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“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” 2 Corinthians 4:7 NKJV  Easter Sunday – April 9, 1950 – was a very significant day in my life, and in what would become “real revival” in my hometown of Mt. Carmel, Illinois. […]

“God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9 NKJV Mary Greer and I were married June 18, 1950, and I enrolled at Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina.  On our first wedding anniversary in 1951, we met with Charles Mellis, Jr. at

“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.” 2 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV Answer the question: Are you available and flexible to serve God?  New Year’s Eve 1944, Army Air Corps Serviceman Nate Saint attended a service conducted by John

“Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.” 1 Corinthians 3:5-7 NKJV God puts “the

“Therefore He says: ‘Awake, you sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.’ ” Ephesians 5:14 NKJV Torrey Johnson wrote to Percy Crawford: “You gave fresh approach to the ministry of youth across the country. God raised you up at a time when mass evangelism was in the doldrums. You, with a

“Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105 NKJV Percy Crawford began airing the Young People’s Church of the Air October 4, 1931, Sunday afternoons from Philadelphia’s Barnes Memorial Presbyterian Church. Crawford was born in Canada, moved to Los Angeles in September 1923, and was “born again”

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1 NKJV “Together Toward Tomorrow” is the continuing story of youth evangelism in America, 1931 through 2025 and counting. Even before I was born, August 29, 1931, very

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free…” Galatians 5:1 NKJV God puts special people in specific places at strategic times.  In the book “Young Man on Fire,” Mel Larson wrote: “In his one year at [Chicago’s Messiah Baptist Church] his calls for meetings had increased so rapidly that it

“So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, ‘Moses, Moses!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ ” Exodus 3:4 NKJV “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord,

“That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.” John 1:9 NKJV Jesus was “moved with compassion” for the people, “because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray