CIU alumnus has big heart for Romania
Jesse Powers (left) with his friend Tim Clark, author of the Baptist Courier article, and pastor of Holly Springs Baptist Church in Inman, SC. (Photos provided by Baptist Courier)
As communism fell in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, CIU alumnus Jesse Powers sensed God leading him to take the gospel to Romania. He would make nearly 60 trips to the former Soviet Bloc country, taking with him scores of pastors and lay leaders to meet the needs of believers and preach the gospel to the unsaved.
Powers graduated from Ƶ in 1957 when it was known as Columbia Bible College. Today, at age 91, he no longer makes the trips to Romania, but he is still in the pulpit of , where he has been serving as “interim pastor” for the past eight years.
Learn more about the life and ministry of Jesse Powers in the article by Tim Clark, published in The Baptist Courier.
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