network. That was back in 1978; I didn’ t know that almost 30 years later, in 1996, I would be involved in birthing HIM.
The miraculous seed for HIM begins there; but, the circumstances around the actual founding of it was another story of prophetic encounter. I had essentially dodged the vision I had back in 1978, and in 1994 our church, Harvest Rock( HRock) had started. By January 1995 we had begun nightly renewal meetings in Mott; revival was breaking out. And in May of 1995 we joined the Vineyard and became a Vineyard Church for what I thought would be the rest of my life. But, things shifted and by December of 1995, John Wimber, leader of the Vineyard, had asked us to either shut down the nightly meetings or to leave the Vineyard. His recommendation was for us to keep the nightly meetings going, but not to do it as a Vineyard Church. We agreed that it was important to keep the protracted meetings continuing, so Lou Engle and I were sent out by the leadership of the Vineyard, including Todd Hunter and Bob Fulton.
Two short weeks after we were out of the Vineyard I received a phone call from Cindy Jacobs. She called me up and said,“ I hear that you are out of the Vineyard and I have a word for you. The Lord says,‘ You are not to join another network. I am going to call you to lead your own network. You’ ll be like Abraham, to be a father of many. I have called you to be an apostle, and you will have churches in every single continent around the world.’” When Cindy prophesied that, God immediately brought back to my memory the vision and proclamation of the Lord that I had back when I was 20 years old at the University of Maryland.
We waited, prayed, and submitted the word to my wife, Sue Ahn, Lou Engle, John Arnott and the other pastors we were in covenant with and they all bore witness that this was of the Lord. It wasn’ t until October of 1996 that we founded Harvest International Ministry. HRock and 14 other churches came together and formed HIM. Even to this day, 20 years later, what I think was so amazing was how we started to grow immediately. And even during the time when I was giving my energies to The Call, from 2000 to 2003, HIM was exploding around the world and I started to realize that this was something that the Lord was doing, and it was marvelous in my sight. HIM was growing globally at a time when I wasn’ t even travelling internationally, because I was focusing on The Call and mobilizing in the United States. And still, we have had so many major leaders from around the world join HIM throughout the years.
CHÉ AHN Harvest International Ministry
President / Founder of HIM
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