Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Pastor Jack Hibbs, took to Twitter to post an urgent message to his congregants and followers. In his video he starts, “It has don’t want Bible and they don’t want truth so they nailed us.”

Feb. 23rd Hibbs and his team found out YouTube had completely wiped his channel off their platform. The reason why? They were told copyright infringement violations. Hibbs says officials at YouTube can’t show or tell them what those infringements are, but claims A&E and Telemundo claim sermons that have aired on their network belong to them and requested his account be taken down.

“A&E, they had something against us. They raised the flag to YouTube and then they shut us down. It makes no sense whatsoever,” he says.

Once they found out their channel had been wiped, Hibbs made a request to YouTube to discover the problem. YouTube refused to take on their request. “They are stonewalling us,” Hibbs says.

All of his sermons, teachings, videos were taken down and can no longer be accessed. Hibbs is declaring an “information war” as he is certainly not the first, and most likely not the last conservative to be removed from Big Tech’s platforms.

“We are honored to be attacked, we must be speaking so much truth they can’t handle,” he says.

In a couple of months Hibbs is launching The Real Life Network which won’t be at the fingertips of anyone trying to censor their content.

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Pray for conservative Christians voices. Ask God for creative and unique ways for people to continue to share the gospel without the possibility of being censored. {eoa}

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Have you ever heard the saying, “Being forewarned is being forearmed”? When you know the hurricane is coming, you board up your house and go to safer territory. When you know a severe cold spell is on the way, you make sure that you have proper winter clothing.

In the same way, the Bible not only predicts seasons of great temptation and lawlessness, it also tells us how to survive such times. We can even thrive during such difficult seasons, with the grace and help of God. In fact, the same proven methods for overcoming sin and resisting temptation that apply to everyday life also apply in times of severe pressure and stress. We just need to be more vigilant in putting these methods into practice during times like this.

That’s because it’s so much easier to swim with the tide, to embrace the prevailing culture, to go with the flow, rather than to push back and resist.

If you decide not to acquiesce to the latest LGBTQ talking points on the job or in school, you will be vilified, marginalized and demonized. You will be excluded, marked, mocked and even canceled. You will be branded a bigot, a hater, a Nazi, to the point of losing promotions, jobs, scholarships and your reputation. Who wants any of this? Better to conform than to resist. At the least, better to be silent. That’s certainly what the flesh wants to do.

Yet when we do this, compromising our convictions for the sake of our comfort, we compromise our very souls. This, too, is part of the Lord’s warning, and it accurately describes the culture of the day. Lawlessness abounds. Wickedness has increased. The opposition to holiness is mounting. The resistance to the gospel is growing.

Will we stand tall for the world to see, or will we cower? Will we hold to God’s truth regardless of cost or consequence, or will we rationalize our spineless choices? Will we have the courage to do what is right even when it makes us unpopular, or will we succumb to the pressure to conform? Put another way, which is more important to us, being accepted by God or being accepted by people? Whose favor do we value more? Whose praise do we live for?

In the words of Paul, “Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ” (Gal. 1:10). That is some straightforward language.

In that same spirit, Jesus said to religious leaders in His day, “How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God” (John 5:44)? As John recorded later in this same book, “Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in Him [referring to Jesus]. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; for they loved human praise more than praise from God” (John 12:42–43).

Does that apply to any of us? Do we care more about human opinion than divine opinion? Are we more interested in the praise of people than the praise of our Lord? Are we more focused on temporal favor than eternal favor?

May the Lord open our eyes to eternal realities and deliver us from the fear of man and the desire to be praised by man. As a colleague of mine once said, “When you are on your knees [meaning, in prayer], the praise and the criticism go right over your head.”

Or perhaps this question will help us get the right perspective: Would you rather be rejected by God or by people? Chew on that for a moment. How you answer that question will have eternal repercussions. {eoa}

(Excerpted and adapted from Michael L. Brown, “Why So Many Christians Have Left the Faith: Responding to the Deconstructionist Movement with Unshakable, Timeless Truth.” To read a free chapter, visit .)

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Some Texas high school seniors are trying to help a senior citizen retire from the workforce once again, and it appears their amazing act of kindness will be successful.

KXII-TV reports the three Callisburg High School seniors noticed Mr. James, a retired resident who had to come out of retirement and become their school custodian last month, due to the rising cost of living in recent months.

“It’s just so sad seeing an 80-year-old man having to do things an 80-year-old shouldn’t have to do,” said senior Banner Tidwell.

All it took to get the project rolling was a single video posted to TikTok. Senior Greyson Thurman uploaded the video showing Mr. James cleaning the halls. He also mentioned the GoFundMe page he created for James, aiming to help him to continue to live comfortably.

“I have 2,000 followers and that was enough to get the word out,” Thurman told KXII.

The page raised $10,000 in 12 hours with most of the donations coming from students, the outlet reported.

Jason Hooper, the school’s principal, said he was proud of the three seniors and all of the students who participated in the fundraiser.

“It’s just amazing,” Hooper told KXII. “You know of the need that was met because of three kind kids, but of all of our students who have pitched in to help that need.”

In seven days since the GoFundMe page was created, donations have continued to roll in. As of Wednesday, more than 5,000 people had donated to the page, raising more than $159,000, just shy of the $200,000 goal.

“Hey guys, I’m having a fundraiser for our janitor who is struggling to pay his rent,” Thurman wrote on the page. “He had to leave retirement to continue to pay his rent that was raised. Just a little will change his life!!”

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The University of Valley Forge, an Assemblies of God institution in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, has a storied and miraculous history.

In 2013, Charisma Media Founder Stephen Strang reported Valley Forge, founded in 1939, won a Supreme Court case in 1978 that allowed it to keep its beautiful 106-acre campus, and it has been churning out godly community leaders since its founding in 1939.

And now, Valley Forge has joined the growing list of universities, high schools, grade schools and churches where the Holy Spirit has overwhelmed these campus and where nationwide revival—if not an awakening—is becoming more and more evident each day. It all started with Asbury University nearly three weeks and, the fire is spreading.

On social media Wednesday, author and evangelist Rick Curry posted the news of an outpouring at Valley Forge.

“GREAT NEWS! Valley Forge College in Pennsylvania is still in chapel service since 11 a.m. and school has cancelled classes for TOMORROW! There is a move of God coming no building can contain and no ministry will control. Reported from trusted friend!”

Curry posted an update Friday from Valley Forge: “Valley Forge College! Update. We are so excited to see the Holy Spirit rest upon a generation and raise them us to take their place in the storyline of history! Let’s go! Let’s encourage, support and get excited this generation can change the world!”

At mid-day Friday, Curry also posted a video that he and others were “on their way to revival in Florence, Kentucky.

Wednesday, Dr. Michael Yeager of Jesus is Lord Ministries, posted this on Facebook: “Carrie Brooks: There is a beautiful move of the Holy Spirit happening at UVF—University of Valley Forge right now… Jesus is at work in the hearts and lives of those waiting in His Presence. Thankful for His grace & kindness.

“Better is one day in your house than a thousand elsewhere.”

There are also reports of the Holy Spirit moving at Hannibal-LaGrange University in Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal-LaGrange is affiliated with the Missouri Baptist Convention (Southern Baptist).

CBN reported that Shane Pruitt, the national Next Gen director for the North American Mission Board, tweeted a photo of students worshipping together on Wednesday night.

“Full house at @HLGuniversity on Wednesday night.”

CBN reported that, “In a follow-up tweet, Pruitt reported 8 students responded to the gospel for salvation. Pruitt delivered the gospel message at a service in the school’s chapel earlier Wednesday morning.”

Full house at @HLGuniversity on a Wednesday night. #revivalgeneration

— Shane Pruitt (@shane_pruitt78) February 23, 2023

And in yet another follow-up, Pruitt tweeted, “19 more people got saved at Hannibal-LaGrange University tonight!”

Stay tuned to Charisma News for reports of the Holy Spirit working in more school campuses and churches throughout the country.

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Former Satanist John Ramirez has been on a mission to expose the kingdom of darkness since he gave his life to Jesus. His heart is for everyday Christians to understand and be aware of what’s happening in the spirit realm around them. Now, with After School Satan Clubs being introduced in schools, he is exposing the lie that they claim they don’t actually worship Satan.

“These clubs, these Satanism people, how they dress things up, how they introduce things to people, how they finesse it and say they don’t worship Satan. They are a bunch of liars,” Evangelist Ramirez says.

He equates their lie to someone saying they are a Christian, yet they don’t believe in Jesus. “In the foundation of whatever you follow, there has to be a deity,” he says.

In schools across the country, there are Satan Clubs popping up with the aim of giving an alternative to a Christian club. In a Chesapeake, Virginia school board meeting one parent spoke out on the matter saying, “We can’t be so afraid of being mocked or called names or canceled that we open the door wide open to evil in our community and most importantly to our children.”

But, the fear of being mocked is exactly what has kept so many people from speaking out. Ramirez is sounding the alarm on the danger of the theology they are presenting. In the beginning they claim not to worship Satan, then Ramirez says once you are accepted in through ceremonies and contracts with the dark side they start to be honest.

“The more ingrafted you get in, the more you see,” he says.

It’s no surprise there is a war going on right now against the young generation. An outpouring just started at Asbury University with a few hungry students seeking the Lord. The world was impacted by their hearts for Jesus. Satan is after that generation. He wants to snatch them from God’s calling and purpose for their life and bring confusion and chaos.

“We see what’s going on in Kentucky right, the move of God. Who’s there? All young people. Satan is a copy cat, he wants to copy anything that is original,” Ramirez says.

At eight-year-old Ramirez was brought into the Satanic church. He went to meetings from 7PM to 5AM the next day being trained by witches and warlocks. In his new book coming out March 7th “Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms” Ramirez gives a practical manual for every Christian.

“The Holy Spirit said ‘why don’t you write a manual for spiritual warfare prayers and how to destroy satanic kingdoms,'” he says. Not only does he share how to destroy plots, schemes, entrapment, delay and blockages but the satanic kingdoms themselves. “Who called fire from heaven? Elijah. It’s called ‘Fire Prayers.’ Destroy every demonic altar that’s got your family bloodline on it,” Ramirez says.

Pray for this nation. Pray that God would set a part this generation for His glory and all plans of the enemy would be broken. Watch the rest of the interview to hear more on fighting the enemy with spiritual warfare prayers.

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Honor and Humility Are the Currencies in Heaven

Similar to honor, humility is also a currency in Heaven. So keep this in mind as we pray today. I want you to take into consideration what you learn in these prayers. They are touchpoints from the Holy Spirit about areas you may need to repent of. Maybe I need to repent of some places where pride has seeped in because it’s part of life. We’ll do it together, praying and asking the Spirit to guard us against it consistently.

Things to Remember When Battling in the Courts of Heaven

There are keys we must remember when we’re battling and praying in the Courts of Heaven.

1. Walk in humility.

We have to walk in humility when we start having a lot of victories because pride can creep in, and you start thinking, “Well, maybe I’m the one doing this.”

So we have to walk in humility because God’s Word says, “The Lord resists the proud. He gives grace to the humble.” We see that in the Bible in James 4:6 and 1 Peter 5:5.

Humility is essential to spiritual warfare. It impacts the victory and the verdict that you receive. We need to understand that we only receive it because of the power of the blood of Jesus. Humility leads to repentance and wisdom.

2. Live a lifestyle of repentance.

So I always try to encourage people. I don’t want to focus on negative things. But here’s the key: you must have a lifestyle that’s quick to repent. That is the beginning of wisdom, understanding the longer you leave an offense or wound uncovered, the worse it will get. Repentance covers the offenses and wounds in our lives with the blood of Yeshua.

Christie and I have three grandchildren, and they all are little daredevils. These are fearless little people who like to jump off of anything. I mean, they love to swim. Praise God, two of them are swimming. We got one more to go. But in the process of being healthy and loving all that activity, they get wounds, scrapes and bruises.

When they get a boo-boo, you pray for them and kiss the boo-boo. Then you got to clean it off with some antiseptic and put Neosporin and a bandaid on it. So the sooner you can get it covered, the better.

So why is that important? The reason it’s important is that the wound is going to become an issue if it gets infected. If it gets cleansed immediately and treated appropriately to get rid of the germs, and it doesn’t get infected, then the body has a natural way of healing itself.

And the little people, and praise God, I’m one of them too, heal very quickly because we have strong immune systems.

Understanding How Repentance Works in the Spirit

But you need to understand that in the Spirit when you get a cut, it is a picture of sin. If you just let it fester, it’s going to get infected. Then, all of a sudden, you’re going to have to get on antibiotics, and you have a bigger battle on your hands.

It’s just better to immediately repent once the sin is there. Don’t wait and let it fester. Immediately cleanse it and then immediately put the Neosporin, so to say, the blood of Jesus. Put a bandaid on it and cover it and let it heal.

3. Stand in agreement with God’s Word.

When you stand in agreement with God’s Word, you adopt His mindset and truth, which empowers you. So it’s not enough just to speak His Word. It’s about adopting them as your own words. It’s embracing and having a faith mindset that you believe what His Word says about you more than what you have thought in the past.

If the Lord has said something is wrong, then it’s wrong. Why fight the Lord? A lot of people think, “Well, maybe this is a sin.” Listen, it’s really quite simple: Right is right, and wrong is wrong.

And the thing is, especially if you’re sensitive in the Spirit, you’ll know what you’re doing because you’ll feel conviction, not condemnation. If He has said something is righteous, then it is righteous. And then, if something is righteous, find righteous behavior and habitually do that versus bad behavior.

Because when you make that conscious decision, you’re going to have different results in your life. Come into agreement with God’s Word and bring Him glory, which releases restoration to you. So one of the biggest keys to walking in humility is to say, “I surrender to God’s ways, and I agree with God’s ways because that is wisdom,” and that humility will open many doors and heal your body.

4. Extend forgiveness.

If you’re battling unforgiveness in your heart, it blocks Heaven’s powers in your life. The Lord gives you the divine power to forgive because you have been forgiven. And that’s really the key to the Lord’s prayer: the need to forgive others.

Probably one of the strongest things you can do is ask the Lord to show you the other person’s heart. This can be painful. My wife is the one that does the intercession in our family for this. If we’re having a challenge with an employee, we’re having a challenge with a relationship or someone is suffering, she’s like quick to this. She’ll pray, “Lord, show me their heart. Why are they behaving this way? What wound is in their past?”

She’ll start interceding for them, and the Lord will show her, “This happened, and this is why they can’t trust. This is why this rebellious behavior is coming. This is why they aren’t able to respond correctly at this touchpoint that we’re intersecting within their life.”

And then she starts to intercede for it and pray, and I’ll intercede with her and pray as well. But many times, I’m the one that will have to speak with them. And when I do, I feel safe bringing it up after we’ve interceded and prayed, knowing how to come as a father in love and, through a series of questions, say, “Hey, could it be this?”

When the disciples said to Jesus, “Lord, will you teach us to pray?” Jesus responded with a prayer recorded in Matthew 6:9–13. Jesus taught His disciples to pray by addressing their Father where He was–in heaven. And to ask Him for His will to be done, not theirs.

So the Lord’s saying, “You need to say first of all, ‘Lord, let Your will be made known to me and let Your will be made manifest to me that I might say yes.” And that’s what we have to do. {eoa}

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An ordained minister within the Disciples of Christ, claiming to hold advanced degrees from schools of divinity at Duke and Yale, continues spreading opinions wrapped in the Word of God on social media.

Rev. Caleb Hines posted a sermon on social media making claims about the divinity of God that are clearly contradictory to the Word of God.

“God is gay. God is a lesbian. God is trans. God is gender non-binary. God is straight. God is cis-gender. God is Black. God is white. God is Middle Eastern. God is Asian. God is differently abled, mentally and physically. God is able bodied. God is you. You are God, because you are a reflection of God’s divine image,” Hines was recorded saying.

While the notion of cloaking one’s own personal ideologies in Scripture in the hopes of justifying sinful lifestyle is not new, this practice has increased in recent years, especially in apostate churches that look to transform and “modernize” the Word of God.

A self-proclaimed “progressive Christian,” Hines and the Disciples of Christ denomination push narratives such as Jesus being a liberal, the need for gun control in America, the inclusion of the radical LGBTQ agenda and that true Christianity needs to be “reclaimed” because everything from Constantine on is wrong.

“The word ‘Christian’ has been hijacked,” claims Pastor Marshela Salgado-Solorio in defense of progressive Christianity. “Not just in recent decades, but this is centuries and centuries of hijacking. Progressive Christianity is trying to strip everything from Constantine on.”

In their eyes, the Great Awakenings got it wrong. The Azusa and Brownsville revivals got it wrong. According to their progressive doctrine, everything contrary to modern-day, radical leftist ideologies are wrong.

Including the written Word of God.

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s message to President Joe Biden addressing the apostasy in the White House and America at large is just as relevant to these deceived “pastors” as it was to the President.

“You have called yourself a Christian, but how can you in reality be a Christian if you wage war against the ways and the Word of God,” Cahn asked.

“The Bible says that in the last days there will be a great apostasy, a great falling away, from faith. And thus, we will see a Christian-based civilization and nations falling into apostasy. We would then expect that the leaders of such nations will themselves be fallen into apostasy, and thus, will embody that apostasy. Have you not become the embodiment of that apostasy? We are now there.”

With faith leaders such as Hines and Salgado-Solorio falsely cloaking the Word of God in radical ideologies that are contrary to the very being of God in every way, Rabbi Cahn’s words strike true in their discernment of the times.

Rabbi Cahn also shares how to turn away from this road of apostasy that only leads to death.

“The only hope America has, and each of us have, is to turn to repent and to come under His mercy and into those [God’s] arms,” Cahn extolled. “The hour is late, and eternity is soon coming. Repent and turn to God for the only hope America has is revival and the only of us have is salvation.” {eoa}

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Humble repentance before the Father. Passion to worship Jesus. Hunger for God’s Word. The peaceful presence of the Holy Spirit. The hallmarks of the Asbury Awakening.

On Thursday night, during the final public event of this outpouring at Asbury University, broadcast directly from the school’s auditorium, those hallmarks were all on display as students publicly shared life-changing Scripture verses, worshipped with all their might, prayed fervently and received the commission to go out into the world to spread the Good News of the kingdom of heaven.

So many sovereign God-incidences have been evident throughout this awakening. From the 1970 Asbury Revival connection, to the release of a Jesus Revolution movie that had been in the works for years, to the coincidence with the Collegiate Day of Prayer, no earthly power could have timed it all so perfectly.

And no matter where it goes from here, it’s undeniable that this generation is full of souls who hunger and thirst for Jesus, and they will be filled.

Generation Z has been marred as the generation of anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation. A number of students spoke directly during Thursday night’s national event about their struggles with these issues, telling of the new measures of freedom and hope they’ve found—that Jesus is changing them from the inside out and they no longer need to let these struggles define who they are. It was genuine, and it was powerful.

Adult speakers declared that God is “marking this generation” in such a way that the lives of those who have participated in this outpouring will never be the same. They’ll never be satisfied by the empty distractions of this world—nothing but the presence of Jesus.

The evening was filled with moments of consecration, scripture, worship, a focus on adopting every college campus for prayer, an expressed desire to reach the nations and a salvation message in which a number of souls professed newfound faith in Jesus Christ.

When it was time for the scheduled event to wrap up, the adult leaders of the Collegiate Day of Prayer began to conclude the night with some very poignant thoughts and prayer. But after 300+ hours of continuous revival, there was still a lingering sense that God wasn’t done. And He sure wasn’t.

That’s when the young people started chanting “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” It felt just like a glimpse of what heaven will be like when all the saints and angels gather around the throne crying “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty.”

After that powerful moment, the students just broke out into more and more and more worship, singing “Great Are You Lord.” The impression was clear that they simply couldn’t contain their love and gratitude for the King of kings and Lord of lords, pouring out their worship on the One who saved them, set them free and gave them new life.

Some skeptics have said we’ll just have to wait and see if this is really a move of God or not. I have a few thoughts on that.

First, an army can’t go into battle if its members are wounded. To begin reversing the dual plagues of porn and anxiety, this phase of the awakening is like a holy hospital of sorts, bringing some deeply needed spiritual and emotional healing for this generation.

Second, the biblical model couldn’t be clearer—start in Jerusalem, then move out to Judea, and then to the ends of the earth. So if God wants to start on Christian campuses, and then move out from there, I think we older members of the church need to step up to the plate and pray fervently for the next phase.

I’m not good at predicting the future, but so far the awakening has already spread with power to multiple campuses, including Lee University, Samford University, Cedarville University, Texas A&M, Eastern Kentucky University, Valley Forge College, Hannibal-LaGrange University and the University of the Cumberlands, among other locations.

It’s clear to me that God is on the move, and this generation of young believers in Jesus Christ simply isn’t ready to quit the awakening just yet. They’re too grateful, too full of new life and new hope to contain the true revival that’s begun in their hearts. They’re gonna keep praising Jesus no matter what—because they’re not done, and God’s not done either.

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The Satanic Temple (TST) has announced its second convention to be held in Boston, Massachusetts this spring is sold out, according to a post on its website.

The convention known as “SatanCon 2023” will be held on April 28-30 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. It is being promoted as “a weekend of blasphemy and remembrance in Boston” and will also celebrate TST’s 10-year anniversary.

The group also claims the convention will be the “largest Satanic gathering in history.”

As CBN News reported in January, the theme of the convention is “Hexennacht in Boston” or “Witches Night,” an ancient German holiday that occurs annually on April 30. The SatanCon event includes a “Satanic Ball” on the opening night, April 28,

Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple’s co-founder, and spokesperson is set to deliver the keynote address of the conference along with co-founder Malcolm Jarr on Saturday morning.

Other scheduled sessions include “Satanic Panic in Brazil,” “Hellbillies: Visible Satanism in Rural America,” “Deconstructing Your Religious Upbringing,” “Reclaiming the Trans Body: A/theistic Strategies for Self-Determination and Empowerment” and “Sins of the Flesh: Satanism and Self-Pleasure.”

The convention will also offer a Satanic marketplace for those in attendance, but vendors have not been announced.

TST claims it has a Boston-area membership of 2,449 people.

According to the event’s website, the gathering is dedicated to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu for “her unconstitutional efforts to keep TST out of Boston’s public spaces.”

Based in Salem, MA, the group had requested to fly a Satanic flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last May that the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist seeking to fly a Christian flag on a pole outside the downtown building.

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With pockets of revival sprouting up across the country the past few weeks, one couldn’t help but believe Ken Gaub is smiling widely in heaven. Gaub, whose roots in ministry began as a preacher in tent revivals in the 1950s and whose fame as a kingdom warrior spread around the world, died Thursday at the age of 87 in Union Gap, Washington, from medical complications from an auto accident late last summer.

Gaub’s daughter, Becki Gaub Segura, told the Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic that Gaub died from the result of injuries he suffered in a car crash six months ago. In the crash, Gaub suffered 30 broken bones—including 15 fractures in his face—and he underwent 12 hours of surgery to have his hip replaced and a pelvic bone reconstructed.

Gaub’s fractures began to heal, but his kidneys never returned to normal function.

“While he was getting better, able to stand up, they never could get his kidneys going, which eventually shut down,” Segura said.

Gaub spent more than 60 years in the service of the Lord. He was ordained at the age of 19 after completing Bible school in Seattle, Washington. He went on to marry Barbara Mains, and the couple moved to Kentucky where he served as a pastor for two years.

Segura told the Yakima Herald-Republic that her father then bought a semi-truck and large tent and began traveling to communities without churches to spread the gospel. She said Gaub would pull up, set up the tent and people would gather to listen to his message.

“Back in those days you didn’t have to advertise ahead of time, you just put up a big tent and people would come out to see what it was,” Segura said.

Over the span of his life, Gaub saw a great deal of excitement. He was shot in Kosovo, eluded border agents in Albania, packed Britain’s Royal Albert Hall, helped build a pioneer church in Russia, carried food and medicine into India and visited Vietnam with Bob Hope, the Herald-Republic reported.

He counted Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, former Israel President Shimon Peres and the inmates at Leavenworth federal penitentiary as his friends.

Gaub wrote many books and articles, including this one published by the C.S. Lewis Institute titled, “God’s Got Your Number.”

Heart for Israel

Gaub had a strong heart for Israel. He made more that 160 trips to the Holy Land and brought more than 10,000 people along on those trips.

“He wanted people to see true Israel and come back and be ambassadors for Israel,” Segura said.

Family friend Mark Flippin told the Herald-Republic that Gaub’s sense of humor and “disarming approach” allowed him to reach others easily, and that Gaub was a very generous individual.

“If he saw a need, he tried to meet it, whether it be financially or someone needing to get their car fixed, he’d help,” Flippin said.

A celebration of life for Gaub will be held on April 22 at Yakima Foursquare Church. {eoa}

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