Reinhard Bonnke (Evangelist) Bio, Age, DEATH, Family, Wife, Net Worth, Church, Books, Quotes

Reinhard Bonnke Biography

Reinhard Bonnke was a Pentecostal evangelist known for his gospel missions, great crusades through the Continent of Africa Bonnke had overseen 75 million recorded conversions to Christ.

Reinhard Bonnke Age

Bonnke was born on 19 April 1940 in Konigsberg, East Prussia, German and died on December 7, 2019.

Reinhard Bonnke Death | Cause of Death

According to a statement released by his wife Anni Bonnke on Saturday December 7, 2019, the preacher “passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family.

Reinhard Bonnke Family

Bonnke’s family results are still under review.

Reinhard Bonnke Educations

Reinhard studied at The Bible College Of Wales in Swansea where he was inspired by the director Samuel Rees Howells. After attending Bible College in Wales, and his ordination in Germany he pastored a church and then went on to start missionary work in Africa.

Reinhard Bonnke Wife

Bonnke was married to Anni Suelze from 1964 until his death in December 2019. They met at a gospel music festival and admired the grace with which she recovered from a wrongly pitched music performance at the expense of losing the competition. He offered to preach at the church she attended one Sunday and fell in love with her. They married in 1964 and have three children and eight grandchildren.

Reinhard Bonnke Children

Evangelist Bonnke was blessed with three children namely Susie Bonnke, Kai-Uwe Bonnke, and Gabrielle Bonnke.

Reinhard Bonnke Net Worth

Bonnke had an estimated net worth of 4 million dollars.

Reinhard Bonnke Career | Church

After graduation, Bonnke started his career as a pastor in Germany and worked there for seven years. He started his ministry in Africa in 1967, with which he is principally identified, preaching in Lesotho. Bonnke has subsequently held evangelical meetings across the continent. Evangelist Bonnke started holding meetings in a tent that accommodated just 800 people.

His congregation increased, larger and larger tents had to be purchased, until finally, in 1984, Bonnke commissioned the construction of the world’s largest mobile structure — a tent capable of seating 34,000 people. Soon, attendance at Bonnke’s meetings even exceeded the capacity of this huge structure, and he started open-air Gospel Campaigns with an initial gathering of over 150,000 people per service.

Since then, Bonnke has conducted meetings county wide, across the continent with as many as 1,600,000 people attending a single meeting using towering sound systems that can be heard for miles.

It has now been 45 years since Bonnke founded the international ministry of Christ for all Nations (CfaN), which its offices are currently located in United States, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

More recently, he has spent several years developing the ‘Full Flame Film Series,’ a series of eight inspirational films which is based on inspiring and challenging the church to Holy Spirit evangelism. Bonnke is known as one with a burning passion for the Gospel, a vision for Africa and a message for the world.

Bonnke Controversy

In 1991, during Bonnke’s visit to Kano in Nigeria, there were riots in the city as Muslims. They protested over remarks he had reportedly made about Islam in the city of Kaduna on his way to Kano. A rumor was spread that Bonnke was planning to “lead an invasion” into Kano.

Muslim youths gathered at the Kofar Mata Eide-ground where they were addressed by several clerics who claimed that Bonnke was going to blaspheme Islam.

About 8,000 youths gathered at the Emir’s palace and afternoon prayers the riots ensued, during which many Christians sustained various injuries and several churches were burned. After nine years he returned to Nigeria to preach.

Reinhard Bonnke Africa’s Mission

Early on, Bonnke encountered poor results from his evangelistic efforts and felt frustrated at the pace of his ministry. Bonnke claims to have had a recurring dream featuring a picture of the map of Africa being spread with red and heard the voice of God crying “Africa Shall Be Saved”.

This led him to adopt large-scale evangelism, rather than the traditional small scale missionary approach. He rented a stadium in Gaborone and preached with little cooperation from local churches. Beginning with only 100 people, the stadium meetings grew.

In 1974, Bonnke founded the mission organization ‘Christ For All Nations’. Originally based in Johannesburg, South Africa, the headquarters were relocated to Frankfurt, Germany in 1986. This was done primarily to distance the organization from South Africa’s apartheid policy at the time. Today CfaN has 9 offices across 5 continents.

Bonnke began his ministry holding tent meetings that accommodated large crowds. According to an account published by the Christian Broadcasting Network, in 1984 he commissioned the construction of what was claimed to be the world’s largest mobile structure – a tent capable of seating 34,000.

This was destroyed in a wind storm just before a major meeting and therefore the team decided to hold the event in the open air instead. According to this account, the event was subsequently attended by over 100,000 people which is far greater than the 34,000 seating capacity the tents could contain.

Bonnke announced his ‘farewell gospel crusade’ to be held in Lagos, Nigeria on November 2017. Lagos is also the location of a gospel crusade held in 2000 which, according to CfaN, is the organization’s largest to date, drawing an attendance of 6 million people. In 2019 Reinhard Bonnke will headline the G12 Africa Conference in Pretoria, South Africa.