Why Become President?

The great 19th Century preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, known as the “Prince of Preachers”, said that some of God’s servants talked of their honor of preaching the Gospel.

During a highly controversial presidential election more than 40 years ago, the wife of a young pastor friend said to my late husband, “Fred, you’re a man with integrity and compassion. Why don’t you run for the presidency?”

Fred immediately responded, “Barbara, I am honored to be God’s ambassador, pointing men and women to Jesus Christ. I would never leave that high, holy calling to become a mere president.”

Few of us are called to be the president of a nation, but we all are called by the God of the universe, to preach Christ, and Him crucified.

For more than 60 years, I have had the joy of taking the gospel to jungles in Africa, slums in Latin America, to teeming cities in Asia, and to the homeless here on America’s dangerous streets. And I cannot imagine a greater honor - - not even the honor of being the president!

I invite you to bring your pastoral team, leadership team, your adult or youth groups to Fred Jordan Mission in downtown Los Angeles. You will learn to share your faith, and you will have the opportunity to serve those whom Jesus called, “the least of these.”

Come to the Mission and serve for a day. Stay in our dorms for a weekend, or for a week. We want to help YOU answer God’s Great Commission as well as His Great Commandment!

Blessings,

Willie L. Jordan

(Mrs. Fred Jordan)