GOD WORKING WITH THEM CONFIRMING THE WORD WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING ~ MK 16:20
Earnest & Mary Mountain in Saskatoon, 2010
EARNEST & MARY MOUNTAIN celebrated
the 43th anniversary of their conversion to Jesus Christ on December
8, 2013. Forty three years earlier Earnest and Mary were
on the verge of dissolving their common-law relationship, which included four
little children. Earnest was a hard worker and owned a new automobile but was
unable to drive, because his impaired
driving conviction had robbed him of his driver’s license. Their drinking
and arguing was destroying them.
Earnest had seen the big cross with the
words JESUS
SAVES on the Edmonton Revival Centre on 149th Street and Stony Plain Road
and was drawn toward it. At ten o’clock Wednesday morning, December 8, 1970, he told Mary that he was going to walk the ten
blocks to see the preacher. Immediately, she got her coat and went with him.
They were gloriously converted that
morning and have walked with Jesus ever since. God has prospered them in
business and all their children are well educated and are serving the Lord!
Allan and Mary Thew – Mary
Mountain ’s aunt and uncle
- were also gloriously converted. Allan had been a bartender for 40 years and
their conversion made a real ripple effect with many others receiving Christ as
Lord and Saviour! What a wedding we had with four little children as witnesses
and a host of friends attending!
Rene Woudstra testifies for Jesus in Saskatoon, 2009
RENE WOUDSTRA testifies about the great miracle Jesus Christ gave
him in 1970 at the Edmonton Revival
Centre. For 5 years Rene had been seeing
a psychiatrist once a week for his nerves. He was born in Holland and the war had affected him greatly.
As he grew, his fears became unbearable.
After 5 years of psychiatric help, he was
not getting better. For three months he had sat in the front room staring out
the front window, as if in a stupor. An old neighbor from his Dutch Church
excitedly told them about being healed from deafness at the Edmonton Revival
centre (later Faith Cathedral) and that RENE should attend.
Upon hearing these words Rene came alive and said that he wanted to go.
He was instantly healed and has been well ever since. Rene worked as a horticulturist at the University of Alberta for many years until retirement.
Rene and Hene have been featured in the Edmonton Journal a number of times as
having the most beautiful lawn and garden in Edmonton . Glory to God forever!
Wayne Pratt & Pastor Max on TV set, 2011
WAYNE PRATT was a hard working, hard drinking man who had gotten
caught up in the awful web of sin with continual carousing and partying. With a
beautiful wife and little children at home, Wayne would spent countless
week-ends not remembering where he had been and who he had drunk with and fought
with. He would often wake up in a hotel room with a woman he did not recognize.
One Sunday morning in a Hotel room he turned on the TV and saw Pastor
Max Solbrekken preaching the Gospel of Christ. His text was taken from Romans 7: 14 - 25 which perfectly
described his life.
He
testifies: “I hated what I was doing but
was powerless to change. I saw that in my own strength I was a slave to the
lusts of the flesh, the world and the devil. I was a sinner by birth, by nature
and by my selfish will.
“Pastor Max showed me how I could be free by the cleansing and healing
power of Jesus Christ’s blood that was shed for me on Calvary ’s
cross! Suddenly, the truth rushed
into my mind and my spirit and Jesus Christ came into my life. The Bible says: “Ye shall know the truth and the truth
shall make you free.” (John 10: 10).
That is how it all started and His grace has continued with me until today. I
thank God for His great mercy and love toward me!”
John Okemow & Pastor Max in Saskatoon, 2010
JOHN OKEMOW was
born a stutterer, but Jesus healed him through the Ministry of a Mennonite
Preacher when he was 8 years of age. His goal was to become a pilot, a
policeman and a preacher. He has done all that. Due to some circumstances he
fell into sin and for about 12 years was away from God.
In a Max Solbrekken Crusade service in Peerless
Lake , Alberta John
Okemow – the policeman - surrendered to God and several years later entered the
Ministry. Today, he is a powerful man of God who preaches to the Native Indians
and Inuit in Northern Canada with great
success! He is also the Founder and Senior Pastor of the growing Church of All Nations in High Prairie, Alberta Canada.