Greater Grace World Outreach (GGWO) is a nondenominational evangelical Christian church located in Baltimore, Maryland.
Most of these churches are located in North America, Europe and Africa, with larger congregations in Hungary, Azerbaijan[1] and Ghana.
In the early 1960s, Carl H. Stevens Jr., a bakery truck driver, was praying at Wortheley Pond near Peru, Maine, and developed a vision for a worldwide Christian ministry.
As a result, Carl Stevens moved the "home base" of his organization to a former private boarding school facility which they were able to purchase in Lenox, Massachusetts.
[2] The cornerstone of Stevens' career in Christian broadcasting was the call-in radio show he hosted, originally known as "Telephone Time", now called "Grace Hour".
Church planting missionary teams were also sent out first to El Salvador and then to Finland and other European countries [citation needed].
[citation needed] Thomas Schaller, the current leader of GGWO, began his pastoral career as the head of their original missionary team to Finland.
[3] In 1987, "The Bible Speaks" was forced to declare bankruptcy due to a $6 million dollar court case in which the founding pastor was determined to have manipulated and pressured a donor into secretly donating large sums of money.
[7] The beliefs of Greater Grace are outlined in its doctrinal statement and detailed in booklets written by Carl H. Stevens.
[10] In 2007, a letter was written by the Christian Research Institute, which offers a list of suggestions for the church, attempting to correct any of the false teachings that might exist.
[11] However, in this document, Miller concedes that "TBS has, up to the time of this writing, also maintained an orthodox, biblical position on those doctrines most essential to the Christian faith.