John Hunter was born in Liverpool in 1909. He trained as a teacher but often took the time to preach the Gospel in nearby towns, traveling the 20 or 30 miles on his bicycle. John Hunter continued his teaching career until 1960, at which time he stepped out on faith and became a missionary. Dr. Hunter wrote more than 20 books as well as adult Sunday school lessons. He traveled the world teaching and preaching in Bible Conferences until early in 1994, at which time he suffered a stroke. John Hunter went to be with the Lord in October, 2005, at the age of 96.
John Hunter
Messages Recorded Preached: February 1969 -Field Representative of Capernwray Missionary Fellowship, Kendal, England 1. The Man Who Looked Four Ways 2. Hezekiah 3. Heroes Who Fail 4. Why Build a Temple 5. New Resources For Christian Living 6. A New Walk 7. Secret To Being Healthy, Wealthy and Wise- Matt 6:35 8. A That Really Works - Romans 5 9. A New Attitude To Life 10. A New Person In Christ 11. Sent With The Same Message - Deals with the last message to the New Testament Church, "Repentance". 12. Sent With The Same Conditions - "The key to walking in Christ is His sending us, not our going... people are so busy going they don't have time to be sent." In the gospel of John we see the humanity of Christ as an example to us. The "nothingness" is key to our following Christ. 13. Sent With the same Privileges We learn about the privileges of suffering. Dr. Hunter explains how we can turn suffering into blessing. Christ was our example. He was made complete through suffering, He was brought to a new level of obedience because of that suffering. We must learn to say "thank you" for suffering. We are challenged to not always look for the easy way. 14. Leaders Who Fail 15. The Book of Rahab
Quote Repentance was a key word in Christ's ministry. "Believing isn't enough, you must repent." A strong challenge to the church to begin preaching repentance. Believing is an act of emotion whereas repentance is an act of the will. - John Hunter
Dr. John Hunter was born in Liverpool on the 8th January 1909. As a young boy he sang in the Cathedral Choir. He attended Quarry Bank High School. From there he went to Chester College to train as a teacher. He qualified in 1931, and began his career teaching at Hey Green.
John began his preaching ministry preaching the gospel in the surrounding small towns and villages. He would ride his bicycle 20 or 30 miles, in all weathers, preaching sometimes to just half a dozen people; and then cycle home again. It was a profitable ministry, not because he saw many results, but because the Lord was using it as a training ground for the future.
World War II Before the Second World War John had already joined the Auxiliary Fire Service and became a Section Officer. He also joined the RAF Voluntary Reserve. As the war began because he was in a reserved occupation he taught by day, and went out firefighting at night..
After the War Towards the end of the war he was returned to teaching in Carlisle. From there in 1945 the family moved to Wiltshire, where John became head teacher of Atworth Primary School. In 1947 the family increased as another son, Colin, was born. During the 12 years at Atworth John had opportunities to work as an evangelist throughout the summer months. Tent meetings were held in nearby towns every evening for 16 weeks. He also ran a “Coffee bar” type of meeting at the Firs Café in Bath each Sunday evening during the winter.
Later, at a meeting he was chairing in the City of Bath, John met Major W. Ian Thomas, who was the speaker on that occasion. From that initial meeting John was asked to visit Capernwray Hall, near Carnforth, a Christian conference Centre run by Major Thomas and his wife Joan. This led to the whole Hunter family being involved with Capernwray. Every school vacation the family invested all their time and effort in the work there. Christine was busy in the catering section, and John was occupied in counselling and working with teenagers.
During the 1950’s John was very involved with the Billy Graham Crusade Meetings organising coach trips to Haringey, and speaking at the meeting held in Devizes, Wilts. In February 1957 the family moved to Kendal as John was appointed the Head teacher of St. Thomas’ Primary School. In 1959, while still a school principal, he was invited to spend the 5 weeks of the summer vacation speaking at a Conference Centre at Highland Lake, New York. This was the door that opened up the Worldwide ministry that was to follow.