"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 few
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"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" at the
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"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 significant happenings
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"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 was a
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