Dave Breese

Just after the year 2000 rang in, Breese suffered a stroke. He had rarely turned down an invitation to preach. In an average year, he would travel over 100,000 miles to speak at churches, Bible conferences, colleges, universities, evangelistic meetings and debates. The busy schedule had taken its toll. After his stroke, he continued to write.

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Around the time of the Moral Majority's onset in the 1980's, Breese told an audience at the National Association of Evangelicals that:

By the 1980s, Breese had gained national prominence via his radio broadcasts "Dave Breese Reports" and "Dave Breese Reporting!" His network of over a hundred stations covered much of the United States. In the mid-'80s, Breese accepted the call to become speaker on "The King is Coming" telecast and later assumed the presidency of the telecast’s parent organization, "World Prophetic Ministry." His outreach via television spanned the globe, reaching across all of America and into 57 nations of the world.

Breese was a member of Youth for Christ throughout the 1950s, and later became the Executive Director of the movement's Chicagoland chapter, giving a speech entitled "Global Struggle for Minds of Men" to a Chicago crowd in December 1963. He founded his own ministry named "Christian Destiny Ministries" in 1963, and later expanded his ministry to radio broadcasts with Dave Breese Reports beginning in 1978. This radio broadcast eventually moved over into television. Breese later added another program to his roster in 1987, entitled The King Is Coming, which he used to promote his own premillennialist beliefs. Breese's family has told stories of the labour he poured into his radio work, with Breese sitting up late at night, making radio programs on a simple recorder with a blanket over his head. This was to block outside noises, as, at that time, he lacked a recording studio.

David William Breese (October 14, 1926 – May 3, 2002) was an evangelical Christian pastor and theologian from the mid-20th century to the early 21st century.