The life And Ministry of Evangelist Morris Cerullo, The Revivalist

Morris Cerullo (October 2, 1931 – July 10, 2020)

 was an American Pentecostal evangelist. He traveled extensively around the world for his ministry. He hosted Victory Today, a daily television program, and published more than 80 books.

  Evangelist Morris  Cerullo was born on  October 2nd , 1931 in Passaic, New Jersey, to an Italian father and a Russian Jewish mother. His parents died in an automobile accident when he was very young. He was raised in various orphanages, the last being an Orthodox Jewish orphanage in nearby Clifton, New Jersey. He converted to Christianity at age 14 with the guidance of a nurse in the Clifton, New Jersey, orphanage.

Soon after, Jewish orphanage directors restricted him from practicing certain matters of his new faith, so he ran away from the orphanage. He began preaching the gospel at the age of 16, after   seeing a vision from God, in which he witnessed people suffering torments in Hell. 

He attended and graduated from divinity school in New York state in 1953, and began ministering with the help of his then wife to be , Theresa.

In the early 1950s, he was ordained in the Assemblies of God Church. 

For many years Morris Cerullo conducted repeated "School of Ministry" in several countries like Mexico, Brazil, The Philippines, Korea, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Indonesia, Netherlands and many others. During these "SOMs" one of the days of the conferences he would preach in an open air crusade, or a large theater or arena,

and lead people in a commitment to Jesus Christ and then would pray for healings to happen in the crowd.

 He would have the school of ministry students test the genuineness of the reports from the people's testimonies. After the large mass meetings he would charge the "SOM," School Of Ministry

, students to reach out to their countrymen with the same message being inspired by the results of the public rally. Cerullo often stated that not he, but Jesus Christ was the healer. He would encourage faith in, as he would say, "the written and the living word of God "

Morris  Cerullo still travelled as a missionary, and in the 2014 World Conference, he stated that God told him that "Prophets never retire!".In 2015, at the age of 83, Cerullo toured Africa for nine days, during which time he held meetings in six African countries, preaching, holding training sessions and meeting with political leaders.He died from complications of pneumonia

on July 11, 2020 at the age of 88.