Reinhard bonnke biography pdf
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Reinhard Bonnke
German Pentecostal evangelist
Reinhard Bonnke (19 April 1940 - 7 December 2019) was a German-American Pentecostal[1]evangelist, principally known for his gospel missions throughout Africa. Bonnke had been an evangelist and missionary in Africa since 1967.[2] In Nigeria’s city, Lagos, in 2000, a single service is believed to have been attended by 1.6 million people.
Christ For All Nations (CFAN) organisation, known for its work throughout Africa, claims Bonnke preached Christ to more than 79 million non believers.[3]
Early life
Reinhard Bonnke was born on 19th April 1940, in the city of Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany,[1][4] the fifth son of Hermann Bonnke, an army logistics officer in the Reichswehr who fought on the Eastern Front; his paternal grandfather was August Bonnke, the owner of a windmill in Trunz, East Prussia (now Milejewo, Poland), who was healed of an unknown ailment by the evangelist Luis Graf in 1922, but died during the evacuation of East Prussia in 1945. His mother was Metaa Bon
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Evangelist Bonnke 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 at the time — a tent capable of seating 34,000 people! Soon, attendance at his meetings exceeded the capacity of even this huge structure, and he began open-air Gospel Campaigns with an initial gathering of over 150,000 people per service! From then on, he conducted city-wide meetings across the continent using towering sound systems that could be heard for miles. The largest recorded attendance in such an open-air meeting was in the city of Lagos during the “Millennium Crusade in November, 2000, when over 1.6 million people thronged the field to hear the Gospel!
Reinhard Bonnke held the first Fire Conference in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1986. Since then these events have taken place around the globe, equipping church leaders and workers for evangelism. He was also the visionary behind a program to
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Reinhard Bonnke: The man who changed the face of Christianity in Africa
German-born evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, who attracted massive crowds in Africa during decades of preaching, is being mourned by millions of Christians across the continent following his death aged 79. Kenyan writer Jesse Masai looks back at his influence.
With comparisons ranging from British "Prince of Preachers" Charles Spurgeon to American televangelist Billy Graham, Bonnke's status as the father of modern-day crusade preaching and healing in Africa is not in dispute.
Across the continent, huge week-long church rallies are now commonplace, characterised by mass mobilisation, big tents, colourful podiums, sophisticated public address systems, local language translators and, in some instances, evangelists who mimic Bonnke's oratory and stage antics, including how he firmly gripped microphones.
At the end of some of his sermons, he would ask who in the crowds was hearing God's call to take the microphone from his hands.
His
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