Can you remember where you were, or what you were up to in March 1997, some 28 years ago. Indeed, some of you reading this may not even have been born yet!
I found this website which contains a summary of some items making news headlines then. https://www.infoplease.com/current-events/1997/march-1997
About four years prior i.e. in 1993, I had the privilege of joining Power to Change (then known as LIFE Ministries before its name changed to Campus Crusade for Christ Australia) as a missionary, leaving the world of life insurance as a young actuary, to help fulfill the Great Commission.
In March ’97, 4 years later, I sent out the following prayer letter asking for prayer as we were just embarking on a national distribution of the JESUS video, working with the churches of Australia. (You can click on the image below to download a PDF copy). As you will read, my prayer back then was for 100,000 copies of the JESUS video to be distributed by the end of that year, which I thought was a pretty big goal.
I can’t remember how many actually were distributed by the end of that year – although eventually, the LORD would do exceedingly beyond that, and we saw over 750,000 JESUS videos distributed – praise the Lord!
Fast forward to 2025 and I am once again humbled and excited to be serving once again as the National Project Director of the JESUS Project, Australia.
Pray with us that God will continue to use the JESUS film around the world to draw the lost to a saving knowledge of Himself. Pray that at The Jesus Film Project, we would humbly continue to serve the global body of Christ, till everyone, everywhere hears about Jesus.
Click the image to download a PDF copy of a prayer letter I wrote in March 1997!!
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