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| - Frank Arthur "Bones" Jenner (surname often misspelled Genor) (November 2, 1903 - May 8, 1977) was an English Australian evangelist whose signature approach to evangelism was to ask people on George Street, Sydney the question "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 Pe
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| - Frank Arthur "Bones" Jenner (surname often misspelled Genor) (November 2, 1903 - May 8, 1977) was an English Australian evangelist whose signature approach to evangelism was to ask people on George Street, Sydney the question "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, who he married in 1929. In 1937, Jenner encountered a group of men of 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. He aimed to talk with ten different people every day. One of the people who became a Christian after having been asked Jenner's question was Noel Stanton, who went on to found the Jesus Army. In 1952, The Reverend Francis Willmore Dixon of Lansdowne Baptist Church in Bournemouth, England began hearing several Christian testimonies from people who converted to Christianity after having been accosted on George Street, Sydney by a man who asked them whether they were going to heaven or hell. The following year, he travelled to Australia to engage in itinerant preaching and, after hearing several more such stories, eventually found Jenner. Dixon told Jenner about the people he had met who had become Christians as a result of Jenner's evangelism, and Jenner, now 50 years old, cried because he had not previously known that even one of the people he had talked to had converted. 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 the details of his life became exaggerated and falsified. Apocryphal accounts were common until 2000, when Raymond Wilson published a book called Jenner of George Street: Sydney's Soul-Winning Sailor in an attempt to tell the story of Jenner's life accurately. Exaggerated stories about Jenner's evangelism continued to be written by such people as Ray Comfort and Ché Ahn, but more accurate accounts began to circulate as well, such as in the 2013 documentary film The Frank Jenner Question, directed by Gary Wilkinson.
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