Yan Venter
(at Bethel March 26-30)
In 1985 Brother Venter and his wife, Bessie, along with their three children, moved to Houston, Texas, where they launched their International evangelistic ministry, where he was prompted by the Holy Spirit to encourage through his preaching, a true spirit of revival within the local churches.
Since his arrival in the USA, Brother Venter applied himself to further himself academically, and has since graduated from Global University with a Doctorate degree.
As the River of the Holy Ghost began to flow in these early church revivals, many were called to repentance, the working of true miracles was evident; and a strong prophetic anointing accompanied the proclamation off the Gospel. Almost all of the church crusades carried on for a minimum of e weeks, with many continuing for 10 weeks. Often pastors reported hundreds of first-time conversions and verified miracles. In addition, pastors remarked that the working of the Holy Spirit in these meetings impacted their entire communities.
In 1999 the Holy Ghost sent Yan and Bessie to Miamisburg Assembly of God in Ohio. That meeting lasted 16 weeks and saw 200 people baptized in water. With the same year, the pastor had to plan and eventually build a brand new sanctuary seating a 1,000 people, to house the growing flock. That church would also finally become their base for the next six years.
Naturalized American citizens since 1990, the Venter Ministry also began to reach in to foreign soil. Brother Venter started conduction mass evangelism crusades with crowds of up to 100,000. It was during one of these crusades that a girls who had been totally paralyzed her entire life, was healed and now walking perfectly.
Since then, many more have experienced answers to their prayers in many different situations.
Thousands of Hindus surrendered their lives to Christ for the first time. For all of 2006, Yan joined Brother R.W. Schambach as his associate Evangelist and together would see 1.4 million souls surrender their lives in one single crusade in Africa.
Yan Venter remains on the Gospel mission to impact American towns and cities by stimulating revival in local churches; to bring about lasting change in the lives of the people of God; to help the local church member develop a fresh hunger for a real move of the Holy Spirit; and the reach the world with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus, demonstrating his message with signs, wonders and miracles following the dynamic preaching of the Word of God.
While on his knees in Albuquerque, NM, crying before God, and lamenting this position here in the USA, God spoke to him and told him this:
"I have preserved for myself a remnant who will not bow their knee to the enemy. You will find this remnant ready to move in the Spirit with you. I will bring about a Revival in this nation and you will be one of the instruments to affect my purpose in this matter. This Revival will be greater than anything this nation have experienced before."
Since then, one level after another was reached in the Spirit by many churches of all different kinds of denominations.
Revival Fires all over the nation have broken out and churches are discovering freshly that the prophecies of the Prophet, Joel, are true and relevant for this hour. It is no strange thing for meetings to last several months at a time. This slumbering giant, the USA, has finally woken up and Yan Venter, like many others, is setting a pace and standard, which churches and believers are now voluntarily pursuing.