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About Us
Charity Ministries is a ministry of Charity
Christian Fellowship and Ephrata Christian Fellowship, both located
in Lancaster County, PA. It publishes a bimonthly magazine, has an
extensive mission outreach in Africa, holds meetings across
North America, and sends out thousands of Gospel messages
on cassette, CD, and the Internet each
year.
Many years ago God began working in the
hearts of a former Amish man and a Baptist preacher. Mose Stoltzfus
and Denny Kenaston both became burdened seeing the lack of spirituality
in many churches. Their hearts locked together with a vision to get
back to a revived, New Testament, Christ-centered church. With this
vision before their eyes, they began Charity Christian Fellowship in
1982.
Five years later revival swept down from heaven.
The revival fires burned brightly as the church got right with
the Lord. During this time another Mose Stoltzfus and his family
started attending Charity. Mose came with a burden to start a
tape ministry. The family began taking tapes home after each
service to start a library. Soon Gospel Tape Ministry came
alive. The ministry operated out of Tape Mose’s shop with his
children as personnel. People began to request catalogs and
order tapes. Biblical preaching was heard in many homes.
In 1990 the tape ministry was renamed Charity
Gospel Tape Ministry. In October of 1994, it moved to the
church building, acquired a new director and personnel, and continued
to expand.
The ministry relocated once more to the
Ephrata Business Center in September 2001.
Because tapes are now only a small part
of our ministry, our name has been shortened to Charity Ministries.
We have a few people serving full time, as well as a handful of part-time
volunteers. We receive phone calls
from many parts of the U.S. and Canada, and occasionally from other
countries. Orders also arrive in the mail and through this website.
An increasing number of messages are downloaded from our web site as
the online library continues to expand. Tapes and CDs are sent
out across the land and sea with the knowledge that
the Lord could use each gospel message to change someone’s
eternity.
Our goal is to provide sound, biblical
teaching in an age of compromise and apostasy. It is our desire to be
an encouragement to those who are sincerely following Jesus. We also
desire that the messages would bring a tremendous heart change to seeking
souls.
We want the Lord Jesus to be in charge of this ministry. We desire
to always stay in the center of God’s perfect will. We long for
Him to get the honor, glory, and praise. We want to not only
exalt Him as our Savior, but also as our Lord. He deserves our
love and practical obedience as we work to build His kingdom.
Charity has been involved in foreign missions
since the late '80s, although it was not organized and named Charity
Christian Missions until several years later. Charity Christian Missions
currently has mission posts in Ghana, West Africa.
The Heartbeat of The Remnant began publication
in 1994. It had a circulation of nearly 1,000 copies. It has since swelled
to over 4,000. The Remnant is mailed to six continents and over 30
countries.
It is as the Lord told Zerubbabel: "Not by might,
nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." (Zechariah 4:6) May only the Lord receive the glory.
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