Evangelist Daniel Kolenda of Christ for All Nations shares how KCM Partners have impacted millions of lives in Africa.
Fifty crusades. Fifty cities. One continent.
A target of 100 million documented decisions for Christ. Seem impossible? It’s not! And you have a part in it. Read on to find out how!
Christ for All Nations
The year was 1974 when evangelist Reinhard Bonnke had a dream: the continent of Africa, washed in the blood of Jesus from south to north; from west to east. A voice cried, “From Cape Town to Cairo, Africa shall be saved!”
As a result of that dream, a global evangelistic association was founded: Christ for All Nations, with a heart for the continent of Africa.
Fast forward to 1984, and a partnership was born. Kenneth and Gloria Copeland sat in a small trailer across from evangelist Bonnke. They were in South Africa, and it was the start of a beautiful relationship that still stands today. “Kenneth Copeland Ministries has been the number one supporter of Christ for all Nations since its inception,” according to evangelist Daniel Kolenda, the current President and CEO of CfaN. During that time, there have been over 90 million documented decisions for Christ!
Watch this video to hear evangelist Daniel Kolenda share the story of Reinhard Bonnke and Kenneth Copeland Ministries first partnering together:
A dream in the night: “Africa shall be saved!
In the early days, evangelist Bonnke was a missionary to a very small, landlocked African nation in southern Africa called Lesotho. Sometimes he would travel a whole day to reach a village; when he arrived, only a handful of people would show up. According to Bonnke, even they didn’t want to get saved. He would pray, “Lord, this cannot be all there is to the glorious gospel.”
He had a dream in the night where he saw the continent of Africa being washed in the blood of Jesus, from south to north, from west to east. He heard a voice in that dream cry, “From Cape Town to Cairo! Africa shall be saved!” It was around that time that evangelist Bonnke met Kenneth Copeland in South Africa. Copeland knocked on the door of Bonnke’s RV and prophesied over him that he would see 1 million people saved in one meeting.
In those days, that number was unthinkable for evangelist Bonnke and his ministry, because they hadn’t even seen a total of 1 million people saved during their ten years of ministry. However, that prophecy came to pass a few years later, in the year 2000, when CfaN saw over 1 million people saved in a single meeting!
Millions of people saved every year
Christ for all Nations is now seeing millions of people saved every year. Since they began counting in 1987, they have seen nearly 90 million documented decisions for Christ. In 2024, the 50th year of their ministry, they are doing something unprecedented: They are doing 50 crusades in 50 cities; beginning in Cape Town, then moving north through the continent, ending in Cairo, just like in the dream evangelist Bonnke had all those years ago. Evangelist Kolenda believes that in 2024 their ministry will surpass the landmark of 100 million documented decisions for Christ.
Training More Evangelists
CfaN has been working over the past several years to put a strategy in place in which they not only do the crusades themselves, but they bring other evangelists alongside them. They “train them up, then launch them out,” as Kolenda stated it. This program has been happening since 2017.
In the past, they used to do about seven crusades in a year. At that time, seven crusades in one year was a high mark for them. Now, they can do eleven crusades in two weeks because of the multiplication of workers.
See how Christ for all Nations has impacted this KCM Partner’s personal vision and calling:
A Partner’s Journey to Finding Vision
Your Partnership Support Is Making a Difference
According to Kolenda, Kenneth Copeland Ministries is the number one supporter of Christ for all Nations, since their inception 50 years ago. For 40 of those years, KCM has faithfully supported CfaN, since Kenneth Copeland and evangelist Bonnke first met. Said Kolenda, “I can honestly say that we could not have done this without the generosity of [KCM] and we owe [KCM] a debt of gratitude. I will always love Kenneth Copeland and, more generally [KCM], for that generosity and that faithfulness.”
Partner, because you pray and because you give, you help make the preaching of the gospel to millions of people possible.
Full interview:
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