In 1977 after I came to Christ, I was soon asked to share about my miraculous deliverance from drugs. At the same time my testimony was published in various magazines and I had several interviews for radio and TV broadcasting.

All the publicity I got, opened many doors for me to testify of my faith. As a result my local church acknowledge the call of God on my life for missions and they ordained me as a travelling minister in 1983. Although I used to preach in many churches in the Netherlands, my heart was mostly drawn to reach the unreached and to preach to the unreached. I discovered that I should have to travel the globe to really reach those people groups, mainly in developing countries.

Since a few years we have in India 5 trucks harvesting every day. In the first two months we have harvested 43.000 souls for Christ and since the month of May 2021 we have 10 trucks, doubling the harvest to approximately 43.000 per month. And now another 10 trucks are pledged, that we will build. End of this summer we expect them to hit the road, getting a harvest of approximately 86.000 souls per month. We thank God for this harvest.

In 1985 we registered our ministry and we called it: "Herald of the Good News" ("De Heilbode" in Dutch). Since then I have travelled around the world to over 45 nations, including countries like: Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, India, Pakistan, Uganda, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, China, Cambodia, Singapore, Suriname, Trinidad, Aruba, Curacao, Trinidad, Suriname, the Virgin Islands, America, Russia, Ukraine, Ireland, Macedonia, Kosovo, Greece, Lebanon, Spain, France, Italy and many other countries.

In most places, my focus was initially getting people saved. Evangelism was my thing, because my initial goal was to "Reach the unreached through Gospel Crusades. And so, we did in many countries. You find more information of our ministry at www.heilbode.nl

However, deep inside my heart I began to realize that to be more effective, I need to train leaders to catch the vision to reach their own nation for Christ. God opened a few doors to share my heart with leaders in the Philippines and Uganda. When I began to inspire, challenge and train local leaders, my heart got stirred with excitement.

I was actually operating in the apostolic. However, in those days, nobody was aware or dared to use the word apostle to identify their ministry. I was no exemption to that. So, I just began to organize leaders-meetings, seminars and conferences and I developed teaching materials and write books to equip leaders to reach their nation for Christ.

During the day time, we trained leaders and at night we were holding crusades. For the next ten to fifteen years this was my strategy of operations.

In the last ten years however, the Lord began to open my eyes for the needs of the poor, the hungry, the orphans and the dying. God began to brake my heart with the things that break His heart when I discovered that worldwide we have 148 million orphans, 40 million fugitives, 8000 people die every 24 hours of aids, causing more orphans and widows. Every 20 seconds a child dies of malnutrition an/or dysentery.

Over 42 million babies are aborted every year globally. There are 250.000 children soldiers, manly in central Africa. In India only there are approximately 40 million widows that are suffering severely and dying in misery.

When I thought about all these needs I was reminded of the words of Jesus who said: "What you done for the least of these, you have done unto Me" (Matthew 25:40). Driven by this vision and the passion of Gods heart for orphans and widows, we started to develop this side of our ministry. Since then we have raised funds for victims of the civil war in Kenya, victims of the genocide in Rwanda, build a few houses for the poor in Kosovo, sponsored widows to obtain fuel to survive their Balkan winters in Kosovo and lately we started our great project in India.

For the sake of this compassionate ministry we have started Abba Child Care. You find more information of this compassionate ministry at

www.abbachildcare.org

To summarize our vision and mission is threefold:

Reaching the unreached – Preaching the Gospel
Training leaders – apostolic and strategic ministry
Ministering to the poor – Caring and compassion for the needy