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  Mikes Life Experience
Dead for Seven Minutes
What started Mike in a new life was his death in the summer of 1968. His hellish experience scared him so much that he moved out of his commune in Hollywood California, He quit drugs, smoking and anything that brought fear of death. He read the bible from 6 am till 9 pm for the next 6 months. Mike was in a life or death struggle to find peace with God. Nothing else mattered. He had tasted what eternity would be like without God's wonderfull pressence. He heard a tender voice say, "Michael, your life was in vain." After I came back from the other side, after I had seen what I had seen, and experienced what no man has ever felt, eternity without God. When I returned from the longest journey any human will travel. The things I learned, what I saw, what made me me shake constantly deep in my bones for many months. I couldn't hold a pencil I shook so badly.
After my hellish experience I felt like a blade of grass shivering in the cold wind, with nothing but eternal consequences before my eyes. A fear ran thorough me that made all of life's cares seem like distant murmurings. I had only one desire. I could only spend every day, every hour every breath on finding a way to escape that eternal future that I had barely returned from. I cancelled all my plans, my bad habits, addictions, everything, until I could find out how to make things right with my maker.
For the next 9 months I would read the bible from 6 am to 9 P.M., almost every day.
I woke from dreams of hell, and felt in total recall the eternity alone without the only source of ALL GOOD Things. For nine months I shook, no friends comfort or the events of life could get my attention. All of life was like a faint murmer at the end of a long tunnel after my experience on the other side.
My conscious mind only wanted one thing, how can I find God, how can I keep from going to that place again.....
I will soon finish this page and testamony.
Full life story to follow, before that is a brief chronology of all the events of the hard
but wonderful Christian Adventure of Mike McKerracher and his precious family.
Mike and his family were involved in the exciting pioneer end of starting over 20 different ministries
They learned the Pioneers, are fighting snakes, wild animals, getting lost in the woods, always searching for their bearings, and struggling to just stay alive on a road without a path ahead.
Lewis and Clark would smile to see the 4 lane freeways going over the spot where they trudged.
Outline Life Chronicle
Full life story to follow, before that is a brief chronology of all the events of the hard
but wonderful Christian Adventure of Mike McKerracher and his precious family.
Mike and his family were involved in the exciting pioneer end of starting over 20 different ministries.
They learned the Pioneers, are fighting snakes, wild animals, getting lost in the woods, always searching for their bearings, and struggling to just stay alive on a road without a path ahead.
Lewis and Clark would smile to see the 4 lane freeways going over the spot where they trugged.
Life Chronicle
Forward Alone
I have learned we all must step out alone before the judgement seat of Christ.
That's why He has us make all of our big steps in life, alone.
It's the way God gets us closest to Him. Before we meet again.
1. Died and went though a hellish experience. one chapter
2. Began reading bible after return to life every day for 8-10 hours a day for 9 months.
3. 5 major searching events during the desperate search for peace with God.
4. Under the Huntington Beach Pier, instead of surfing like I had planned,
I had a greater desire to read my bible. While reading the bible at the
end of the 9 month desperate search. A young man leads me in prayer to
Peace with God and His Son Jesus Christ.
5. The next morning I woke with a peace that a million sermons could not express.
I knew I had peace with God. Sitting with my bible and my bowl of beans I had an
overwhelming urge to thank God. As I prayed I felt His pressence. The pressence
of Jesus Christ. I couldn't stop thanking him. I knew, I knew He was the Son of
God. I knew I had done what pleased Him.
6. I had never met another person who had found this kind of peace. It is the kind of
thing you can't keep silent. None of the churches, no one, had told me that you
be at peace with your Maker.
7. I had only one book to describe my course, the bible. That day my missionary tour
began. I read where Peter preached in the streets, and thought, I guess thats what
I have to do, now,, start telling people. I walked over to McArthur Park.
I remember the feeling of walking toward the park, I had a firm grip on the bible, I
felt certain I was not alone, and, I knew one verse that when I prayed it brought
peace. I was prepared to share that peace with others.
8. I began preaching on a park bench. The park had become my unwilling congregation.
I had many hard experiences trying to reach a city.
I walked Wilshire Blvd encountering everyone on the sidewalk with the
fact that they could have peace with God..
Started going nightly to Hollywood Blouvard and sharing.
Preached a sermon on Hollywood to a gang of Hells Angels, and led about 50
people in a prayer of repentance on the sidewalk.
9. "No theres this other guy". One day while preaching on the bench, with my eyes
closed I felt a hand tugging on my jeans. "Hey," the voice said, "you look like
you think your the only christian on earth"?. Without taking a thought I pointed
toward Huntington Beach and said, "No, there's this other guy".
10. He took me that saturday morning to a christian businessmens radio breakfast
program. No longer alone.
Forward ?Learning God is on the Move and we must move to keep up with him I had found out God can be real to us. And that He is busy doing things on earth. God is always on the move and to serve the living we must learn to be about our "Masters Business"Covers the Brief Ministry Outline Since 1969
1. Start Hollywood Blvd Outreach, 6 nights a week we, wittness and invite people on
the streets to our Nightly Coffee House Ministry, the SALT COMPANY.
2. Love In Outreach. Our ministry team goes to every local Love in .
3. Work with Duane Peterson, Print first christian newspaper the Hollywood Free Paper. Travel to concerts schools beaches to reach everyone everywhere.
We advertized the three christian meetings we knew of. The Salt Co., Calvary
Tent Meeting, The Solid Rock Foundation. We began running into christians from a coffee house on Sunset Blvd. run by a young man named, Arthur Blesset.
4. Coffee House Ministries I worked with to help get going:
The Salt Company, on Hollywood and Vine. The Vine in LaHabra.
The Fire Escape, in Torrence. The LightHouse, Atlantic Blvd.
The Solid Rock Foundation, Redondo Beach.
5. Every Saturday morning for the first 2 years I was asked to speak on the radio at
the businesmans christian breakfast. Every saturday night I spoke at on of the
chapter meetings.
6. Drafted into the military while in the middle of full time ministry.
Was a concientious objector, felt I may be a minister, not sure.
Courtmartled in San Antonio Texas at Fort Sam Houston for holding
meetings under a tree. Preached a sermon in the courtroom and was aquitted of
all charges.
Was given buildings to help start christian coffee houses in Germany to help
get G.I.'s off drugs. We started a work in
Furth Concern. Wursburgh Base. Ansbach Base. Nurnburg.
Also helped Doug Elliot who was starting interdenominational church services
at: Erlangen, Furth, Augsburg, Ansbach, Wursburgh, and work with the
Christian Servicemens Center at Kaiserslaughtern in Germany.
7. Supernatural Call to Scotland.
9. Radio Ministry Again in California while Making Tents.
10. Part of an Ongoing Revival at Brother Groves Church. We had an ongoing revival
The church went to hand out tracts on Hollywood Blvd. Started a dynamic
Christian Coffee House that brought hundreds of barefoot, rough lived kids
into the church, many who are in the ministry today.
11. The Awesome Choice. Invited to be a full time convention speaker or,,,,,,,,,,
go to bible college,,,,,,,,,, Secret word of wisdom from my Lord,,, why leaders
fall, and successful ministers foul up.....
12. Bible (Bridle College)
Start home meeting that goes 2 years.
A summer filled with 27 miracles.
The awesome vision rekindeled.
The opening of a new life,,,,, Full Time Evangelist,,,,,
13. For the next 2 years I preachd an average of 327 sermons,
averaged over 2200 of driving every month. Was home less than 6 days a month.
Recieved less than a total of $ 11756. in offerings over the 2 years of preaching.
Thats an average of $ 17.96 per sermon. *1. (detail view in appendex at bottom)
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