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Man of Faith: B.H. Clendennen Pt.3

17/8/2014

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B.H. Clendennen was one of the first three preachers to appear on American television preaching Christ and travelled widely across the USA preaching crusades. In 1980 he was invited to minister in Yugoslavia, Hungry, and Romania. Every church was filled to overflowing and people were standing out in the freezing cold looking in through the windows. In 1981 he returned to Bulgaria and Romania to find the Spirit of the Lord still moving and the churches growing. The church he founded, Victory Temple in Beaumont, was always a ‘Missions church’. Through the six hundred saints that faithfully and consistently tithed, the Gospel was carried across the world. 

In October 1991 he went on a fact finding mission to Russia to see how he could help this country which had been bound under 75 years of atheism. He knew that God was sending him to Russia and that he would move there. On the last day of his visit God confirmed the call. He was ministering to a small congregation on the edge of Moscow. As he preached about prayer, the Spirit of God broke in on those gathered. The entire group fell on their faces and began to pray. As he prayed he felt a hand upon his arm. When he looked up it was an elderly woman prophesying to him. His interpreter, Igor, translated the message, “All that you have ever suffered, all that you have ever learned, all that you have ever done was to prepare you for what I will do with you in this country.” He later found out that this woman’s husband had been a Pentecostal preacher who was murdered by the KGB. She now spent all her time in the church praying and this was the first time any of them had known her to prophesy. He resigned the Church which he had founded and Pastored for 35 years
and returned to Russia in December for three weeks. On the first Sunday in Moscow he preached in an underground church to about a thousand people. Among them were the Bishops of the Pentecostal Church of all the USSR. They asked him to minister in their churches and train their preachers. He purchased and distributed 30,000 New Testaments and “Books of Life.” The Mayor of Kiev (now Ukraine) asked that he give a Bible to every student in school. For one hour he was interviewed on one of the most powerful radio stations in Russia which had an audience of approximately nine million people and local papers carried articles about the crusades. He preached in cities of hundreds of thousands that had no church. In the Caucasus region he preached to 1,700 people, of those 1,600 came forward to get saved. When he left them there was no shepherd to look after these new saints. He then knew what God would have him do. All this was
God’s way to bring him to birth the School of Christ International. 

Concerning this time he says, “The vision of a three month Bible school was born…my mind was carried back to the outbreak of World War II. I had just graduated from High School when the news broke. In a short time I joined the U.S. Marines, and in one week I was in what they called ‘boot camp.’ For twelve weeks I went through the most intense discipline and training I ever dreamed possible. What were they doing? Transforming young men fresh out of school; fresh from the farm and the city, into men of war. And they meant to do it in twelve weeks. This became the pattern for the School of Christ.” In February 1992 he was back once again in Russia preaching crusades and making arrangements for a building. On September 21st, along with his wife
he moved to Moscow and prepared for the opening of the first School. On October 1st, classes began at the International Pentecostal Bible College of Moscow with 102 students from all over Russia and the Ukraine. The students were brought to the school, and for three months they did not leave unless there was an emergency. For three months they were totally immersed in prayer and the Word of God. The prayer meeting began before day light every morning, and was the last act in the evening. The fact was constantly driven home that you only learn prayer by praying. Without prayer, Bible Schools are merely doctrine. Three months later 100 students graduated and were sent forth into cities and villages to plant the churches. These students had become pregnant with the life of God. As they moved out into the communities they birthed this life; men were saved, bodies were healed, demons cast out and multitudes filled with the Holy Ghost. The results were such that just two years later the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church over radio broadcast warned the people that B.H. Clendennen, was ‘the most dangerous man in all Russia.’ Literally thousands of new churches were birthed across these lands in the next few short years. Initially he had only thought in terms of the School in Russia and had expected to maybe spend the next several years pouring himself out in this land, but soon this School naturally and quickly spread with a life of its own beyond any expectation of the mind of man. The school then went to South America, then China and today the School has students in about 150 countries of the world who have planted tens of thousands of new churches. Every nation in South America, right across China, in prisons across the world and even penetrating the Muslim world this message of Pentecost has been preached afresh in recent times. Labourers have been raised up in each continent who are running the School amongst their own people and who are pressing forward with the commission of Christ. 

Brother Clendennen went to be with the Lord in December 2009 having laboured tirelessly to the very last weeks of his life to see the forging a vessel of recovery and with a fervent desire to see a Pentecostal Revival come to each nation. His wife Jannice is still alive and living in their Beaumont home. Pray for this wonderful woman of God
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Man of Faith: B.H. Clendennen Pt.2

10/8/2014

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Brother Clendennen stepped out into a preaching ministry in the 50’s which would last for more than 55 years to the blessing of great multitudes across the world. In 1956 while preaching in Edna Texas God broke through and revival came. By Saturday night there was standing room only. One in ten people in the area came to hear him preach. On the Saturday night he was preaching on ‘Jesus the Con-queror.’ In the midst of preaching a pain hit the middle of his chest and ran down both arms. He went numb and collapsed on the platform with what was later registered as a massive heart attack. But as he sought God in the following days he was healed and raised up. 

It was in November 1956 that God called him to the City of Beaumont, Texas, to pioneer a Church. He cancelled all his previously arranged meetings and went in obedience. Other Pentecostal churches and Pastors in the area opposed his coming. He also went through a great struggle financially. He had no money to start and run a Church. At this early stage all he had was $25. The house rent was due, the car note was due and he had to feed his family. At four the next morning he rose and went down to the little tin build-ing that God had provided to house the Church. There he fought through in prayer to find the mind of God. If it was God’s will to stay then he would stay, but if not he would reschedule the cancelled meetings. It was then that the Lord spoke these words to him, "As I was with Moses, I will be with you. I put you here to restore the message of Pentecost." By Easter 1957 they had about 100 people. From the day they began, a spirit of revival was in that Church. People were saved, filled with the Holy Ghost and healed in each of the services. This continued for four years then the momentum died down. He called in a Holy Ghost filled Evangelist, a strange man who dealt with sin like an old time prophet. As the church repented a revival broke out that lasted another five years. 

Every year in the church they kept the month of October set apart for prayer and fasting. Also from the founding of the church a 5am prayer meeting was always held. God’s work would be built, preserved and move forward on its knees. 

In 1967 Clendennen made his first visit to Tanzania, Afri-ca. While there he saw the terrible poverty of the people and realized that when God said "hardly can a rich man enter the kingdom," he wasn’t talking about the Rockefellers, he was talking about such as him. He saw such poverty amongst the people that he became physically sick. This made him to go aside and seek the face of God. He began to pray "Why would you want me to see what I can do nothing about?" The Lord spoke to him saying, "The poverty you see physically in these people is what I see in My Church spiritually, and I have called you to do something about it." This incident birthed within him a burning desire for the ‘Prodigal Church.’ 

They travelled to Spain, France, Rome, India, Thailand, and Vietnam to preach God’s Word. Back in 54 God had spoken to him about going to Vietnam but it wasn’t till 69 that they got there. When they arrived and walked into a Hotel a Vietnamese Colonel rushed to them and said he had been looking for him for seven years. He ex-plained that in 1962 he was burdened for the salvation of his people and while seeking God in prayer and fasting he had a vision and in that vision saw Clendennen as the man who would bring revival. He began preaching in the churches but when they closed their doors to him he moved outside the churches to down-town Siagon where he held meeings at 6am which were packed with spiritual-ly hungry people. There was standing room only. Many hundreds were saved, the Holy Ghost fell and 150 were filled at one time. Over the war years (68-75) he was there for several extended periods. On the radio he preached to all of Siagon. God moved mightily. Pentecost had come to Vietnam. In 71 he ministered to crowds of 65’000 in Zaire (Congo). For twenty-one days God’s power fell upon the crowds.

(To be continued…)
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Man of Faith: B.H. Clendennen Pt.1

3/8/2014

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B.H. Clendennen, or Bert as he was known, was born in 1922 into a large poor family in Texas USA. His mother told him that when he was young he would gather his friends around him and preach to them. Although not knowing any scripture he would mimic something of what he had seen. As he grew up through his teens and into his twenties he could never remember any preacher coming to him or challenging him with the Gospel. He wasn’t an atheist but he knew nothing about God and had never read the Bible. Though living in a country that had a church on almost every street corner, it would take 27 years before he would be really confronted with the power of the Gospel.

He graduated from School in 1940, a year later Pearl Harbour was bombed bringing America into the war, he immediately joined the US Marines. His first deployment was to the Island of Pellielu in the South Pacific. As they came ashore, artillery began to rain down on that beech; overhead bombers were dropping death and destruction. For the next 30 months he would live like this. A foxhole became his home and fish heads a normal meal. Out of 11,000 men only 80 of them walked out, the rest were either killed or wounded. The conflicts he was involved in are still considered to have been some of the worst known to man. After the end of the War he returned home as a decorated sergeant to a hero’s welcome.

It was in 1946 that he left the services and started work on the oil rigs. That very same year he married Janice. During the early years of their marriage he was hitting the drink hard. He tried giving up but couldn’t. He loved his girl but this put great strain on their marriage almost to breaking point. At times Janice wouldn’t see Bert for 2-3 days. When a baby son came along the thought of him growing up to be like his dad was too much, she had had enough. She told him she was leaving. That night as he drove to work not knowing if there was a God or not, he prayed asking God not to allow his son to grow up to be like him. This prayer was answered when a six week mission came to, Alice, Texas. Janice attended it and got back to God. She had been a backslider. The minister came and spoke to Bert who as a result said he would come to the meetings. In January 1949 as the Gospel was preached from Acts 16:31, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved,” he was born of the Spirit of God. He walked out of that meeting mightily saved, free and rejoicing in the salvation of God.

At work on the oil rigs his workmates could see the change: he was set free from drink and his tongue was made pure. For two years with his wife he earnestly sought for the Baptism in the Holy Ghost. At every meeting and at every opportunity they sought God for His promised gift. Finally one night out in the brush after a meeting as they prayed in the altar hands were laid upon him and he was filled with the Holy Spirit. He jumped up speaking in tongues, his hands went up, one hand got stuck in the chicken wire, there he hung speaking in tongues. As he looked down he saw that his wife had been filled with the Holy Ghost and was now speaking in tongues. All night long they spoke in tongues as rivers of living water poured forth from their innermost beings.

He read and studied the Word of God constantly. By ’51 he was teaching a small Sunday school class at his church and God began to greatly bless this. In January 1953 he felt God calling him to preach. At this stage he owned a large portion of land and was making plenty of money but God was calling him. He told his boss that he was finishing his job on September 1st. On August 1st he started to fast and to seek God. After 16 days of this his boss thought he was sick and going to die so he sent him home. He went back to his wife’s home town and booked into a Hotel and stayed there 29 days and 30 nights without coming out. God spoke to him and told him to “go preach” and that, “he would never want for a place to preach.” He left the Hotel and with his wife held revival meetings in Newland Texas where a 150 people came out to the meetings. God saved, blessed and moved. From there doors opened up and they moved out in full time ministry. In ’54 he preached at a church where 40 people gathered in for each meeting for a week but totally unmoved. Then finally it broke. Repentance came to those 40 people. That night the building was filled with about 400 people and the power of God fell mightily. These early experiences would deeply mark him for the next 55 years of his preaching ministry.

(to be continued…)
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A Wonderful Story from Sweden

1/8/2014

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Three ladies of the 19th century wrote at least 500 hymns or more. Who were they? Firstly, from the USA, there was Fanny Crosby (1820–1915). Secondly, from the UK there was Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879). Fanny and Frances were actually great friends and mutual admirers but never met. Their friendship was shared in fond letters which came to and fro across the ocean. Today we add a third 19th century female hymn writer to our list and she is from Sweden. Karolina Sandell-Berg, or as she was best known, Lina Berg (1832–1903), was known as the ‘Fanny Crosby of Sweden’.  We know Crosby was tragically blinded when an infant but that never prevented her from ‘seeing’ her Saviour, or the‘sunshine’ He gave her. We have also learnt that prolific hymn writers like Crosby, are most often prolific because they experienced revival. Lina Berg shares these two similarities with Crosby as her hymn writing began with a tragedy which led to her submitting to the Lamb of God and her writing continued on in a genuine nationwide revival.

At age 26, Lina was enjoying a boat trip near Gothenburg with her beloved father who was a Lutheran minister. The vessel suddenly lurched which caused her father, Jonas Sandell, to fall overboard. Tragically he drowned before Lina’s very eyes. Lina, ran to the Word of God and poured out her grief and broken heart in poetry. In that year, 1858, she had no less than14 poems published. Seven years later, Day by Day was published in which the reader can see the depth of the Word of God hidden in her heart and the reality of God’s promises known to her personally.

Oskar Ahnfelt, who wrote many of the melodies for Lina’s poems, was more than a musician. He was a travelling evangelist and revivalist of the 19th century, who played his guitar and sang spiritual songs to the people of Sweden. He was known as a ‘spiritual troubadour (a wandering musician)’. Lina said of him that he sang, “…my songs into the hearts of the people.” 

Early 20th century author, E.E. Ryden tells us,

“King Karl XV, ruler of the united kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, was petitioned to forbid Ahnfelt’s preaching and singing. The monarch refused until he had had an opportunity to hear the “Spiritual troubadour.” Ahnfelt was commanded to appear at the royal palace. Being considerably perturbed in mind as to what he should sing to the king, he besought Lina Sandell to write a hymn for the occasion. She was equal to the task and within a few days the song was ready, With his guitar under his arm and the hymn in his pocket, Ahnfelt repaired to the palace and sang:

Who is it that knocketh upon your heart’s door in peaceful eve?
Who is it that brings to the wounded and sore the balm that can heal and relieve?
Your heart is still restless, it findeth no peace in Earth’s pleasures;
Your soul is still yearning it seeketh release to rise to the Heavenely treasures.  
 
The king listened with tears in his eyes. When Ahnfelt had finished, the monarch gripped him by the hand and exclaimed: “You may sing as much as you like in both of my kingdoms!”  [The Story of Our Hymns, by E. E. Ryden, 1930]. The kingdom of Sweden and Norway experienced true Revival in the 1860s. Lina Berg died at age 70 and is buried near Stockholm.
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