Reinhard Bonnke

Reinhard Willi Gottfried Bonnke (April 19, 1940 – December 7, 2019) was a German-American Pentecostal evangelist, the founder (1974) and longtime president of Christ for all Nations (CfaN), and one of the most influential mass-crusade evangelists of the 20th–21st centuries. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), the son of a Pentecostal pastor, Bonnke was converted at age 9 and reported a clear missionary call to Africa before his teens. He attended Bible College of Wales (Swansea) under Samuel Rees Howells and was ordained in the Free Pentecostal Mission of Germany. He pastored a small German congregation until 1967 when he and his wife Anni began missionary work in Lesotho. In 1974 he founded CfaN in Johannesburg, South Africa (later headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, then Orlando, Florida), responding to a recurring dream of "Africa being washed in the Blood of Jesus." His Great Gospel Crusades across Africa from the 1980s onward drew historic attendances — Lagos 2000 single-service of 1.6 million, five-night Lagos crusade total of 6 million, with similar but smaller-scale figures across Sub-Saharan Africa. CfaN reports 79+ million decisions for Christ across his 50 years of ministry. He preached his last crusade in 2017. In 2009 he appointed Daniel Kolenda as successor; Kolenda continues to lead CfaN.

• Fear of the Lord Emphasis — Affirmed; Bonnke's preaching was gospel-centric with substantial weight on the holiness of God, the seriousness of sin, and the necessity of repentance — functionally aligned with the fear-of-the-Lord emphasis.
• Cost of Following — Affirmed; CfaN's follow-up discipleship through partnered local churches assumes the cost. Bonnke himself modeled it — left a German pastorate, raised family in Lesotho, traveled relentlessly, faced specific dangers in conflict zones.
• Rapture Timing — Pre-millennial pre-tribulation rapture in classical Pentecostal-dispensational framework, with substantial emphasis on the global gospel-mandate's urgency.
• Cessation — Strong continuationist (classical Pentecostal-AOG-stream). All gifts and offices fully operative.
• Healing in Atonement — Healing is provided in the atonement; healing follows gospel preaching as confirmation of the gospel's power (Mark 16:17–20). Bonnke's ministry consistently demonstrated this in mass-crusade context.
• Modern State Prophetic Significance — Generally pro-Israel mainstream Pentecostal-dispensational; not a major catalog focus.

• Christ for all Nations