Bert & Ellen Panhuise
Our vision:
Psalm 40 verse 2:
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay,
and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings...
This is Bert's favourite scripture since the Holy Spirit touched him in a
wonderful way in Paris, after a friend of his was killed before his very eyes,
28 years ago. In his distress he called upon God and God did answer his
prayer ! This is how he was saved out of a dangerous life on the edge of
society...
The full gospel on television!
About 15 years ago, Bert received a burden to start working towards more
gospel broadcasting on television. Yet he felt it should be the full gospel
message: convicting preaching and teaching with the demonstration of Spirit
and power, anointed worship, etc.
He wanted to do this all the more, since in America he saw the tremendous
result of prisoners who were saved by their exposure to the gospel via Chris-
tian Television. Since he himself experienced the grace of being saved from
the underworld environment, by accepting Jesus as his Saviour, he hoped to
be able to reach others via television. His focus was especially on the people
from the "scene", since it is not easy to witness in the Dutch prisons. For the
same reason, Bert and a number of his business associates offered to have
free satellite dishes installed on the prisons in Holland. Unfortunately, the
Dutch government refused... Now, the dish is no longer required since TBN
Europe can be received by cable in almost all of the Netherlands.
In 1990 Bert founded "Charisma TV" in which all organisations of Full Gospel
and Pentecostal churches in Holland were represented. A request for broad-
casting time was filed with the Dutch Media Board, so the Dutch Pentecostal
movement would be able to make use of the Public Broadcasting System
(both on radio as well as on television). Unfortunately the request was denied
with the argument "that the applicant's views did not sufficiently differ from
those of the established Evangelische Omroep (Evangelical Broadcasting Or-
ganisation) to warrant broadcasting rights". On the day that the Pentecostal
movement was denied access to the public broadcasting system, the Muslims
and the Hindus did receive air time... Indirectly, the procedure resulted in
something good. Due to the fact that Bert talked to the director of IKON (tra-
ditional churches), who agreed that the Pentecostal movement should be gi-
ven the right to broadcast in the Netherlands, a number of large Pentecostal
churches received time slots via the so-called "Broadcasting Arrangement for
Churches" (ZvK).
1991: Shortly after Benny Hinn's first visit to the Netherlands in the Amsterdam
Sports Arena, a number of leaders met as it was evident that there was a need
in the Netherlands to hold a major Charismatic conference, even on an annual
basis. When they could not agree about which speakers should be invited, Bert
continued the planning with a number of pastors, since he saw this as an oppor-
tunity of making budget television shows with good international speakers and
musicians. And in May 1992 the first Eurospirit conference was held in Amsterdam.
In 1993 there was an opening (after a prophetic word by dr. Bill Hamon) to broad-
cast a weekly television program on Super Channel (now National Geographic).
By cable they reached 54 million homes all over Europe. In Holland over 70% of
the houses were able to receive the program by cable. For the first time in history
Pentecostal/Charismatic programs could be watched on TV in the Netherlands!
Yet the costs were high: over 600.000 guilders (300.000 US dollars) for 52 weeks.
Nonetheless, there were several hundreds of positive responses to the shows. In
the beginning there were not many partners who supported the work and funding
came through donations made by the Kitchen firm of Bert and Ellen, and partly
through leasing air time to TBN; to the "Kom en Zie" church in Rotterdam; to Jorge
Tadeu's church in Portugal and others. After more than a year, all Christian pro-
gramming was stopped by Super Channel, since they were taken over by NBC.
Evangelical programs were admitted again on Sunday mornings, when the station
was later taken over by National Geographic Channel.
Two years later, Eurospirit received a weekly time slot (early in the morning) on
God Channel. And since 2002 there is a weekly Eurospirit program on TBN Europe,
each Sunday night at 8:30 PM and each Monday at noon. The vision for this year is
to initially realise Dutch subtitling for more programs on TBN Europe. Eventually,
the intention is to obtain our own studio facilities, so daily Dutch programs can be
produced. This can be done because of the faithful support of the Eurospirit partners !
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After they married, Bert and Ellen started a windsurf and sailingschool at the French
Island Corsica. Later they became the owners of a Kitchen firm.
Bert is president of Eurospirit and also he is the representative of TBN in the Netherlands.
www.tbn.org and www.tbneurope.org
Bert was European
champion windsurfing in 1983.
Bert in action, French Corsica
Bert is also the original inventor of kite surfing.
Robby Naish
Article from: www.kitesurf.nl
The idea of being propeled along the water by a kite has actually been around for quite some time. In fact, kite sailing was actually a commonly used means of land and water transportation in China and Polynesia in the 13th and 14th centuries. However, the sport of kite surfing is relatively new, with its official, legal beginning occurring in the late seventies. In October 1977, Gijsbertus Adrianus Panhuise of the Netherlands received the first patent for the sport. The patent specifically covered a "water sport" using a "floating board" of a "surf board type" where a pilot standing upon it is pulled by a "wind catching device" of a "parachute type" tied to his harness on a "trapeze type belt." Although this patent did not result in any significant commercial or recreational interest, Mr. Panhuise can still be considered the originator of kite surfing. His idea was expanded in the early 1980's when Arnaud de Rosnay of France used a windsurfing board and kite, instead of a sail, to cross the English Channel.
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In October 1977 Gijsbertus Adrianus Panhuise (Netherlands) gets the first patent NL07603691 for our sport. The patent cover specifically a water sport using a floating board of a surf board type where a pilot standing up on it is pulled by a wind catching device of a parachute type tied to his harness on a trapeze type belt. Although this patent did not result in any commercial interest, Gijsbertus Adrianus Panhuise could be considered as the originator of KiteSurfing.
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