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Rev. David Wilkerson
May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011
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TIMES SQUARE CHURCH
[Ed Note: Moriel Ministries has no "official" earthly affiliation with David Wilkerson or Times Square Church other than David is a Brother who has gone to be with our Lord. That of course, is a much "higher" affiliation than anything we can devise here on earth. Therefore, we are providing this information from the Times Square Church website to all who may be interested. BE/\LERT!]
It is with the deepest of sadness that we have to inform you of the sudden passing of Reverend David Wilkerson, our founding pastor.
As the details of the family's wishes are made known we will relay them to you on this website.
There will be a memorial service at Times Square Church at a date yet to be determined. It will be streamed live to give an opportunity for all to participate.
Pastor David Wilkerson's was a life fully given for the glory of God and souls of men. He was greatly loved and he will be greatly missed.
Our prayers are with the family and we as a church body are committed to standing with them at this time of sorrow.
Pastor Carter Conlon
P.S. Please do not call the church as we will be inundated with calls. For more information, please refer back to this website.
Update: April 28 | 12:00PM At present the Wilkerson family has requested a private family funeral in Texas.
Rev. Wilkerson's wife, Gwen, who was injured in the accident, is still in the hospital under observation and expected to recover.
The official memorial service will be held at Times Square Church in New York City within the next two weeks. The service will be streamed live on the Times Square Church website. Details regarding the service will be posted on our website as they develop.
For closest friends, denominational leaders and dignitaries who wish to attend the service please forward inquiries to memorialservice@timessquarechurch.org. Seating will be limited.
Thank you for all your prayers and the outpouring of love you have shown for the Wilkerson family. We are comforted by knowing that Pastor David has been enjoying the full presence of the Lord for more than a day now.
God bless.
Pastor Carter Conlon
Update: April 29 | 12:00PM Memorial Service- The details for the official memorial service for Pastor David Wilkerson have been finalized as follows: Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011
- Time: 2:00PM
(Doors will open at 12:00PM)
Location: Times Square Church
237 West 51st street
(between Broadway & Eighth Avenue)
Manhattan, New York City
All are welcome to attend the service.
Live Webcast
The service will be streamed live all over the world on this website at 2:00PM EST.
Update: April 30 | 8:30PM Flowers + Gifts
In lieu of flowers and gifts, the Wilkerson family has asked that donations be given to World Challenge's Please Pass the Bread feeding program, as this was Pastor David Wilkerson's last heartfelt endeavor to reach the poor. 100% of your gift will help feed thousands of children around the world. ...
See Website for full information on all of the above
http://www.tscnyc.org/pastor_david_wilkerson.php
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Loss of Brother David Wilkerson
|  MORIEL MINISTRIES - By James Jacob Prasch - April 29, 2011
I first met David Wilkerson in my native New York when he first opened Time Square Church. I actually lived in Israel at the time. He informed me three months before it happened that God warned him to avoid a certain major TV evangelist whom most, including myself, considered to be doctrinally sound (which he was) but he was morally flawed. It was a prophetic word indeed. Three months later Jimmy Swaggert fell.
I became friends with David's son Gary when he lived in London. Our daughter Beth and David Wilkerson's grandson Ashley weere in the same class at the Christian School in London.
I am very sorry about this sad loss. David is with Jesus.
Jacob Prasch
Originally posted on the MORIEL website
http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/announcements/loss-of-brother-david-wilkerson
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Who Will Cry For Us Now?...(Dave Wilkerson)
| BELIEVERS IN GRACE MINISTRIES - By Pastor Bill Randles - April 28, 2011
"Therefore you shall say this word to them: ' Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow. (Jeremiah 14:17)
Dave Wilkerson, a major christian voice for our generation has gone on to be with the Lord. He and his wife Gwen suffered a head on auto collision, thus far she survived but is in critical condition.
What can I say of such a formative influence in my own, and our generation's life? The Lord used Wilkerson to reach so many thousands and hundreds of thousands .
People by the millions have been touched by his book, "The Cross and The Switchblade". The book is the testimony of Wilkerson's transition from a country Pentecostal preacher in Pennsylvania, into an inner city shepherd to vicious street gangs, drug addicts and lost and forgotten people.
Who can't be affected by the story of the humble small town pastor, opening an issue of Life magazine, and weeping over the picture of convicted but unrepentant teen murderers in the jungle like slums of New York City?
God alone knows how many have been led to saving faith by reading that book, or who have received the call of God's mercy to bring the gospel to drug addicts, and street people because of that testimony. I recently showed the Movie featuring Pat Boone and Eric Estrada to our Youth group, and was struck again by the power of the story.
Out of Wilkerson's work on the streets of New York city, came Teen Challenge, the singularly most successful drug rehabilitation program in existence. Totally Christ centered, unabashedly evangelical, Teen Challenge truly works wonders in lives to this day.
To the thousands of addicts and family members ravaged by the drug scourge of the 1950's - 60's and up to today, Teen Challenge served as a beacon of hope and of salvation, seeing them through drug addiction, and into full, productive and Christ centered lives.
Wilkerson was the prophetically inclined elder preacher to a whole generation of those of us who came to Christ in the turbulent sixties and seventies. He ever reminded us, by his preaching and example, of what following Christ truly is all about!
When other Pentecostals were drifting into the "faith/prosperity" heresy, Wilkerson sounded the alarm. When Christians lost sight of reaching the lost, and sought to make a comfortable, crossless Christianity, Wilkerson's voice rang out.
Who hasn't had the experience more than once, of opening one of Wilkerson's mini sermons in the mail, and realizing that God was speaking directly to your own current situation ?
Time and again a Word from 'brother Dave' has actually proven to be a Word from God himself speaking into a situation or an attitude, or giving a comfort, encouragement or exhortation. I thank God for this brother, what a gift He was!
God raised him up in an especially turbulent time. To this rebellious generation, wracked by a complete satanic social and cultural transformation, including a sexual revolution, a psychedelic drug soaked consciousness revolution, and a defection by many Christians from "the old paths", Dave Wilkerson was a powerful , pleading voice.
But what affected me the most about brother Dave, was his broken heart. This man wept for the church, for the ministry, and for the glory of God. Have you ever actually heard him preach ?
There is communicated through him a deep, profound, mourning , as he pleads, urges and exhorts his hearers to keep faith with Jesus. I am reminded of Jeremiah, or of Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, when I hear sermons like this, A Call To Anguish, and this, Where are the Praying People? .
Like the ancient prophets, Dave Wilkerson was in holy horror also at the apostasy, and the defection of ministers and christian alike. With tears in his eyes he would mourn over ruined ministers, and congregations across the land, which had contacted him in desperate letters, pleading for prayer.
Whether it be by the false money preachers, the outcome of the sexual revolution, the decayed standard of christian teaching, the neglect of holiness, Wilkerson's heart was truly broken by the ruined lives left in the wake of these disasters.
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. (Lamentation 2:11-12)
The tears flowed because of Love, for God, his glory, and for his bride.
Dave also wept because he had been shown things to come. He saw that the 'good times' wouldn't last forever, and warned about the tribulations to come. He saw the baptism of filth, the moral rot, the fires, riots and persecutions coming to complacent America, and cried out about it, in spite of laughter and rejection.
Who weeps for us these days? Who will cry tears over our current state in the church ? Who now will openly confront the wolves, calling them out, exposing them to his own hurt? Who now will confront those ruining God's church to their face ? Do we know what we no longer have ?
God bless you brother David, Take your rest in peace!
Unedited :: Link to Original Posting
http://billrandles.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/who-will-cry-for-us-now-dave-wilkerson/
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Rev. David Wilkerson Killed in TX Car Crash
CBN NEWS [Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc.] - By Cicely Gosier, CBN News Internet Producer - April 29, 2011
Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and author of the well-known book The Cross and the Switchblade, was killed Wednesday in a head-on collision in Texas. He was 79.
Wilkerson's wife, Gwen, was also involved in the crash. She is in fair condition and expected to recover.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, May 14 at 2 p.m. ET at Times Square Church in Manhattan, N.Y. Doors will open to the public at 12 p.m. CBNNews.com will be streaming the service live, beginning at 2 p.m.
"Thank you for all your prayers and the outpouring of love you have shown for the Wilkerson family," Times Square Church Senior Pastor Carter Conlon said in a statement, Thursday, on the church website. "We are comforted by knowing that Pastor David has been enjoying the full presence of the Lord for more than a day now."
Conlon added that the family will have a private funeral in Texas. A public memorial service will be held at Times Square Church within the next two weeks.
Crash Details Wilkerson was driving east on U.S. 175 in Cuney, Texas, Wednesday afternoon, and moved into the opposite lane where a tractor trailer was driving westbound.
The truck driver saw the car and tried to move out of the way, but still collided with the pastor's car head on, according to Public Safety Trooper Eric Long.
The accident occurred on the Neches River bridge, about 100 miles outside Dallas. Wilkerson and his wife had recently moved to Tyler, Texas, from New York.
It's unclear what caused him to veer into the other lane. The truck driver has since been released from the hospital.
Wilkerson was pronounced dead on the scene.
Last Words Wilkerson posted a blog dated April 27 -- the day of his death [see post below] . In the post, titled " When All Means Fail," he encouraged those facing difficulty to "hold fast" and stand strong in faith.
"To those going through the valley and shadow of death, hear this word: Weeping will last through some dark, awful nights, and in that darkness you will soon hear the Father whisper, "I am with you,'" Wilkerson wrote. "Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world."
Read all of Wilkerson's final blog here.
Edited :: See Original Report Here
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/April/Rev-David-Wilkerson-Killed-in-TX-Car-Crash/
Teen Challenge founder killed in traffic accident GEORGETOWN TIMES, Georgetown, South Carolina - April 27, 2011
David Wilkerson - founder of Teen Challenge which has its South Carolina headquarters in Georgetown County - has passed away.
Charisma Online reports Wilkerson died Wednesday in an automobile accident in Texas.
Wilkerson founded Times Square Church in New York City and was the focus of the book and movie The Cross and the Switchblade.
Wilkerson founded Teen Challenge in 1960. The goal of Teen Challenge is to help troubled youth and adults, particularly those with life-controlling problems due to drugs or alcohol.
Over five decades, the Christ-centered Teen Challenge program has consistently shown one of the world's highest success rates, according to the organization's website.
The organization's only facility in South Carolina is on a 45 acre tract in the Yauhannah area of Georgetown County.
It has a dorm that houses up to 20 men which opened last year.
The first building, used as an office and counseling facility was dedicated in 2005. There is also a classroom building.
S.C. Teen Challenge Director Wayne Powell said he has "so many memories" of Wilkerson and "so many lives" have been changed through his ministry. "
We will move on from here because there is a cause that is bigger than us and that is the way he would have it," Powell said.
http://www.gtowntimes.com/local/Teen-Challenge-founder-killed-in-traffic-accident2011-04-27T18-30-09 |
When All Means Fail
| WORLD CHALLENGE [World Challenge, Inc., Home of David Wilkerson Ministries] > Sermons > Devotions - By David Wilkerson - April 27, 2011
To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable. Jesus said to Thomas, "You have believed because you have seen, but blessed are those that do believe and have not seen" (John 20:29).
Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer-who trust beyond hope when all means have failed.
Someone has come to the place of hopelessness-the end of hope-the end of all means. A loved one is facing death and doctors give no hope. Death seems inevitable. Hope is gone. The miracle prayed for is not happening.
That is when Satan's hordes come to attack your mind with fear, anger, overwhelming questions: "Where is your God now? You prayed until you had no tears left. You fasted. You stood on promises. You trusted."
Blasphemous thoughts will be injected into your mind: "Prayer failed. Faith failed. Don't quit on God-just do not trust him anymore. It doesn't pay!"
Even questioning God's existence will be injected into your mind. These have been the devices of Satan for centuries. Some of the godliest men and women who ever lived were under such demonic attacks.
To those going through the valley and shadow of death, hear this word: Weeping will last through some dark, awful nights-and in that darkness you will soon hear the Father whisper, "I am with you. I cannot tell you why right now, but one day it will all make sense. You will see it was all part of my plan. It was no accident. It was no failure on your part. Hold fast. Let me embrace you in your hour of pain."
Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world.
Unedited :: Link to Original Posting
http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/13112
See Also:
Remembering David Wilkerson by Gary Wilkerson | April 29, 2011
http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/devotions/2011/by-gary-wilkerson
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