English · 20. November 2018

In 1987 a large faith conference took place in Frankfurt am Main. It was announced as a five-day Fire Conference with the promising subtitle: Evangelism with Signs and Miracles At that time I was very close to a Bible school where I had begun a theological education. But I probably wouldn't have ended up at that Fire Conference if there hadn't been a lack of folders. So some of us Bible students were recruited. I was one of them. The conference took place in the large exhibition halls. Several...

English · 08. November 2018

In his book "The Happiest People on Earth" Demos Shakarian reports in chapter 10 about a week-long evangelization in Haiti in 1960. It had been a personal invitation of the then feared military dictator Francois Duvalier ("Papa Doc") as a kind of "thank you" for help after a natural disaster. An evening event in the stadium of Port-au-Prince threatened to degenerate into a disaster of a completely different kind. About 300 voodoo priests had mixed among the 35,000 visitors, dressed in blood red...