Quotes from David Wilkerson


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Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.


Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.


Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.


My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.


Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.


The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.


Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.


I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.


From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.


Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.


America is a giving nation and very compassionate.


The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.


I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.


Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.


How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.


Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.


Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.


In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.


Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.


A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.