History of Global Grace Mission

Beginnings and Foundations

My first thoughts about serving God came right on the heels of my salvation on October 3, 1970.  I surrendered my whole life to Jesus and confessed Him as my absolute Lord and Savior! I prayed earnestly that day, “You are now Lord of my life. You are my boss now. So Lord, what do you want me to do?”  Jesus answered me, “I want you to preach the Gospel for me. I want you to be my missionary!”

In 1972, I joined Christian Missionary Fellowship in Colorado and attended their Bible school. I spent a lot of time studying the Bible and memorizing many verses. I began to really understand the Great Co-MIssion that Jesus gave us in Matthew 28:18-20.  I was an avid witness for Christ and I made a short, weekly radio program for the local college radio station. On occasion, I helped lead worship at the Fellowship’s  church, Mercy Chapel. I met Gretchen there and married her in 1973!

Early Ministry

In  1977, we moved to Greeley, Colorado, where I shared the Gospel with local University of Northern Colorado students.  I started a Bible study in our apartment which met Sunday mornings with 2 college students I had led to the Lord. I didn’t know it at the time that this was my first house church! In Greeley, we met a man named Harry Spykerman from South Africa who was the first apostle I had met personally. I knew that Paul, the church planter, was an apostle. This would be a significant revelation to me later on.

One weekend, Gretchen and I were driving to see our parents in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and I turned to Gretchen and said, “I think I’m more of an evangelist than a pastor.”  The Lord broke into my thoughts right then and said unequivocally, “You are a church planter!”  I was excited because I knew that Paul was an evangelist, a pastor, an apostle and a church planter. I didn’t have to choose between pastor or evangelist.  I joked with Gretchen, “Where do I get church seeds?”

In 1979, we moved to Cheyenne, where I became an associate pastor in a local church.  I was getting more comfortable preaching in the pulpit and many people were blessed. I officially began my own ministry on my 30th birthday, July 20, 1979.  Jesus had begun His ministry when He turned 30.  In 1981, another move took us to Wheatland, Wyoming, to help a small church plant from our Cheyenne church.  So our 2nd house church came into being in Wheatland, in our living room and remodeled garage. I led worship and helped people find freedom in the Holy Spirit.

Abundant Life Tabernacle

New Horizons and Mentors

We moved back to Cheyenne and began traveling to Greeley to Faith Ministries, a church started by Dave Duell. I had seen him ministering on campus when we lived there before. I took my first mission trip with Dave and his team in July, 1983,  to the island nation of Haiti. I became totally hooked on missions.  Ministering in Haiti was very exciting. We held our nightly meetings in the giant soccer stadium in the capital, Port Au Prince. People packed the soccer stadium to hear Dave preach and see God do wonders. The witch doctors were not happy with us and tried to drown out our meeting playing loud music outside the stadium on their electric guitars. All the people inside the stadium began to worship so loudly that we drowned out those voodoo guitars. I made a second trip to Haiti with Dave in February, 1984.  I saw God move in so many miraculous ways there. The team saw food multiplied, and healings of deafness, blindness, and other physical problems.

Dave Duell

Back in the US, I met a pastor from South Africa named Harry Spykerman. He and his wife Dorothy were evangelizing, planting churches, and running Bible schools in their homeland. They came to the USA  as missionaries to reach the lost here. Harry was the first apostle I had ever met.  Our family started meeting on Sunday afternoons with Harry and Dorothy. He affirmed my calling as a church planting apostle. He was a wonderful mentor and such an encouragement to me.

Harry Spykerman

Still in Wyoming, we moved to a very small town of 128 people. I did circuit preaching in 7 home fellowships in SE Wyoming and SW Nebraska from 1985 through 1993. We also held several public meetings. After one meeting in Laramie, WY, we went to hear Andrew Wommack, who was also having a meeting in town. He took us to lunch and that was the beginning of a wonderful relationship! It was during this period of time that the Lord told me I was called to be a church planting apostle.

Andrew Wommack

In Wyoming, I spent many hours walking the empty country roads talking to my Father about ministry.

At about this same time, the Lord told me to start writing down the revelation knowledge that He was giving me. That is when I realized that much of my ministry would be writing. I began to write teaching articles which I called “Selah! Think About it!”  

Stretching Out Farther

In 1994, God sent me to Bible school again. I was in the charter class of Andrew Wommack’s Colorado Bible College, which became Charis Bible College when it outgrew Colorado. I learned concepts there about the authority of the believer, the overwhelming, totally amazing Grace of God, how to balance grace and faith, and many other concepts that are not taught in most churches. I also had opportunities to preach at my alma mater, Charis Bible College.

Errol preaching at CBC 2008

While I was in the school, the Lord commissioned me to plant simple churches throughout the world. I asked the Lord how I could possibly plant thousands of new churches around the world being only one man. Immediately I heard the words, “Take Twelve!” Those two words just exploded  in my born again spirit!  I said, “That is what you did, Lord. You replicated yourself in your 12 disciples. That is what I am now going to do too.” I asked Him how to find my Take Twelve! disciples. The Lord told me He would show me who they are. We “coincidentally” received a house church magazine a short time later about a man in Bogota, Columbia, who was doing the exact same thing.  The Lord had also told him to take twelve men and disciple them, replicating himself.

 It was at this time that the vision for Global Church Planting Mission was born. In 1997, a year after I graduated from the 2 year program, I was ordained by Andrew Wommack and other godly men.

More House Churches

We continued to teach the Word in our community, and started our 3rd house church in 2000. We had 3 families in our little church and about 5 of the people were musically inclined. Some of them were just learning.  One of the beauties of house church is that we can have them all playing for worship. Those who are strong can carry the learners. Errol is very good at raising up worship leaders in the house churches.

Errol’s book, Simple House Churches   Gretchen’s article, Why I Love House Church!

Wyoming house church worship with John Willert

We moved back to Colorado Springs in 2004 to renew our relationship with Andrew Wommack and Charis Bible College. We had a house church in our home but also helped 2 other house churches along the way. One of those house churches was so fulfilling that we often made a day of it, talking, eating, and laughing.

Laughter

In 2008, we dedicated our home to serving the Lord. We had called it the Priscilla & Aquila house. We held neighborhood barbecues to get to know people. A couple we came to know during this period of time, Mike & Alison wanted to start their own house church. They visited with us for a few months and then struck out on their own.

Food & fellowship at Mike and Ali’s house church

Radio

The year 2010 turned out to be a big year. I started my radio show, Grace and Truth, on the largest Christian station in the US. Because there are the same number of chapters in the New Testament as there are weekdays in a year, I purposed to teach one chapter a day. I broke the chapters down into a few Big Ideas. My show was well received, but unfortunately not well supported. These radio programs will be available to listen to here on the website in the future.

I was writing more and more and my friend John from CBC, who is also hosting this new website, helped me get my first website up and running. From that point on, everything changed. I began to get many requests from overseas pastors for my materials, which I sent them at no cost to them. I was unsure how to sort out the sincere seekers from the scammers. I have had to trust the Lord for wisdom in that. We had a few bumps in the road, but most of the men are wonderful, godly men.

Vision Becoming Reality

Currently, most of my Take Twelve! disciples live in Africa and Asia. I have been discipling and mentoring some of them since 2012. They have become beloved brothers in the Lord, many of them call me Dad. During those years, they have translated my testimony booklet, Heaven, Here I Come! into 10 foreign languages. We had them printed and our disciples have distributed over 10,000 of them free of charge! They have also translated my 2 other booklets link for distribution.

Samuel’s night crusade – giving away Errol’s Heaven, Here I Come book

At this writing, we also have 6 children’s homes for orphans in 4 nations. We have about 218 children that we help to feed, house, clothe, and educate. Most of our homes are called God’s Mercy Children’s Homes.

God’s Mercy Children’s Home – Uganda

Our largest orphanage

We have developed 6 Bible schools, which we call Freedom Bible Academy, in 5 foreign nations. Our mission is primarily a teaching and training mission, training my disciples to train our Bible college students to evangelize and disciple people back in their own villages and towns. We also train them to plant churches in their own homes using the the Take Twelve! principle in action, as we are taught in 2 Timothy 2:2!

 Freedom Bible Academy graduation – N India

More excitement awaited me in 2013 & 2014. I went on 2 mission trips to Kathmandu, Nepal to meet in person my Take Twelve! disciple Bhim (pronounced Beem) Darnal. I have been able to help him in his ministry and I got to meet the orphans that we help to support in his Faith Children’s Home of Nepal. I fell in love with them and they fell in love with me, calling me Papa. When the Nepal earthquake happened, Andrew Wommack’s ministry and our supporters joined with us in sending food and supplies to Bhim to distribute freely.

The Nepali orphans with Papa

Looking Ahead

In 2019, we relocated to and are now based in Montana. Our ministry, now renamed Global Grace Mission, is basically carried out through the internet using letters, email, social media and recently videos. Thus we were able to move to a beautiful area very close to 5 of our grandchildren without any major ministry implications. We love it here. We really miss our Colorado Springs house church, but it is dedicated to God and thriving.

Montana

Through all the years of God growing our ministry, there have always been individuals that we ministered to personally. There were salvations, growth, and financial aid. Some of these individuals lived with us in our home for a period of time.

It is the purpose of this mission to evangelize and disciple the nations through Saturation Church Planting using Jesus’ own method of taking 12 disciples. What God has called me to do is much bigger than I am, but I know that I am serving an even bigger God! Our history is still being written and will continue to be written for as many years as God leaves us on the planet. Our desire is to bring as many people with us to heaven as we possibly can!

Dreamers