Influence sample

Jack Wyrtzen at Word of Life Camp (probably on Schroon Lake, New York), which he helped found. 1968. Click on the image above to see an enlargement.

Excerpt (1-1/4 minutes) from tape T2 in Collection 446, oral history interview with evangelist Jack Wyrtzen recorded by Bob Shuster on October 5, 1991.

SHUSTER: Let me just ask you, parenthetically, did you ever hear Paul Rader preach or...?

WYRTZEN: No, I never did.

SHUSTER: He had died really just a couple years after you were converted, so....

WYRTZEN: Yeah, but I sure saw the results. He led Howard Ferrin, who started Providence Bible Institute, to the Lord. He led Ralph Davis, who was one of the big men of the African Inland Mission. Forrest Forbes was the first missionary we ever supported. He led him to the Lord.

SHUSTER: Charles Fuller. He was another.

WYRTZEN: Yeah, yeah. He came out of him. Bob Williams became Borneo Bob, started 119 churches in Borneo. And one of my best friends was Glen Wagner. He was an All-American University of Illinois football star. He ran all of the sorority and fraternity houses on campus at the University of Illinois. Wild guy. He went to hear Paul Rader in Peoria, Illinois, in a theater and he got converted. And he became the head of the Pocket Testament League. He and I preached to 300,000 men across the front lines of the 38th parallel in Korea for the Pocket Testament League. And he must have really been great. I was...you know, I look at some of these men, they were...they laid a foundation of Evangelical Fundamental Christianity across the world.