John Guest Evangelistic Association, Inc.

Summary

John Guest Evangelistic Association, Inc. ("JGET") is headed by the Reverend Dr. John Guest, Pastor of Christ Church at Grove Farm, in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to tell people that Jesus Christ is God's Son, our Savior, and encourage them to repent and trust in Him. Nationally, JGET helps organize citywide evangelistic campaigns using a broad base of local churches and a local leadership team. Internationally, JGET has been conducting crusades in Africa, Cuba, Romania, Albania, and Ukraine since 1990. It partners with other ministries to provide literature, medicine, and training. JGET also produces a daily radio program and special one-minute commercials in which John Guest teaches and evangelizes. John is a popular conference speaker and regular evangelist at Promise Keeper Rallies. This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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John Guest Evangelistic Association, Inc. ("JGET") is headed by the Reverend Dr. John Guest, Pastor of Christ Church at Grove Farm, in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to tell people that Jesus Christ is God's Son, our Savior, and encourage them to repent and trust in Him. Nationally, JGET helps organize citywide evangelistic campaigns using a broad base of local churches and a local leadership team. Internationally, JGET has been conducting crusades in Africa, Cuba, Romania, Albania, and Ukraine since 1990. It partners with other ministries to provide literature, medicine, and training. JGET also produces a daily radio program and special one-minute commercials in which John Guest teaches and evangelizes. John is a popular conference speaker and regular evangelist at Promise Keeper Rallies. This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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The John Guest Evangelistic Team has the following mission statement: The John Guest Evangelistic Team(JGET) is a servant ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, Committed to national and international evangelism through life-focused, city-wide crusade and nedia gospel proclamations. We partner with churches, local leaders, and other para-church ministries to provide preaching, Christian resources, and humanitarian aid to effect a greater impact for Jesus Christ.

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The John Guest Evangelistic Team, its board and staff affirm our belief in historic Chistianity as revealed in the Scriptures, and summarized in the three Creeds( the Apostles, the Nicene, and the Athanasian). Our position specifically is as follows. WE Believe: Articcle I - The Holy Trinity The mystery of the Holy Trinity, namely that the one God exists eternally in the three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; and has so revealed Himself to us in the Gospel. Article II - The Lord Jesus Christ The full deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, Who by reason of His birth of the Virgin Mary, sinless life, atoning death, bodily resurrection, glorious ascension and triumphant reigh, is the only Mediator between God and man. Article III - The Holy Scriptures The trustworthiness of the canonical books of the Old and New Testament as "God's Word written," which contains all things necessary for salvation, teach God's will for his world, and have supreme authority for faith, life, and the continuous renewal and reform of the church. Aritical IV - Justification and Sanctification The justification of the repenting and believing sinner as God's gracious act of declaring him righteous on the ground of the reconciling death of Christ, who suffered in our place and rose again for us; and santification as the gracious continuing activity of the Holy Spirit in the justified believer, perfecting his repentance, nuturing the new life implanted within him, transforming him into Christ's image, and enabling him to do good works in the world. Article V - The Christian Church The Church as the Body of Christ, whose members belong to the new humanity, are called to live in the world in the power of the Spirit, worshipping God, confessing His truth, proclaiming Christ, supporting one anither in love and giving themselves in sacrificial service to those in need. Article VI - Spiritual Gifts and Ministry The calling of all Christians to exercise their God-given gifts in ministry, and to work, witness and suffer for Christ; together with the particular calling of ordained ministers, who by preaching, teaching and pastoral care, are to equip God's people for his service, and to present them mature in Christ. Article VII - The Return of Christ The personal return in glory of our Lord Jesus Christ at the end of this age for the resurrection of the dead(some to life, some to condemnation), for the glorification of his church, and for the renewal of the whole creation.

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John Guest was born and raised in Oxford England. While studying as an engineer he was invited to hear the American evangelist, Billy Graham, in London, 1954. That night John responded to God's call and made his commitment to Jesus Christ at age eighteen. Shortly thereafter, he felt God calling him into full-time service as a pastor. John graduated from Trinity College in Bristol and was ordained by the Church of England in 1961. He came to the United States in 1964, combining his love for young people with his musical ability and formed one of the first Christian contemporary music groups known as the Exkursions. For the next four years John used music to draw young people to meetings where thousands of them heard for the first time the "Good News" of Jesus Christ. Ultimately, Hohn became convinced that he needed to work in and through a local church if those who were won to christ were to grow in maturity. In 1968, he became the Minister of Youth at St. Stephen's Church in Sewickley, Pennsylvania (a Suburb of Pittsburgh) and four years later the senior pastor. St. Stephen's has been one of the fastest growing Episcopal churches in America with over 1,000 attending weekly. Recognizing the gifts God has given him for evangelism, in 1990 St. Stephen's set him free to conduct city-wide evangelistic crusades across America. John has spoken to over 1,000,000 people face to face since his first major crusade in 1985. Perhaps the mark of John's ministry is his uncompromising, throughly evangelical, preaching style. He has been called "the thinking person's evangelist," a term that rightly describes his gift for combining brilliant apologetics with a powerful speaking style that has earned him the respect of historical critics of crusade evangelism. In 1995 John's commitment to the church culminated in his return to the pastorate by his acceptance of a call from Christ Church ate Grove Farm in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. His passion for evangelism remains now accelerated by Christ Church's gift of John's time and lay volunteer energy to his national ministry. His national and international outreaches are scheduled throughout the next two years. John is the author of ten books. He co-founded Trinty Episcopal School of Ministry and was a participant in the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism and a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals. He founded the Coalition for Christian Outreach, an evangelistic organization employing approximately 150 staff on college campuses. Also, he co-founded South American Missionalry Society (1976), hosted a daily radio broadcast, "New Life In Christ," on WPIT_FM, Pittsburgn (1983-1990), and currently has a daily broadcast on WORD_FM 101.5 in Pittsburg as well as several other cities. He is also a featured speaker at Promise Keepers Conferences within the U>S> John married Kathleen Heggar in 1967 and has four daughters: Carrie, Chelsea, Sarah and Susanna.

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