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of man; ten is the number of witness. And certainly, this ministry is a witness to what God can do through men and women who are fully committed to Him.
Dr. John E. Douglas, Sr. led WME for 25 years until he died. His daughter Dr. Yvonne Douglas led the ministry for 15 years until she died. And now, I have led the ministry for 20 years. If I may, let me paraphrase Joshua 14:10-11 on behalf of World Missionary Evangelism:
“And now, behold, the Lord hath kept us alive, as He said, these sixty years, even since the Lord spake this word… And as yet we are as strong this day as we were in the day the Lord sent us: as our strength was then, even so is our strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now therefore give us this mountain!”
World Missionary Evangelism has preached the uncompromising gospel of Jesus Christ, trained hundreds of pastors and evangelists, raised and educated thousands of hopeless children, built countless churches, established schools and Bible colleges, built houses for the homeless, constructed and operated leper clinics and medical facilities, drilled water wells, run farms, and pioneered in areas that had never heard the gospel or the name of Jesus. We have worked in Africa, Europe, Mexico, Haiti, Central America, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Korea, and the Philippines. We have belted the globe in the name of the Lord. And we have done it with you, our supporters and partners, and through your faith, your prayers, and your sacrificial giving.
We know about the past. What about the future?
We are living in a very troubled world and in very troubled times. I remember a time when I was nine years old, and the world of my childhood was facing increasing darkness as lights were going out all over Europe. At that time - the beginning of WWII - the King of England, who did not want to be King, had a terrible stuttering problem because of what he had suffered as a child at the hands of a nanny who despised him. Hitler and the Nazi war-machine presented insurmountable challenges. In a speech broadcast to the British Empire, George VI
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