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Dr. Michael D. Evans is a #1 New York Times Bestselling author, award-winning journalist, commentator, minister, and the head of several prominent international non-profit organizations in the U.S., Netherlands, and Israel. As a Middle East analyst and award-winning journalist, Mike Evans provides commentary on Middle East affairs for a variety of media. He has appeared on many network television and radio shows. Mike Evans was an advisor to Prime Minister Menachem Begin and recommended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his first political position. Evans is a member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. For more than three decades he has covered strategic events worldwide. He serves as the Executive Director of The Corrie ten Boom Fellowship, as well as Chairman of the Board the Corrie ten Boom Foundation in Ha’arlem, Holland, which operates the ten Boom Holocaust Museum. He also founded The Jerusalem Prayer Team with a reunified Jerusalem’s second mayor, Ehud Olmert. It is a direct outreach of the Corrie ten Boom Fellowship, which most recently funded the Mike Evans Museum in Jerusalem, officially called the Friends of Zion Heritage Center. He founded Churches United with Israel, Inc., the Middle East Media Group, the Evans Institute of Middle East Studies, The Jerusalem World News. Mike Evans is a Christian Zionist who with Prime Minister Menachem Begin was one of the founders of the present movement. Check-out his books at http://www.timeworthybooks.com Specialties: journalism, commentary, documentary production, public speaking, writing
Dr. Evans began the Jerusalem Prayer Team in 2002 to unite people in intercessory prayer for Israel and to develop a platform from which to speak out to world leaders at UN conferences, peace summits, etc., on behalf of Israel. From that platform Dr. Evans has met with over 52 leaders of nations, including foreign ministers, ambassadors, prime ministers and kings. He has worked closely with Israel’s prime ministers for three decades. The Prayer Team also raises funds to meet humanitarian needs of the Jewish people in Israel by providing coats, blankets and home repairs for those in need. The ministry has a website that includes articles about the people of Israel, the problems being faced by her leaders and other pertinent topics. Members are also invited to post their prayers for Israel and the Jewish people on “prayer walls” that are actually web pages with hundreds of prayers uploaded by people all over the world. The prayer walls are open to all—not just members of the prayer team. More than 300 national Christian leaders, including Pat Robertson, Tim LaHaye, Joel Olsteen, John Maxwell, and Anne Graham Lotz are supporters of the Jerusalem Prayer Team. It receives no funding from the State of Israel and its official statement says it “believes that God loves Arabs in the Bible as much as the Jews.”
Mike Evans has produced 18 documentaries based on his books about Israel—many of which have won him Excellence in Media (EIM) Angel Awards. EIM is a California-based 501(c) 3 non-profit organization describing itself as “dedicated to quality family-oriented programming in all facets of communication.” Others who have received EIM Angel Awards include Tom Hanks, Tom Poston, Jane Seymour, Red Buttons and many other notable celebrities. His best-known production, Let My People Go, written in 1988, which spotlighted Natan Sharansky, who was convicted of spying for the U.S. and imprisoned for nine years in a Soviet Concentration Camp known as the Gulag, where physical and mental torture, as well as sexual abuse, occurred on a regular basis. Evans joined with other activists, including Sharansky’s wife, Avital, with assistance from East German lawyer Wolfgang Vogel, New York Congressman Benjamin Gilman and rabbi Ronald Greenwald, asking President Ronald Reagan for Mr. Sharansky’s release as well as the release of nearly 400 Jewish prisoners from President Mikhail Gorbachev. Sharansky was the first political prisoner ever released by Mikhail Gorbachev due to intense political pressure from Ronald Reagan and his administration. Mike Evans also worked with a Dutch government official to encourage the opening of the doors of the Dutch Embassy in Moscow to the Jews of Russia.
The Corrie ten Boom Fellowship is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation governed by the board of directors. It gains no direct or indirect funding from the State of Israel, nor do any of Dr. Evans’ organizations. The museum is housed in the former home of Casper ten Boom and is dedicated to telling the story of his family which harbored, fed and found safe houses for as many as 800 Jews during the Nazi takeover of Holland during World War II. Ten Boom family members were eventually betrayed by informants and were sent to concentration camps where most died, except Corrie ten Boom, who went on to tell the story of the family’s work with the Resistance movement. Her autobiographical book, The Hiding Place, was published in 1971 and made into a full-length feature film of the same name in 1975 and starred Jeannette Clift and Julie Harris. Upon purchasing and restoring the house, Dr. Evans created the Corrie ten Boom Fellowship, an organization that follows in the tradition of the ten Boom family by continuing to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. The Fellowship also encourages Christians to exercise their faith by helping the Jewish people, praying for them and for the peace of Jerusalem in accord with the scriptural mandate in Psalm 122:6.