Global Gospel Ministries, Inc.

History

Joseph Billy Bimba is the president and founder of Global Gospel Ministries, Inc. (USA) and Liberia For Jesus Evangelistic Ministries, Inc. (Liberia). Joseph and his wife, Elisabeth, are indigenous missionary-evangelists from Liberia, West Africa. As a teenager, Joseph was radically saved at the Foya Free Pentecostal Church, established by the Swedish Pentecostal Mission Lofa County rural Liberia. His outreach ministry began with preaching in villages and open-air markets and by holding Bible studies in schools. It was at his junior high school that he met and ministered to Edward McFee, a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer teacher. Their friendship would later bring Joseph and his family to the United States, prove instrumental in preserving Joseph and his family during the Liberian Civil War and give the Bimbas’ ministry exposure within the U.S.

Joseph and Elisabeth served the Lord initially as youth leaders and later were called as missionary evangelists to their own people. Influential in Joseph’s calling was his attendance at Fire Conference in South Africa in 1986, hosted by Reinhard Bonnke. For many years, prior to Liberia’s bloody Civil War, the Bimbas’ ministry focused on serving local pastors and local churches struggling in the interior of Liberia where witchcraft, idolatry and animism dominated. Small and large-scale crusades reached thousands of souls, and salvation, healing, and deliverance were everyday occurrences. Village after village were mightily impacted by the gospel of Jesus Christ. Churches, public schools and missions were all impacted with that same gospel. In fact, of the hundreds of youth who met Jesus in a direct and personal way during their youth camps, some are now in full-time ministry. Such a move of God, though, did not come without a price, including persecutions, riots, insults, stonings and beatings.

In 1988, Edward McFee and his wife, Michele, invited Joseph, Elisabeth, and their daughter, Namie, to spend the summer months with them in Bainbridge, NY. The purpose of the visit was to enable the Bimbas to establish contacts with U.S. Christians and raise support for Liberia for Jesus Evangelistic Ministries, the Bimbas’ rural-based ministry in the northern part of Liberia. The Lord used Ed’s sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and John Acello, to extend the Bimbas’ stay in the U.S. to one year, during which time Elaine, the Bimbas’ second child, was born. God used Elaine’s U.S. citizenship to preserve the Bimba family through the difficult years ahead. The Bimbas’ returned to Liberia in 1989.

In 1989, civil war broke out in Liberia. The Muslims confiscated the Bimbas newly built house, ministry equipment and vehicles. With their children Namie (4) and Elaine (1) on their backs, the couple waded across the low water of the Makona River into neighboring Guinea to escape Islamic rebels who were violently targeting Christians in Liberia. “The U.S. embassy in guinea granted a visitors visa to Elisabeth to accompany their daughter Elaine to the U.S. Elisabeth was then seven months pregnant with their son Levi McFee. Therefore, Elisabeth and Elaine traveled to America, leaving Joseph and Namie in Conakry Guinea. After two years of separation, during which time Elisabeth and Elaine, and Levi lived in Cortland, New York, the family was reunited. Through the help of David Devigili, Bill and Elaine Kiefer pastors of LWCC, Pastors Nathaniel and Rita Wright of God’s Light House of Praise, John and Rene Bolos, Francine, Marcus and Diane Mancini, and many others, Elisabeth and the children waited to be reunited with Joseph and Namie. Joseph and Namie waited for visas in Guinea, the family was reunited and settled in Cortland, New York. In addition, with the help of Sister Pat Pernell, Marcus and Diane Mancini the family moved to the small community of Greene, New York. Soon after, God gave Joseph a burden to spread the message of Jesus to Liberian refugees in countries bordering Liberia. Joseph and some American pastors traveled back to Africa to conduct pastor’s conferences, crusades, and seminars to strengthen, encourage, and build up the body of Christ living in the refugee camps.

The couple was engaged in this short-term missions work for five years in New York before relocating to Tulsa to attend the Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma. While at ORU, Joseph had three years of undergraduate studies in theology with an emphasis on missions and a minor in evangelism. Along with his college courses, Joseph grew through his home church, World Revival Temple under the teaching and leadership of doctor bishop Joel Laurore and its. He has also received training from the Billy Graham Association through their conferences in Europe, including Amsterdam ‘86 and Amsterdam 2000, the Proclamation Evangelism Network(PEN) at the Cove, and the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Chicago. Joseph is also a member of the Proclamation Evangelists’ Network of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Joseph was trained and certified by Derek Prince Ministries in Charlotte, NC.

In January 2006, Joseph and Elisabeth returned to Liberia and spent six weeks visiting with family and caring for Joseph’s father, Rev. Fallah Bimba, who went to be with the Lord while they were there. The Lord used the couple mightily to impact the body of Christ and Liberia’s new political leaders with the gospel of Jesus. Many souls were saved, healed and delivered. Churches were revived and edified by the grace of God. God led Joseph and Elisabeth to establish Global Gospel Ministries through the help of friends, Pastor Fred and Donna Hoover of Abide in the Vine Fellowship, Bob Peterson, and Diane Robinson Tony Accilien and Thomas Winters. Joseph Billy and Elisabeth Bimba were led by the Lord to establish Global Gospel Ministries, Inc.,a missionary organization to target the nations and especially African local churches and use practical, Life- changing,Lifegiving, mind-transforming, Christ-centered, Chriost revealing, exhorting, anointed preaching, Bible teaching, to destroy the yokes of bondage and poverty.

With the ministry behind them, the Lord is calling Joseph and Elisabeth back to help rebuild Liberia on the solid foundation of Jesus Christ, to bring healing and restoration through the power of the gospel. Both Elisabeth and Joseph are preparing to return to Liberia. They plan to effectively strengthen local church pastors and expand God’s kingdom through church planting crusades.

They have seen local Liberian churches barely able to subsist, receiving little outside assistance, and not realizing their God-given potential. The needs of Liberia’s local churches are spiritual as well material. These churches must break oppressive spirits of despondency and dependence by developing the gifts of the local people with a vision towards the future. The goal of Global Gospel Ministries, Inc. is to motivate, train and equip pastors and evangelists, along with ministry leaders, into evangelical outreach. When God’s people can support themselves without relying on unbelievers, they will be an example to the unsaved, a source of support for their own missionaries, and a blessing to others.

The Lord is moving mightily already in this area. Many Liberian pastors are eager to work with the couple, and ministries at all levels in this country have opened. Joseph and Elisabeth want to penetrate remote areas that the gospel has never penetrated before through missionary trips and need-based projects.

We now have our headquarters in Rockville, Maryland in the heart of the metropolitan Washington, DC area to meet the ministry needs of the work in the United States, Liberia and the rest of the world. This location is crucial and strategic for the effective implementation of the vision because it is far more accessible to those needing visas processed for travel to Liberia or needing goods shipped there. In addition, a missionary center will be needed in Liberia to lodge incoming short-term missionaries from the United States, Europe and the rest of the world at no cost, who, in turn, will help in the ministry and provide office space, a conference center and a humanitarian warehouse for donations. Of course, the cost for this Liberian center will be significant.

During the country’s 14 years of Civil War, the body of Christ around the world prayed for revival in Liberia, and, in answer to those prayers, the country is now ripe for harvest. God has given Evangelist Bimba tremendous open doors on a national level in his own country to spread the gospel.

During the country’s 14 years of Civil War, the body of Christ around the world prayed for revival in Liberia, and the country is ripe for harvest.

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