It’s a boy! Well, he is not here yet but due to modern technology (which has nothing to do with evolution) Eric and Tanya Hovind discovered yesterday that child #3 for them is a boy. After having two wonderful girls, Stephanie, soon to be 4 and Angie age 2 ½ this was exciting news for Eric and Tanya. This one will bring the total to 5 grandkids for Jo and I. All live within 100 yards and come see “grandpa” and “granny Jo” every day. What a joy! We enjoyed raising our three but this grandpa stuff is much better!

Dinosaur Adventure Land continues to have visitors every day even with school starting back last week. Our DAL home school classes begin in a few weeks so stop by the bookstore and sign up if you want to come.

Construction and remodeling will begin in a few weeks on “Camp Creation” in Ellisville, Mississippi. Call Dan Vallis, 850-479-3466 ext. 123 if you want to help. He will need painters, framers, finish carpenters, yard workers, trail blazers to clear nature trails and general grunt workers anytime over the next few months. Bring your family and stay in the dorms for a few days if you like.

Other news, the court date over the IRS battle has been moved to Oct. 17 now so keep praying please. Costs of defending ourselves against these bogus charges have been astronomical! Thank you to those who have donated to the “legal defense fund.” You can call in a credit card donation or donate on line.

Eric continues to travel and preach but nearly all my September meetings have been cancelled so if you know of any church, school or group in northern Florida that would be interested in having a creation seminar on short notice please call Marlissa at ext. 113. I must confess though that after traveling hard for 17 years the stay at home break has been great! I am getting things done on the honey do list and seeing more of my wife and family than I have in a long time.

The CSE 101-104 series has been, and continues to be, a blessing to thousands since it was taped in 1999 but now, after months of delay and technical problems, college class CS 201 is finally nearing completion. This new series has much more information to help those wanting to be better prepared to defend their faith against those who believe in evolution. Watch the web site for scores of other new products as well.

We also need a full time web master to come join the ministry team.  Call Glenda at ext 110 for an application.

All for now,

Kent Hovind

The time left to serve the Lord is growing short!  It is time to pull out the stops and give our all for Christ’s kingdom!

In Christ,

Kent Hovind

Trial by media

As most of the world now seems to know, due to the planned media blitz by the IRS, my wife and I were arrested 12 days ago in a highly publicized raid on the church ministry. The three “charges” against my wife and I are ludicrous as will be shown in the next few weeks but I have been advised by counsel not to discuss the case openly yet. There are, however, several things the world needs to know before rushing to judgment, condemning me as an evildoer or lawbreaker.

People who love truth need to know that the IRS has gone through other grand juries that saw the facts and refused to indict me so the IRS called a “secret” (I think the IRS calls it a ‘special’) grand jury just to get me. No witnesses were called for our side. Even when they got the “indictment” notice the IRS did not simply call me to come in or send a $.37 letter. No, they brought in a swat team to drag my sick wife out of bed and handcuffed her in her nightgown. They refused to let her get dressed, put on a robe or even go to the bathroom even though she begged for these simple courtesies. The agents rushed her and I into a squad car then into a freezing cell for 3 hrs! The fact that judges and local sheriffs and even juries blindly assist the IRS in breaking the law is no marvel since they fear the IRS’s Gestapo style tactics as well.

Since this is an active case, I cannot discuss it openly (even though I would love to share the truth and clear my name- that will come in the next few weeks) there are a few simple observations that should be made. It is great to know that God knows all and will protect and provide for His own! If He allows His children to suffer wrongfully or go to jail, like Joseph in Gen. 37, or even be killed, like millions of Christians over the centuries, it is great to know the final chapter of the Bible. I read it and we win!

If the charges are dropped or we win in court, will the media publish that? I have said for years that people who love God should cancel their subscription to the liberal paper and support missionaries with the money. Will the pastors and other Christians who have spread malicious rumors about me repent, apologize and undo the damages? Read James 3:5-8! Will God be angry with them as He was with Job’s “friends?” “My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.” Job 42:7. Will they send gifts like Jobs friends in verse 8 to the ministry to help repair the damage their unfounded gossip has done?

A few facts to consider about the IRS raid on our church on 7-13-06

1. We are still going strong. The daily radio program continues to attract more listeners and Dinosaur Adventure Land is still flooded with visitors.
2. There is a long standing joke that any attorney could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich!
3. People get accused of things all the time, that doesn’t mean anything.
4. The church ministry and my wife and I obey all laws about taxes as far as I can tell and that is what many lawyers and tax professionals who have examined our ministry have told me.
5. Everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty; except by the IRS and some Christians.
6. The IRS has taken all the church ministry donations for the year and called it Kent Hovind’s personal income. This is silly. Any church with 30+ staff will need a large operating budget. That does not mean it all belongs to the pastor as personal income!
7. To charge a bookkeeper with wrongdoing for simply withdrawing money to pay normal ministry bills is silly.
8. People who already know my wife and I well, will know we love God and his work and will not believe the liberal media.
9. People who hate me because of my message exposing their stupid evolution religion will gloat over the IRS raid and assume I am guilty no matter what the truth is.
10. It is interesting to me to see the atheists that could never stand up to me in a debate on the evolution topic are yelling the loudest over these unproven charges. I think they are cowards!
11. I have said many times, “If you are taking lots of flack that proves you are over the target!” This recent flack just proves we are right on target in the message on creation and just strengthens my resolve to keep preaching.
12. My philosophy of not wasting much time on critics, anti-Hovind web sites (or false charges) stems from the parable of the sower in Mt. 13 and Lk 8. The sower did not waste time shoeing the birds away. He just kept planting. While the birds eat 10 he can plant 1,000. Don’t waste time on the critics. God will be the final Judge!”
13. 99.9999% of the world does not know or care about what happened so keep winning souls, don’t spread gossip or bear false witness against a brother and forget the birds.
14. Read the book of Acts and see if it is normal for Christians to be treated this way.

2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

More as I am allowed to share it later,

KH

Wanna help spread the gospel and earn a great prize at the same time?

Last year a friend of the ministry donated an awesome motor home to the ministry for us to travel to meetings in. (There are 12 of us in it now as we travel home from preaching in Peoria) We have really enjoyed traveling to meetings and being able to take family or staff with us but…… the bus paint job seems a little plain and does not advertise for the Lord or our ministry as we travel so…. We are looking for a cool paint scheme idea.

If you have artistic talents or just good ideas, you can help. We would like the design to be bright, crisp, sharp, jump out and grab your attention, involve all four sides of the bus yet each needs to “stand alone”, and include a creation theme with dinosaurs and/or Noah’s ark and people, modern or biblical type dress, interacting together, our DAL logo and our web site. We are not 60’s Hippies but still love bright colors. One option is to use the existing paint job as a base and have sections where it looks like it is being ripped open to reveal the scenes. This bus will be a rolling evangelistic billboard as we travel as well as while parked in front of DAL in Pensacola.
Click here to see a few ideas, some sample clip art and the size of the bus.

To win the prize your design ideas must be submitted in electronic format in a way that is able to be used without being redesigned by us. We would like to be able to separate components of the pictures as well. Contact Dan Valles in our art department for details.

The winning design will receive a complete set of our DVD’s (Seminar, Debates and Topical-$350 value) plus a lifetime pass to DAL for the entire family! (a priceless value) Design ideas will be posted on our web site for everyone to vote on and final judging will be August 4th.

Even if you don’t have real artistic talent your rough ideas sketched out would be welcome.

I’m sorry it has been a while since I gave an update. It’s been busy and hot here! DAL is overrun with visitors this summer. My travel has been hectic as well. We have had many guests on our radio program the last two months. If you ever get CD’s of our radio programs, May and June would be ones you should not miss! Many of these guests have written books or produced DVD’s available on our web site.

Here is who we had so far: (big breath…) Chris Pinto of Adullam Films and creator of the awesome Megeddo DVD series, Ray Comfort of Living Waters Publications and author of evangelism books, Brian Young of Creation Instruction Association and author of several books on our web site, Dr. Jobe Martin of Biblical Discipleship Ministries and creator of the three part Incredible Creature That Defy Evolution series, Frances Clements of Soul Seeds Productions producer of great creation videos for preschoolers on our web site, Bill Sardi of Knowledge of Health.com and author of several books on Health available our web site, Dr. Dennis Swift of The Dinosaur Institute and author of the great new book Secrets of the Ica Stones on our web site, David Daniels of Chick Publications and author of Did the Catholic Church Give us our Bible?, Vance Ferrell, author of Evolution Cruncher(now Evolution Handbook), Russ & Jan Allen of Lightbugs Publishing, Jake Macaulay of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Ministries, Paul Abramson of Creationism.org, Dr. Robert Gentry of Earth Science Associates and author of Creation’s Tiny Mystery, Don Richardson of World Team Missions and author of Peace Child, Bruce Malone of Search for the Truth Ministries and author of several great creation books, Dr. Chuck Missler of Koinonia House and author of many books and DVD’s defending the Bible, Dennis Petersen of Creation Resource Publications and author of Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation, Dr. Jack Cuozzo author of Buried Alive, and Dr. John Morris of the Institute for Creation Research and prolific writer of creation based books.

More great guests to follow in July. I have been in Peoria for several days but Robert Sagor did a great job with the radio program. I should be on the air live July 6^th.

August 8-23 my son Eric and I will be going to South Africa where the hosts have scheduled 6 debates and scores of speaking engagements all over the country.

Oct 31- Nov 9 is the Creation Cruise to Israel, Egypt, Turkey and Greece. There will be a creation evolution debate on the cruise ship as well.

That’s it for now.

Kent Hovind

The county battle is still going but the judge has not yet reversed his order so we are set up in tents and going on with our calling to serve God. Come visit!

Kent Hovind

I enjoyed the new newsletter and will keep an eye out for a camp site. I’m sorry to hear about your son-in-law. I had an idea about what you should do about the county permit problem. Since the county doesn’t seem to understand the history of the church-state relationship nor do they seem willing to accommodate the sincere convictions of the church I suggest that you get the permits under duress. This shows they are breaking the law several ways. This will give you plenty to get them on after you get the instant problem solved. It is illegal to obtain a signature under duress yet they have the guns and won’t hesitate to use them. Proceeding under duress preserves your right to sue them for this clear violation of their limited jurisdiction.

While you are going through their process you can continue the legal process all the way to the Supreme Court. This will cost about $60,000 total, most of which is already spent by now in the lower courts. I will support you in this and I’m sure many more who love your ministry and freedom will support you as well. This case needs to be taken all the way since the county has broken so many laws already. I love the abatement you filed with the court. That explains the problem so well. Keep up the great work!

Richard www.richardsayshome.com

www.drdino.com and www.dinosauradventureland.com

850-479-3466 (CSE) and 850-478-3466 (DAL)

May, 2006

Dear friends of Creation Science Evangelism (as well as a few enemies, scoffers, atheists, skeptics, lunatics and assorted bad guys that are on this mailing list for a variety of reasons),

Greetings in the name of the Great Creator of the universe!

Quick News and Reviews

After a 3 ½ year battle with cancer, Paul Jewell, my son-in-law, went home to be with the Lord on March 30 just a few weeks after his 30^th birthday.  He had been sent home from the hospital the day before and was sooooo glad to be out of the hospital!  We set up a hospital bed in our spare bedroom and he spent the night at my house one final time.  At 6:15 the next morning Paul’s dad and I went in to relieve my wife and daughter.  They had been taking shifts trying to make Paul comfortable.  As Paul’s dad and I were holding Paul and meeting his needs I was reading Acts 7 out loud.  At 7:15, just as I finished reading, “And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.” Paul also fell asleep for the final time.  It was such a peaceful passing!

Paul’s dad is a pastor in the Jacksonville, FL area.  Paul gave up a great paying job with Wal Mart distribution to join our ministry team.  He ran our shipping and receiving department for years.  He was the perfect man for my only daughter and we will certainly miss him.  He and Marlissa sang specials in church often and Paul was often a key figure in dramas and plays at church as well.  The kids all loved him!  Their wedding has been played nearly 20 times on America’s Funniest Home Videos.  I did the ceremony and had my cell phone ring at the end.  It was the Lord calling to say, “what God hath joined together let no man put asunder.  Paul, you may kiss your bride.”  The startled/disgusted/shocked look on Marlissa’s face was classic!  You can see the clip on our Seminar part 1.  It does make me a little jealous that Paul got to see Jesus first but I’ll get my turn some day.

Please keep Marlissa in your prayers.  The funeral was April 2 at Marcus Point Baptist Church where Paul and Marlissa sang in the praise team.  The funeral was very moving and many have already been saved due to Paul’s testimony.  DVD’s of the funeral are available and the entire story is on our new blog site www.cseblogs.com as well as things you can do to help out.  There is a fund called Adopt-A-Jewell to help couples adopt children in Paul’s honor.

Bible Lands Cruise Oct 31-Nov 9

Have you ever wanted to tour the Bible Lands?  Here is your chance of a lifetime.  We are combining a 10 day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Greece with a creation conference.  This will be golden opportunity to see scores of things talked about in the Bible, have a ball on a first class cruise ship and study God’s creation in detail.  Costs range from $2200 to $3500 depending upon how fancy a room you want on the ship.  This would be a great time for a second honeymoon (or third or fourth… any excuse will do).  Call our office for a brochure or to get more details.

Meetings

The last six universities I have spoken at could not find even one professor willing to debate for the evolution side.  They seem to only be brave enough to push evolution off on students where they have an obvious academic and psychological advantage, but since they cannot fail me, fire me, cut my paycheck or intimidate me, they run and hide!  We are praying for opportunities to get into more universities this year.  Please check with Christian clubs on campus to schedule a creation lecture so the students can hear the truth.

There are still a few openings this year for both my son Eric and myself to book creation seminars. If your church or group is interested please call the office right away.

Creation Camp

Our Pensacola Dinosaur Adventure Land has had thousands of visitors from all over the world and is still growing.  We get a steady supply of interesting artifacts from people and we add new attractions often.  However, we are looking for property now to start a second DAL that includes overnight camping and space for our Creation Boot Camp.  If you know of any church or scout type camps that may be available please let us know ASAP.

There are several properties in Mississippi we are looking at and if God leads and provides we will be asking for help to get started.  We are open to any location but the Southeast, close to where we are is our preference.

When we find suitable property (this year we hope) we will need lots of rocks, minerals, fossils, skins and skulls of animals, science equipment and museum artifacts.  If you have any interesting artifacts gathering dust in a closet, why not get them out on display for the cause of Christ?  We have three types of things in our museum: things we bought, things given to us on loan and things donated.  We don’t care how they come.  We just want to use science to glorify God and bring souls into His kingdom.

Truth Radio

After nearly three years of doing our “Creation Science Hour and a half” it is hard to believe that there are still atheists and evolutionists out there, but, from the calls and letters we get daily it looks as if we have job security for centuries to come.  Tell all your atheist friends or just those with legitimate questions about the Bible or creation to call in.

Every day we start off the program by saying, “We believe the Bible is literally true and scientifically accurate and the evolution theory being taught in our schools is the dumbest and most dangerous religion in the history of planet earth.”  That usually lights up the phone lines!  Anyone can send questions via e-mail, snail mail or AOL instant message screen name, “drdinolive.”  You can listen in on the internet (www.drdino.com or www.truthradio.com) from 4:30-6 CST or you can get a CD of an entire month of programs for just $10.  Check the web site or call the office for details.

New products

Check our web site for scores of new books and witnessing products.  The new “Think” series of creation posters is a great success and teachers love them as teaching tools.  Also, the completely redone 2005 Creation Seminar Series is 18 ½ hrs long and now contains 5 hours on 2 DVD’s just in part 7, the Q&A section!  Previous customers can get the entire new series for just $75.  Be sure to check out our new catalog for other new products as well.

New Record!

As I finished my seminar in Minnesota last month a young man and his wife came up to me and said, “Brother Hovind, your DVD’s have changed our lives!  We share them with everyone.  You said it was OK to copy them and we have!  So far we have copied and given out 12,000 of them and seen many souls saved!”  I have met many people who have copied over 100 and one who had copied 11,000 but so far, 12,000 is the record.  If you want to minister and support our ministry at the same time you can get DVD’s in bulk from us at great discounts.  Why don’t you start a creation ministry by giving away creation tapes and changing lives?  Anyone can do it!

When I began this ministry 17 years ago, I told God that there were some things about His children down here that bothered me.  He said, “Me too son!”  I said, “God, if you want me to go into evangelism there are a few conditions I would like to make. 1. I will not charge money for people to come to my seminars. 2. I will let people copy my materials. 3. I would not send out monthly letters begging for money and 4. If He did not supply the needs I would quit.”

Seventeen years later I still today marvel at how God has supplied and at the tens of thousands of lives that have been changed by people giving out copies of our simple messages on creation.  People put them in public and church libraries, on cable TV, give them out as presents and pay skeptic relatives to watch them.  Hundreds of public school teachers show them in their class.  Some atheists even give them out to friends hoping they will laugh at the “stupid Dr. Dino man.”  Several have been converted this way!  One of our supporters is a bank teller who had one of my DVD’s on the counter at the bank.  One day a huge biker saw it sitting on the counter and asked what it was.  She told him it was a video about dinosaurs and the Bible.  He said, “Can I watch it?”  Since he was 16 inches taller than her she said, “Sure!”  He invited his entire motorcycle gang over to watch it while they had a beer party and everyone loved it!  What on earth are you doing for Heaven’s sake?

Needed? (or just a wild idea)

My brother Ross was very influential in bringing me to Christ over 37 years ago.  He is now retired from public school teaching and has a new Harley-Davidson which has definitively given him a “Harleyer than thou” attitude.  (Just kidding!)  He has become consumed with Harley fever and is collecting the Harley “dip dots” (to put on his map) from dealers all over.  They cost anywhere from $0-$4.  I would like to get him one from every dealer in the world to show my appreciation to him for bringing me to the Lord.  If you have a Harley dealer near you, and our ministry has touched your life, and you would be willing to get him one, please send it to him with a letter explaining how CSE has helped you, so Ross can get a small taste of what awaits him in Glory.  I think we will all be amazed at the “ripple effect” from each of our efforts for Him. His address is Ross Hovind 19216 Springfield Rd. Groveland, IL 61535.  Thanks.

Testimonies

In response to the CSEblog post “Why can’t they just submit?” – I ask that same question of my wife… LOL. But I also ask that same question when I see Christians leaving the leadership of a godly pastor. I also ask that same question when children don’t obey their parents. Apparently, it’s all part of turning away from God’s word, and setting oneself up as a higher authority.  Our freedoms and privacy are crumbling. The collectivist nature of government and media helps in a one-world order, and nothing will be exempt from its control. I pray you have victory in this Dr. Hovind.

Mr. Hovind, Your web site is the dumbest thing I have ever seen!  How can you call science a religion?  Everyone knows the Bible has lots of mistakes and evolution is true.  You people scare me!  Get a life!  NB, NY

Dr. Hovind, I was fortunate to be able attend the Kent State University and see Dr. Hovind live for the first time! I was disappointed, but not surprised, that the KSU professors backed out at the last minute. The Doc was well prepared and carried on with a brief version of Seminar #4 “Lies in the Textbooks.” I could see the look of disgust and shock of the “science students” as they failed to provide evidence for their religious beliefs on evolution and were willingly ignorant of the facts before them that proved their beliefs to be lies. I wish I could have spent a few more minutes with Dr. Hovind, but I was afraid to interrupt while he was setting up, and I didn’t have enough time to stay after we wrapped up. So I just chickened out, shook hands and said, “I love your videos.”  Oh well, maybe next time. Until then I will be studying and working on my own creation ministry in northeast Ohio.

We will NEVER submit to anyone but God! We will stand tall and rejoice in our suffering, praising His name all the while. Amen. Jamie Emerson.

Dr. Hovind, Excellent work, well done!  So far your seminar videos have gotten my brother, who’s not a Christian, to start reconsidering all those dinosaur stories we heard as children about them living “millions and millions of years ago” (we actually went digging through our cupboards for our old dinosaur books and looked through them). He’s also realized what a joke evolution is, so I think his new dis-belief in the textbooks, may just allow him to look past his current dis-beliefs in God and Christ, and see the truth.

I’ve managed to get him to come to church with me once or twice, but last week (since starting to watch the videos), he decided to come on his own!  Keep up the great work, you’re definitely making a huge difference to the world! Thanks, and God bless, Ross

Dr. Hovind, CSE has been an incredible influence in our family. We’ve never been to the museum or DAL, but really want to sometime in the future. The DVD series has had a major impact on defining clearly our world view as Bible believing Christians not only on creation/evolution but on how we should live as Christians. I received the series as a gift last fall and have viewed each of them COUNTLESS times. The ministry has caused me to open my eyes to a lot of spiritual things and the heresies that are prevalent today in many of our churches. One of the many things that has become vivid to me after studying the material from CSE and my New Defender’s Study Bible (bye-bye NIV)is how much more God is than we can comprehend–yet he cares about the smallest things that are going on in our lives. There have been some major changes in my life in the last six months and knowing that Our Sovereign Creator is fully in control is so real and dear to me.
All of that to say–Praise God for His Sovereignty. The battle with the evil one will continue as long as we are obeying the Word. Praise God that CSE is undergoing these “battles”. Jesus WILL be glorified through this. May we all continue to pray for CSE and know that Christ is not taken by surprise by these hard times.  A Yankee Dentist

I would like to invite anyone whose life was changed by brother Hovind’s Ministry to join the battle in prayer, e-mail, letters, donations, whatever you can do to help.  My life was forever changed by the message of creation boldly proclaimed by my friend Dr. Kent Hovind.
Now is the time we can help him in any way that we are able.  Every day that DAL is closed we are missing a chance to spread the good word about creation and salvation thru our Lord Jesus Christ!  If we are truly in Gods army now is the time to mount up and ride!!  Lord Bless, Chris Jason  [We are not closed but having two buildings temporarily closed is bad- KH]

Dr. H. I’m not certain where to post this, but it is really something of which we all need to be aware. Recently, the Texas Academy of Environmental Sciences had a special guest speaker, who has also been named Distinguished Texas Scientist 2006. This guest, Dr. Eric Pianca, advocated the extermination of 90% of the Earth’s population via airborne Ebola to an enthusiastic crowd of colleagues. Here is a link of a first hand account of the speech. http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/index.html  [See our video #1 for more on population reduction plans by the NWO idiots.]

Dr. H. It’s sad when people misquote, or even selectively quote God’s Word. I was there when Mr. Whitehead [county commissioner] only quoted half of the famous “Caesar” quote; something that most – if not all – secular voices are guilty of. It deeply annoys me when people are not honest (with themselves) enough to be honest with everybody else. I pray for the ministry and for God’s guidance upon the persons in charge. JS Florida

Please pray that God will turn his heart and that he will order the county to mediation again and open the buildings. Everyone knows the issue is not health or safety. The buildings have been inspected 5 times. The only issue is control over God’s church.

We have located a camp to begin another DAL and will be traveling to see it for the 3^rd time tomorrow. If all works out we will need a bunch of money and work from those interested in seeing a Creation Camp where we can train the next generation of students to terrorize, I mean, correct the mistakes teachers bring up in public school classes across the world.

I will post a blog about the camp ASAP with a list of needs when I get back.

Kent Hovind