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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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Tony Parry
3/8/2014 07:16:58 am

Amen. Bro. Clendennen was a man after God's heart. Not everyone agreed with his theological doctrine (ie Holy Ghost Baptism, healing, tounges etc), but nonetheless, all who knew him knew that he truly believed what he preached!

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Grady Embrey
2/2/2020 11:12:04 pm

I believed him. He preached the Word of God from cover to cover. Loved his preaching, and the sharing of his experiences when the power of the Holy Spirit fell, similar to Peter and Cornelius, the power just fell, they all began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit of God gave the utterance. Glory to God in the highest!

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Sandy Parsons
3/8/2014 11:28:06 am

My husband and I were privileged to sit under his teaching/preaching for the first time June, 2009, in Beaumont, TX, were he taught his last school of Christ. He taught more truth in those 3 weeks than we had ever heard our entire lives, though we were both raised "in church." We knew the first day, in those 1st few morning hours, that all that we heard was truth. God used Bro. Clendennen to open up the Gospel of Jesus Christ to us like our hungering souls had been longing to hear for nearly 50 years. He lived it, he believed it, he preached it. Don't need to read about a Smith Wigglesworth, though he was a mighty man of God. We saw more in that 3 weeks, in and through B.H. Clendennen, than any historian can write. God changed our religious lives to a true walk with Him and His Son. Praise God!

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Matt Robinson link
4/8/2014 03:30:41 pm

I saw Jesus in brother Clendennen, he has raised many of us theologically.His life was a true demonstration of Christianity . Being a prophet of God is less telling the future (and giving "words"), and more speaking for God--bearing God's own heart to His people and the world He died to save. Brother Clendennen was a prophet: he spoke for God.

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Annette Clendenen.
17/9/2015 04:03:40 am

Thank you.

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Crystal Ramirez
6/8/2014 05:09:39 pm

Pastor Clendennen. He was a might man of God. I met him in 2007, if I'm not mistaken, after he Ministered at my home church in Trinidad. (In the Caribbean) I felt the Spirit of God move in the words he shared. I'll never forget, when I looked into his eyes as he greeted me I saw the eyes of Jesus looking back at me. I was amazed and I wanted to reflect Jesus just as much as he did. Needless to say, I attended the School of Christ and received all of his very sound bible based teaching. My life has never been the same and although I only met him once it was a great privilege and honor for me.

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Doyle Fuller
8/3/2015 01:46:02 pm

My dad is F. F. 'Bill' Fuller, who was a driller in south Texas who hired Bert to work with him in the oil field. My mother was a Pentecostal preacher, Rev. Nettie Fuller, who had a small church in Woodsboro, Texas. Bert and his wife came to a revival she had and was somewhat alarmed at the hand clapping and praising, normal to the worship of that church. Bert's wife asked him what he thought of the service and he said that if he ever got religion, that's the kind he wanted. My mother Nettie was the minister at Bert's wedding. I recall sitting in the back seat of a two-door chevy in the 1940's when this handsome man came up to the driver's side of that car where my mother was sitting and asked my mother to marry him. What!!! It made me mad but they were all laughing. She agreed and married them. While working with my dad a cable broke and a tong hit Bert in his back knocking him to the rig floor. When It was determined he would be ok my dad said, " Bert, God doesn't have to have you in Korea to talk to you." Bert said, " You know, that's the first thing I thought about, Bill." The first revival Bert had was in a small Pentecostal church (PCG) in Wichita Falls, TX in about 1955 where he also had his first miracle. A wife asked Bert to go to the state mental hospital to pray for her husband. He went and prayed a simple prayer for his health. The wife was disappointed with the prayer but the next morning the man got up, took a shower, put on clean clothes, packed his suitcase, called his wife and she found him totally healed. If my mother and father never did any more than help lead Bert to a surrendered life to Christ, I suppose the call was worth it. I've been told that Pastor Bert spoke of my mother and father around the world so this info may already be well known. Doyle Fuller

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Stefane Babin
7/1/2017 09:30:53 pm

Bert Clendennen cassettes where a blessing to me , I would have loved to meet him and thank him in person .

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Steve
16/2/2017 04:40:43 pm

I remember before I met the Lord in 1992 how my father just loved listening to Bert. My father would sit for hours weeping as Bert would deliver the heart of God. I knew very little about what was going on in the heart of my dad. My father would bring me and my 8 brothers and 7 sisters to church and I had very little time for it, therefore at the age of 17 I took to the world and found that there was nothing there for me but heartaches. In 1992 I met Jesus who filled me with His Spirit and 6 month later I was in Bible College training to be a Pastor. I have been a Pastor now for the pass 20 or so years. About 4 years ago I conducted the funeral service for my 40 year old sister who died of cancer. At the funeral an old friend of my father gave me a CD with Bert preaching. From that day onward I listen to Bert many many times through the CDs and internet. I only wish to have the passion and the Spirit that he had when it came to delivering God's word. Can't wait to meet him in Glory.

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