930's or 40's he heard J.C. O'Hair preaching on the radio. He heard and believed the gospel and was saved. He gave up drinking and his life changed. He started a small church in Capron, IL and a traveling preacher named Elmer Shaver would hold Sunday evening services with my mother's family. After marrying my father my parents moved to central Wisconsin. All my older siblings grew up in a Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. When I was 4 years old my family moved to Beloit, WI. My mother knew of a Grace Church in Beloit but we did not attend there until 1975 when the church built a new building near our house. I was 16 and Cal Lowder was the pastor of the Grace Bible Church at the time.
A few years later, while in college, I became more interested in understanding our church's doctrine as I was confronted with believers from all types of backgrounds. Pastor Lowder patiently explained our Mid-Acts Theology and I understood it and embraced it. I have never doubted it since. |
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Frosty Hansen
Grace Gospel Fellowship
My father came to salvation while covering a Billy Graham Crusade as a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He wisely sought a church where God's Word was taught and came across the preaching ministry of Pastor Lloyd Peterson at Emmanuel Church in Seattle. I thank the Lord for the privilege of growing up in a home and church where God's Word was central.
When I was in sixth grade my parents enrolled me in a two-year Bible instruction class at the church, taught by Youth Pastor Bruce Kemper and Pastor Peterson. It was there that I was first introduced to a mid-Acts dispensational approach to the Scriptures. Though that teaching was not popular with everyone in the church, it was part of the foundational training for the young people.
In 1964 a new congregation was formed, Berean Church of Seattle. Pastor Peterson and the staff now had more freedom to proclaim the grace message, and through my junior and senior high years I gobbled up solid teaching in Sunday School, youth group and church services. What a blessing to have such a rich heritage!
I humbly thank the Lord for my parents, pastors and laymen at Berean who honored God's Word and lovingly shared with me the gospel of the grace of God. |
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Ev. Joel R McGarvey
Grand Rapids, Michigan
I did not "come into" the Grace message as from a different persuasion, rather I grew up in a church, under the teaching of a Pastor who had come out of the Brethren denomination and formed the Altoona Bible Church, an independent, Fundamental, Dispensational church. Under the teaching of Pastor Henry F. Kulp I was blessed to be taught the Word of God Rightly Divided. Yes, I attended Grace Bible College, but my personal understanding of the Word of God was instilled by Pastor Kulp. Because of his background his teachings were done in such a way as to say what he had been taught, what he had taught, and contrasted that with what he had discovered in the Word Rightly Divided. Following my marriage I was the Youth Pastor in a local Conservative Baptist Church in Altoona. It was during that time, under the preaching of a man who was a dispensationalist, and in our private discussion that I embraced the grace message even more. I saw the inconsistencies, the questions unanswered, the Biblical "gymnastics" and especially the "We like to make it say..." and it caused me to turn to the Word and find the answers. The answers were found as I delve deeper into the Word and the unique message revealed to, and through the Apostle Paul. Yes, there were similarities to the Pastor's dispensational understanding, but there were more differences, they were just not the same. And it was the differences which caused the questions; questions he could not answer.
I am thankful today for the Word of God and the solid foundation laid upon the Word by Pastor Kulp. It was a foundation that I still rest upon today more than 30 years after having moved on and entered the ministry. Five of those years it was my honor to stand in Pastor Kulp's pulpit as the Pastor of his church and proclaim the message of Grace he had instilled in me years earlier. |
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Davidand Ellen Liles
S.W. in London England
Rom 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
I think that as a youngster the above was the first scripture that I thought was actually REAL. BECAUSE I WAS INTO ALL SORTS OF PHILOSOPHY AND DIFFERENT RELIGIONS THE NEXT bible VERS THAT WAS meaningful to me was; I had traveled to the HQ of a group that "GOD’s Smuggler" had trained with and whilst with them it was suggested that I spend some time with Mr and Mrs Smith, missionaries who were home on leave, After they had got my life's story and prayer it was suggested the we read
(Mat 3:17; Mark 9:7; Luk 9:35;)
Mar 9:7 And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James, and John, and leads them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. 3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. 4 And there appeared to them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus. 5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 6 For he knew not what to say; for they were sore afraid. 7 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. 8 And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves..After much traveling I was reading through the BIBLE and came across this verse :
1 Cor 1:10; Now I beseech you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you all speak the same thing,
and that there be no divisions among you;
but that you be perfectly joined together
in the same mind
and in the same judgment.
This was IT the yogis had not shown me gods of any real substance, but this verse was EVERYTHING, this, I was sure, is what GOD WANTED.
I resigned from work and Hitch-hiked to Israel, intending to stay 6 weeks, well nothing happened for 18Months and I went down to Eilat and there met Cliff and Rina Jaquith who pointed out over dinner and the next 18 months,2 Tim 2:15; RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH. I LEFT Israel and finished up at Home with Mum and Dad, I was 39 by this time and thought “Life had passed me by” But a Dutch girl who had been in the same Hostel that I stayed in for about 6 Weeks, She arrived the Friday that I had decided to leave and travel north hopping GOD would SHOW ME WHAT TO DO as he hadn’t shown me anything in Athens, Well when I eventually finished up at home there was a letter from this particular Dutch Girl and as we exchanged letters then visits Ellen accepted to Marry me and live in England. We now have 3 Girls Lydia, Priscilla, and Julia; and 7Grand Children, Twin Giles on the 4Th. Of Jan just past.
So that is us up to date here in England! May you all use GOD’S BLESSINGS TO THE FULL!
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Arnie and Sally Selfors
Largo, FL USA
I, Sally Selfors, grew up in North Shore Church in Chicago, where J.C. O'Hair was the pastor. I can well remember that Pastor O'Hair had to literally DEFEND the Grace position of rightly dividing the Word of Truth. He offered to debate the pastor of the Moody church, who had ridiculed Pastor O'Hair publicly on the radio. That never happened. This was an age when the Message needed to be defended.
Arnie and I were married at North Shore Church with Pastor O'Hair officiating.
I can remember when at Wheaton College I was debating in my mind as to why I believed as I did. I was unsure of myself, and decided I needed to be at Milwaukee Bible College in order to know what I believed and why. It was there that I met Arnie, and at a missionary conference with Arnie's pastor, Henry Prince, giving the invitation, we gave our lives to serve in Bethesda Missions, Bolivia.
After only being in Bolivia a short time, it was very obvious that although we had gone there to work with the orphans, we felt that a Bible Institute was needed to train leaders. In the year 1962 we began such a training center, with 7 students living on our property. We praise the Lord for many years of teaching the Grace Message, and today there are churches in both Bolivia and Uruguay who believe and teach this message.
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Calvin Lowder
Stephens City, VA
My father was Presbyterian and my mother was Evangelical United Brethren. We attended the Presbyterian church until I was 13 when we switched to the EUB because we felt the Presbyterians were becoming too liberal. In 1958 we purchased a television and one of the local programs over the Altoona, PA station was "The Life of Triumph" from the Altoona Bible Church. So in the fall of 1958 we began a spiritually life-changing journey by driving 50 miles each way to attend Altoona Bible Church and hear Pastor Henry Kulp. The message was so different but made such sense after the denominational teaching we had endured for years. Both my dad and I were saved during our time at ABC. The message of the grace of God given to Paul that Pastor Kulp taught so forcefully was the needed foundation that has shaped my ministry all these years.
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Jim Miller
Martinsburg WV
I grew up in a small Methodist Church in the backwoods of WV and really learned very little of the Word except for the Sunday School stories. I was fortunate enough that my brother and sister in law started attending a “Bible Church” in Martinsburg WV in 1997 and encouraged my wife and I to come. We were thrilled to sit in a service where the Bible was taught verse by verse. We had never experienced that before and we were taken by surprise when we had to take a Bible to Church! We went to that Church for several years and learned a lot however I still did not understand what salvation, true salvation meant or more importantly how to be saved. It was in Oct 2004 after we had been to a couple home Bible Studies where we met Les Feldick that my wife Kim and I said that we would like to start a study in our own home and start with Les from Genesis. When Les took us through Genesis and I saw that I was born a sinner and I could not do enough to please God I knew that I had found the teacher that could point me to what I had been looking so desperately to find. In 2005 after we had gone through Genesis and a lot of Paul’s letters (if you have heard Les you know what I mean) I came to the knowledge of what Christ did for me that day on that Cross. The Lord opened my heart just like he had Lydia’s outside of Philippi in Acts 16:14 and I believed and I was saved! Praise GOD! For me being in the Word is my passion and I believe that people everywhere will come to the Lord if they “hear” the Word taught one on one like Les does it.
I felt it my calling to start teaching and accepted an invitation to start teaching a group of 6 newly married young people in a neighboring town in the fall of 2008. We started with Les’s Timeline and I found out that those young people had no knowledge of the chronology of the Bible, amazing how far we have let the Word slip from our kids in this country. I then moved into the Book of Acts and what an eye-opening experience learning that book verse by verse as I taught it. We are now in Romans and I thank God each day that he is bringing people to hear me teach so that I can learn. That group has grown to 15 to 18 people and we have a great time in the Word.
As you can tell I have a heart for home Bible Study. I believe that people need to make the Lord the center part of their lives and 1-2 hours on Sunday is not doing it. Learning the Word together, and truly understanding the Word is what can bring a person into a relationship with the Lord. That understanding, that true knowledge of the Word is only possible through “rightly dividing” the “Breath of Life” as Les and the Grace Pastors and Teachers have shown us. Without that foundation that Christ has laid and upon which the Apostle Paul has built we would all be lost and people would continue to subject the Word of God to their own human interpretation. I thank God nearly every day for Godly men of Grace that have helped me see the “Mystery” revealed to the Apostle Paul and I am doing what I can to teach and provide a place for all get quality Grace Teaching in our area.
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Ariel D. Mahilum
Phnom Penh City, Cambodia
I came to know the message of Grace through my father. He was the local evangelist in our area in Negros Occidedental Philippines. However, it was when I studied at International Grace Bible Institute on November of 1990 in Ozamis City, Mindanao where the message of Grace have grown in my faith walk and service. Presently, I am a TCM missionary in Cambodia and serving the Lord with my family for more than 3 years already, teaching and preaching the mystery to Cambodians and other nationalities. God bless the message and the messengers of Grace all over the Lord.
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Ed Jeude
St Louis, Mo
The Christian message is so simple that a child can understand it and yet so profound that it can be a lifetime study. Before kindergarten, my mom and dad led me to Christ and I never doubted my relationship to him. The family was not a "regular church family" but dad explained that not all of the Bible was for our obedience. This laid the groundwork for 2 Tim 2:15. Pastor Eugene Rueweler conducted dad's funeral service and commended me to Ike Sidebottom in Texas where I was living. Ike et al did not practice the Lord's Supper but are on target with the rest of Paul's message. After Ike, I studied with Rueweler until I moved to Florida and studied with pastor Clay Kent. Between the three, I became established in the Grace Message. The last "hangup" was the LOrd's Supper, a requirement for GGF membership. The Lord won't partake until after He comes, and we partake until He comes. It has been my privilege to study with MANY Grace pastors, currently, Rick Owsley of St Louis Bible Fellowship. |
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Andrew Hollier
Kingswood, NSW, Australia
I was raised in a Christian home in Gosford, NSW, Australia and saved at age 16 in a local Youth for Christ meeting. I was introduced to the basics of Dispensational Truth by my father and others. Our family had a connection with the Darby Brethren meetings. When I was saved the Lord gave me a thirst for His word and I began to study the Bible regularly along with the writings of C.I Scofield, Bullinger, Welch, DeHaan, J Sidlow Baxter and a whole host of other Dispensational writers. It would be correct to say that I had a Mid Acts tendency but a lot of Post Acts input. I certainly did not feel comfortable with the Acts two viewpoint. My understanding of Acts 3:19-24 confirmed the issue of the offer of the Kingdom to Israel in early Acts.
After arriving in the USA in 1968, I was visiting friends in Southern California and they invited me to attend Southgate Bible Church where I heard Bill Rigg give a recruitment talk about GBC. I applied and was accepted as their first foreign student. At GBC I entered the 5 year Pastoral track and it was primarily under the teaching of C.F.Baker and Dale DeWitt, that I came to the full knowledge of the Grace Message. I was able to refine my basic understanding of Dispensational Truth,by the information given by the faculty at GBC. I am deeply grateful for these godly men who not only taught Grace Distinctives but who lived Grace truth. |
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Heng Kwang Tiang
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
I was dramatically saved in a government agriculture school located in the jungle in July 1971. When I was confronting a Sabahan Christian as to his faith because I had a bad experience with some Christians in my career life at that time, the Lord touched me through this man’s good testimony of love and meekness. I responded publicly to receive Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.
Since then, I have been passionately pursuing the Lord by wanting to know Him better so that I can serve Him better through studying the bible and listening to many pulpit ministries and investing in many Christian books. In July 1972, when I was posted to work as an agriculture assistant in one of the government’s sugarcane projects in the north of West Malaysia, I joined a local traditional Baptist church for 8 years. Because of dissatisfaction with the level of teaching that I got from the Baptist church, I left to join an apostolic church called the Latter Rain Church of Malaysia for another 8 years. I thought by involving myself in a church which has a global mission to the world with the gospel, I can know God better and grow more in the Lord. However, I do not find reality in that church also. So, I left the church and joined a local Baptist charismatic church for the rest of my years until I migrated to Kuala Lumpur in 2005. I was groomed by the senior pastor in that church for many many years and I was recognized by the church’s senior pastor and congregation to be one of their pastors. When the senior pastor left the church, I was given the privilege to pastor that church for a period of ten and a half years (i.e. from June 1994 to Jan 2005). The church had a congregation of about 100 people, made up mainly of professionals and middle-class working people.
During the active years of ministry, in my heart of hearts, I still found that there was a vacuum of restlessness. It seemed that all my best efforts in ministry cannot really help the members to grow healthily. Eventually, because of health problems, I decided to resign from the church and moved to Kuala Lumpur to stay with my children as well as to seek some medical treatment there. During my years in Kuala Lumpur, I tried to get involved in as many churches as possible, seeking to know God better through His word. The last attempt after trying many mega churches was to attach myself to a Messianic church that prayed a lot for the restoration of Israel and emphasized a lot for the need to return to the Hebraic root of Israel.
So, on one afternoon early Nov of 2008, after going through a heap of books written by some of the Messianic teachers from Israel, I found that the teachings were lopsided and my soul was not nourished by all these teachings. I was very confused by all sort of unclear and self-contradictory statements in all these books because it did not match up with what the pastor had been preaching that the only way for revival is to go back to the Hebraic root of Israel. So, out of frustration, I called to the Lord to help me as I have come to an end of my search for the right gospel that is really designed for my present needs. So, I googled “grace gospel” in the internet and came across the berean bible society website with the glaring words “teaching of God’s word rightly divided”. I was attracted by the word “rightly divided” as I had never come across these in my life. So that afternoon, I began to read their articles one by one regarding the so-called “rightly divided” teachings. I found to my amazement that the materials that they presented in the articles were really spiritual food that fed my soul and gave me spiritual rest in my soul. This was what I believe our God is doing today in the believer’s life through a rightly divided gospel of Grace given to Paul for us, Gentiles.
From that afternoon onwards, I spent daily from morning to night, many many many hours reading all these materials and I find that they were really edifying and satisfying to me and gave me inner peace, passion and joy to know the love of God and His grace like never before in my 38 years of feeding on all sort of mixed-up gospel messages from books, seminars and pulpit ministries.
With that discovery, I decided to inform the Messianic pastors and the church that I am leaving for good as I want to spend at least one year personally to find out more about this Grace gospel by studying the 13 epistles of Paul, rightly divided, as a good Berean, so that I will not be disappointed again with yet another emphasis of God’s present day truth without thoroughly checking through the bible.
Because of my health problem, I could not be actively involved in a church ministry but would like to be part of it to play a more supportive role in this type of church. So, somewhere in January 2009, I wrote to Berean Bible Society (“BBS”), to find out whether there are any other Grace churches in Kuala Lumpur that I can attend. In response to my query, BBS referred me to Mr Russel Miller for more information. After contacting Mr Russel, I was referred to Ps Don Sommer who later referred me to Ps Ben Andersen, the mission director of TCM. I contacted Ps Ben and he said there is no grace church in Malaysia but there are grace churches in Philippines and Indonesia. Out of my growing passion to learn and be part of a grace church, I requested him to plant a grace church in Malaysia so that me and my family of 5 can support that church and be part of it.
Finally, Ps Ben and his wife, Joyce together with Ps Jesse and wife, Stacey decided to come to Malaysia to meet me for 4 days of mini grace bible study that was on 18 June 2009 to 21 June 2009. On the request for the setting up of a grace church in Malaysia, Ps Ben later informed me that he couldn’t spare any missionaries to help spearhead this move in Malaysia at that moment. Leaving me no choice, I decided to start my own family meeting each weekend, majoring on a book-by-book study on Paul’s 13 epistles. The Lord led me from that day onwards to meet up with few other sisters-in-christ, i.e. Sis Siok Beng, Sis Shereen, Sis Angie, Sis Wendy, just to name a few, who were equally disillusioned by all the other non-grace churches’ teachings who did not believe that apostle Paul was the apostle for us, Gentiles today. I was also given opportunities to meet up with some other pastors and church leaders to persuade them to return to this grace gospel. Then, I met up with Ps Margaret, an AG pastor for 30 over years. She too was touched by this gospel and requested me to help her every week by sharing with her the various doctrines of this grace gospel. It has been going on for almost 9 months and she and her congregation are in a transitional stage of becoming a grace church.
Up to the time of this writing, we have been meeting up with Ps Ben and his team in a total of 3 occasions. I thank Ps Ben for giving me the opportunity to go to Philippines to attend the 52nd anniversary of grace conference of Philippines and to know more about the grace movement in Philippines. Subsequently, to our delight, Ps Ben broke the news that he was going to bring missionary Ps Tim and his wife, Judy, to meet up with us on 26 August to 5 Sept 2010. This couple felt led by the Lord to come over to Malaysia to work together with us to formally set up the first grace church meeting by this year’s June or so. We currently have about 10 regular grace believers attending our weekly Sunday and prayer meetings in a home. We are reaching out to others as well. We believe and pray that may the Lord help us to plant more grace churches in Malaysia in the years ahead. |
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Derbe Palma Maraat
Ozamiz City, Philippines
I was 27 years old when I read the verse in Romans 5:12 "Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned." It was then that my aunt Mrs.Josephine Palma Improso explained to me man's need of salvation. I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour and became part of God's family. To know more about the Word of God I decided to come to International Grace Bible Institute in Ozamiz City to study. It was in the Bible School where I learned the Mid-Acts teaching and a study of the Word of God rightly divided. It was 20 years after I learned the Grace message my aunt died.
I thank the Lord so much for using her life so I can have this heritage of grace and this always lives in my heart.
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Dinah G. Maraat
Ozamiz City, Philippines
I grow up on what I call a Christian home. My parents joined Light and Life Bible Seminary in Butuan City, Philippines when I was a child. It was in that group where we met a lot of American missionaries. Later we moved to a smaller town near Butuan City where we joined United Church of Christ. All I remember is we were taught the Word of God but I never heard the grace of God was mentioned. When I was in my fifth grade I was 10 years old then, my uncle who is a Pastor of Things To Come Mission came to visit us and we had a Bible study in our home. As a child I don't understand much about what he said but that was the first time I heard about the Grace of God. After my high school I went to college for one year then I came to live with the family of the American missionary of Things To Come Mission. It was when I was at the missionary's home that I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour and it was at that time I was exposed to the teaching of Grace. I started to faithfully read the Word of God and study the writings of Pastor Cornelius Stam and the writings of other Grace writers. I decided to come and study at the International Grace Bible Institute Ozamiz City, Philippines where I graduated. While in Bible School we were taught about Dispensationalism and it is where I learned the Mid-Acts Dispensational approach.
I thank the Lord for the people who have sacrificed themselves to teach me have this heritage. This is worth remembering. |
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Ruth Dubbeld
Portage, Michigan, USA
Abe (Ruth's husband) early heard O'Hair speaking by radio. and received some courses by mail from Moody Bible College. Later we were in touch with Stam and bought many of his books. Shortly before his death (Abe knew he had Parkinson's when we helped Homoki in his Truth magazine and other booklets) he gave all the books of Stam's to Pastor Reichelt of Kent City. I met DeWitt once at Grace Bible College when we were considering sending our son Walter Dubbeld to Grace Bible College. We also met many others in the Grace movement--missionaries, and others. For years we (that is, I) have supported some missionaries through Things To Come mission and other grace missionary work. We supported the Bigelows while they were in Communist China and teaching there in a college. Beore that he had been active in missionary work in the Philipines. and later the prison ministry. |
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Judy Ayres
Flora, Indiana
Many years ago a friend told me about "Through the Bible" with Les Feldick. I started watching this TV program.Then I started telling my husband that some of the things that I was learning were not lining up with what our local church was teaching. After about 2 years of reading, researching and talking to various people we decided that there had to be a teacher somewhere close by that was teaching this message. We found Don Webb and asked him to do a bible study. Now he is our pastor and we are very happy learning weekly about the grace message. We have introduced it to our children and they are becoming interested. I Cor 15:1-4.
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Justin Boeve
Muskegon Michigan USA
My story goes back about fifty years when I finally left the Reformed Church in America as they are known. The reason was because their Doctrine of Last Days did not agree with what I had been studying and reading.’ Early Bible study and hunger for the Truth was my help . All of which they held to as nowhere near the Dispensational truths that we hear of at Berean Church which all hinges on Mid-Acts. As a fact the Reformers believe they are spiritual Israel today.
As I look back I have to ask the question why is it so difficult to understand except for the fact most do not Study the Word as Paul has instructed us to in 2 Tim. 2:15.
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Jurgens Huysamen
South Africa / Australia
From what I have heard the last few weeks and from my knowledge the message
reached South Africa this way. Joe Mason sent information into the world as part of his prison ministries and some of this information landed in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The information reached a man by the name of Leonard Leo in Port Elizabeth. I can remember Leonard always use to talk about Joe Mason back in 1993/4. (I will still try to find out where Leonard got the information from)
Phillip shared with me that in the late 1980"s Bruce Woolard in Port Elizabeth went down to a store to make some photostats of his bulletin for church. Leonard was there making copies of Joe Mason's grace literature. Bruce asked for a copy and went home to read it. He was impressed. He then phoned Joe Mason in the US to find out more about it and if Mason was interested in coming out to South Africa to possibly plant a church. Joe Mason told him that he has a Prison Ministry and the literature is used for inmates but gave Bruce Joe Watkins's number and said TCM could help.Well that started the relationship with TCM and the South African ministry. "Grace " was now in South Africa. TCM immediately send lots of literature. Vernon Anderson and Joe came to South Africa in the late 80's . Bruce then took the the material and started teaching it in his church. Phillip"s brother in law Graham Reeves then shared the message with him when he went down to visit his Mom and Dad in Port Elizabeth. In 1989 Phillip was ordained in Bruce's church by Joe Watkins who came out for the second time. He went back to Pretoria the Monday after his ordination and started the church in Pretoria.
My wife Tilly worked with Phillip and got invited to a Sunday service. Tilly took her sister Jenny with. They found Phillip and his family their in an office they were using as a church. From that day onwards they started to built on the foundation laid by our Lord Jesus Christ. Phillip, Antoinette, Tilly and Jenny invited family and friends and the church grew. It went from Grace Berean Church Pretoria to Grace Berean Church Sinnoville where the grace message was preached in English to a majority Afrikaans speaking congregation. The church was involved in numerous church planting projects like the one in Soweto under Steven Thobela who also use to work with Phillip. TCM stayed involved and Ed Wishard, Joe Watkins, Dan and Jennifer Sidebottom, Vernon and Darlene Anderson, Ken Kemper, Dean Padayhog and numerous other people shared the growing of grace in South Africa. When Phillip moved to the USA Hannes Olivier took over the work. I use to to some preaching there every sixth week to give Hannes a break. My services use to be in English but today it is know as "Grace Berean Bybelgerigte Christen Kerk" and has about 30 odd people attending on a regular basis. The services are now only in Afrikaans but the majority of the literature in English.
Their is a lot to be added to this and I am going to get more information regarding where other grace believers heard the message in South Africa for the first time. The information would be nice to share in the local churches in South Africa to encourage people. It would also build a History of Grace Theology in South Africa to be added to your notes.
God bless, thanks mate!
Jurgens
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