After working just shy of five years with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as State Coordinator for Maryland, Delaware, Northern Virginia & Washington, DC it was an honor to learn from some of the very best. In March of this year (2019), I came off the payroll and shortly after we began to [...]
This summer was WILD! It started off ministering in Nicaragua and then TEN states later we are exiting the summer and entering the FALL. We were blessed to minister coast to coast and even served and preached in Anchorage, Alaska with our dear friends Everett & Cathy Aaron of JUDAH 1 Airlines. The Lord opened [...]
What an honor it was to spend all last week in beautiful Nicaragua. Their country has been under intense persecution for sometime but after Ruth and I seeing it up close and personal we agree the people are gracious, the scenery gorgeous and the leaders share a burning desire to please God and hunger for [...]
This week I had the honor to have dinner at Mar-a-lago, the home of the President of the United States of America in gorgeous Palm Beach, Florida. Some have been blessed to visit and dine at The White House but not everyone has been invited to share a meal in the private home of a [...]
This week the Lord opened the door for a delegation to travel to the United Nations in NYC to discuss ways with Ambassador Garcia and Chairwoman Madelyn Rodriguez how we can collaborate as Christians to IMPACT culture and change the climate. It has been said, "Evil triumphs when good men and women do NOTHING." Christianity [...]
WALK WHERE JESUS WALKED! Join Grammy & Dove Award Winner MICHAEL ENGLISH and me to the Holy Land this November 2019! This will be Michael's first trip and this indeed is a trip of a lifetime. See firsthand Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Dead Sea and be baptized in the Jordan River! Follow the footsteps of Christ as [...]
Latin Pop Star, SHAKIRA sings a song called WAKA WAKA and in the chorus is a line that says, "This Time For Africa." For the third year in a row, I was invited by Dr. Joseph Serwadda and Dr. Chuck Balsamo, respectively to preach at the PASSOVER New Year's Eve Celebration held at the iconic [...]
THIS JUST HAPPENED - Yesterday, I was sitting at my gate in Charlotte waiting to board my flight home to DC on American Airlines and it’s packed. Walking towards me was an African American woman and my parents raised me to consider others more than myself so I offered to get up so she could [...]
Last week, it was an honor to return and attend a meeting with the Ambassador of El Salvador at the United Nations. My dear friend, Madelyn Rodriguez is the Chairperson for the Faith Branch Advisory of the UN for El Salvador and they graciously invited me to discuss multiple projects relating to bridging both secular [...]
HONORED to be invited back on Capitol Hill to be part of a panel at the Department of Education and speak at a round table discussion with Faith Based leaders from Dept. Education, Commerce, Homeland Security, Labor respectively and others including ministry leaders and school officials on the pressing issue of opioid epidemic, human trafficking [...]
My good friend, Dylan Novak is barely 20 years old and has one of the most inspiring ministries around. We have been buddies for a couple years now and chat frequently on what God is doing in his life. He has ministered to everyone from Tom Cruise to Harrison Ford and the entire KISS Band [...]
Earlier this year, Ruth and I had the privilege to attend Pastor Rodney Howard Browne’s Winter Camp Meeting in Florida and it was an honor to preach daily in the morning for their incredible River Bible Institute chapel. We were visiting in his office after one of the services and he asked me a question [...]
What an honor it was to finally visit India! I was invited last year and the scheduling wasn't conducive and the Lord worked it out this year. India made the FIFTH continent that I have been blessed to preach at and most grateful for the invitation from Dr. Sam Thomas of Hopegivers International. His father, [...]
Most grateful this past week to return to Tampa, FL and minister on television and at the River Bible School. Nothing like promoting the Son in the Sunshine State! What a JOY to have Ruth accompany me and words fail to describe or define what both Christian Television Network and the River Church means to [...]
What an honor to return the week after Christmas and fly back to Uganda, Africa! Check out pics and video on our Instagram page. So thankful for my dear friend, Pastor Chuck Balsamo for inviting me to return and we flew together from Dulles (IAD) to Entebbe, Uganda. We changed planes in Instanbul, TURKEY where [...]
This week the revered reverend, Dr. Billy Graham turned 99 years old and BGEA is celebrating all year as he turns the corner into living a century. Very few live to be one hundred and even fewer know firsthand what it has been like to be used by God like this gentle giant from North [...]
Nearly 20 years ago, God gave me a vision at a dark time in my life and ministry. Ironically, it was "officially" starting and I had already been ministering since a child but while the ink was still drying on my ordination it seemed like things were falling apart. Satan was already trying to derail God's [...]
Since childhood, I have been a HUGE Mel Gibson fan. From Mad Max to Braveheart, The Patriot to four installments of "Lethal Weapon" and his masterful depiction of "The Passion of Christ" was Divine. Literally! Even his final fight in Expendables 3 with Stallone was great and when my good friend, Pastor Brian Alarid asked [...]
On opening weekend I was able to treat my family to see the new movie "SULLY" starring Tom Hanks. Captain Chesley Sullenberger is the pilot who courageously, miraculously and safely landed the plane on the Hudson (Flight 1549) on January 15, 2009. I remember that day vividly for a couple reasons. One, it was exactly [...]
"frank & FRIENDS" - Pastor Mark Batterson @ NCC One of America's most respected pastors and prolific authors, Mark Batterson has a brand new book out - "CHASE THE LION." Mark and I have been friends for probably a decade now and we both share a passion for God [...]
As long as I live I will never forget what God did with some committed Christians in the First State. Earlier this month, Franklin Graham's DECISION AMERICA TOUR bus rolled into town and GOD showed up! The back story was for the first time in decades the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association felt led to scrap [...]
God > Gold Thank you for all your prayers while in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the XXXI Olympiad. It was a treat to hold TWO Olympic gold medals and what an honor to return under the leadership of Dr. Sam Mings who has ministered at every Olympics since 1984 summer games in Los Angeles. [...]
MEET NICK: This brother, Nick Hall has an amazing assignment from the Lord. Since youth, he has been telling anyone and everyone about the Lord. God opened incredible doors for him to speak on campus while a student and that spread to a movement on multiple college campuses. After seeing firsthand how the [...]
It has been three weeks and I am still digesting and processing what God did in our midst in Monroeville, Alabama. Some skeptics suggest revivals are obsolete, tents are outdated and evangelism is out the window simply because it is too hard or offensive. One respected church leader said years ago, "It's not that [...]
As a child, I recall being invited to attend the local theater and it was music to my ears when my parents said, "I Got You Covered." It was pure excitement to enter and escape for [...]
Kenny and "Chopper" were two brothers. They were adopted and frequented the church I came to faith in JESUS as a child. They were African American and I was born into a middle class white family. Together we were "ebony and ivory." We were brothers in Christ and I looked up to them in more [...]
HARD TO BELIEVE but it will be eight years this summer that I stepped out "By Faith" on July 27, 2007 and left the benefits, prestige and salary of Capitol Hill to preach the Gospel forsaking retirement, health insurance and job security to do the work of an evangelist. Ironically, I didn't have a single [...]
Sorry for slight delay in posting. Just in last month and half I have been blessed to minister coast to coast and just returned this weekend from preaching in Caribbean with my dear friend and Grammy Winner, Michael English. We were honored to reunite with Gospel Cruise Fest and for the week we saw [...]
Two and a half months from now churches and Christians all across America will be able to share their faith with family, friends and complete strangers with the latest outreach from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Dr. Graham turns 96 in November and the world was blessed tremendously by his message "MY HOPE - The [...]
For the past two months on my ministry e-letters and social media I have been reminding folks of the "SON OF GOD" movie that hits over 3,000 theaters nation-wide tomorrow on Friday, February 28, 2014! Since childhood, I love going to the theater and enjoy trailers promoting future films but my favorite is the poster [...]
