About Us

European American Evangelistic Crusades is a mission organization that was founded in 1972 with the intent to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a dying world.

John S. Torell was born in Sweden in 1939. As a teenager, he became the leader of a gang of young hoodlums. In his later teens, he managed a youth night club. He decided to study engineering in 1959 and shortly thereafter met Aina. They were married in 1961, and when John graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1963, they immigrated to the United States. Neither one was a Christian and they were sponsored by John’s Mormon relatives that hoped they would convert, but God had other plans.

In May of 1965 they watched a Billy Graham television special and came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. The Lord led them to a small Southern Baptist Church where they became members and were baptized in water by immersion. For the next three and a half years they were grounded in the Bible, taught Sunday school classes, learned about visitation and general church administration. God called John and Aina into full time ministry on April 16, 1967. John received his Masters of Divinity Degree from Golden Gate Seminary in 1973. They each experienced the infilling of the Holy Spirit, John, after attending a Full Gospel Business Men’s Meeting.

While still in seminary, John and Aina took an evangelistic crusade team to Europe, with particular emphasis on the Scandinavian countries of Sweden and Finland. During the next twelve years, eight preaching trips were made. God commissioned John to write a series of Bible study books, which he completed in the 1970’s and also translated into Swedish and sold in the Scandinavian countries. They are called, Christian Dynamics, Course 1, 2, 3 and 4, and The Rise of Antichrist, Part 1.

From 1975-1977, John served as pastor for Christian Life Center in Lodi, California and from 1978-1984; he served as pastor for Christian Life Ministries in Carmichael, California. In 1986, the Lord spoke to John while he and his wife were in an airliner over Texas and told him to go to Sacramento, California, and begin another church and call it Resurrection Life of Jesus Church. The Lord is prospering and giving the increase.