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What Jesus has done in Idaho Falls - 5 more statements

  In 2021 and 2022, Todd Wood and I compiled statements of what Jesus had done in Idaho Falls from 1882 to 2022, and posted them at https://jiif140yrs.blogspot.com/2021/11/statements-1882-jesus-sent-48-year-old.html .   That list contains 221 statements followed by names, sources and supplemental information. While we haven’t added to the list since late 2022, we are would like to expand it and invite you to send us more statements. And here are a few I’ve recently come across. Statements 1977 Jesus brought His church in Idaho Falls together to worship Him in a 7-hour music festival at Tautphaus Park. 1981   Jesus began to bring Christian leaders together to establish a radio station in Idaho Falls that would broadcast Christian programming, teaching and encouraging the body of Christ and presenting the gospel to southeastern Idaho. 1984   Jesus focused the church of Idaho Falls on reaching all nations with the gospel when missionary and author Elizabeth Elliot spoke at t
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Idaho Falls - India Connections

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                                                                                   Rev. V. A. & Mariamma Thampy According to Joshua Project statistics [1] , of the world’s 7,280 unreached people groups, 2,279 reside in India.   The population of these 2,279 unreached groups in India is currently 1.35 billion, 95% of the total population of India, 40% of the population of all the world’s unreached groups, 17% of the world’s total population.[1]   An even higher percentage, 50%, of all “Frontier People Groups,” those with virtually no believers (<0.1% Christian adherents) and no known movements to Jesus, live in India. [2] So to believers who takes Jesus’ command to make disciples of all nations seriously, India is an important mission field. Idaho Falls has had numerous connections to missions in India.   In 1902, the Idaho Falls Presbyterian Church supported a missionary in the Ludhiana Mission of India. [3]   In 1914, the Baptist Young People’s Union (B.Y.P.U.) put on a pro
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Erick Kaiser – Pastor, Evangelist, Missionary, Builder and Outdoorsman

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  Over two weeks in June of 2000, 72-year-old Rev. Erick Kaiser led a group of young people on a 205-mile walk from Salmon to Idaho Falls, to raise money for an orphanage in Romania.  The Post Register’s report of their trek begins, “They battled blisters, braved the blazing sun and even ran into a couple of snakes…” [1] The money they raised went toward the construction of Idaho House, one of several houses in the City of Hope, [2] a community of orphanages in Bucharest, Romania.  Born to German immigrants, Erick Kaiser grew up of a farm in eastern Montana.  Following graduation in 1948 from North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, he married, and for the next six years he and his wife Joyce pastored a church in Glendive, Montana. [3] Then they moved to Billings, started a church that met first in their home and then in a building they constructed on neighboring property. [3] In May of 1958 the Kaisers, now with four children, moved to Idaho Falls to pastor the Central Assembly
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Rev. George D. Peacock, The Shepherd’s Dog

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  O n March 1, 1956, the whole community of Idaho Falls gathered to give the body of Rev. George Peacock a loving burial as messages arrived from all over the country. [1] “With the passing of the Reverend George Daniel Peacock, a great Missionary Era of the West is forever closed.   And his name will stand with the names of Whitman and Spaulding and Sheldon Jackson, Samuel Wishard, Henry F. Kendall and others who had energy, vision, courage; and who were driven by a Spirit not of themselves to push out the outposts and help build Christ’s Kingdom in the West.   His requiem is one with Paul’s: ‘I have fought a good fight’ – handicapped and imperfect – ‘I have fought a good fight.’ Church, on your knees to pray that you lose not the Missionary Passion such as lived in him! ”    --- Joseph I Gulick, God’s Missionary (from message delivered at Rev. Peacock’s funeral) [2] Joseph I. Gulick was Idaho Falls’ Presbyterian Church’s longest serving pastor, 36 years, and a friend of Geo
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