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Christians from different churches and Ed leading in a
time of prayer after he taught a Bible study in Kwidzyn,
Poland, in September 2004.
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Ed D. Kleiman
- Prayer Coordinator, Messengers of Hope
"Francis Schaeffer said, 'If we are a
community built on prayer, and we're not a praying people,
then this is the end of the world.' Well, this may not be the
end of the world but most of us can clearly see that the
church is having little impact on the culture. I believe
Francis Schaeffer was right. The presence and power of God is
not manifestly dwelling among His people, and we are not
seeing the Lord work simply because we are not asking,
seeking, and knocking in prayer (Matthew 7:7). Yet, I am
beginning to see things change! I have seen it now
countless times throughout this country, and in many other
parts of the world." (Ed Kleiman)
Ed
Kleiman, a Messianic Jew, grew up in St. Louis "worshipping
& serving the god in the mirror" as he refers to himself.
From the age of 16 to 41 he offered up daily sacrifices to
this god; of drugs, alcohol, and sexual immorality. Then he
received God's gift of eternal life by grace through faith in
Jesus Christ alone on October 23rd, 1994.
The pastor
of that church that was used to proclaim Jesus Christ and
present the power of the gospel to Ed, met to disciple him
weekly for the next 2 years and 8 months, until he was called
to pastor another church in another state. Sometime after, Ed
began attending and auditing classes at Covenant Theological
Seminary where he has continued.
 He preached for the first time on November 16th, 1997 at a retirement home. In the beginning of 1999 he began preaching at Sunshine Mission, a homeless shelter in St. Louis (shown at right). There for over the past nine years Ed has preached well over ninety times, and seen God grant new & eternal life to some of the most down-&-out, through their trust and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. In 2000, he became part of the missions organization, International Messengers out of Clear Lake, Iowa. He now serves full time with a branch of I.M. known as Messengers of Hope, with Rev. Terry Baxter.
On September 11, 2001, ten
minutes before Ed, or anyone in his office heard
about the World Trade Center, he gave notice where he worked,
saying the Lord had opened so many doors of ministry that he
believed He was moving him on. Ed needed to pursue full-time
the ministry God had already given him: calling His people to
once again humble themselves and pray; and say why it was so
important to do now! The Lord will raise up people to get us
to no longer trust in ourselves but in Him alone (2
Corinthians 1:9).
In 2002, Ed ministered in 15
different churches in six different states and two different
countries, leading prayer initiatives and teaching on prayer.
Twice a year he teaches in Libby, Montana at the Training
Center for International Messengers and in that year alone he
taught 20 different missionaries before they went to places in
Poland, Hungary, Romania, the United States, Germany,
Slovakia, and the Ukraine.
God has been using Ed, and
Messengers of Hope as a catalyst to bring revival and
awakening to churches and communities across North America.
Like all great historical revivals in the past, prayer
continues to be the crucial, and still often missing element.
 The photo at the right shows Ed speaking to the
missionaries at International Messengers Staff Conference in
the fall of 2003 in Zakopane, Poland. Ed went on to teach and
minister in several other cities in Poland, Romania, Hungary,
and Slovakia.
In 2004 Ed ministered in nine different cities throughout Poland and spent a week teaching nationals who were the new missionary students at the new Missions School in Odessa, Ukraine. In 2005 he did his first Men's Conference in Romania. He has already done his second one there in the early part of 2006 and plans are underway to return to teach, preach, and minister in a number of different upcoming places.
Please continue to pray for this important ongoing
work! The Lord has used it to also rekindle a passion for
Jesus Christ in many churches throughout the United States as well,
and it is only the beginning.
Ed Kleiman believes in
prevailing prayer because he has been transformed by the power
of prayer. Less than two weeks before he placed his trust in
and prayed to receive Christ as his Lord & Savior, his
friend who invited him to church told the pastor during a
meeting he felt his friend (Ed) was "ripe" or ready. The
pastor stopped the meeting and prayed for Ed's salvation and
for God to grant him eternal life, and within two weeks God
answered that prayer.
Since that time Ed has seen God
answer prayers countless times doing the miraculous,
routinely. Ed continues to be used by God, not just because he
has a passion for prayer, but because his real passion is for
Jesus Christ, and His glory... and that shows itself in and
through prayer.
Charles Spurgeon said, "Prayer is
the slender nerve that moves the muscles of the omnipotent."
He was right!
2 Chronicles 7:14 says; "If
My people who are called by My name will humble themselves,
and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin
and heal the land."
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Men's Conference in Romania in the Spring of 2006 |
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Center for Biblical Studies
P.O. Box 32832
St. Louis, MO 63132 |
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Ed Kleiman (314)
989-1360 |
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edkleiman@afo.net |
We must at all times, in all ways, with all people, point them to Christ!
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The above photo shows Ed with a group at the end of
their one and only prayer walk, in a small village in Romania.
During that prayer walk they shared the Gospel with an older
man who came up to them saying he was drunk, one woman came to
them asking for a Bible (pictured holding looking at the
camera), and an elderly woman on two crutches also came up to
them and asked for prayer (pictured sitting on the bench), and
as they prayed, she wept. Ed went on to say; "Not bad for the
first prayer walk." |
The photo above shows Ed in Radom, Poland asking the
question to those in the only five evangelical churches in the
town; "What would this city look like if Jesus Christ made His
rule and reign over every aspect of it clearly known and
visible to all?" They then went on to begin to pray for those
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