As we end the months of summer and embark upon fall we have many exciting things happening around here at the John Ankerberg Show Staff. First, we have two new series that we will be taping and airing in the next couple of months. One will be on Heaven with Randy Alcorn that we will tape in October. The other series will be on living the Christ life with Wayne Barber who is a local pastor in Chattanooga, TN.

These will both be great series that you can give to your family and friends. In the mean time, we are going to be doing a fundraiser and offering a package on prophecy and some other series that we have done in the next two months. We never like to do fundraisers but sometimes we have to raise the money that we need to continue. Many people think that being on christian networks they give you the time for free but we have to pay just like everybody else. I hope that you will pray about what you can give to help us. Every little bit helps whether it is $25 or $1000.

I can't tell you how much it means to our family and staff when people give to this ministry. We don't  have any backing except people like you who support us. Every things that comes in goes towards spreading the gospel. Besides the t.v., we are also using the support that comes in for our website, radio, books, and many other things. We are privileged that we can use our funds to go into other countries. This is the heart of my dad and will be until the end. We have a short amount of time to get the gospel out and we need your help.

Thanks for your support and your prayers during this exciting time that we can live and work for our Lord!

It is hard to believe that the summer is almost gone! We went to the beach last week with our family and it is so funny how those weeks fly by when you are having fun! It was a great week to get away and  enjoy what God has created.

We are already planning for the fall and for Christmas. We have some exciting programs that are coming up. One series will be with Randy Alcorn on Heaven that will be taped in October. This is such a popular topic because everybody wants to know about Heaven and the ones who are not saved want to know where they are going! Another series will be a series on grace where we will bring in a  pasto and friend from Chattanooga. These plus some others will be showing and I hope that you will be able to tune in!

In the mean time, our world is in such turmoil and we know the Lord is close to coming back! We have a short amount of time to get things done and we need your help and your prayers. We can't do this ministry without people who will support us and pray for us.

I want to say first that this month we have been doing an encouraging series on how you face suffering with our guests Joni Eareckson Tada and Michael Easley. I have known both of these people for some time and they were such an encouragement when they came to do the program. When I look at what they both face everyday, my sufferings seem like nothing.

I hope that you will consider ordering this for a friend or family member that is facing suffering. We all face some sort of suffering and the two series that we did with them I know will be such an encouragement.

Coming up in May and June we will be doing a series with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung that has to do with the book of Ezekiel and also with current prophecy that is taking place. Dr. DeYoung is so knowledgeable and it is exciting to hear how what the Bible predicts will take place is happening. This is a great series to do a study on or to give to your unsaved friends.

I want to thank each of you for your support! We just finished a fundraiser and we were overwhelmed at the money the Lord provided. We can't do this ministry without your support and prayers. This is God's ministry and we want to do all we can to reach the world for Christ.

We have some exciting things coming up for this month. On the 15th, we have Michael Easley and Joni Eareckson Tada coming to do a program on suffering. I am so excited about this program because in this day and time there are so many people that deal with suffering in some form. I believe this can make a real impact and I pray that you will pray for these programs as we tape them and that for both of our guests you will give them strength to do the taping.

We hope to play this program in May. Coming up in March we will be taping again with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung. There is so much that has been happening in the news about the Middle East. It is exciting to see how the things the Bible predicts will happen are happening. This will be another great program that I hope you will pray for and give to your unsaved friends because these events are happening right now!

Of course, we can not do these programs without your help and support! We need your prayers more than ever! Being on t.v. is very expensive and we are very thankful the Lord has allowed us to be on certain stations to spread His word.

Well here we are in 2012. A brand new year to look forward to all that God has in store for us as Christians. We are so excited here at the ministry of the different programs that we are going to be doing soon!

Right now we are doing a great series on Mormonism and to show how they truly are not Christians. We will be airing this series through the month of January. Then in February we are going to tape a program on suffering with Michael Easley and Joni E. Tada. This is going to be a great series and one that you will not want to miss. In March we will be taping Jimmy DeYoung again about what is happening in prophecy right now. If you look back at this last year you can see how things that the Bible predicts are coming true! What an exciting time to be living in!

There are so many more things to come! Of course, we can't do any of this without your help and support! We thank the Lord for all of you! Our heart is to proclaim the gospel and to see people get saved! All we want to do is to preach the TRUTH and that is JESUS CHRIST!

Well, it is that time of the year again when there is so much going on that we forget the true meaning of this season. I know we hear that a lot but it is true! In the time when Jesus was born, they were not out shopping or having parties. In some ways, I wish it was that simple so we could just focus on Jesus and Him alone.

I hope that this will be the merriest christmas for you and for your family! I love the time that we can spend with family and focus on the fact that Jesus came to this earth to be born so He could die! He did that for us and there is no way we can ever repay Him for what He did! What a wonderful Savior!

We are thankful for those of you who support us and I pray that you will join with us as we serve our Lord this coming year!

Merry Christmas!

This month is a wonderful reminder of God's faithfulness in our lives. We have gone through a period of a dry spell but the Lord continues to show that His work is still needed.

I always stress that we can't do this ministry without your help. I believe that the Lord's return is coming soon and I believe that the Lord has given us wonderful people to help us in spreading the gospel.

I hope that you will take time to give thanks for the blessings the Lord has give you and for your family too. I want to say thanks to all of our supporters and to let you know how much we appreciate you! The Lord is using you to help us spread His gospel in a world that now more than ever needs Him!

Right now we are working on getting ready for Christmas which is hard to believe! I went into Cracker Barrel the other day and they had in their store Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas inventory out to buy. Instead of buying one at a time, they lump everything together.

This is my favorite time of year! I love fall and they way in TN that the colors change on the trees and show their vibrant colors. It is also a reminder of how the Lord made the seasons and each one is unique!

We thank you for your prayers and support. We are starting a new series on Jehovah's Witness that we taped a few weeks ago. This is an updated version of the one we did in the 80's. This program is great for people who are confused about what JW's believe and how we can witness to them.

In December, we will be taping a new series on Mormonism. This is another one that we wanted to update and I think this will be very good because we have new people on the program who came out of Mormonism and want to share how Jesus changed their life!

So, we have some exciting programs coming up and we are also sending out our new christmas catalog this month. In it there are some great deals for Christmas that you can give to loved ones and friends as a special gift! Check it out on our website!

Today is the day that the Lord has made! This is something that we should say everyday! Everyday is a gift from Him! Here at the ministry we are thankful for the opportunity to serve the Lord each day!

We have been given a task to preach the gospel to the world and the Lord has opened doors for us to preach his word into countries that we can't get into.

Your gift to our ministry helps us in this outreach. We are not supported by a church but only by people like you who help us. What an opportunity you have to help us and to reach the world for Christ while we have the chance!

I hope that you will pray for us and consider what you can do to help our ministry which is really the Lord's ministry.

It is hard to believe that August is here and we have only four months until Christmas! Hard to believe how fast this year is going.

The last two weeks we were out in California seeing some donors and my dad also had the privilege to speak at David Jeremiah's church in San Diego. I always love to hear my dad speak because he has a heart for evangelism and the night he spoke many came to know the Lord. What a blessing that their hearts were open to the gospel that night. I love going out to California but there is a lot of traffic and a lot of people. Very different from the east coast.

In the next couple of weeks we are going to be planning for the fall and deciding what programs we should do. I ask that you will pray for us as we decide and earnestly seek the Lord's advice for what we should do as far as programming is concerned. We thank the Lord for each one of you and what you mean to us. We can't do this ministry without your help and your prayers.

I have some exciting news to tell you about our fundraiser. We were able to meet the goal for right now but that does not mean we are out of the woods. On our 5:30 time on Daystar we were a little short but we had enough money come in to keep us on for right now.

What was interesting to me is that we were able to do this fundraiser through small gifts that were given to the ministry. We didn't receive any $10,000 gifts but ones that were $25,$100 etc. We thank the Lord for all of the gifts.

Like I said before, the Lord has given this ministry to my dad. This is our vineyard and we are using it to spread the name of Jesus and win souls to the Lord. Every week we get opposition which means we are doing something right. We not only need your support but your prayers as well.

Next week, we will be starting our new series with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung on prophecy. We love having Jimmy DeYoung on the program and he has so much knowledge about what God says on prophecy. This is going to be a great series and one that I hope you will get for your friends and family. I believe that we are living in the end times and we have a short amount of time to spread the gospel to the world.

As I am writing, today happens to be the Fourth of July! What a day to remember what our country was founded on and to pray for and thank the service men and women who have served our country and continue to do so.

This past month we have been trying to raise some money to stay on all our stations. This is something that my dad does not like to do but it is so expensive to be on the networks we are on and so we need help from everybody whether it be $5 to $5000 to $50,000. We are thankful for the people who have responded but we have not made our goal yet. We have to make the decision in the next two weeks what stations we will keep and what stations we are going to cut!

We believe that the Lord has given us these networks to spread the gospel. We have a short amount of time to do it and so we need not only your prayers but your help as well. Like I said every little bit helps. This is God's ministry and not ours. Will you help us continue God's ministry?

It has been awhile since I have written because our family was on vacation last week! We went to the beach for a week with my dad's family and it was beautiful! It is so refreshing to get away and to get rejuvenated.

This month we are showing different clips each week on tv in a special package called the "Future Generations" package. We couldn't do this ministry without your support! So, we are trying to raise money this month to help with the airtime bills that we have to keep showing our unique programs to people not only here in the US but overseas as well. Today as I am writing you, I heard from people in Australia, South Africa and Italy. All of these people watch our program on the Daystar network.

We need your help to spread the gospel to these nations! With the technology that we have it is so exciting to hear from people and how our programs have changed their lives. I believe that the Lord has opened the door to spread the gospel to the world today! We may not have tomorrow so we need to make the most of today.

One last thing I want to leave you with is that I heard Tim Tebow (who use to play for the Florida gators in football and now plays for the Denver Broncos) talk about on tv the other night the fact that because he wrote John 3:16 under his eyes during the National Championship that 94 million people googled John 3:16 because they had no idea what that was. This shows me that people need to hear the simple plan of accepting Christ and living for Him! Oh how this example excites me and it should for you too!

Well, things around here are slowly coming back! As far as the counties that were hit by the tornadoes, it will be years before they get back to normal. We need to continue to pray for all the people who have been affected. There are some sad stories that have come out and there are stories where people have a lot to be thankful for. They may have lost everything but they are alive.

The couple who works for us talk about the fact that you are one heartbeat away from eternity and that is how we need to live everyday! We don't know when our last day will be!

This month we are going to be showing clips from different programs that we have done over the years. It is going to be called our "Future Generations" package. This is something that we need to give our friends and family to help them in their walk with the Lord.

Thank you for your prayers and support. Our family and our staff pray for all of you that give to us!

This past week has been a memorable one for us in Chattanooga. On Wednesday, we had about 25 tornadoes that came through the area. We have a couple that works for us that lives in Cleveland, TN and they lost their house. In the mean time, we were out of work for two days because of no power at the building. I hope that you will pray for the couple who works for us and for all the areas around Chattanooga. There are many cities near us that everything is gone! I hope that you will pray for these people as they have lost everything.

It reminds me that we have no guarantee for tomorrow. We don't understand why the Lord allows the tornadoes to hit some places and to miss other places. If you have ordered something from us or if you couldn't get through this was the reason why. Please bear with us as we are trying to get back in the game here at the ministry. Please pray for our state of TN and Georgia and Alabama as we start the cleanup recovery.

This past week has been very busy for us! In the midst of everything going on here at the ministry my dad had to go in for hernia surgery! He is home and recovering from that right now! There are just some things that have to be done and this was something that couldn't wait any longer. We are thankful the surgery went well and now my dad has to go through the process of healing. In the mean time, we are working on some new programs to air in a few weeks that we taped with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung on prophecy. We have done many programs with Dr. DeYoung on Revelation and Daniel and now we will also show what is currently happening in the world and a step by step through end time events. This is going to be something that everyone needs to watch and to buy for a friend or family member. When you listen to what is happening with countries such as Libya and Egypt you can read in the Bible what the Lord predicted would happen with these countries many years ago. It is exciting to hear and to know that the Lord is very close in coming back! We appreciate your support and there are so many doors that the Lord is opening for us and we thank Him for what He is doing!

Well here we are in April! Hard to believe how the months fly by. Right now we are doing a great series with Dr. David Jeremiah on the coming economic crisis. It is great information that we all need to hear and prepare for as well. There is always fear when we here of what is happening but we know the Lord is in control and will straighten everything out one day! I hope that you will tune in for this. Coming up after this series we will be doing the second series with Dr. Stephen Meyer who is the founder of the Intelligent Design Movement. Then after that we will be showing a series that we did with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung on prophecy and what is happening today. So, there are lots of exciting programs coming up. In the mean time, our social media outlets are growing and we are so excited of all the doors that the Lord is opening. I hope that you will continue to pray for us as we minister and for all that the Lord is allowing us to do. It is so neat to see the Lord work!

Well, spring is definitely in the air this week! It has been beautiful here in TN and the trees are gorgeous! Of course, people who have allergies are miserable right now but that is the price we have to pay when everything the Lord has made is coming out!

This week we are taping some programs with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung. He actually came to our church this past Sunday and spoke about prophecy and what is happening in the world right now. Everything that is happening like in Libya and Egypt the Bible talks about in Ezekiel and Daniel. It's actually very exciting to see things happening right before our eyes that the Bible predicted so long ago. We can see that the Lord is coming back very soon!

This Sunday, we will begin our series on the economic crisis that we did with Dr. David Jeremiah. Please join us this week as we start this new series that is very eye-opening and something that we all need to know about and what we should as christians do about it! Dr. Jeremiah is a wonderful man that God is using to spread His word around. You will not want to miss this program!

We have had a good response to the science series we have been doing with Dr. Stephen Meyer on DNA and the cell. We have also had a good response with our Revelation series that we are doing with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung.

A few weeks ago I told you that we added a new time on the Daystar Network at 5:30 P.M. ET. We have had a good response on this added time. We are very thankful for the people who can watch us at that time. We pray that more people will be able to tune in!

On our website we have put up articles that deal with the earthquake that has happened in Japan. On a personal note I want to say that it is so wonderful to see people helping people and also people who are being patient waiting in line for food or gas. There has been no stealing or looting after this disaster. What a testimony to us and these people are not saved and look what they are doing! Just something for all of us to think about what we would do if a disaster happens to hit the United States again!

Today I was watching the news about the earthquake in Japan and the effects of the Tsunamis that are coming to Hawaii and even the west coast! Of all the natural disasters, earthquakes are something that we can't control. Kind of like hurricanes. I feel so bad for the people in Japan and especially for those who have lost loved ones in this terrific earthquake.

The Bible talks about in the end times that there would be more and more earthquakes that would take place. I believe this a sign that we are in the end times and that the Lord will be coming back soon! Because of this, the time is short to get the gospel out.

We are going to be doing a series soon with Dr. David Jeremiah about the financial difficulties and many other things that are taking place in our country. I believe this series is so important and one that all of us need to hear! Not only spiritually do we need to be ready but financially also.

Then in a few months we will have Dr. Jimmy DeYoung back to talk about the Middle East and all the things that are taking place that the Bible talks about. I will keep you up to date on when we will be airing this important series also.

Thanks again for your prayers and continue to pray for those who have been devastated by this earthquake!