Circular Letter December 2020
At Pentecost 1949, I dedicated my life to the Lord Jesus with tears of repentance and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Ever since, I can look back on a richly blessed life of faith with the Lord. By the grace of God, I have been preaching the Word of God since 1952, initially in the Pentecostal Church. In 1955 I attended the meetings Brother Branham held in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. I recognized in the very first meeting that he was a man of God and had a special ministry that was connected to God’s Plan of Salvation for our time.
The photograph at the bottom shows one of the meetings that took place in the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, from June 20 to 26, 1955; the other one shows a meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, where Brother Branham preached from August 12 to 19, 1955.
In 1958, under God’s guidance, we began translating Brother Branham’s sermons that had been recorded on tape, which is how first the independent local church and later the Mission Center came into being. On April 2, 1962, I received my calling by the audible voice of the Lord, which Brother Branham confirmed by divine revelation on December 3, 1962, and he also gave me corresponding instructions.
In 1964 I made my first missionary trip to India and visited Jerusalem on the way back. Beginning in 1966, I started with missionary trips to our neighboring countries and later also worldwide. Through the 20-minute sermons on Radio Luxembourg that I held every Sunday morning from 1967 to 1978, I reached many people in German-speaking countries and was able to invite them to meetings in the various cities. Many believers still felt the impact of the blessed meetings they had experienced with Brother Branham. The halls were filled in all of the cities in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. Those were richly blessed years in the Kingdom of God.
The two photos from 1976, one from Zurich, Switzerland, and the other from Heilbronn, Germany, show that God gave His blessings for the proclamation of His Word.
In 1979, as was the case with Eve in paradise, the enemy succeeded in spreading doubts by asking, “Did the Lord really speak to him?” Thus the commission was called into question, and it almost led to the destruction of the local church. But the Lord God manifested the victory of Calvary; the elect did not fall prey to the deception, and the ministry could continue, even until now.
For the year 2020, I felt led not to plan any missionary trip. As we have all noticed, it would not have even been possible due to the Coronavirus pandemic. For the same reason, we cannot have any international meetings at the Mission Center in Krefeld at the moment. We are very grateful to God that we have been able to serve thousands of believers from all over the world with the Word of God in the local chapel since 1974. What the Lord commanded me has been fulfilled: “Gather me the people together, that they may hear my Words.”
Just as God has provided for the storing and distribution of the spiritual food, He has also made sure that the final message of the calling-out and restoration can from now on be heard online. God willing, I will be holding a sermon on the last Sunday of every month, also known as Zurich Sunday, at 10:00 a.m. from now on instead of at 2:00 p.m., at the same time of day as on the first Sunday of each month in Krefeld, and both will be broadcast via the Internet and translated simultaneously into various languages and can be heard on the well-known channels worldwide.
In addition, we are now broadcasting sermons from the 1980s every Wednesday and Saturday evening as well as Sunday morning at the usual times (Central European Time). They are also translated into the various languages so that believers and even entire congregations across the globe can connect and listen online.
The ministering brethren will continue to hold local meetings where possible. Wherever the believers are gathered on earth in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Lord is present among them (Mat 18:20). Please take it to heart and believe it. The time has now come when the true believers, wherever they are on earth, unite in prayer so that the Lord God can bring about the perfection in the Redeemed and the preparation of the Bride Church everywhere.
All of those who now believe the revealed Word belong to the wise virgins and experience the final preparation as the Bride Church, for thus it is written: “… and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.” (Mat 25:10). The Scripture from Rev 19:7 belongs to this as well: “… and his wife (bride) hath made herself ready.” She has perfect redemption through the blood of the Lamb (Mat 26:28), perfect sanctification through God’s Word (Jn 17:17), and is sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of her bodily redemption according to the Word in Eph 1:13: “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise …”
I look back on the many years and am grateful that the Lord has repeatedly spoken to me and given me instructions. He has done great things in millions of people and brought them back to the true faith. Like Simeon back then (Lk 2:29), I can say with a clear conscience, “Lord, now you let your servant depart in peace, for my eyes have seen that all the peoples upon the earth have heard the original message that foreruns the second coming of Christ.”
For the coming year, we expect a true year of jubilee, which our Lord proclaimed in Luke 4, in which everyone will regain their God-given possessions: “… and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.” (Lev 25:10b).
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” (Rom 8:28-30).
Remember me and all the ministering brethren in your prayers.
In His service,
Bro. Frank
God willing and by His grace, I will be holding sermons that will be broadcast live on
•the first Sunday of each month at 10:00 a.m.
•the last Sunday of every month, the so-called Zurich
Sunday, at 10:00 a.m. instead of at 2:00 p.m.
Regular online transmission of services is as follows:
• every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
•every Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
• every Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
The sermons broadcast via the Internet have become a great blessing for many people and can now also be heard in various languages.
All transmissions can be accessed on our home page:
www.freie-volksmission.de under Broadcasts and Downloads
as well as on our YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/user/FreieVolksmission.
Mission Center
P.O. Box 100707
47707 Krefeld
Germany
Email: volksmission@gmx.de
© by the author and publisher E. Frank
At Pentecost 1949, I dedicated my life to the Lord Jesus with tears of repentance and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Ever since, I can look back on a richly blessed life of faith with the Lord. By the grace of God, I have been preaching the Word of God since 1952, initially in the Pentecostal Church. In 1955 I attended the meetings Brother Branham held in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. I recognized in the very first meeting that he was a man of God and had a special ministry that was connected to God’s Plan of Salvation for our time.
The photograph at the bottom shows one of the meetings that took place in the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, from June 20 to 26, 1955; the other one shows a meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, where Brother Branham preached from August 12 to 19, 1955.
In 1958, under God’s guidance, we began translating Brother Branham’s sermons that had been recorded on tape, which is how first the independent local church and later the Mission Center came into being. On April 2, 1962, I received my calling by the audible voice of the Lord, which Brother Branham confirmed by divine revelation on December 3, 1962, and he also gave me corresponding instructions.
In 1964 I made my first missionary trip to India and visited Jerusalem on the way back. Beginning in 1966, I started with missionary trips to our neighboring countries and later also worldwide. Through the 20-minute sermons on Radio Luxembourg that I held every Sunday morning from 1967 to 1978, I reached many people in German-speaking countries and was able to invite them to meetings in the various cities. Many believers still felt the impact of the blessed meetings they had experienced with Brother Branham. The halls were filled in all of the cities in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. Those were richly blessed years in the Kingdom of God.
The two photos from 1976, one from Zurich, Switzerland, and the other from Heilbronn, Germany, show that God gave His blessings for the proclamation of His Word.
In 1979, as was the case with Eve in paradise, the enemy succeeded in spreading doubts by asking, “Did the Lord really speak to him?” Thus the commission was called into question, and it almost led to the destruction of the local church. But the Lord God manifested the victory of Calvary; the elect did not fall prey to the deception, and the ministry could continue, even until now.
For the year 2020, I felt led not to plan any missionary trip. As we have all noticed, it would not have even been possible due to the Coronavirus pandemic. For the same reason, we cannot have any international meetings at the Mission Center in Krefeld at the moment. We are very grateful to God that we have been able to serve thousands of believers from all over the world with the Word of God in the local chapel since 1974. What the Lord commanded me has been fulfilled: “Gather me the people together, that they may hear my Words.”
Just as God has provided for the storing and distribution of the spiritual food, He has also made sure that the final message of the calling-out and restoration can from now on be heard online. God willing, I will be holding a sermon on the last Sunday of every month, also known as Zurich Sunday, at 10:00 a.m. from now on instead of at 2:00 p.m., at the same time of day as on the first Sunday of each month in Krefeld, and both will be broadcast via the Internet and translated simultaneously into various languages and can be heard on the well-known channels worldwide.
In addition, we are now broadcasting sermons from the 1980s every Wednesday and Saturday evening as well as Sunday morning at the usual times (Central European Time). They are also translated into the various languages so that believers and even entire congregations across the globe can connect and listen online.
The ministering brethren will continue to hold local meetings where possible. Wherever the believers are gathered on earth in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Lord is present among them (Mat 18:20). Please take it to heart and believe it. The time has now come when the true believers, wherever they are on earth, unite in prayer so that the Lord God can bring about the perfection in the Redeemed and the preparation of the Bride Church everywhere.
All of those who now believe the revealed Word belong to the wise virgins and experience the final preparation as the Bride Church, for thus it is written: “… and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.” (Mat 25:10). The Scripture from Rev 19:7 belongs to this as well: “… and his wife (bride) hath made herself ready.” She has perfect redemption through the blood of the Lamb (Mat 26:28), perfect sanctification through God’s Word (Jn 17:17), and is sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of her bodily redemption according to the Word in Eph 1:13: “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise …”
I look back on the many years and am grateful that the Lord has repeatedly spoken to me and given me instructions. He has done great things in millions of people and brought them back to the true faith. Like Simeon back then (Lk 2:29), I can say with a clear conscience, “Lord, now you let your servant depart in peace, for my eyes have seen that all the peoples upon the earth have heard the original message that foreruns the second coming of Christ.”
For the coming year, we expect a true year of jubilee, which our Lord proclaimed in Luke 4, in which everyone will regain their God-given possessions: “… and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.” (Lev 25:10b).
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” (Rom 8:28-30).
Remember me and all the ministering brethren in your prayers.
In His service,
Bro. Frank
God willing and by His grace, I will be holding sermons that will be broadcast live on
• the first Sunday of each month at 10:00 a.m.
• the last Sunday of every month, the so-called Zurich
Sunday, at 10:00 a.m. instead of at 2:00 p.m.
Regular online transmission of services is as follows:
• every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
• every Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
• every Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
The sermons broadcast via the Internet have become a great blessing for many people and can now also be heard in various languages.
All transmissions can be accessed on our home page:
www.freie-volksmission.de under Broadcasts and Downloads
as well as on our YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/user/FreieVolksmission.
Mission Center
P.O. Box 100707
47707 Krefeld
Germany
Email: volksmission@gmx.de
© by the author and publisher E. Frank