Reinhard Bonnke: The Blood of Jesus

Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke
A Biography

Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke is principally known for his Great Gospel
Crusades throughout the Continent of Africa. The son of a pastor,
Reinhard gave his life to the Lord at age nine, and heard the call to
the African mission field before he was even a teenager. After attending
Bible College in Wales, and his ordination in Germany he pastored a
church and then went on to start missionary work in Africa. It was
there, in the small mountain kingdom of Lesotho, that God placed upon
his heart the vision of 'the continent of Africa, being washed in the
precious Blood of Jesus' — an entire continent, from Cape Town to Cairo
and from Dakar to Djibouti that needed to be reached and to hear the
proclamation of the signs-following Gospel.

He began holding meetings in a tent that accommodated just 800 people,
but, as attendance steadily increased, larger and larger tents had to be
purchased, until finally, in 1984, he commissioned the construction of
the world's largest mobile structure — a tent capable of seating 34,000
people! Soon, attendance at his meetings even exceeded the capacity of
this huge structure, and he began open-air Gospel Campaigns with an
initial gathering of over 150,000 people per service! Since then, he has
conducted city-wide meetings across the continent with as many as
1,600,000 people attending a single meeting using towering sound systems
that can be heard for miles.

It has now been some thirty-five years since Reinhard Bonnke founded the
international ministry of Christ for all Nations (CfaN), which
currently has offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, United
Kingdom, Nigeria, South Africa, Singapore, Australia, and Hong Kong.

Since the start of the new millennium, through a host of major events in
Africa and other parts of the world, the ministry has recorded 55
million documented decisions for Jesus Christ.

As part of the discipleship-training program, 185 million copies of CfaN
follow-up literature have been published in 103 languages and printed
in 55 countries. Millions of books have been printed and freely 'seeded'
in nations around the world. All this is in addition to the 'Reinhard
Bonnke School of Fire,' an online, self-study course, aimed at inspiring
others to Holy Spirit Evangelism and leading to either a certificate or
university credits.

Reinhard Bonnke is also recognized for hosting 'Fire Conferences' in
many different countries of the world, events that are aimed at
equipping church leaders and workers for evangelism; for distributing
over 95,500,000 copies of Minus to Plus, a profound salvation message,
to homes around the world;

and for seeking every opportunity to reach and to save the lost.

More recently, Bonnke has spent several years developing the 'Full Flame
Film Series,' a series of eight inspirational films aimed at inspiring
and challenging the church to Holy Spirit evangelism.

He is known as one with a burning passion for the Gospel, a vision for
Africa and a message for the world.

Evangelist Bonnke is married to Anni, father to Kai-Uwe, Gabrielle, and
Susie, and grandfather to eight grandchildren.