From Dick Eastman commenting on the impact of a worship-saturated prayer strategy for world evangelization before and after establishing the Jericho Center in Colorado Springs dedicated to this purpose:

Recently I was reminiscing on how fruitful the years have been since moving into The Jericho Center, which finally happened in the summer of 2003 (after 12 years of praying over the vision). The significance of this move was that it was done to greatly strengthen our commitment to the convergence of prayer and missions by saturating all our global outreaches in day and night intercessory worship. Several years later this included our building a two-story Wall of Prayer (see Isaiah 62:6-7) in a lower level of the Jericho Center consisting of 50 tons of imported Jerusalem stone from Israel. The wall features numerous prayer grottos named after the tribes of Israel where intercessors can come for prolonged times of personal prayer.

Especially noteworthy concerning the impact of this prayer on the harvest is that more people have responded to the Gospel and come to Christ through Every Home for Christ since that summer of 2003 than in all previous 57 years of EHC’s existence up to 2003. (This year—2016—is actually EHC’s 70th anniversary!) The ministry was born in Western Canada in October of 1946 through the ministry of Jack McAlister, a young 23-year old Canadian pastor who had just started a radio program asking listeners to help send gospel literature to the ends of the earth.

Before long, this led to establishing the Every Home Campaign’s (EHC’s) that included a strategy to map out a nation in such a way as to take the gospel to every home in every city, town and village—systematically. The first Every Home Campaign began in Japan in 1953. To date, four complete coverage’s of every prefecture and district of Japan, home by home, have taken place in Japan. Additionally, since 1953 home-to-home campaigns have been conducted by Every Home for Christ in more than 215 nations. To date, 3.8 billion gospel messages have been taken to 1.8 billion homes resulting in some 162 million decisions and responses to this home-to-home evangelism strategy.  

Of significant note, and a testimony to the impact of a worship-saturated prayer strategy: for the 57 years (from 1946 to 2003, when EHC moved into The Jericho Center) the ministry processed a total of 29,892,782 followed-up decisions and responses. That’s an annual average of 524,434 for each of those 57 years. But from 2003 to the present (just 12 years), our decisions/responses totaled 132,098,317, or an annual average of 11,008,193 for just a 12-year time frame. What a miracle!

The same exponential growth is true of new Christ Groups (New Testament church fellowships) planted by Every Home for Christ. From 1965 when the Christ Group ministry first began in EHC up to 2003 (38 years), 58,172 groups were established, or an annual average of 1,530 for each of those 38 years. Then, from 2003 to the present (just 12 years), 228,662 new fellowships have been planted, or an annual average of 19,055.

In summary—decisions/responses were 524,434 annually before 2003 (for 57 years) and 11,008,193 annually after (for only 12 years). Christ Groups were 58,172 annually before 2003 and 228,662 annually after! This is truly a “God thing” and a true testimony to the impact of day and night prayer for the harvest!

The prayer of the Psalmist in Psalm 67:2 is certainly being answered in the global EHC ministry: “Send us out all over the world so that everyone everywhere will discover your ways and know who you are and see your power to save!” (The Passion Translation).

Dick Eastman

International President

Every Home for Christ