“Journal of a Street Preacher” is the account of a street preacher for the Lord Jesus Christ, openly opposing wickedness, aggressively advancing righteousness, against the godless grain of 21st century culture. Narrated with Biblical candor and political-incorrectness, the diary depicts the dissonance derived from publicly preaching Christ’s Gospel in a society satanically seduced by Moral Subjectivism, and Religious Relativism. Chronicling toe to toe, jaw to jaw, “combat evangelism”, with drunkards on the beaches of Florida, among assailing anti-Christs in European streets, and with the demonic denizens of Hell, “Journal of a Street Preacher” lurches you, at light speed, through the moonless midnight of immoral modernity, granting you a glimpse of your world and your life, for which you may not be prepared.
In April, 1991, realizing that he had no right to transgress the Law of God, as he had for the first 23 years of his life, Michael Venyah chose to forsake all sin and selfishness, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, -Who died, was buried, rose from the dead, as the Only Atonement for mankind’s sin -and live in complete obedience to God’s Word, the Bible. Immediately after his conversion, Michael obeyed Christ’s Command to “go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature”, agonizingly aware that, like him, without submitting to Christ, the entire world would deservedly be cast into the Lake of Fire, on Judgment Day, for their sins.
Today, more than 16 years later, Michael is still “going everywhere, preaching the Gospel to everyone”. As co-founder, alongwith his wife, Tamika, of Soulwinners Ministries International ( www.soul-winners.org ), Michael, Tamika, their son, Paul, and their brother in Christ, Chris LeMieux, travel the United States in a mini-motorhome (“The Preaching Machine”), publicly proclaiming the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, on college campuses, at public events, in churches, wherever people are present. In addition to his service to Christ, in the United States, –previously, as: an associate minister, staff minister of evangelism, and visitation pastor, at churches in Michigan; a pioneer of house-churches in Michigan and Mississippi; a pioneer of a campus ministry at Mississippi State University; a street preacher on college campus, in churches, on the streets, at public events, nationwide - Michael has also obeyed Christ’s Call, overseas, as a missionary in Ghana and Nigeria, West Africa (2002), the Bahamas (2003), Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Europe (2005), and India (2006).
Currently, Michael and his family are preparing to resume a 64-campus, 27-state, 15,600-mile preaching itineration on universities across the United States.
Things began to hit me from out of the air. Something struck me in the back: an apple. Pain pierced the side of my head, and I saw a penny bound off of my shoulder to the ground.
I turned from the aerial onslaught, preached to those on the other side of me, and it was if a knife sliced my upper gums as a stone struck my right front tooth—the same one that had been broken in a boyhood face-first fall onto concrete.
A steady stream of stones, and a few small rocks, filled the air, striking my legs, chest, back, head, and the side of my face. A spirit of fear tried to come over me, but inwardly rebuking it in the Name of Jesus, I continued preaching with increased boldness.
GOOD GROUND
In the midst of the cursing, blaspheming, pushing, hitting, spitting, and apples, sticks, pennies, stones, and rocks thrown at myself and Chris, who was filming, a girl minced up to me and meekly asked:
“Is reading the Bible a good thing to do?”
Hearing this, I praised God, seeing the fruit of preaching amidst the demonic madness.