ack Wyrtzen began Word of Life because of his passion to preach the Word.
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"God changed the life of a troubled teenager into a young man with a burning desire to be used of God to reach others."
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hey are just ordinary men. They were living ordinary lives. . . until they let the Lord take control. And from then on, nothing was ordinary at all! When God has total reign in your life, extraordinary things happen. The lives of Jack Wyrtzen, Harry Bollback, George Theis, and Joe Jordan have been nothing less than extraordinary. Their faithfulness to the Lord and sensitivity to His leading in their lives has brought about the organization called Word of Life, which has reached millions of people around the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jack Wyrtzen began Word of Life in the 1940s with radio programs and rallies in New York City. Later, he took huge leaps of faith to expand Word of Life’s ministry to camps in Schroon Lake, New York, and, eventually, around the world. Harry Bollback was introduced to
Word of Life when he began to play the piano for Jack at the street meetings in New York. He and his wife, Millie, later went to Brazil and brought the gospel to Indians who would not otherwise have heard. They then returned to New York to be involved in directing the ministry there. George Theis started the first Word of Life Bible Club in Lakeland, Florida, and went on to establish Palavra da Vida (Word of Life) in Recife, Brazil. Joe Jordan started Word of Life in Argentina, where today many young men and women from Latin America are trained at the Bible Institute there to go out around the world. Reading about these men, you would think they are super heroes. But talking to them, or even just hearing them speak, it is easy to see that they are simply humble servants of our great and awesome God. Thanks to their faithfulness, many have been brought into the Kingdom, and many more have been trained to go and reach others for Christ. If every student would leave the Bible Institute with the same faith and attitude of service to the Lord, this world would be turned upside down for Jesus! Rachel Hosan
Jack Wyrtzen and family are determined to The Bible Institute was founded in 1971. make it to Schroon Lake! In 1969, Word of Here, WOL maintenance staff builds dorms to Life’s international headquarters officially be used by students and Snow Campers, moved to Schroon Lake, New York.
"Uncle Harry" Bollback is one of the highlights of a week of camp at Word of Life Ranch. His antics still continue at camp to this day!
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