From the Desk of John Torell
Reports of what is happening in the ministry, global current events and how they affect us.
 | Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Accident or Crime? | The demons of war have struck again and this time the crew and passengers of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam, Holland to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I believe it was shot down by a Russian BUK missile on July 17, 2014 as the plane was flying over Eastern Ukraine. | August 4, 2014 |
 | We Must Expand | It’s been a year since the fateful split that resulted in an exodus of many members from Resurrection Life of Jesus Church. The facilities in Carmichael were closed as a result and the ministry’s future looked uncertain. We knew that Satan’s plan was one of destruction and mayhem... | April 17, 2014 |
 | Ukraine Uprising | There is so much disinformation today when it comes to politics. Everyone has something to say about the Ukraine protests. Who are we to believe? Barack Obama, a usurper who does not believe in the very thing by which he condemns the Russians? | March 3, 2014 |
| Almost There | There are just two weeks left in this challenging year. With God’s help we were able to navigate the sudden closing of the church location and the scramble to build a new studio for the webcasting. It’s one thing to make a clean break, but we owed back rent on the church building... | December 12, 2013 |
| The Church under the reign of the Antichrist | The Holy Spirit woke me up on the morning of October 7th at 4:00 AM to show me a vision about the end times. For some time I have been asking God to show me why He gave the great revelation to the apostle John, which we know today as the Book of Revelation. | October 8, 2013 |
| Planning for the Future | We are now down to the final quarter of 2013 and we have seen a lot of activity. EAEC is now in its 41st year and that is both a blessing and a liability. Many of the people who started with us were in their 40’s and 50’s and most of them have now gone home to be with the Lord. | October 1, 2013 |
| Hard Times | I have been in spiritual combat since I was born again in 1965. Throughout the years I have experienced just about everything the Devil could dish out but there has also been the sweetness of the Holy Spirit in my personal life and as well as on the national scale back to the 1970’s. | September 17, 2013 |
| Catch the Vision | The year 1983 was a tumultuous transition period because I had resigned as pastor of Christian Life Ministries and the next two years saw me working as an evangelist, Bible teacher and radio speaker. A person in our ministry sent my wife and I to a pastors conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. | August 5, 2013 |
| The Consistency of Christ | Everyone looks forward to summer because it means vacation time has arrived with people going to the beach, camping, swimming and doing whatever hobby you like to do. It could be that you just like to relax and do nothing. | July 9, 2013 |
 | Facing the Wrath of God | America has suffered a number of catastrophic events in the last five years stretching from coast to coast and border to border. There have been hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, drought and fires, and as a minister of the Gospel, I see these events as selective judgments from God upon a nation... | May, 21 2013 |
| The Webcast is Back! | It’s been three months since we had our last webcast from Resurrection Life of Jesus Church in Sacramento but I am pleased to announce that we are back online. The Holy Spirit has been with us and we now have a studio where we can do webcasting again. | May 17, 2013 |
| Ministry News Update | I wanted to give you an update of what has happened in the last couple of weeks. As you know from my last report, the members of Resurrection Life of Jesus Church (RLJC) called Bill Chacon to become their new pastor after he indicated that God was calling him back to the ministry. | April 4, 2013 |
| We Are Moving | European-American Evangelistic Crusades (EAEC) is on the move, literally! We didn’t plan it but God is merging our recording facility with the production facility. If this is news to you, let me share some of the recent events that have taken place within the ministry. | March 13, 2013 |
 | The Past and the Future | All things on this earth eventually come to an end because nothing lasts forever. We don’t think about this when we’re young, but as we grow older, age begins to impose itself and there is no way to escape this reality. After serving as a pastor for 37 years, I have been given new orders... | March 1, 2013 |
 | Change of Direction | I recently took a leap of faith and resigned as pastor of Resurrection Life of Jesus Church on February 17, 2013. For some time now, God has been speaking to me about resigning so I can give all my time to our Internet ministry but I have been hesitant to do so because the church has been paying... | February 18, 2013 |
 | Response to the Future is Here | I appreciate being able to be in church. Every Sunday is precious and I believe that in the future we won’t be able to hold church on Sunday’s. At that time we will look back with sadness and wish we had put more effort into it. This week we sent out a briefing paper called, “The Future Is Here,”... | January 20, 2013 |
 | The Future is Here | For many years I have been preaching and writing about the coming Antichrist system. I have been lulled into the comfortable thinking that this is something that will come in the future, but not necessarily something in which I will participate. | January 17, 2013 |
 | Why Do Some People Become Killers? | I was woken by the Holy Spirit in the early morning hours of December 14th and given a message as to why evil things happen in the world. I had no knowledge that just a few hours later a massacre would take place at the hands of Ryan Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut. After I learned of the killing spree... | December 16, 2012 |
 | The Harvest Truly Is Great | We are rapidly approaching the time that that Jesus called “The Great Tribulation.” The Antichrist is not just going to show up one day out the blue but this is a project Satan that has been working diligently on for thousands of years through an organization of humans since the day... | August 24, 2012 |
 | Mass Murder in Aurora, Colorado | Once again a person has decided to kill as many people as possible and this time it took place at a movie theater that was featuring a new Batman movie called “THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.” The movie is based upon violence and immorality and the shooter was a fan of Batman movies... | July 22, 2012 |
 | When Will Israel Attack Iran? | I learned to play chess as a teenager but I was never able to beat my uncles because they planned out their moves while my play was continually a reaction to their moves. Needless to say, I always lost. The government of Israel is like a master chess player... | July 16, 2012 |
| Romney vs Obama / Ministry News | During the great days of mission work from the 1860’s through the 1980’s, every missionary candidate was told during training time that communication was a must if he was going to get support from the people in the homeland. | June 18, 2012 |
 | Stepping on the Devil! | During my first five years as a Christian in Southern Baptist churches, I was never told of the power Jesus gave to His disciples. The end result was that I was a victim to sickness, depression, and worse of all, I viewed myself as a loser that was just trying to hang on. | May 11, 2012 |
 | Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind It? | On September 17, 2011, thousands of people came from out of the shadows and started a massive protest in the heart of New York City. I didn’t know where these people came from and the American media didn’t shed any light on it. | November 20, 2011 |
| Family Radio Refuses to Repent! | Prior to May 21, 2011, Harold Camping, day after day on his radio program said there was no doubt the rapture was going to take place. He was not just sure, but very sure that May 21st would be the rapture day. Week after week he told his audience that no one could get saved after that day... | October 29, 2011 |
| Why Should We Ask For Money? | Many people have heard the slogan, “the Gospel is free but the shipping and handling costs money.” In the secular world of television and radio programming, newspapers, magazines and websites are financed through paid advertisement. | October 5, 2011 |
 | My Take on 9/11 | I was sickened when I woke up on September 11, 2011 and found that almost all television channels in the United States, including many Christian networks, devoted most of the day to commemorate the horrible event that took place ten years earlier in our nation. | September 11, 2011 |
 | The Final Financial Meltdown? | Heavy losses are showing up on the stock market exchanges around the world during the last two weeks while the price of gold has been steadily rising every day to record highs. The commodity markets are very unstable, the price of oil is down from its high of $100 plus per barrel and the U.S. dollar... | August 21, 2011 |
| The Story of Johnny Todd | I was introduced to the Jack Chick when I came to California in 1969 and became excited about reaching people with Gospel tracts that were nicely illustrated and written with captivating story lines. I learned that just about everyone would pick up a Chick tract and read it regardless... | August 11, 2011 |
 | The Demise of the American Economy | The debate to raise the debt ceiling for the United States has increased in crescendo since the beginning of this year and came to a boil during the month of July. Barack Obama has repeatedly warned the American people that the United States would go into default and all kind of problems... | July 31, 2011 |
 | God is Destroying America | When Pharaoh refused to let Moses and the people of Israel leave Egypt, God initiated ten plagues that financially and physically destroyed Egypt. After the tenth plague, Egypt was laid waste and has never recovered since that time. God has allowed selective judgments on our nation... | July 17, 2011 |
| Rallying the Troops | Francis August Schaeffer (1912-1984) was an American Evangelical pastor and theologian. He broke with the Presbyterian Church denomination and moved to Switzerland in 1948 and wrote of the need to return to the roots of the Christian faith. | March 23, 2011 |
| Harold Camping is Out of Commission | Many Christians have been praying for that Harold Camping would be removed from Family Radio. These prayers were answered on June 9, 2011 when he suffered a stroke and was taken to the hospital. Within hours Craig Hulsebos came on the air and began asking for prayer... | July 7, 2011 |
 | The Gift of Repentance | I have been warning people for some time about the judgments of God that are taking place in America. This is not a popular message, but when we study the nation of Israel as recorded in the Old Testament, we repeatedly find that God sent judgments in order for them to repent... | May 29, 2011 |
| Harold Camping is destroying what's left of Family Radio | During my reports for the last six months, I have told people that Harold Camping had a contingency plan. He held a press conference on May 23, 2011 at 5:30 PM at the headquarters of Family Radio in Oakland that was also broadcast live on Family Radio where he was his usual arrogant self... | May 23, 2011 |
 | Is Family Radio Going Down? | As I had predicted, the staff of Family Radio had planned out for life after May 21st by promoting bumper stickers of judgment day on the day in question. Weekend programming at Family Radio is pre-recorded during the week and the only people working at the headquarters in Oakland... | May 22, 2011 |
| Is Osama bin Laden Dead? | Did Osama bin Laden really die on May 1st, 2011? Some people have contacted our ministry asking this question and I have decided to write a response that will be posted on our website. First of all, I want to state that from 1975-1990, our ministry worked very closely with a Christian pastor... | MAY 15,2011 |
 | Is God Judging America? | The week of April 24-30th that Pastor David Wilkerson went to be with the Lord was one of the most devastating weeks in the United States as more than 340 people lost their lives to tornados in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. Prior to these tornadoes, there have been hundreds of them... | MAY 1, 2011 |
| A Tribute to David Wilkerson | It came as a shock when I learned that Pastor David Wilkerson had been killed in a car crash on April 27, 2011. It is a great loss for the Christian churches around the world as he was a great pastor and author of many books but he has been a true prophet to the Body of Christ... | APRIL 28, 2011 |
 | Which One Should I Celebrate: Communion or Seder | In the last 40 years in which the Charismatic movement developed in the United States, some groups felt the need to return to Jewish rituals. One of these rituals is the celebration of “Seder,” which is the Jewish name for the Passover Meal that God told the children of Israel to eat... | APRIL 24, 2011 |
 | The Trap is about to be Sprung! | The world government cannot control a nation if they do not have a central bank, and so when the United States was founded in 1776, the Rothschild family and other Jewish banking families in Europe knew that in order to capture this dynamic nation, they had to establish a central banking... | APRIL 10, 2011 |
 | The Scourge of Islam | Pastor Terry Jones held a mock trial of the Koran in his church in the state of Florida on March 20, 2011, found the Koran guilty and subsequently burned copy in the sanctuary. It was recorded on video that was later posted on YouTube. The result was large riots in Afghanistan... | APRIL 3, 2011 |
 | The Agenda of the World Government | As events spin out of control in the world with unrest in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and huge protest demonstrations in London, it is obvious that something must give one way or another. Our entire civilization is built upon oil... | MARCH 27, 2011 |
| Letter to our Supporters | We are living in some exiting times and the pace is very fast. When we started this ministry in 1973, printed material in the form of Bible studies was our tool to minister to God’s people and reach out to the unsaved. That was effective and still is but we could not rely on this one outreach only... | MARCH 23, 2011 |
 | Who is Responsible for the Earthquake in Japan? | Since around 1990 I have been aware of a project by the United States government known as “HAARP.” It was first presented as a benign project for weather modification, where rain could be induced in time of draught, but it can also be turned into a weapon of mass destruction. | MARCH 13, 2011 |
 | The Noose is Tightening | While the people in the world are held captive by the news media and its reporting from Libya, something much more sinister has taken place. The World Government is tightening its noose and this week two men felt the affect of it. What does the American actor Charlie Sheen have in common... | MARCH 6, 2011 |
 | Middle East in Flames | The fire that started to burn in Egypt has caused many of the nations in the Middle East and North Africa to go up in flames. When the uprising started in Egypt, I thought at first that it was genuine but I have changed my mind. It is obvious that provocateurs from different intelligence services... | FEBRUARY 20, 2011 |
 | What is next in Egypt? | After eighteen days of constant protests in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of Egypt on February 11, 2011. Great celebrations broke out and people cried that freedom had finally come to them. But has freedom really come to them? | FEBRUARY 13, 2011 |
 | Order out of Chaos in Egypt | The secret World Government has kept the lid on the Middle East since the last war between Israel, Syria and Egypt in 1973, allowing dictators to rule the different Islamic states. Thirty seven years later the World Government... | JANUARY 30, 2011 |
| Our Engine is Sputtering! | We are extremely thankful for those who helped fill our gas tank at the end of December. Anyone who drives a car knows that filling the tank once a month is not enough to get around, it is an ongoing process, and it is the same for our ministry. | JANUARY 2011 |
| Praise the Lord for the Gas! | We were on the brink of running out of money to pay for basics like rent, utilities and taxes and had issued a call for help that we were running out of gas. Well praise the Lord, He has provided with enough gas for one more month! | JANUARY 2011 |
| The Obama Deception | As we watched the November 2nd election in the United States and saw the beating that the Democrats took, we thought that Obama would lick his wounds and retreat as the American people rejected his policies. But that was not to happen as we saw a new side to Obama and powerful friends... | December 23, 2010 |
| December News from the Ministry | The month of November was very productive for us. The print shop is now busy six days a week and we are at 72% completion of “Christian Dynamics Course 1.” The people who are helping us are all volunteers, and if we had to pay wages, we would not be able to print the book. | December 12, 2010 |
| November 2010 Ministry Update | It is important that we are able to communicate with our friends around the world and to let you know what is happening in our mission organization, European-American Evangelistic Crusades and our home church, Resurrection Life of Jesus Church. | November 18, 2010 |
| Jews and the Tea Party | It was just a matter of time before the American Jewish community started to investigate the Tea Party. I am sure that the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, has not only investigated the Tea Party but also infiltrated it. | October 18, 2010 |
| Our Ship Has Been Rescued | I want to share the financial miracle that took place this week with all our friends. On Monday I wrote that our ship had taken a bad financial hit and we needed help right away. We cried out to God in our morning staff meeting to use our appeal for help and He did so in mighty way. | October 1, 2010 |
| Our Ship Has Taken a Hit! | It is Sunday night when I write this report from our ministry in Sacramento. I have just been informed that the Sunday offering today came up short by $3,200 to clear all the bills for this month, the majority of it being for the rent of our church building. | September 26, 2010 |
| August 2010 Ministry Update | It has been a month since I wrote and informed you of our financial situation. Many of you responded and we received enough money to cover the most urgent needs in the ministry. Praise the Lord; we were able to pay all current bills for the month of July! | August 23, 2010 |
| July 2010 Ministry Update | The month of July started out with a financial crisis as we were barely able to pay the rent on the church facilities for June and very little money was coming in during the first few days in July. | August 5, 2010 |
| A Call for Help | I am a pastor not a king with a kingdom but God has set me over a ministry that dates back to 1972. In that year a group of seven believers in Christ gathered to form a mission organization that was called “European-American Evangelistic Crusades.” The goal of the ministry was to preach the Gospel, write Bible study material and bring as many people to Christ as possible. | July 15, 2010 |
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