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- Frank_Jenner abstract "Frank Arthur "Bones" Jenner (surname often misspelled Genor) (2 November 1903 – 8 May 1977) was an English Australian evangelist whose signature approach to evangelism was to ask people on George Street, Sydney, "If you died within 24 hours, where would you be in eternity? Heaven or hell?" He was born in Southampton, Hampshire. At the age of 12, during World War I, he was sent to work aboard a training ship for misbehaving boys. While the ship was docked at a port in West Africa, he was bitten by a tsetse fly, contracted African trypanosomiasis, and suffered from narcolepsy for the rest of his life. He eventually joined the Royal Navy, but deserted in New York and joined the United States Navy. When he was 24, he deserted again, this time in Australia. There, he met Jessie Peters, whom he married in 1929.In 1937, Jenner encountered a group of men from the Glanton Exclusive Brethren who were engaging in open-air preaching, and he converted to Christianity. Jessie initially thought that he had become manic or insane, but she became a Christian later that year. They became part of the Glanton Brethren for a time, but switched to the Open Brethren in the 1940s. For 28 years, from his initial conversion until his debility from Parkinson's disease, Jenner engaged in personal evangelism, probably speaking with more than 100,000 people in total. One person who became a Christian after encountering Jenner's question was Noel Stanton, who went on to found the Jesus Army.In 1952, The Reverend Francis Dixon of Lansdowne Baptist Church in Bournemouth, England, began hearing several testimonies from people who converted to Christianity after Jenner accosted them on George Street, Sydney. The following year, Dixon met with Jenner in Australia and told him about the people he had met who had become Christians as a result of Jenner's evangelism, and Jenner, then 50 years old, cried because he had not previously known that even one of the people he had talked to had remained a Christian beyond their initial profession of faith. Jenner died from colorectal cancer in 1977. While he was alive, very few people knew of him, but after he died, tales of his evangelistic activities circulated widely, and elements of some of these stories contradicted others. In 2000, Raymond Wilson published Jenner of George Street: Sydney's Soul-Winning Sailor in an attempt to tell the story of Jenner's life accurately. Nonetheless, conflicting accounts of Jenner's life continued to propagate, including accounts from Ray Comfort and Ché Ahn in which Jenner is referred to as "Mr. Genor". In 2013, Gary Wilkinson produced and directed The Frank Jenner Question, a documentary film featuring interviews with Jenner's daughter and people who had become Christians because of Jenner's evangelism.".
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- Frank_Jenner comment "Frank Arthur "Bones" Jenner (surname often misspelled Genor) (2 November 1903 – 8 May 1977) was an English Australian evangelist whose signature approach to evangelism was to ask people on George Street, Sydney, "If you died within 24 hours, where would you be in eternity? Heaven or hell?" He was born in Southampton, Hampshire. At the age of 12, during World War I, he was sent to work aboard a training ship for misbehaving boys.".
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