In 1902, a small group of people in the country of Wales got together and prayed earnestly for a revival and for the reclaiming of their culture for Christ.

God answered their prayers and the now famous Welsh revival spread across the nations.  Thousands repented of their sin and were saved, and thousands of Christian committed their lives to Christ to take this revival around the world. 

Two young men who were impacted by the revival began immediate training to be missionaries. In 1907, these two men and their families arrived in the country of Korea along with the prayers of thousands of Christians throughout the world.

The pagan culture had no understanding of Biblical truths, so the missionaries taught them “the whole council of God” beginning in the book of Genesis, and many accepted the Creator God of Genesis 1:1.

Prayer was once again answered, and quite amazingly the Welsh revival spread to South Korea. Thousands became Christians, and the church in Korea grew rapidly. Today, as a direct result of prayer, the Korean church now numbers 30% of the entire population. South Korea has the largest churches in the world with 50 mega churches that number over 30,000 members each.

As I listened to these stories on my recent trip to Seoul, I was thrilled because of yet another demonstration of answered prayer, and I was personally blessed because my family is Welch. 

On July 14^th, Answers WorldWide will welcome to the Creation Museum one of these Korean pastors from a church that numbers 20,000 members.  He and some of his pastoral team will meet with us to discuss translation projects and the possibility of building a Creation Museum in South Korea.  

Mission success is always dependent on God’s people praying, so I would encourage our readers to pray for this upcoming meeting and the impact of the Gospel as Answers WorldWide floods the world with the wonderful truths of the Bible.

In His Royal Service,

Dr. David R. Crandall

Ken Ham’s book Why Is There Death and Suffering? Addresses an issue that everyone on planet earth can identify with. I have traveled in 90 different countries and I come face to face with pain and suffering in every culture. I am asked the question often, especially when a country has recently encountered a national catastrophe.

I traveled to Asia soon after the tsunami and toured the regions of Thailand where it struck with its most vicious power. I saw ships that had been pushed over one mile inland from their moorings and almost everyone I met had lost someone in the massive wave that was traveling over 500 mph.

It was just weeks later that I traveled to Louisiana and met with hundreds who had lost everything as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

In both instances, the devastation was surreal but the question “Why?” was being asked.

China’s Earthquake

These memories flooded my mind and heart when I heard about the devastating earthquake that hit China. This powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck China’s Si Chuan province just a month ago and the death toll now stands at over 69,000 precious people. Five million homes were destroyed and over 350,000 people were injured.

The saddest news out of China is that over 10,000 children died in this deadly trembler.

Answers in Genesis and Answers Worldwide sends out a continuing request for all Christians to pray for the suffering people in China. Let us pray that Christians in country will have many opportunities to share the Gospel of hope and life with their hurting countrymen.

Answers WorldWide has just received the Chinese translations of Ken Ham’s basic talks and my message from II Kings on “Josiah the Young King” that will be distributed free of charge all over the Chinese world including the Si Chuan province. God’s Word has powerful effects on people’s lives when they listen. Let’s pray that many will find the “peace of God, which passeth all understanding.” Let us pray for triumph in the face of tragedy.

In His Royal Service,

Dr. David R. Crandall

Just this week we received the exciting news that the Turkish translation of “Why is there Death and Suffering?” has been printed. Our translator who worked on this project sent this update:

The shipment of newly printed copies of the Turkish edition of "Why is there Death & Suffering?" arrived at our home just an hour before my wife was leaving to visit a Muslim-background Christian widow friend of hers. I gave my wife a handful of the books to take to her friend. It turned out that when she arrived at her friend's house, her friend was visiting with another widow lady, a Muslim, and sharing her testimony. In the course of conversation, my wife took out the new booklets to show her friend. Immediately, her Muslim friend wanted to read "Why is there Death & Suffering?" and couldn't put it down. While the Christian widow was busy serving tea, my wife said to her, "These booklets are hot off the press. We just got them today. You are the first to read it." Her Muslim widow friend, who had already started reading while her friend was busy getting tea ready replied, "No, I am the first to read it!" "Yes, YOU are the first to read it," my wife agreed. May many come to find hope and eternal life and deliverance from sin and death in this land full of biblical history where today there is only one Turkish Christian for every 24,000 Muslims. Many people wonder if there is a God of love who really cares about them. The good news is there is!

One might wonder, "But why is creationism needed in a 99% Muslim country like Turkey? Don't they already believe in creation? They just need Jesus!" It is true that Islam teaches that Allah created the world, but it also teaches that the Bible has been corrupted and so its history and doctrines are not reliable. Besides this, Turkish schools, universities, encyclopedias, and nature shows on television promote standard evolutionary views of earth history, which contradict the Bible's account of history. So Turkey's two main competing worldviews, Islam and evolutionary naturalism, both cause millions of people to doubt the truth of the Bible, and thus to not even consider its teachings about the Lord Jesus Christ.

We continue to praise the Lord for what he is doing around the world! Please join us in prayer that these booklets will be a great witness to the Turkish-speaking world.

In His Royal Service,

Dr. David R. Crandall

While the AiG Museum and the AiG Ministry has enjoyed the one year anniversary, I have been ministering in South Korea. I have followed the daily celebrations and my wife, Diana, and I would have enjoyed being part of the special celebration.

However, the AiG Missionary arm was enjoying a Korean-Style celebration of our own. I joined the Korean Association of Creation Research for their annual meeting in Daegu, South Korea. This sister organization, with a membership of over 1,000, was celebrating another successful year of ministry which included nearly 1,000 Creation events. I was the guest lecturer for the conference and praised the Lord for the American Creation Museum. The Conference will be sending greetings and congratulations to AiG. These meetings were held on the campus of Keimyung University, which was founded 50 years ago by a Christian missionary from the USA. The campus now hosts over 25,000 students.

I showed a PowerPoint picture presentation of our museum, and after it was received with much discussion and excitement. The reason for all the intense interest is the already underway plans to build a Creation Museum in Korea.

I then had the unique privilege of preaching at the large Adam Cathedral on the campus. The Cathedral enjoys the great music from its 3,200 pipe-giant pipe organ. In fact, on Saturday the organist presented a private recital for me and some of the conference delegates. Hundreds of university professors, their families, and students gathered to hear me preach. The pastor translated as he spoke and the congregation gave a warming ovation at the end.

After a trip to Seoul, South Korea, on the speed train that travels at 230 MPH, the meetings with the KACR began at their headquarters and mini-museum. In these meeting we agreed to translate most of our AiG books and DVDs into Korean. The books will be printed in Korea and distributed through nation wide book stores and the KACR meetings. With a 30% Christian population in South Korea, the possibilities for maximum impact and exposure will be phenomenal. This agreement places AiG right in the middle of the largest growing Christian community in the world per capita.

Together the two organizations will be able to reach not only Korea but also all of Asia as KACR has a real missionary heart as well.

I was invited to a very special dinner-meeting with Pastor Kim Jong Joon, the pastor of a dynamic Church of over 20,000 members. We talked about biblical authority, creation evangelism, the Creation Museum ,and the Koreans’ planned museum. I was then invited by Rev. Joon to return to Korea as soon as possible and preach at his church. This would involve preaching at five morning worship services. I quickly accepted the invite because it will be a blessing to preach to that many people and formally introduce AiG to a very large group of people.

Further, the pastor has accepted my invitation and will travel to the USA in July to meet with Ken Ham and me and to see the museum. They are anxious to learn from AiG so that their museum can a great testimony in Korea as ours is in the USA.

Yes, I was sad that I missed the Kentucky celebration, but I am celebrating in Korea over all of our new friends who are as passionate about creation and biblical authority as we are.

Please pray for this exiting new development in AiG WorldWide and please consider giving to enable this global work to continue. AiG is proud to partner with the ministries in the Republic of South Korea.

In His Royal Service,

Dr. David R. Crandall

KACR Board with AiG books Chang Park looks at AiG books Dr. Crandall inspects Noah's Ark in Seoul's mini Creation Museum

The ITS ministry of training internationals is already reaping great benefits in the Country of Peru. Creous and Elizabeth were trained at Answers WorldWide and have already been using that information in their Spanish presentations.

Here’s a look at just a few of their events for the next couple of months…

• 25 May 2008
  Segadores Mission Conference
• 07 - 08 June
  Creation Seminar ACYM Rimac
• 15 June
  Creation Seminar at Light Divine Church
• 26 - 29 June 2008
  Creation Conference at Christian Church
  El Trigal, Surco
• 12 - 13 July 2008
  Creation Seminar Biblical Baptist Church
• 02 - 7 of November 2008
  2nd Creation Latin American Creation Congress
  Lima, Peru

Creous also writes to all of his friends and supporters about the ITS experience:

Last year in the month of October, we received a special invitation to attend the first international training by AIG (Answers in Genesis). They choose ten (10) people from different countries around the world, and they paid all the expenses. We felt very privileged to be part of this first International Training Creation Seminar. There were people from Albania, Slovakia, Hong Kong, Saipan, Israel and us from Peru represented.

When we left Peru to attend the training, we were very excited to meet the other people from the different countries. We were the first to arrive in Cincinnati and we met the international director of AIG Worldwide Ministries Dr. David Crandall and the rest of his team.

When we started our training on Monday, we were doing it in the ‘Creation Museum’. In our first session, we got to meet the founder and CEO of AIG Mr. Ken Ham from Australia. We had many sessions sitting and listening to different speakers give us different presentations and it was very, very interesting. Each day we had between 5 - 6 sessions and it was very intensive. The message that stood out to us was the ‘Importance of the Authority of the word of God’ in our churches, schools, and in the entire world today.

Also, we had the opportunity in different sessions to meet key people of the AIG staff who were working in advertising, sales, promoting conferences, etc, and later we were able to get to know some of them personally.

On different days in our training, we were the special guests to go through the creation museum, see the seven (7) Cs of history through the bible in the museum, sit and see the stars in the Creation Planetarium on three (3) occasions, go through the creation book store which we were excited for us, plus more.

On the last two (2) days of our training, we all had to prepare a short presentation and speak for twenty (20) minutes; then we will get feedback from two of the AIG speakers on how it was and what we needed to improve in. Although our week was full and intensive with lots of information and new ideas, we were all very, happy and privileged to be part of this life experience.

We thank the Lord for allowing us to be chosen and to be part of the first group at the AIG international training. The Lord is doing great things in the world today with the creation ministry and we saw that with this training AIG had with all of us. They are now extending out to the world by training different people in different countries and they are forming an international networking ministry. We thank the Lord allowing us to go and get this training so it will help us in Peru with the creation ministry.

I will be traveling to Peru later this year to witness first hand this great Creation Peruvian Adventure.

Thanks to all of you for praying and giving to make WorldWide possible.

In His Royal Service,

Dr. David R. Crandall

The plane landed in Rangoon, Myanmar (Burma) and I was met at the airport by a security detail. This detail was commissioned by the Christians to aid me in entering this communist country. The Christians in Burma could not risk meeting me in such a public place. The thoughts of my arrival and all the details of my trip came flooding back into my mind as I watched the grim reports of a killer cyclone. The press is now saying that over 22,000 people have been killed.

The Christians who were hosting me had climbed to their eighth story place of worship and had prayed continuously until word of my safe arrival and entry into the country was confirmed. I have been praying for all those pastors and their people who gathered that day to greet me in their secret worship place. I wonder out loud if they survived the horrific storm that took so many lives. I pray earnestly that this tragedy will open doors of ministry for these hurting people. I would like to ask all who read this blog to pray for Burma in their great hour of unbelievable death and destruction.

When I arrived on the eighth floor to minister to these people and to dedicate our first Burmese translation, I was overwhelmed and overjoyed at the faith and courage of these Christians. I was told that there are over 650 churches all across the country and that in a recent meeting over 20,000 believers gathered in open fields to worship and study God’s Word for three days. Live animals were brought and slaughtered daily for food to feed this large gathering. God is indeed building His church in Burma in spite of all the persecution and oppression by the communist government.

Every Christian must be “World Wise” as we are commanded to pray for one another and care for fellow-suffering Christians. Let’s lift our hearts to “Burma with love.”

In His Royal Service,

Dr. David R. Crandall

Dr. Crandall issued a call to pray for fellow Christians in the Country of Myanmar (Burma). A horrible Cyclone has ripped through the Country and up to 10,000 people have been killed. Dr. Crandall has been to Myanmar and has contacts with many Christians including over 600 Churches.

Let’s be in prayer for this hurting Country and that the Christians will have many opportunities to share the “peace of God that passes all understanding”.

In His Royal Service,

Dr. David R. Crandall

Today I made a list of 21 things that I needed to do and at the end of the day there will be great satisfaction in knowing that I have completed them all.

Such satisfaction was recorded at the final banquet for our International Training Seminar. Ten internationals received Certificates of Completion for the first “Answers WorldWide International Training Seminar in Creation Apologetics.”

Each attendee showed delight that they had finished the ITS intense one week course. The smiles and expressed thank-you’s made our entire Answers WorldWide team extremely happy. One of the attendees commented: “The stay at AiG was fantastic, nothing less than what we call a lifetime experience.”

Each trainee traveled thousands of miles and invested seven days of their lives to learn to be more effective in the making of creation talks in their country and language. They have each now returned to their homelands of Albania, Israel, Hong Kong, Peru, Saipan, and Slovakia safely.

Answers WorldWide has provided each of them with a $500 library that they will use in their current and future ministries, and we will be initiating a follow-up program to track their ministries and assist in any way possible.

Diana, Laura, and I are a bit exhausted by the 24 hours per day that we spent preparing and working with these very special international friends. However, we are extremely pleased with the wonderful results. We were encouraged by a letter from Dr. Harry Ambacher, International Professor of Theological Education and Missiology—he and his wife, Pat, joined us for the ITS banquet. He wrote, “Ken and you are to be commended for your insight in bringing the various nations here for the course. That will certainly pay off in the years to come, until the Lord returns.” We trust this to be true!

Please pray for these internationals as they begin a new phase of their ministries.

Thanks for dropping by—

In His Royal Service,

Dr. David R. Crandall

AiG broke another historical marker this week as ten internationals from six different countries came to our Museum/office complex for an intense week of training. We are operating under the slogan “Training Creation Speakers for the World.”

These internationals from Europe, Asia, South America and the Middle East have traveled a total of 108,747.28 miles round trip to be involved in this training. As Dr. Crandall welcomed each of them on Monday morning, he shared with them that these meetings were the fulfillment of a two year dream for Answers WorldWide. Today, Monday, Ken Ham met with them all morning going over the basic relevance talk and then how to develop their own talks.

Like all of our guests coming to the Museum, they were all absolutely “thrilled and chilled” by what they saw, heard, read and experienced. As a special surprise for each visitor, Walt Stumper (AiG Librarian) printed out newspapers for each country represented.

We thank God that many people have given to make this wonderful training seminar take place. Please continue to pray for all of our trainees.

One year from today Ken Ham and I will lead a dynamic tour to Israel and Jordan. This will indeed be a tour of a lifetime for our AiG family.

You can actually hear Ken Ham speaking in Israel and Jordan and travel through the Holy Land with many of our AiG personnel.

You will visit places so familiar to you from the Bible such as:

The Sea of Galilee

The Jordan river

The City of Jerusalem

The Mountains of Massada

The Edomite City of Petra

The Garden Tomb

The Garden of Gethsemane

The Dead Sea

You can find these details and more at http://www.pilgrimtours.com/aig.htm

Why does Answers in Genesis plan and promote such a Holy Land Tour? First of all because we will visit the Bible lands, towns, and villages. These places that we can only visualize in our minds now become real places and all of the sudden your Bible comes alive. Secondly, AiG is committed to the Word of God and its authority. This tour will be a traveling learning process for each passenger. These 13 days will demonstrate the trustworthiness of Bible history and Bible events. Teachers like Ken Ham will make the journey one of the greatest spiritual learning adventures of your life.

This tour is limited in number, so it will be available on a first come first serve basis. I would recommend that you get your deposit in today. Call 1-800-322-0788 for details and payment options.

This is my 17th tour to Israel and I am extremely excited to introduce you and your family to the greatest piece of real estate in the world—the Holy Land.

In His Royal Service,

Dr. David R. Crandall