1 877-431-4276Weaving a Story in Botswana | George Banda
Story Weavers Global is a ministry focused on evangelism, discipleship, and addiction recovery that uses storytelling as a key method to reach people and share the gospel.
Summary:
Story Weavers Global is a ministry focused on evangelism, discipleship, and addiction recovery that uses storytelling as a key method to reach people and share the gospel. The ministry was founded around 7 years ago and has expanded to operate in multiple countries and languages, with a focus on oral communication and building relationships.
The key approach of Story Weavers is the “TOGA” framework, which involves listening to someone’s personal story (“their story”), sharing the minister’s own story (“our story”), connecting those stories to God’s story from the Bible, and then helping the person create a “new story” moving forward. This method is effective because it helps people feel valued and understood, and then introduces biblical truth in a contextual way.
The ministry has seen many lives changed through this approach, as evidenced by a story shared by George Banda about comforting a family who had tragically lost a father and multiple children. By sharing his own personal experience with loss, Banda was able to empathize with the family and then introduce biblical truth in a way that provided them strength and comfort. Story Weavers Global is an effective ministry that is leveraging the power of storytelling to share the gospel and help people in difficult circumstances.
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. I have a very special guest with me, George Banda from Botswana, and we are here together at the Billion Soul Conference in South Korea. Now, I love what you’re doing in ministry. Tell me a little bit about what your ministry does.
George Banda (00:22):
Thank you so very much Evangelism podcast. I’m so excited to be given this opportunity. Yes, like you can see, we are called Story Weavers Globe. We are into evangelism and discipleship as well as addiction recovery. The world is struggling with addiction.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:43):
So Story Weavers Global.
George Banda (00:46):
Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:46):
And tell me a little bit about how you got involved with Story Weavers Global and what God has done through you.
George Banda (00:53):
Yes. God has used story weavers to reach out to so many through conversations. We do believe that in every culture, in every language, in every village, any part of the world, God has blessed each and every culture with the gift of conversations just like we are doing here. So
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In story weaving, we do believe that we have what we call the toga, where you have to tell your story to your story, my story, and then God’s story. And then we add a new story. In other words, we have what we call their story, our story, God’s story, and a new story, which is the toga. And we use this toga as our GPS. This works well in evangelism because when you listen to someone’s story, they feel valued. By the way, someone can forget what you said, but they cannot forget how you made them feel. So we’ve come to use these tools to reach out to the world and the responses are overwhelming and so amazing. I can attest to that, that I came to know, and by the way, I’ve been pastoring a full-time pastor for over 16 years in Africa,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:09):
Botswana, and where? In Botswana?
George Banda (02:11):
Botswana, I’ve been to almost all the districts. I started in HaBO and then transferred to almost all the districts. When I came to add to my ministry these two, I personally came to a place where I said, wow, I’ve been preaching, but I’ve not been listening to people. So this was, I think it’s
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:32):
Interesting, God gave us two ears and only one mouth. One mouth. And so we should listen twice. As much as we should
George Banda (02:39):
Talk, we should talk. So I came to be a student and later on a teacher and started weaving story with us group. And this has worked well for me. My ministry has added to what I already had. I think that’s what I can say for now. By the way, store weavers, we have our materials translated in most non word languages. We have French, Spanish, and yes. And so story weavers is in
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:08):
Many different countries.
George Banda (03:10):
We are just about seven years old ministry.
(03:13):
Course, our founders, brother Aid and Ms. Au are based in America, but we have been moving almost in all the continents.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:23):
Yes. Wow. Yeah. And then you also helped to set people free from
George Banda (03:26):
Addiction. Addiction is what we call Freedom Ascent. This is a program where we are saying breaking free from addictions to experience a whole new life. These are great materials and great teachings. As you can see, if one wants to reach to us, they can go to our website, which is story weavers global ww Do s wg world. This about
(03:55):
Just like you can see on the logo there.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:57):
Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So tell me some more about weaving God’s story into everyday conversations. How do you do that? I think this is especially good in cultures that love stories. In the West, we like points, we like 0.1, 0.2, 0.3. But I think in many cultures, story is extremely powerful and people will remember truth that they discover in a story. So how do you help people to discover the truth of God in a story?
George Banda (04:30):
Yeah. I should also make mention here of we are more of oral learners.
(04:36):
So when you get to tell me your story, I will align my testimony or my story to your story, what you’re going through, what challenges you’ve been or encountered. And then I come to a place where I tell you what I have also gone through and what God says about your situation. It shouldn’t be maybe all my episodes. It can be just one short episode of my life, and then I add God’s story, which is scripture to your story, and then I show you how God or I tell you how God loves you and how he values you and wants you to know that you are loved. So from there you get to understand that you are not alone in this. There are so many people that have gone through this. Not necessarily saying that your problems are small or devouring them, but empathizing with you and getting you to see that even God is involved and loves to see you out of what you’re going through.
(05:39):
Yeah. Out of that, we’ve come to discover that people respond well when you value them, when you listen to them, when you give them time, this may not happen at just one point, but you keep on building a relationship. This is the reason why in store weaving, we believe in building a relationship. It’s not a hit and run. Of course, we do appreciate any other organization, by the way. You can’t reach the great commission alone. We need each other. We need to corroborate, we need to come together. That’s why Evangelism podcast is yet today together with story weavers through this, we are reaching out to the world.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:16):
Yeah. So let’s talk about, okay, let me start again here. Okay, so you love telling stories. Talk to me about a story of someone whose life has been changed by story weaving. It is time to tell a story. Now
George Banda (06:39):
It’s time to tell a story. Yes. Let me say of myself, you see, a few months ago in Botswana, a principal of a college died in a car crash losing his three kids on the sport, and the other kid was critically sick or heal and is on the life support
(07:05):
Machine. So I was the heading chair person of the church board in Muni that time. And then I received a call from the office of a district commissioner to say, this is what has happened. And you as pastors see what you can do to console or comfort this family. Now, when you receive such kind of a call, you don’t know which scripture to call. You are talking about someone who has lost his life, who was a breadwinner husband, brother, father, and then the situation is saw so much into the hands of the nation. It’s on the papers and everyone is talking about it in the town. And then you get to see, okay, fine, I’m going to speak. What am I going to see? Now in Story Weavers, I have been trained that as I listen to their story, I should come to where I tell them my story. It’s their story, our story. So I got to see, oh, what kind of a story or testament that I can use in my life to align to this widow
George Banda (08:13):
Who
George Banda (08:13):
Is going through this pain? Then I remembered that I also at some point lost my loved ones.
George Banda (08:19):
I
George Banda (08:20):
Might have not lost my wife or children, but at least I lost my sister, my big sister, my first born sister died in two zero one. My third born sister died in two zero three, I mean two zero one. Our firstborn died, sister two zero two, our second born sister died, two zero three. Our third born sister died, and when she died, she left a two days old baby.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:48):
Oh wow.
George Banda (08:49):
Who also died a week after.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:52):
It’s a great tragedy for the family.
George Banda (08:53):
So the pain was unbearable. What I was going through that time until now, I can still, when I go back down the ears feel that pain because all these died in my hands. When I shared my testimony in that auditorium, I could see strength in the face of the people, on the face of people, and the widow came to talk to me that your testimony has changed how I feel about this. So just that testimony is one of those many testimonies that I can share here. So the power of listening to someone or knowing what they’re going through and sharing an episode of your life to what you also encountered in line with what they’re going through or they have been through works well. And then you add the scripture. Because story weavers, we are all Bible centered storytellers. Yes. One might say there are so many programs that are going on. How is this story with uss different from these others? We go a mile ahead or beyond by mostly we are oral illness, so it doesn’t matter where you are, what type or level of your education. We are so much in relation building. And the other thing about Story Rivers is that we take time because we believe some doors are closed, some doors are partially open, some are widely open. So we understand all those stages and go and work with a person all this way, and we do have time.
(10:38):
And so you take
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:38):
The time to listen and then to tell your story and then to start talking about God’s story and then to make a new story,
George Banda (10:46):
New story.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:48):
And people have been coming to Jesus through this
George Banda (10:50):
A lot, a lot so far. We have had the workshops that I’ve attended, of course, there are so many. Even as I’m talking to you now, there are programs that we do on the physical arrangement, online programs, zoom or WhatsApp. By the way, we are dealing with the World Exchange, so we are also doing online
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:12):
Programs,
George Banda (11:13):
But we also do onset where we can have one-on-one like I’m doing now so far, personally, I’ve led more than 20 people to the lot using Story Weavers.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:24):
Wow. Praise God.
George Banda (11:25):
Yeah. More than 20.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:27):
Wonderful.
George Banda (11:27):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:28):
Well, if you want to know more information about them, the website is S wg.world Story Weavers Global Global World. And so thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast.
George Banda (11:41):
Thank you so very much. Bless you. God bless you. My name’s George Bander and I’m one of the teachers in Story Weavers Global. Thank you so very much. God bless you. It has been a blessing to be on Evangelism podcast. Thank
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:55):
You. Thank you, sir.
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Brazilian Evangelist to Africa | Sergio Carriel
Sergio Carriel is a Brazilian missionary who has been serving in Africa for 19 years, starting in Mozambique and then expanding to other African countries like Malawi, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. He has experienced many miracles and conversions during his evangelistic crusades in Africa, including healings and deliverance from demonic oppression. Carriel believes God is raising up a missionary force from Brazil to go to other nations, and he wants to inspire and encourage more Brazilian youth to become evangelists and missionaries. He has faced challenges in getting financial support from churches in Brazil, who often focus more on local needs rather than global missions. Carriel hopes to see the Brazilian church invest more in sending missionaries worldwide.
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:01):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. I have a very special guest with me, Sergio Carriel from Brazil. It’s so nice to meet you. God bless you. Nice to meet
Sergio Carriel (00:14):
You, sir.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:15):
Thank you for being on the Evangelism Podcast. Now you are very unique because you are Brazilian and you are serving God right now in Africa, actually living in Nairobi, Kenya. And so talk to me about how you became a missionary from Brazil to Africa. Praise the Lord.
Sergio Carriel (00:39):
First of all, I want to say thank you Evangelist and Dr. Daniel King. It’s a big privilege for me, a great honor and privilege to be part of this podcast. So I’m Brazilian, and I’m born in Sao Paulo, the couch side of Sao Paulo. God called me to Africa in 2006, 2006, and I came to the first time in Africa and I start to preach the gospel in Mozambique, in Mozambique.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:24):
Now, Mozambique is unique in Africa because they were colonized by Portugal. So they speak Portuguese.
Sergio Carriel (01:33):
Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:33):
And so that’s a good place for Brazilian missionaries to go.
Sergio Carriel (01:38):
In that time I could not speak English, nothing, and only Portuguese. Then I start in Mozambique, and then I faced many, many challenges, challenges there. And I came back to Brazil, and then I was praying to come back in Africa again, but I could not, because I had no money, no resources, no one trusted me like a missionary, and no one want to support me, even my church. But I was praying and fast and God gave me a vision. And I saw in that vision a prison. And behind the jail, behind the prison, I saw behind the barn, I saw many African people. And I was out of the prison with my Bible in my hands. And God told me, you must come back and continue to preach the gospel in Africa because you have the key to open the doors, to open the door of the prison and let these people go. So then I came back to Africa again in Mozambique again. Wow. Yeah. So then I was in the middle of the jungle in Mozambique, tried to preach for one man, but he doesn’t understand Portuguese. And he told me I’m speak English, but I could not speak English. And then I say, Lord, helping me to speak English. And then the Holy Spirit helping me and I start to speak English. Then I went in Malawi because they speak English there, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:02):
Ethiopia. Wow. And so I’ve been to Ethiopia many times. And I know that you have been to Ethiopia doing crusades many times now. In fact, you have a crusade coming up very soon in Ethiopia. So tell me about some of the miracles that you’ve seen God do in Ethiopia. Wow.
Sergio Carriel (04:25):
There is a lot of miracles that Jesus did in Ethiopia, in Africa, but there is one of a miracle that I can’t forget the people in the Ade. They brought a woman. They brought a woman, she was mad, and she was captive by chains, and they throw her in the stage in the platform. And then they asked me to pray for her. And I start, I thought, oh my God, if this woman continue to be the same, if it’s nothing happened, what’s going to happen to me? My reputation as a evangelist,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:17):
She was held by physical chains. And you had some fears that were holding you as chains from doing what God
Sergio Carriel (05:25):
Wanted. Yes,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:25):
I
Sergio Carriel (05:26):
Feel some fear in my heart. And then I ask the pastors to join with me and pray with me. They refuse. They refuse. And then I say, oh Lord, I believe nothing is so hard for you. And then I prayed for that woman in Jesus’ name, and the demons left heart and she become free. She got healing and she gave her life to Jesus. And she started to testify in that big crowd, they realized that nothing is impossible with Jesus Christ. Wow. Hallelujah. And another miracle, there was another woman, she could not feed the baby because the milk stopped and she came for the crusade and Jesus started her and the milk started to come out. Wow. She could not feed the baby for one year, and then the milk start to come. And she testified in the cro and the multitude there, they believe Jesus. They gave their life to Jesus Christ.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:42):
Wow. Praise God. Amen. Many years ago, God spoke to me and he said that the mission field shall become a mission force. And so for many years from the West, they’ve looked at Brazil as a mission field and people send missionaries to Brazil. The missionaries come, they work here. But now if you look at the church in Brazil, the church in Brazil is very strong. The fire of God is very strong here. In fact, I would say that the fire of God is stronger in Brazil than we even see in America. And the Brazilian church, they know how to pray, they’re on fire. But now I believe that God wants to raise up a missionary force from Brazil to go to other nations. And you are one of those Brazilian evangelists sent out by Brazil as a missionary to Africa. And so what would you say to other Brazilians who are wondering if they maybe are called to be missionaries?
Sergio Carriel (07:54):
I can say to them that if God use me, I’m nothing. I am Mr. Zero. If God uses me, he can use everybody.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:06):
Everyone.
Sergio Carriel (08:09):
Yeah. God saved me. I was lost in alcohol and drugs, and Jesus saved my life. I was mechanic. I usually fix cars in my garage. And God called me to be evangelist. Wow. And evangelist Danielle King. I want to tell you something. You inspired my life and I’m very happy. I could not imagine to be this conversation with you because I saw you on tv, on YouTube. But now we are talking here. So I believe there is a lot of youth in Brazil. They have the calling of an evangelist. And I believe that we are going to see a big wave around the world with Brazilians evangelists. I believe that. Amen. And my goal is inspire them and pray for them and teach them and encourage them to come to Africa too. And to preach to the gospel in Africa. In Africa, around the world. Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:35):
Now there’s several African nations that speak. Portuguese. What are they? You have Mozambique, Angola, Guinea, Guinea,
Sergio Carriel (09:44):
Baal, some tome. Prince.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:48):
Okay.
Sergio Carriel (09:50):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:51):
Ka. And so these are a great place for Brazilian missionaries to get started. Even if they don’t speak English, they can go to these places. They can build a ministry. And so I think it’s time for the Brazilian church to rise up and to send missionaries to many other countries, even to Portugal needs lots of good Brazilian missionaries. And even in the United States, we need some Brazilian of missionaries to come. So tell me, how is your ministry supported? You said that at the beginning even your own church did not want to support you. But now have some people started to support you?
Sergio Carriel (10:33):
Yes. I have sponsors now, some churches.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:43):
Has that been difficult? Yeah, it’s difficult for me. Why do you think that’s difficult in Brazil? Because what needs to change in the church of Brazil? So they support missionaries more. I
Sergio Carriel (10:57):
Think they need understand like America people, they do. They did like some other cultures. They did give priority to reach the lost and invest in missionaries and invest in evangelists. In Brazil, we have challenges. Most of the church, they think that the missionary work is give food for people. We can give of course, but it is not the goal that we need to reach. Jesus says, go, go, go and preach the gospel.
(11:48):
Preach the gospel, make disciples. So the challenge in Brazil is the church invest more locally, locally like build the temple broadcast tv. And they invest a lot of money locally, but they invest just few in mission. I believe that if the pastors, the leaders in Brazil, if they understand a hundred percent the purpose to preach, to reach the lost in cultures, that it’s until now unreachable and places that no one else have been before. If they understand and have compassions for souls and start to invest and send more missionaries to the field, we’re going to see the great commission of Jesus accomplish it in Jesus’ name. More quickly.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:58):
I think that your story will help to bring a consciousness for missions to Brazil churches. And it’s very important as people see your pictures, as they watch your videos, as they hear your stories, as you minister at churches here in Brazil, I think that the resources, money will follow vision. Amen. And so as you share the vision of the lost, you show people how Jesus sees those who are lost, and you help churches to see beyond their own walls out into the nations around the world. Amen. Because in Acts one, eight, Jesus says that you’ll receive power after the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you’ll be my witnesses in Jerusalem. But Jerusalem was the city of the disciples. But it doesn’t end there then it is in Judea, which is like their country. But then they go to Samaria, the next door country. And so God is going to raise up missionaries from Brazil that will go to Argentina, to Colombia, to the other nations that are nearby.
(14:09):
But then it says that you will go to the uttermost ends of the earth. This verse is not only for Americans, this verse is for Brazilians. The Brazilian church is called to go to the nations around the world and to bring many people to Jesus. And so I think that as you tell your story, as you show your pictures, as you show people the videos of what God is doing, then people say, wow, God can do that through a Brazilian. We must invest in that. And so God will use you to break heart for missions open
Sergio Carriel (14:51):
In Brazil. Can I testify a little bit about the challenges that I faced in the past? Yeah. I had a lot of supports and sponsors, and I did crusades by faith. Sometimes I didn’t have money to rent the PA system or the stage. And I remember it’s happened with me when I did the crusade.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:21):
Brother, I want to tell you, I also do crusades by faith. Whether you are small or big, you must do it by faith. Praise the Lord. That’s the only way to do it. Crusade. I went to
Sergio Carriel (15:32):
Uganda. I had no money, but I sold my car. Wow. I sold my car
(15:39):
And I did the crusade in Uganda. Wow. Yeah. Another crusade that I did in Mozambique. And I borrow money from the bank. I asked my sister-in-law helping me, and she asked the bank to borrow money for her, and she gave the money for me, but I could not pay her. But God raised one sponsor every month before the day before to pay the law. That money was in my account. Wow. Yeah. So now it’s not necessary. I am blessed because more people is helping me and trust in the vision that God gave me, believe in the dreams and the vision that God gave me. But still, I have some challenges, but I never give up. Amen. Never.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:49):
Amen. And I believe God will continue to give you more and more resources to use for his kingdom. Amen. Because now you have shown yourself faithful. So how many years have you been working in Africa now?
Sergio Carriel (17:03):
19 years. Wow. 19 years. Wow. Since 2006. I continue to trust in the Lord and feel compassion for soul and dreams about reach more cultures in Africa, more crusades, more seminars, more outreach, more evangelism, more training.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:29):
Amen. Well, let’s finish by saying a prayer for God to raise up more missionaries from Brazil. And instead of praying in English, why don’t you pray in Portuguese and pray that God will raise up many missionaries from Brazil to go to the nations of the world. Amen,
Sergio Carriel (19:12):
Man.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:14):
Brother, thank you so much for being on the Evangelism podcast. Welcome, sir.
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Zimbabwe
At our Love Zimbabwe Festival in Gweru, Zimbabwe, our team with the Global Evangelists Network (GNE) proclaimed the Gospel in many creative ways. Clowns, musicians, dancers, jugglers, actors, and preachers all worked together to go fishing for people. The GNE tagline is simple yet powerful: “One message, many expressions.”
One memory from this festival will stay with me forever. On the very first night, I noticed a young brother and sister responding to the altar call. With tiny hands folded and heads bowed, they repeated the prayer of salvation with pure sincerity. Their simple, childlike faith was breathtaking—a reminder that the Gospel is for everyone, young and old alike.
At our Children’s Festival the field rang with laughter as we played games, sang songs, performed dramas, and danced together. Then I preached about how God created every boy and girl and how Jesus made a way for all to be saved. Just as I gave the altar call, the sound system suddenly failed. The roar of the generator drowned out my voice, and the sound team couldn’t fix it. So, I told them to shut it down. In that instant, a holy hush fell over the field. I lifted my voice and cried out, “If you want Jesus to be your Savior, repeat this prayer after me.” With no microphone, yet with heaven’s authority, hundreds of children echoed the prayer of salvation. It was a sacred moment I will never forget.
One memory from this festival will stay with me forever. On the very first night, I noticed a young brother and sister responding to the altar call. With tiny hands folded and heads bowed, they repeated the prayer of salvation with pure sincerity. Their simple, childlike faith was breathtaking—a reminder that the Gospel is for everyone, young and old alike.
On the final night, I preached on the three greatest miracles in the Bible:
- God created you.
- God loves you.
- God saves you.
Four actors joined me on stage to dramatize the story. God created Adam and Eve and walked with them daily, but when they sinned, fellowship was broken. A vast chasm opened between heaven and earth—impossible for man to cross by human effort. But God, in His love, sent Jesus. He walked and talked with His disciples, yet evil men nailed Him to a cross. He died—but death could not hold Him. Three days later, He rose again, and today Jesus is alive! I told the crowd: “Jesus wants to walk with you and talk with you every day. If you cry out to Him, your relationship with God will be restored.” That night, thousands responded to the altar call, surrendering their hearts to Jesus.
Every altar call is a reason for celebration. Whether it’s one little girl in a crowd, hundreds of children in a field, or thousands at a Gospel Festival, each decision is a miracle. Scripture tells us that heaven rejoices when even one sinner repents—and I rejoice too!
Friend, none of this would be possible without your prayers and generosity.
Every salvation story from Gweru is fruit that you share in. From the two little girls who bowed their heads in simple faith… to the hundreds of children who prayed without microphones… to the thousands who lifted their voices to Jesus on the final night—you were part of every single one. Thank you!
Kubamba: Transforming Young People in Africa | Jemimah Opat
Today the Evangelism Podcast features an interview with Jemimah Opati, a member of Kubamba, a ministry from Kenya. Kubamba uses creative arts like music, drama, and DJing to spread the gospel message to young people in schools and communities. The ministry has been doing outreach work in Zimbabwe for the past two months, going to schools and sharing the love of Jesus. The team has seen many young people respond to the Gospel and give their lives to Christ. Despite the challenges of living by faith, Jemimah finds great joy in the personal relationships and lives that are transformed through Kubamba’s ministry.
Learn more about Kubamba: https://www.kubamba.com/
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus.
(00:07):
So today I have a special guest with me from
Jemimah Opati (00:15):
Come
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:16):
From Mbba, which is a great ministry out of Kenya.
Jemimah Opati (00:21):
Thank
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:21):
You so much for joining me on the Evangelism Podcast.
Jemimah Opati (00:23):
Thank you for having me.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:25):
So we are in Africa together in Zimbabwe this week, and it has been wonderful to serve the Lord to together with you. And I am so impressed with the team of Ku Baba. Tell me a little bit, what is Ku Baba? What are you guys all about?
Jemimah Opati (00:48):
Well, KU Baba is Swahili slang. Well, it can pass for clean Swahili and it can pass for slang. So in the slang it means to have fun.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:07):
Okay.
Jemimah Opati (01:07):
Yes. And that’s what we adopt. And so we do this through creative arts ads that young people, stuff that young people would relate with so much like DJing, music, drama, and all sorts of creative ads that we have to just spread the gospel.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:34):
Now we’re here with a global network of evangelists, the g and e. And last week we did a festival in Guru and I got to preach one night at that. That was really amazing. And then this week we are in Bula. Why
Jemimah Opati (01:53):
Bula
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:55):
The second largest city here in Zimbabwe. And we’ve seen God do some great things here, but the Mbba team has actually been here much longer than two weeks. You’ve been here more like two months.
Jemimah Opati (02:08):
Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:09):
And you’ve been going school to school, telling young people about the hope and purpose that they can find in Jesus. And so tell me some testimonies. What have you seen God do while you’ve been here in Zimbabwe?
Jemimah Opati (02:25):
Wow, it’s so overwhelming. I’ve seen God give hope, restore, and just affirm both myself and I think the team plus the students and even the teachers, just seeing how their students respond. Having not seen this ever in their schools or going around or such an opportunity, they really, really appreciate. And man, it’s been a full circle moment really for me as a person. I’ve seen God heal and just put together in his own way. Yeah. So I’m so blessed. I’m overwhelmed. I’m just like every other time excited and looking forward to see what he has in store for each and every one of us.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:32):
So paint a picture for me. When Ku Baba pulls up into a school, what happens? What is the team doing, and then what is the message you’re trying to convey to the young people?
Jemimah Opati (03:49):
Alright, so when we pull up in a school, definitely we have to lie us with the administration first to let them know we are there. Then them allow us set up. So we move around with our peer system, like our sound system and everything else that,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:10):
And you have your DJs that can do music?
Jemimah Opati (04:13):
Yes. So we put up our sound system in a span of very few minutes. Everyone knows what they need to do, and then the mics are on, the DJ kit is set, and I mean, the host is ready. They know what they need to do and they just begin.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:36):
And so you start with some hype?
Jemimah Opati (04:39):
No, no, no, not really. Of course some icebreakers. Then we do introduction of ourselves and then we also appreciate the teachers and then now just gel and make them feel comfortable, feel comfortable and comfortable. And then now we can stand and dance and then do a worship session after the dance, which is actually praise and worship, but in a fun way. Then worship, actually worship them, pray for themselves to their God. And then now we do the word, and then we have a skit and then do an altar call. And then just summarize if there’s any other thing that we need to do. We do. So we work with school programs so that we don’t also disrespect their time, their flow of the activities. So if we are given an hour, we work with that. If we are allowed to hours, we work with that. If we are given longer, we work with what we are given. Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:51):
And what is the main message you’re trying to convey to the kids?
Jemimah Opati (05:57):
It’s just that Jesus loves each and everyone of us. Despite where you come from, it doesn’t matter your background, it doesn’t matter your color, it doesn’t matter, whatever. Jesus loves you and he wants that relationship with you. That’s just it. Salvation is the best gift.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:19):
And how do the young people respond? Have you seen a good response?
Jemimah Opati (06:24):
Absolutely. It’s always amazing. I think that’s one of the parts that really just melt my heart because I’m like, the word of God says when you lift praises, he draws men to himself. And just seeing him use us and then drawing so many to himself is, it just breaks my heart to just see the love of God over everyone. Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:57):
One of the things I really admire about Ku Baba is that many of the team members are young professionals who were very successful in their jobs, but they decided to leave their jobs and to serve Jesus in this way full time. And then you’re actually raising money in Kenya from friends and people in order to do ministry. And so you’re living life by faith. You’re not paid to do this. You have to trust God to provide. So what is that like living by faith every single day?
Jemimah Opati (07:39):
I wouldn’t lie. It’s not easy, yo guys. It’s not easy because you like your plan A to Z is Jesus. It’s God all the way. We are not perfect. So sometimes you’re like, yo God, are you really going to pull through here? Are you really going to come through? It’s crazy at times because when you’d expect something and it doesn’t come and you feel discouraged, God shows up in another way. But during that season, it’s tough. It’s tough, but you still have to keep trusting. And actually just the word of God just encourages you. It reminds you that his promises are yes and amen. And he’s not a man to lie, nor a son or man to change his mind. So you hold onto that and he comes through in a different way. So unexpected. Then. Yeah,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:48):
KU Baba has a big team, especially in Kenya, and you’re going into the schools, but you’re also doing Bible studies and outreaches to young people. So tell me the role that you play in Mbba and then some of the different avenues that Mbba uses to minister to young people.
Jemimah Opati (09:12):
Well, yeah, we have a Bible study. Well, it started small, but now it’s huge. But we just maintained the name Bible study we made in a cinema in Nairobi called Nairobi Cinema. We host like 800 to a thousand probably plus every Wednesday from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM or nine. And yeah, that’s just one of it. And then we have the missions team. We have the production team now on air because we now cover on land, on air digitally.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:51):
And you’re also doing a lot of social media,
Jemimah Opati (09:55):
So we have to go where they are, where young people are. We can’t just wait for them to come to us. So yeah, basically in the missions team that moves around. And I am in the discipleship department, which is also really growing. And we are still dreaming on avenues of how to do discipleship because we do ministry far, far, and wide. So how do we bring all these people on a platform that we can share in Bible study and camps and all these things, just part of discipleship. And yeah. I also help in the creatives department. I’ve done theater, so
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:49):
I really love the
Jemimah Opati (10:51):
Drama
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:52):
That you guys do every night at the Gospel Festival, the Mbba team has been doing a lot of hype and dancing, but then also the drama. The other night when I preached right after I finished preaching, immediately the drama began.
(11:10):
The drama begins with Jesus, with God creating someone. And he creates ’em with purpose, but then different sins and distraction and attacks from the devil come. And so some of the different things that she deals with is the temptation of being famous on social media. And then that doesn’t work out. And then a guy comes and they actually take her behind a sheet and throw clothes out over the top, and everyone’s like, ah. And her life just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. And there’s all these different signs that then you put around the
Jemimah Opati (11:53):
Actress’s
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:54):
Neck, and she becomes so burdened to the point where she goes to the witch doctor for help. And that doesn’t help, becomes tormented by demons until Jesus appears and rescues her. And the music is pretty intense. And Jesus just grabs the demons with the force
(12:24):
Knocks them to the ground. And he takes all of them, the depression, the sadness, all of the thoughts of suicide, the addictions, the witch doctors, curses, everything. And Jesus takes that, puts it on his own neck, and of course dies so that she can be free.
Jemimah Opati (12:47):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:47):
Jesus comes back to life. And so it’s such a powerful drama. And I think young people connect when they can see something as well as just hearing someone preach about it.
Jemimah Opati (13:01):
Exactly. We learn with all our senses. And one of the most powerful senses sites, when you see something, it’s easy to remember even after a very long time. And because it is very dramatic, it etches in your heart and in your mind. So every other time, we’ll always just be remembering it. And that’s in summary, the story of redemption. The story of salvation, that God is constantly, because when you look at God in the whole picture, God is constantly calling this person to himself, no, please stop. Please come here. And the music says it all. And for me, it’s always been powerful. We’ve done it for so many years, but every other time it’s something different and it carries, it’s just fresh every other time. So it is just powerful.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:16):
Yeah.
Jemimah Opati (14:16):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:17):
So what is your favorite part about being in CU Baba?
Jemimah Opati (14:24):
Well, I think everything about it. Everything about it. And traveling. I love traveling and getting to do life with people one on one. I’m not a crusade evangelist. I’m not so good on the mic in a big stage. But just doing with people, speaking to them one-on-one, feeling their heart, seeing where they are at, and just speaking into their lives, pouring what I have into them is, I think it’s everything for me really. Cause I’m a very, lemme say, empathetic person.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:11):
Yeah.
Jemimah Opati (15:13):
And I love people. And I feel like even being in Zimbabwe, really, the relationships I’ve got to form with people personally, I really like in Guru some were just coming and crying like, yo, we’re going to miss you, this and that. Very personal relationships. We’ve become friends and family,
(15:40):
We’ve got to learn to disengage. In my mind, I have to do that because I know now I have to go back home. But the relationships will always be there.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:52):
Yeah.
Jemimah Opati (15:53):
Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:54):
That’s wonderful. Well, if someone wants to find out more about Baba, what are some of social media platforms where Baba can be found and how can we find Kku Baba?
Jemimah Opati (16:09):
Alright. On Instagram at Ku Baba missions, if you just type at Ku Baba missions, it’ll come.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:17):
Maybe you better spell Kmb Baba for us.
Jemimah Opati (16:20):
K-U-B-A-M-B.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:24):
Aba. Okay. So Ku Baba missions
Jemimah Opati (16:26):
On Instagram? Yes. So at Ku Baba missions. Yeah. One word, then follow. Then we have a channel, a WhatsApp channel. Just type in Ku Baba. You’ll find it on TikTok. We also at, which is Ku Babababa.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:47):
Yeah, just look for Ku Baba. You’ll
Jemimah Opati (16:49):
Find Bamba. You’ll find it. Yeah. You’ll find our content there. And yeah, just keep on being blessed. We also have Aku Baba tv. Yeah, I think it’s still working as well.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:02):
That’s awesome.
Jemimah Opati (17:03):
Yeah. So everything is on there. And K Crew, BS K, crew, like double K-R-E-W-B-S, that’s K. Crew Bible Study. CU Bamba Crew Bible study. Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:18):
That’s awesome.
Jemimah Opati (17:19):
Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:20):
Well, thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast.
Jemimah Opati (17:24):
Thank you so much for having me.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:26):
It’s been really wonderful to spend time with you and get to know you some this week.
Jemimah Opati (17:31):
Thank you so much, Mr. Daniel King.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:35):
Bless you.
Jemimah Opati (17:35):
Thank you. Pleasure.
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The Message Trust in Africa | Tim Tucker
The Message Trust is a global ministry that seeks to reach young people, particularly those in urban and marginalized communities, with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Founded over 30 years ago in the UK, the organization has expanded its work to South Africa, Uganda, Ethiopia, and other African countries. The Message Trust’s approach combines bold gospel proclamation with practical, transformational programs that address the holistic needs of young people. This includes initiatives like GangStar Enterprises, which provides job skills training and discipleship for youth involved in crime and gangs. The organization also partners with local churches to establish community hubs that offer educational support, sports, and other activities to draw in young people and disciple them in the faith. Under the leadership of South African director Tim Tucker, the Message Trust is focused on equipping the African church to effectively engage youth in urban settings.
Learn more about The Message Trust: https://www.message.org.uk/
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus. Today, I’m here with a very special guest, Tim Tucker from The Message Trust. Thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast with me.
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (00:12):
Thank Daniel. Great to be here. Thanks for the invite.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:14):
So you are with the Message Trust and right now we are in Zimbabwe, Africa, and it’s been so beautiful to be here with the Global Network of Evangelists. We’ve been doing a gospel festival and you’re from Cape Town, you live down in
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (00:31):
Cape Town. That’s right. Beautiful Cape Town.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:32):
And you came up to join in on all the fun and excitement and I’ve been exposed to the message trust through Ben Jack and he leads one of your outreaches. But kind of tell us a little bit about the message trust, what you guys are all about and what you do.
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (00:47):
Yeah, I mean the message has been formed over 30 years ago in the UK by an evangelist, Andy Hawthorne, and primarily seeking to find ways to reach young people with the gospel, particularly urban youth, marginalized urban youth. Our history was the creative arts, a band that became quite famous, the worldwide message tribe around the world, and just find innovative ways to reach young people with the gospel in language that they can understand. God’s really blessed that over the past 30 years and now beginning to be a global movement of organizations seeking to reach young people in difficult circumstances with the gospel. And we do that through a combination of bold proclamation together with action-based mission and ministry. So what does
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:36):
That look like for Africa? You started in Manchester, which has very unique challenges and now Africa has a different set of challenges, but yet people are the same everywhere and young people are looking for purpose.
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (01:52):
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I’ve been in South Africa originally British came from Manchester, but moved to South Africa in 1998. Fell in love with the well, the continents, the cities and the people and just wanting to see how can we develop a platform to engage young people effectively so that they can become Christ-centered, transformational leaders. That’s really my passion, but it all starts with effective gospel proclamation and attending to people’s hearts and Cape Town in South Africa where we started the first international hub of the message in 2014 is an interesting and fascinating city because we came from obviously Manchester, which is very post-Christian, but minority poor, to a context that is still quite religious in terms of South Africa, but a majority poor environment with all kinds of socioeconomic challenges. So we really had to learn to take the DNA and ethos of the message and contextualize it within Cape Town in a way that will effectively reach the young people in some of the most broken communities there. And that’s been the journey we’ve been on really the last 10
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:00):
Years. So give me a picture of what that actually looks like on the ground. What are some testimonies of what God has done?
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (03:06):
Yeah, I mean we’ve had a big emphasis on working with young people, caught up in crime and gangs. We actually started a small business called Gangstar Enterprises because the biggest challenge for young person we reach in prison or coming out of the gang environment is how do they put bread on the table so they don’t fall back into that lifestyle? So yes, we proclaim the gospel in prisons and in schools, but then we need to create opportunities to flourish in faith and in life. So gang star is to play on the word gang gangster obviously gang is the past, star is the future. And we’ve had numerous, particularly young men come through that process. We train them to become baristas in coffee and alongside that, disciple them to be able to grow in their faith, become integrated in church. Young man by the name of Ele, we met him in prison.
(03:56):
We journeyed with him for about 10 years. He is now leading a global movement amongst ex-offenders with another organization, but just seeing the transformation in his life and God can use him then to invest in others. So we have that kind of rehabilitative and reintegration program with guys out of prison. But then we also do a lot of prevention in schools in mission in some of the toughest communities because we go in, we’re able to preach the gospel effectively in schools. We partner with local churches, but then we start up what we call community hubs, which is discipleship processes. Again, we use sports and music and other things to draw in the young people and to be relevant to them. But then we discipleship doing educational support and really helping them in the whole of life. And again, everything like that is done in partnership with local churches and it creates this gospel centered intervention that can redirect lives that were headed in one direction, which have been destruction and all kinds of antisocial and criminal activities and directs them into becoming incredible leaders within the kingdom.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:02):
And so God’s given you tremendous fruit in Cape Town, but Africa is a big place. What is on your heart for the future, for the rest of Africa?
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (05:12):
Yeah, so I mean three years ago I handed over the leadership to a South African man called Sean. He’s doing a phenomenal job and we’ve just began to lift our eyes and say one of the visions we had was to expand into other African cities. As you’ll know, Africa is the youngest continent on the planet. So it’s very relevant for a youth ministry to be involved. There’s urbanization, there’s massive urban challenges amongst young people. So the first thing we want to do is really equip the church to be able to understand how they can better engage young people in urban communities with the gospel and how they do that in a way that is effectively in discipleship and equipping for life. So we’ve been now identifying key cities that we can work in through invitation by local churches. We’ve just launched in Kampala, in Uganda, we’re in the process of Addis Ababa. We’re here in Zimbabwe to see how can we follow up from the great work of GNE in this festival to then have long-term programs and initiatives here we’re looking at French speaking Africa, but God is really beginning to kind of put wind in the sails of this movement. But the beautiful thing is we’re coming off the back of GE and advance evangelism that has already been going on across the continent and we’re saying how can we then almost piggyback off that to establish these long-term initiatives that can really raise up these gospel central
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:34):
Leaders. Yeah, advance is one of the outreaches of the message trust led by my friend Ben Jack. I’ve been with him in a bunch of different countries and it’s really a unique way to mentor evangelists and help evangelists to build community. And so I’ve used it in some of my mentoring of some young evangelists and a great curriculum, but advances put their material in a bunch of different languages and now it’s starting to spread in a lot of different
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (07:05):
Countries. Over a hundred countries around the world now have some form of advanced groups, tens of thousands of people now being through the training. And for us it’s been vitally important because we are a ministry that is involved in social or what I would call gospel center transformation. We’ve got to be able to keep the main thing, the main thing. And that is that it’s only the gospel that changes the heart and we, in fact, we want to prove that amongst the hardest to reach young people in this continent, a life transformed by the gospel can really become an incredible trophy of grace that then themselves have this ripple effect of impact. So advance means the evangelism means that we are keeping the pure gospel, we’re focused on proclamation, we are equipping the church. And in some ways that’s a gateway for us. It enables us to really build effective relationships with churches to serve more broadly than just through our kind of citywide hubs. And to be on this ongoing journey of equipping the church here in Africa. And we’ve got other great partners. We are also doing discipleship training. We’ve written resources around servant leadership and it’s the combination of equipping the churches here. I think that will ensure that the sustained gospel impacts for the long term.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:26):
So tell me a little bit about your testimony. How did you come to know Christ and then how did you get started doing what you’re doing now?
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (08:35):
Yeah, I mean I’m one of those trophies of grace from a Christian home. My parents, my dad was a first generation believer. He became a Christian university. My mom was German, they met and she comes from believing family. So from a young age had that experie I
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:52):
Would say to a very young age too. And so I tell people God saved me from drug abuse, from alcohol, from before we even did it, before we even did it. He saved me from
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (09:03):
That. Yeah, absolutely. So I’m so grateful. But I had a very mean as a six, 7-year-old, very conscious presence of Jesus in my life. I remember making a public confession. I pregnant, I was seven, was absolutely sure I needed to be baptized. I wanted to repent of my sins. There was no sense that I’m just a good kid and I had a burden for my unbelieving friends at school post-Christian England. None of my kids, none of my friends at school, primary school went to church. I then went to a Christian high school and all those kids left the church during the time of my high school. So that was the environment. It was actually weird to be a Christian in the UK in those days. And so when I left school at 16 and did an engineering apprenticeship and at the age of 17 was wobbling, but I’m the kind of person that I’m either all in or I’m all out.
(09:52):
And God began to speak into my heart. There’s one time I said that I became a Christian when I was seven or communion for the first time. And at the age of 17 in this wobbly place, I remember feeling on pure in church and having to pass on the communion. And a few weeks later there was a message and God really convicted me. And he either said, you’re all in or you’re all out. And by God’s grace at that point decided I’m all in. I talk about that my adult commitment, that I was counting the cost at that age because I knew that to follow Jesus wasn’t a walk in the park by then. And then interestingly, the call to missions also came from a young age. From the age I heard a MAF Mission Aviation Fellowship missionary when I was, was eight years old, speak at our church and at that point felt a call to missions and also to Africa.
(10:49):
There’s a longer story there. Again, I had leaving school and doing an engineering apprenticeship. For me, part of that was, oh, I need something to fall back on to support me in the missionary world. The Lord kind of led me in the end. He had a completely different pathway for millions missions and coming to South Africa and doing youth work and all that story. But you just see how God weaves these things together and at the end of the day, he’s all looking for is a heart that’s willing to be obedient to him. And that’s the only qualification we need to serve him, isn’t it?
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:20):
That’s awesome. Well, if someone’s listening and they want to find out more about the message trust or maybe even support some of the work that you’re doing here in Africa, what’s a good website where they can find out about
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (11:32):
You? Yeah, our landing page is message global.org and there’s a lot of flags on there. So you can see the Uganda or the South Africa one Ethiopia about to go on there, as well as some of the other ones around the world as well to see what’s happening. So message global.org is a great place, great place to start.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:49):
Well, thank you so much for being on the Advantage
Tim Tucker – The Message Trust (11:51):
Podcast. That was amazing. Chat to you. Thanks so much.
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African Enterprise: Foxfire Youth Outreach | Zweli Sokhela
African Enterprise is a Christian organization that has been working in Africa for nearly 60 years, with a focus on evangelism, youth empowerment, and community development. Today on The Evangelism Podcast, Zweli Sokhela, an evangelist from South Africa, shared his personal testimony of how he came to know Jesus and became involved with African Enterprise’s Foxfire program, which trains and empowers young people to share the gospel through various creative means such as music, drama, and storytelling.
Learn more about African Enterprise: https://africanenterprise.org/
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. I have a very special guest with me, Zweli Sokhela from South Africa.
(00:14):
Wonderful. And you are with African Enterprise is, which is working in many countries all over Africa, doing a phenomenal job telling people about Jesus. And I really like your t-shirt. It says, this is what an evangelist looks like. And so if you want to know what an evangelist looks like, this is the evangelist, the handsome South African evangelist. So let’s talk a little bit about African enterprise. Tell me about what African enterprise does and what the mission is.
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (00:47):
Okay. So African enterprise is set up to do evangelism throughout Africa. We currently have 12 offices in Africa. Our main focus is going through different cities of Africa, preaching the gospel, proclaiming the good news that there is Jesus. And we have different pillars that we focus on, which is youth empowerment. That’s where Foxfire is. And then we have woman empowerment, which is more on the community development part of it. And then we also focus on developing leaders. We do believe that an empowered church can bring changed lives. So that’s why our mission is to evangelize the cities of Africa through word and deed, which where the community development comes in. And then also proclaiming the word to all the cities that we normally go and to missions.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:50):
And for how many years has African enterprise been working here in Africa?
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (01:55):
It’s almost 60 years now because it started in 1961 where Dr. Michael Cassidy had this burden to, I would say God gave him the vision to reach Africa through the gospel. And it’s all started in South Africa in Peter Mabe where he, after when he was at university, but then God gave him the call, then he had to go to South Africa to sort of scout to the land. And that’s how it started. The first mission.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:26):
And let’s talk about your testimony and how you joined African Enterprise. Tell me what have you seen God been doing in your life? How did you come to know Jesus and then how did you become an evangelist?
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (02:41):
Yeah, it’s not something that I would’ve chosen, but growing up in a non-Christian family, the reason I’m saying non-Christian, because I grew up going to church, but believe me, if I say there was nothing that was changing about my life
(03:01):
As much as I go in and out every Sunday, which I’m grateful to mom who will take us to church because I think the idea of God started then. But I realized that as I was growing up, I started to, when I was in high school, for me it was more questioning what is this life about? Because as a young person, a black African young person, a male in South Africa, I faced many challenges, even family wise where my dad is always away working to make sure that we are supported as a family. But as a man growing up, I needed him to be present, but most of the time he needed to be away from home so that he’s able to support his family. So then that’s way for me, I started questioning what is life about? And through questioning that, I had an encounter with women who were coming to our house to share the gospel. Obviously you don’t pay attention, you’re a church goer. They’re talking about prayer about the word of God. But something that intrigued me was when they said there is a Holy Spirit who is a person that lives inside you. For me, that was the first time hearing that.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:19):
Then
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (04:19):
I pause a bit, then they invited me to their church, which I attended. And then the teachings were quite interesting because my other church was not doing as much teaching, but the preaching was happening. So then they also invited me for a Sunday where there was going to be a special Sunday, there was an evangelist from Texas. And I was like, okay, someone from overseas coming to preach preaching in English, I’m Zulu. Then I don’t think I was able to even speak words in English, but then I attended the church. So while he was preaching, there was something that happened while he was speaking where God gave me a picture of how my heart looks like without him and how my heart can look like with him. And I didn’t like what I saw about my life because I used to drink. I’ll sleep around at some point.
(05:18):
I used to fight with the gangs in the community and all of that. I don’t think my dad was even away until I received Christ. And I was able to talk about the things that I was suffering inside to say, this is what I’ve been going through in your absent, even though you were present in my life. So at that moment, I found myself in front at the call and that when I gave my life to Christ, and that’s how my journey started after high school, I didn’t have funds to go and study, decided to take a gap year, and that gap year led to the evangelists that you see today.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:59):
Wow, wonderful. And so in African enterprise you lead one area called Firefox Fire, Fox Fire. Fox Fire. Sorry, I got to get it right, Fox Fire. So explain to me what is Fox Fire and what do you do?
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (06:19):
Okay, so then as I mentioned that I left school, I did a gap year, which I work in a ministry. So part of my work was doing afterschool support with young people. And that developed an understanding that this is what was lacking in my life. To have somebody that will take time to care for me, to develop me. And as I was doing that, something just spiked inside me to say, you know what? There’s a gap in our youth ministry. And that led into more of the studies I did because the organization where I did a gap here, I ended up staying until for about 13 years working for one organization. But they helped me to develop, to prepare myself for the season I’m in now, where African Enterprise was looking for somebody to lead the Foxfire program, which then I applied, they gave me the opportunity.
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Foxfire is a youth empowerment program where we disciple young people for about one year and then they will graduate. So they come from when they finish diametric, which is grade 12, or you finish your university and you want to take a gap before you go and be employed. So we do a two month training with them before we go around South Africa and outside South Africa where we share the gospel, be. We share our life stories, how God have helped us, but we also visit schools where we do life skills. We have found out that especially with us in South Africa, a lot of young people will get a hundred percent in their life skills, but that is more like a subject. But what we bring is how do you apply those life skills in your life so that there’s change, which we are seeing immediate change from that.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:24):
And so right now we are in Zimbabwe. Beautiful. We’re here for the Zimbabwe Festival in Guru, and it’s been really wonderful to see what God has done. And you brought a team of young people with Fox Fire here to Zimbabwe and they’ve been ministering all week long. How many young people did you bring?
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (08:49):
So there is five here,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:51):
But
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (08:51):
We have six and team currently.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:53):
Okay. And they’ve been going around and ministering. I’ve been very impressed with them. Today we did a children’s festival. And so one of the young ladies who’s with your team, she shared her testimony and just really a horrible upbringing, very difficult. But then using that to show how Jesus has changed your life is really powerful. And so what type of impact have you seen in the lives of young people who have been a part of Fox
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (09:29):
Fire? Sure. So the one I will highlight is for them to have a safe space to be themselves because in most cases they’ll have to perform to be approved by their peers. But what we have teach them is how to discover who you are in God so that you don’t get approval from anyone else, but you get it from God. Our program has four pillars that is drawn from the book of Luke chapter two, verse 52, where Jesus grew in wisdom, in favor with God and men. So from those four pillars, we can see that there’s a holistic approach in terms of how we nature our young people. So the moment we help them to create a space where they can be adventurous and they can discover themselves, but also on the training that I mentioned for two months, where we help them understand what missions look like, where they can open scriptures, where they can see God in their story, that the pain that you’ve been through is not a waste, but God was preparing you for a season like this. Because when people hear your story, something changed. People that are going through the same thing, people are changed by that. But also we helping them to discover the world outside them, which is why we are here in Zimbabwe. We are using music. The moment you play music, everyone can connect, everyone dance, even if you don’t speak the same,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:07):
The music is fun. Everyone starts dancing and the Foxfire team does some great dances. And then I saw you’re also using drama.
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (11:16):
We do. We do. And that’s a way of portraying the message without speaking and people can see it. And most of our dramas, what we have found is that the moment you played on stage, people can identify themselves, but through the play, what we are bringing is how can God help you in the space where you are in? It doesn’t matter where you are at, God is able to reach you from where you are and bring light in your situation, which is why we are using the dramas and the music.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:51):
We’re here in Zimbabwe with Desmond Henry, who’s with the global network of evangelists. And one of the things that Desmond said the other day I thought was so good, he said, young people are not the future of the church. They are the church of today. That
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (12:06):
Is so cool.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:06):
And it’s true when you think about the church, young people need to have opportunities to minister, to use their gifts for God to make a difference for the kingdom of God. And I think that the ministry that you’re doing is so vital to helping young people have an opportunity to use their talents and skills for
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (12:31):
Jesus. Sure. No, definitely. I used to say the future of our country depends on the quality of the young people that we develop. So if we as a church can take time to look at our young people differently to say they are not the future, but they are now church, then we can start to invest properly in terms of developing them and also creating opportunities, which is what we are seeing even because it’s their first time to be in a festival. It’s another way also that is helping them to develop to say, okay, there are different ways to preach the gospel as you’ll know that G and E will say it’s one message, but different expressions.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:19):
Yeah. It’s so neat to hear that you are Zulu. I had the opportunity several years ago to do a crusade with some of the Zulu people. We were there at the invitation of the King of the Zulus, and we set up a tent and filled it every day full of people. And I remember we wanted to feed everyone, so we brought three cows live and they butchered the cows. And by after lunch there was nothing left of the cow. I mean, everything was eaten. We had several thousand people there, and every single piece of the cow was eaten. Sure. That’s amazing. But it was so neat learning about the Zulu culture. You have a very proud people, very warrior-like people, but it’s neat that you can take your warrior spirit and do big things for
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (14:18):
Jesus. Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:19):
Fight the devil.
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (14:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the kingdom has space for everyone. But as you say, because I mean as Zulus, sometimes we hold on to who we are and what we know, but what we sometimes forget is that who we are is who he created us to be in our differences then how do we come together as a family or as a community so that when God looks at us, it’s like, oh, my beautiful children. But sometimes we zulus are very good looking.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:59):
They’re very beautiful people. Creation of God.
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (15:03):
Amen. I’ll check that as a country. Yeah,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:06):
Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for being on the Evangelism podcast. I really appreciate it.
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (15:12):
No, thank you so much for having me. And it was amazing to meet you and the message that you’ve been also preaching has really been powerful and we thank God for people like you.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:22):
If someone wants to help to support Firefox or to help African enterprise, what would be a good website that they could go to find out more information about what you do?
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (15:36):
Okay, so we do have a website. You just type African Enterprise, but on the website because an international website. So then they will find all the different countries that are part of the website. But our office is South Africa.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:54):
Wonderful.
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (15:55):
And all the details and everything is in
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:57):
Well. I so love what African Enterprise is doing and the impact that you’re having all over Africa. It’s really wonderful.
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (16:04):
Thank you so much.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:05):
Thank you for being on the Evangelism podcast.
Zweli Sokhela – African Enterprise (16:07):
Bless you. Thank you.
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Evangelism in Zimbabwe | Obey Chinosengwa
What is God doing in Zimbabwe? Today we talk to Obey Chinosengwa, an evangelistt from Gweru, Zimbabwe who leads Gospel to All Nations. Obey shares his vision to spread the gospel to every town and village in the country of Zimbabwe.
Connect with Obey Chinosengwa: https://www.facebook.com/obey.chinosengwa
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. I have a very special guest with me. Obey Chinosengwa. And how do you say your last name?
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (00:13):
Obey Chinosengwa
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:14):
And we are in the nation of Zimbabwe. It is early in the morning here. We woke up very early and went and did a morning radio program and got to share the gospel on the radio program. And Obey is an evangelist from here in Zimbabwe and he has been helping us with the Love Zimbabwe Festival, with the global network of Evangelists. And I’m so excited to meet you because you have a ministry. It’s called Gospel to all Nations. So tell me a little bit about yourself and about the calling that God has on your life.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (00:54):
Okay, thank you. Thank you. Evangelist Daniel is such an honor and a privilege to be sitting next to you and welcome to our beautiful Zimbabwe. It’s something that I really love to be cross-pollinating with other evangelist like you, and especially knowing that you have been evangelism for a long time
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:19):
Now. It was really cool. You just pulled out your phone and you showed me that you had downloaded some coaching resources from the Global Evangelist Alliance and I had done a coaching call a few months ago for them and you downloaded it and you’re listening to it right here in Zimbabwe. You say on the radio program, you say, ah, I recognize your voice. I heard it before and it’s the evangelist you were listening
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (01:45):
To. Yeah. God works in amazing ways. I downloaded this I think two weeks back. You did the podcast I think three months ago. So I was listening to it. He was talking about the calling of an evangelist and that was amazing stuff. Little did I know in just three weeks time I’ll be sitting next to this great man of God, evangelist Daniel. I’m so much thrilled to be seated next to you. So I’m occupational saying, well, like you said, and I am an evangelist. So I started off in 2017. It’s something that I knew when I was growing up that God has set me apart for some work, but I didn’t really know what it was. So around 2014, I started praying and praying, asking God, what is it? Oh Lord. So in 2014, the Lord did three things in my life. 2014. The first one was he sent another man of God to our city, a person who I never knew.
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He came to our university. So in an honored prayer, he singled me out and spoke of this evangelistic calling on my life. Then I said, wow, I didn’t know much about evangelism. Then it steered something in me like Paul speaking to Timothy said, stir up the gift that is in you, which came on you by the lane on of hands by the elders. We have gone ahead of you. So I felt something dropped in me from that day, which resonated with what God has put in my heart. The second thing was after that, I went on a vacation. I started praying, praying, praying, praying. I was in a fasting. I prayed four days, I think I prayed in fasted. Then I went to a different city. When I got there, the first Sunday service I entered after the service, a certain lady walked to me, it’ll be amazing, Daniel.
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Then he said, the Lord has spoken to me for you to pray for my son. He’s in China. I knew Zimbabwe. The son is in China, and he’s saying, yes, had a terrible skin disease, and he’s telling me he’s about to be brought back to our country. He’s going to abor his studies. Then I just said, can we pray about it in this week? And we see what God does. Friday, the skin condition was gone and I said to myself, God is doing something. It was just in the same season. So for me, 2014 stands out, Mr. Daniel.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:19):
Wow. And so you started to study the lives of great evangelists. You told me that you looked at Reinhard Bonnke’s books. You showed me last night you were reading a book by Oral Roberts, the great evangelist from Oklahoma.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (04:35):
Yeah, sure.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:36):
And so you started feeding yourself on evangelism and then God started opening up doors for you to do evangelism, and in the last couple of years you’ve been doing crusades here in Zimbabwe. Tell me about those crusades. How do you organize them and what results have you seen God do?
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (04:54):
Alright, so like you highlighted, I started studying. I didn’t know how I’m going to do it. The first book I bumped into that is the same year, 2014 was a biography by Bill Graham, written by John Pollock. That’s
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:13):
A great
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (05:13):
Book. I started reading that book by John Pollock. Then I finished it in around the same year. Then the Lord started tearing something in me. I went on to study Renard Bon. I said this autobiography, and this year actually, I was studying orals from your state, from your city, and I could work in amazing ways. So I started now organizing. The first thing I started doing, I started going in the salons in restaurant preaching on lunch hours. I didn’t wait for people to come to me. I actually went to where the people are. So it was unconventional. People in here in Zimbabwe know evangelistic ministry just working on as a parachurch organization, sometimes it has a lot of challenges. So I had to go to the people like that’s evangelism. I think that’s what evangel, yeah,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:11):
That’s really the heart of evangelism. If you just stay in the church, people don’t have any reason to come to church. They don’t know Jesus. So you have to go outside the walls of the church to where they are, and that is one of the primary callings of the evangelist is to get the church to go outside of the church walls into the community. You got to get the salt out of the salt shaker.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (06:35):
Sure, sure. That’s what makes the food test. So I always say men of God, this is what I always say. If the people don’t come to church, take the church to the people. That’s what we should do. So after that, COVID came, I took a step back. During the COVID season, I stopped this marketplace outreach network program that I was doing going in the marketplace. So when I was post COVID era, I then started organizing crusades. I called them yielding gospel crusades here in Zimbabwe.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:14):
And so you pray for the sick. Yeah,
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (07:16):
Sure,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:16):
Sure. And you’ve seen God do miracles.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (07:18):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Like the one that
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:20):
Was studied. Tell me about the miracle. Yeah, the woman in China.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (07:23):
Yeah, the woman had a son in China.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:26):
Wow.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (07:27):
He was having a terrible skin condition,
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And the skin was said to have thin, and it was now very thin, and they wanted to bring the child back before he finished these studies. So this lady walks to me, we are here in Zimbabwe. Then this lady walks to me, then she say, the Lord has told me you should pray for me. Then I said, oh God, what have I done now? So you see, I’ve always three ways that really resonated with me in looking on Jesus’ ministry. And I believe Jesus was full-time evangelist because he was always on the marketplace. He was always in the villages in the cities and the Bible that is always recurring. He went to the cities and villages and preached in their synagogue, not in his synagogue. So I think he was doing evangelism more. But what? Yeah,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:26):
I’m thinking of Matthew chapter four, verse 23. It says that Jesus went teaching in the synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (08:38):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:38):
So you have those three parts of the ministry of Jesus, the preaching, the teaching, and the healing.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (08:43):
Sure, sure. If actually you look on our profile, Daniel, this is our profile, the three terms that really stand out for me. It’s reach, teach, and preach. This is what Jesus was doing, and now we go the 41, we do a yielding crusade. He was going teaching, preaching, yielding,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:03):
And he went to every town and village.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (09:05):
Every town and village. So it’s like that is what Jesus, I
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:09):
Think God wants you to go to every town and village in Zimbabwe.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (09:13):
Sure, sure,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:14):
Definitely. What are some of the places that you’ve gone to here in Zimbabwe?
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (09:18):
Okay, so I’ve gone to ge. Gezi is around zit area, mano, that’s mano. I’ve done guru as well. And we are going to VMA just two weeks from now. We are going to Buma from the 10th of September to the 13th of September. We are having a healing gospel crusade there, and I’m believing God for amazing miracles. Marriages will be restored, people will be heal. Jesus is going to do it again because we believe we evangelist Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:56):
It’s so wonderful to meet you because I believe that God wants us to go to everyone on earth. Every single person needs to have a chance to hear the message of Jesus Christ. And if we’re going to go to everyone, we need to have evangelists that are raised up in every single country. And so it’s so neat to see that God is raising you up here in Zimbabwe,
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (10:23):
Thank God.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:24):
And Zimbabwe is a big country. There’s a lot of people here. And so I think it’d be so cool for your ministry to develop a plan. How are we going to reach every town, every village, every city in Zimbabwe. And I believe that as you begin to go, God’s going to give you the finances. God’s going to give you the team
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (10:49):
Members.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:50):
God is going to give you the creative ideas, the ways to reach people here in Zimbabwe. And God is even going to take you beyond Zimbabwe. God’s going to take you to other countries as well. But I think it begins here in Zimbabwe and you say, we can reach everyone in Zimbabwe with the
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (11:08):
Gospel. Sure. You actually mentioned something that is very important. When Jesus was talking to his disciples, he was about to leave. Ye said this, it’ll begin in Jerusalem where they were.
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It’ll go to Judea to summary Maria and to the rest, to the Atmos parts of the world. So it always begins at home. That is what my grandmother always told me. She always told me that charity begins at home. So actually we have a vision like the term itself of the vision says gospel to all nations. I took it from Mark chapter 13, verse 10. It says, end the gospel must first the preach. And when it says first, it points out on priority. It’s a priority to God. Before Jesus comes back and establishes his ministry, he established his kingdom here on earth for us to preach the gospel or nation. So I took it upon myself to fulfill scriptures. One of the things that I noticed when I was reading through all the gospels, this always comes out this and this so happened that it may be fulfilled. So Jesus fulfilled a lot of prophecies. It was intentional. It was deliberate. Even when he was young, they were moving from place, place, fulfilling scriptures. So I challenge fellowmen of God’s fellow evangelist. Let’s fulfill the word which was spoken of Mark chapter 13, investor in says, end the gospel must first preach to all the nations. So we are going to work in Zimbabwe. One of the ways that I’ve been thinking recently, evangelist is like there must be young evangelists coming up. We form teams around because sometimes I believe in networks.
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Maybe we are coming to this province. We are Midlands province right now in guru in Zimbabwe. So we come in Midlands, then we have a set of evangelists. Another one is going to that village. Another one is going to that town, another one is going to, then we eat that province. Maybe in the only four days we eat that province. We move to another province. We do the same thing. Villages. So I believe in networks because at one time Jesus said to them, go into all the cities and villages in which he himself was about to go. So we move. Then Jesus comes there, he said in the cities in which he was about to do something. So when you see an evangelist like Daniel is now in Zimbabwe, I believe God is about to do something in Zimbabwe. And I pray God touches your heart to do things in Zimbabwe.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:58):
Amen. Well, this is my first time in Zimbabwe, but it won’t be my last.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (14:02):
Wow.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:03):
And I like what you’re saying about networks. Jesus told us to be fishers of men and fishers. In the days of Jesus, they use nets to go catch the fish.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (14:14):
Definitely.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:14):
So you need a net that works to be a fisher of men.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (14:17):
Wow. I never thought it that way. So it’s a net that works. Wow.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:23):
You have a network so that you can be a fisher for men. Wow. Now one of the things I really like here in your, you have such a beautiful vision, like a brochure that you’ve put together here for your ministry gospel to all nations. And one of the things that you have here is that with the healing gospel crusade, you want to do students to Christ, youth to Christ leaders to Christ ladies to Christ, men to Christ. And so not only are you trying to target many different towns and villages, but you’re targeting different levels of society. So you have some outreaches to students, some to the young people, some to the women, some to the men. And so you’re targeting these different layers of society to bring the gospel to everyone.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (15:17):
Okay. So you see the gospel is actually, we approach it holistically. We don’t want to target the other area, and the other area is lagging. So we have students in colleges, we have to think future. We have to look into the future. What seed are we planting? It’ll amaze you that God, when he was creating everything, he put seeds in them because you are thinking of the future. That’s why I was talking of other young evangelists, catching the mantle, catching them, getting the seed in them of this evangelistic movement that is about to cover the whole globe. So we target the students. They are in colleges. There’s a lot happening in colleges. Say drugs, you see them, you see pornography. People are doing things in the young people are doing a lot of things. So as you look at it, students, they are special group we have to really focus on. Then youth as well. They are those we have gone out of school who are just experimenting with whole lot of things. Whereas maybe they get their life destroyed In that process. We have people whom we have lost to drugs. You know that
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Even Oklahoma, you know that.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:43):
Yeah.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (16:43):
Then we also go to women, ladies, sometimes we want to take off this Delilah spirit from you can be men of God anointed doing well, but Delilah comes. But we think no one was created. A Delilah. God never makes people bad. He makes them good. They start making choices. So we move and we try to guide in a godly way by being spirit led. Then one important group that is very important, Paul speaking to Timothy. He says, pray for leaders that you may live a peaceable life. So if we do everything, John C. Maxwell, he said, everything rises and falls on leadership. So if we leave out the leaders, I tell you it’ll not go well. Even if you want to reach the world, they may close their borders, they may close their things. But thank God, God has given us grace to raise leaders who are God fearing leaders who change the face of the world, making decisions that are so inclined to the kingdom of God.
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So this is how we approach the healing gospel. Cru said, because I believe, like you’re saying on radio this morning, 98.4 fm, you spoke of the spirit, you spoke of the soul, you spoke of the body, and you said, God is interested in all. So when we go on a healing gospel crusade, it’s not me healing. It’s not me as a man of God. It’s the gospel. If you look in Luke chapter number six and 7, 5, 4, 6, and seven, it says you went, people came all around to hear him and to be healed. So what begins first is the healing and the healing follows. So it is something that you first approaches your soul. Then the healing manifest is in the natural. Then you are forgiven of your sins, like you were saying. But have you ever noticed these four letters, H-E-A-L-U? We just remove the L and put an error. It’s year in saw in year in hearing. God is ying our healing. But it depends with what you are going to hear. So our crusades used to be holistic. They have to approach the soul, the spirit, and the body.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:17):
Amen. That’s so good. Let’s talk about the Love Zimbabwe Festival.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (19:22):
Wow.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:23):
You have been helping to organize this from the very beginning. Tell me a little bit about what has already been happening here and then what the expectation is for this week during the Love Zimbabwe Festival in Guro, or how do you say the name of this
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (19:41):
Guru?
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:42):
Yeah.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (19:43):
You see, I think God is doing amazing things in this world and he’s bringing people together in love. God is love. Anyway. I think if anyone says who is God? God is love. So God has brought love Zimbabwe Festival to Guru. This is my city. This is where I stay. So God has brought Love Zimbabwe Festival to Guru. We are so much excited. It’s coming for free. Everyone is going to hear the gospel for free. So there’s been a lot of activities targeting the students. We had the schools ministry with co babababa from Kenya. Kenya is here. We have him from the United States. Then we have people from Latin America.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (20:27):
We have people from Brazil, from Puerto Rico, from the United States, from South Africa, from Kenya. There’s people from all over the world that have come here for this
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (20:39):
Love. So Daniel, there is this spirit of unity that we are seeing that is being brought about by this festival. The churches in Guru are united from all France, mainline churches, Pentecostals, they are all together. The churches you think they are, they don’t blend so well. You have brought us all together. So that’s one thing. I’m thanking the GNE for coming to Zimbabwe for coming to Guru. It’s such a wonderful moment and guru will be transformed. Amen, amen. Amen. Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (21:19):
Well, we’re excited about what God is going to do this week and it’s so wonderful to get to meet you. If someone wants to know more about your ministry, what’s a good way for them to connect with you? Is it through Facebook?
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (21:34):
Okay. Yeah. I am on Facebook or bes, that’s my,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (21:39):
Maybe you better spell your last name so they can know how to find
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (21:42):
You. Alright, that’s fine. So it’s Obe, OBEY. Then my surname is C-H-I-N-O-S-E-N-G-W-N-G-W-A. So Obe, let me spell the second name again. CHIN or S-E-N-G-W-A.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:12):
Well, it’s so wonderful to meet you. I love your vision. Thank you, sir. And I believe that God is going to do amazing things through your ministry. Thank you so, so much. Thank you. Obey for being on the Evangelism podcast.
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (22:25):
Thank you. Thank you so much. Evangelist. I’m going to, you have this mini request from you. You have been in the field, you have been speaking to nations. It’s over 70 nations. We have traveled only, I think I haven’t traveled as much as you have done, and we are young and you are old. And the Bible says we don’t despise the elderly. So maybe I want you to speak to ask young evangelists before we leave. I was watching you on YouTube, but today we are seated next to each other. So I believe when God brings people together, Paul was praying there, Anas was there. Then the Lord instructed them to be together so that he Anas can release the grace that God had sent him with Cornelius there, Peter there they were connected. So when you have come to Zimbabwe, I believe you have really brought something for young evangelists, not only me, but even for the upcoming evangelists in Zimbabwe. So I’m going to ask you to speak to us and pray for us.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (23:35):
Yeah. I was called to be an evangelist at a very young age, and that has been a primary focus of my life ever since. And there are many distractions in life. Satan tries to get you to go away from your calling and sometimes he gives a distraction. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a distraction. But you have to stay focused on the purpose that God has called you to. And if you feel that you’re called to be an evangelist, then make a commitment to God that you are going to be the best evangelist that you can possibly be and tell God, it doesn’t matter what distraction comes or what life brings, I’m going to stay faithful to the calling that you have on my life. In my life, there’s been many opportunities to go in different directions, but that commitment to fulfilling God’s calling in my life has what has helped me to continue in my calling and to continue to reach people for Jesus. And I think that if you will continue in what God has called you to do, to obey, to be obedient to the calling on your life. If
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (24:57):
The Bible says
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (24:57):
Obey, must obey. If
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (24:59):
You, you’re willing and obedient, if you’re willing and obedient
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (25:02):
And just tell God that sink or swim, no matter what happens, I’m going to fulfill this calling of God upon my life. And if you don’t give up, you’ll make it. There’s so many opportunities to get discouraged or to give up or to wonder why it’s not happening faster. But if you just continue to do what God has called you to do in big ways and in small ways, then the time will come where God will give you great success. I think one of the greatest secrets of the kingdom of God is faithfulness, just being faithful to the calling that God has on your life. So let me pray for you and pray for all the young evangelists of Zimbabwe dearly. Father, I pray for evangelist obey. Thank you for the calling that is on his life, Lord. Together we lift up Zimbabwe to you, Lord. I pray that Zimbabwe would come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior, that Jesus would be lifted up in this nation. And Lord, I pray that you would raise up a generation of young evangelists that would evangelize all of Zimbabwe, every town, every village, and then be sent from here to other nations around the world. In Jesus’ name, amen. Amen. Thank you so much for giving
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (26:17):
Me such an honor. Such an honor.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:20):
Amen. God bless
Evangelist Obey Chinosengwa (26:22):
You. Thank you for being on the Evangelism podcast. Thank you. Thank you so much, sir. Okay.
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Reaching Muslims in Liberia | Pastor Ostranuel Kamara
Welcome to The Evangelism Podcast, where we explore the joy and power of sharing the gospel with the world. Today, we have a special guest – Pastor Ostranuel Kamara from Monrovia, Liberia. He was born a Muslim and today Pastor Kamara shares his incredible testimony of coming to faith in Jesus after a miraculous encounter, and how God is now using him to reach his own Muslim village with the good news. Tune in as we discuss the importance of evangelism and how God is opening doors for the gospel, even in the most unexpected places.
Connect with Pastor Kamara on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pstostranuel.kamara
Summary:
- Pastor Kamara was born a Muslim in a village near where the evangelistic crusade of Daniel King is taking place. He had a powerful conversion experience and became a Christian after hearing a voice asking him about where he would spend eternity.
- Pastor Kamara’s village is predominantly Muslim, with no churches present. He has been praying for years to bring the gospel there.
- During the crusade, Pastor Kamara’s family members and friends from his village attended and some, including his non-Christian uncle, accepted Jesus.
- Pastor Kamara and Daniel King feel that God is opening doors to plant a church in Pastor Kamara’s home village, which has previously been resistant to Christian evangelism.
- They pray for the Muslims of Liberia to come to know Jesus as their Savior, not just as a prophet.
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King and I’m excited about telling people about Jesus. Today I have a very special guest with me, Pastor Kamara from Monrovia, Liberia. Thank you for being on the Evangelism Podcast. Thank you so much.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (00:16):
It’s a privilege being with you
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:18):
This week. Now you and I have known each other for almost 10 years now. You came to my house in Tulsa, Oklahoma 10 years ago, and you asked me to come to Liberia
(00:33):
And you began to pray that God would send me to Liberia. And now because of your prayers, here I am and so excited that you are able to join us for a crusade here in Hun Liberia. And tell me a little bit about how we got connected. We’re both members of the International Convention of Faith Ministries ICFM. And we’ve met each other several times at the conferences that they often have. And one of my good friends, pastor Tom Brown from El Paso, Texas, he actually ordained you. How did that come about? How did you meet Pastor Tom Brown?
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (01:13):
It’s a friend of mine that were following Pastor Tom Brown on to Pastor Tom Brown website. And he loved the teaching of Pastor Tom Brown. And within that time he told me that, look, I see this bishop, I mean pastor at the time, he was not a bishop yet. And then he told me that I think he would like to be connected to him. And then I had opportunity and I just got my visa to go to the US. And then I arrived and it was a senior year, the ordained Bishop Toran as a bishop. And then he sent for me and he received me. And then he said, the law is asking him to ordain me. I was trying to hesitate, but then, and the law told me yes. And then since Tom Brown ordained me, it took a new ship of my ministry.
(02:02):
And then he also introduced me to our CFA International Convention of Faith Ministry. And while we were discussing, because I had a plane and I be praying because I came from Lofa County here district at that time it was a district a time, just maybe 20 minutes to 15 minute drive from here. And it is a Muslim time dominated, no church had ever been dead. And I’ve been praying, oh God, I need men to come and help like a miss call. And then when I was telling Tom Bryan, I said, look, my heart is to take the gospel back to my people. And he said, oh, I got an evangelist that I know. I want to introduce him. And at the time your mom was at his church, your mom and died?
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:50):
Yeah, my mother and father were at his church.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (02:52):
They went to visit there and so it was high. He connected us. And you opened an arm to me and you invited me and I flew to Taw and you took me, you took me to your house, you took me to or university. You came in a lot of places to give me some sizing and we discussed and I told you that I want you to come to Li and said we should pray about it. But then the eboard, I came and then Coronavirus came and we couldn’t connect again. But here today you are in and my prayer is,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:27):
Well, it shows that your prayers are powerful even though it took some years for me to make it. My desire is to come to every nation and to preach the gospel. And I’m so happy that God has finally brought me here to Liberia. And so I actually didn’t give you any warning that I was coming on Sunday night. I landed at the airport and I remembered that you were in Monrovia. And so I just sent you a text message and called you on the phone and you answered and you said, oh, Daniel King, it’s so good to hear from you. And I told you I was coming here to hon and you decided to come with us.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (04:10):
Yeah, when I saw your text, the first, there was a jaw that hit me because this is what I’ve been praying for. And then later when we did a call and you say, can you come over? Maybe we have lunch, breakfast together. Then we can discuss. And then I was able to get to you the next one. So when you told me about coming to Calon, in fact without plan, I knew it was God timing. So I don’t need to put anything in place because this is what I’ve been praying for all this year. And you are telling me tomorrow morning we’re leaving and I just went to my wife, I said, look, we are soldier. When the loss goes right dead, it remind me of what the scripture talk about, the raptured, when Jesus come, when Jesus come, we’re in you. The Bible said the one that is on the hot stop, we not come down. Yes, we not come down. We not come down. You remediate two will be lying on the bed and one will be taken and so forth. So we are already it. So I told the world that if Jesus will come to rapture his church and I’m on the street, I’m not going to go back to make no plane. So I just thought about, I said, okay, I’m going with
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:28):
Now. It’s really special that you’re here with us helping to do this crusade in this place because you were actually born in a village very near to where we’re doing the crusade. And you were born a Muslim.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (05:43):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:44):
Tell me a little bit of your testimony. How did you come to know Jesus as your Lord and Savior?
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (05:49):
Okay, about 30 years ago, maybe 32, 33 years ago. I remember when I was 17 years, 17 to 18 years ago when the war was here, we have the classes and the first thing that happened to me in four year district, I’ve not explained it to you yet. In four year discipline, when you came in and they drove the rebel and I came to see a brother, what was there, we were sitting like this and this guy had an arm. One of the rebel had an arm, and then we were, they said up, but we have some civilian here, where are you with arm? He said there was no rhyme was in the arm. And he removed the magazine, we could see no rhyme and he put it back. We were playing with it, but then I was sitting opposite to him. And then I don’t know, his hand touched a trick out and the gun fired going to hold the sun. And where I was sitting right to my stomach and then I don’t know, I can’t explain up to my, he
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:48):
Shot the gun right at you?
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (06:50):
Yes. And you weren’t injured. And I saw the chair wore, had a mac, but then actually my spirit left me like I was dead and everybody rushed to me, but they are looking in my stomach. They can’t see no arm. And I’m just waiting to forward and died and I’m looking like that. And I had a trauma for good three months every time I think about it. And I was not safe at that time.
(07:14):
And even the God who God spared your life, and even the rebel God who did that shooting, literally walked to me and said, you are not an honor man. God have you for the purpose. Can you imagine? He was saying that. And then I have to go back to my hometown assembly home from full foia. And then one evening I sat at the back porch of the house and I was just thinking about life. This is a war to country. No school. I was not going to school. Things were difficult. And I started thinking how this life is going to be. And then I heard the voice audibly, if you die, what will you spend eternity. So I turned to see that maybe someone was speaking to me, but I saw nobody and the word repeat the second time and I become trouble. And immediately when I become trouble, then I started talking, okay, but then I think I need to be serious in saving God.
(08:07):
But I thought it was a Muslim way, so I wanted to maybe I was not committed as a Muslim to a certain level so that I went to my uncle. I said, I think I need to be more committed because the voice that I heard, what will you expect in eternity? Hell or heaven. But then just within that time I heard and inward it were leading me. Leave, go back to Monrovia, leave, go back to Monrovia. And the road was black. The rebel was on the window with the gold. So I walked from here almost to Monrovia. Wow. It took me five to six days walking in
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:43):
The forest. Yeah, even driving the other day it took us over eight hours driving. So you were just walking through the
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (08:48):
Forest. I’m just walking through the forest wherever there will be a night we sleep. The next day we continue along with my brother that they just threw you down there. One of my brother, the other one, I said, he’s the head of brother. We walked together and my mind was actually going back to Monrovia that since there is war here and then I can go to school, I need to go to school. So let me get to Monroy, go to school. And then when I got to Monrovia, I met my father because my father had already left from, he was living innoVi, my biological father. His brother was here. And then he told me, he said, I’m glad that you came. I want you to go to see Mary. That was a Kelly school and that was a bigger school. Then there’s a lady that told me, no, my church have a school.
(09:32):
Can you attend the school? But then they had a school in the church building on Sunday they have service. On Monday they remove the chair and they do the partition and they had classes. So my father said, that is not a school to the standard. I want to send you to a best school of standard. But I told he said no, because I’ve been convinced. But I think that God orchestrated it that way. And when I went to school, none together was talking to me. She already told the pastor that this guy is a Muslim, he’s coming. So I started going to the school, which was a Christian school, and then she was teaching the Bible and I was not interesting. I don’t want to take the Bible. And she said that you Muslim? I said, yes, I am. And she use the same word.
(10:17):
If you die, where will you spend eternity? Have you ever thought about that? Then it came to me. When I went home, I was trouble the whole night. And the whole night I was trouble. So I became confused like the Bible’s a multi to M in the divided of decision, but the law is near the body’s of decision. So my prayer that I did, that was the best prayer that I ever could do. I said, I want to know if Muhammad is the way of Jesus is the way. That was what was pond in my mind because I was not in the midst of this to I’m a Christian or a Muslim, and then that night is a fair to sleep. And Jesus appeared to me in a dream. He came almost to the cloud and on the open feet and he said, I am the way the two and the alive.
(11:02):
But one of the things that discovered when I look at his face, I could see love and clear for his eyes. And then he said tongue. When I turned him, he said, I saw the wide open feet and I saw people were being tortured, was suffering. And he said, preach to them. And when I opened my mouth to preach, I saw a lot of people were being heal. And I wake up that morning and I went to school and we had a chapel and the cover for and I gave my life, and there’s a peace that came into my heart and the peace I’ve never experienced in my life, all in me was trouble. But I see the peace and the kind. And then I said to Jesus, when I came, I was so excited and tell him, my father said, guess what, today I accepted Jesus.
(11:57):
I’m going to church on Sunday. He said, look, look, look, you may have been deceived by those white people who brought this gospel here. I said, no. So he just left it. He thought I was joking. The next morning I went to church. When I came back, he said, what did you from? I said, I went to church. He said, I told you not to go to church. So we had one of our uncle that live around the, and that Sunday evening they called me and they said, your dad said you went to church? I said, yes. He said, do you know that you’re not supposed to go to church? You are a Muslim. What are you doing? I said, I have seen the truth and the truth will set me free. And he beat me on my head, slapped me on my head. I don’t know where the bone came from. And I said, you can kill me right now. But I have seen the truth and the truth. And Jesus had revealed himself to me and he told me He’s the way, the truth and the life.
(12:54):
And then that high, I will curse out of the house. My father said he was not going to take care of me the game pay my school fee. But Jesus did everything. But the good part about it, after 15 years, my father finally accepted Jesus Christ. And when I asked him, because he walked to my church at the time, I started the church. And then I asked him, I said, what brought you here? He said, something just told me God. And I asked him about, he said, I believe the God. He said, I said, what make you to believe? He said, from the day you walk out of the house and you told me that you are going to serve Jesus, I’ve been watching your life and I see your life. And then there what I know that the scripture will said that you are episo written on our heart, read by every man that when we become a living bible, when people look at the kind of life you live. And I say, I believe because they live, you live. And then my father accepted Jesus Christ as a Lord and personal savior. Then all my sister that was in Monrovia, we had a meeting and he said, anyone want to become a Christian? Follow him. And my father had two wives and I began to talk to him. Now you accept Jesus Christ as a Lord person, savior, you need to marry one wife. And he left the other wife and he married
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:18):
The other wife in the church. And we officiated the wedding of my father. I preach and officially the wedding of my father.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (14:29):
And the good part about it, everything he had, he give it with Brenda, all the charm.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:36):
He was tying charms around his waist.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (14:38):
Yes. For protection. Because where he was working, they fought each order for power.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:44):
So he cut off all the
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (14:45):
Charms, all the juju beads. Yes, all those beads cut it up and I burned it.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:50):
You burned
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (14:51):
It?
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:51):
Yes. Wow. And so Monday night we had a pastor’s conference in Monrovia
(15:01):
And you brought a group of ICFM pastors that you’ve gathered together. And I preached on evangelism in the importance of going everywhere and telling everyone about Jesus. And then we began to pray for people. And God gave me a prophecy for you. And I don’t prophesy often, but when I hear the voice of God, I speak it out. And so I just felt that God was saying that in your village, that you were born in, that you would start a church in that place. And I prophesied that, expand your vision. You have a wonderful church in Monrovia, and we started talking about the village that you were born in and you haven’t been to the village for 30 years. Yes. Plus. Plus 30 years plus. And so I said, God wants you to plant a church in that place that you were born in because the village that you were born is a Muslim
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (16:04):
Village.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:05):
Everyone there is Muslim, Liberia
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (16:07):
Has today. There is no church there. As we’re speaking now,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:11):
Liberia has many Christians, but there are pockets of Islam all over Liberia. There are whole villages that have no churches. No
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (16:20):
Churches.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:21):
And so even though some people look at the demographics and say, oh, most of Liberia is Christian, there are still many Muslims that need Jesus here in Liberia. And so your village is a Muslim village. And so you hopped in the car, came with us up here to Calon, which is just very near your village. And you immediately started calling your family member saying, Hey, I’m going to be in the area. Can you come to the crusade? Tell us what happened.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (16:52):
Some of them, the first thing that started, I called my sister while we were on the way and I said, I will be in VMA in the next two hours. And she came, she was so excited. She said, I’m going with you to the crusade. Wow. And the next day she followed. And then when I got there, I called my uncle and I called some of my friends and read the tape. And then they were so excited and I told them, this is the emergency trip. I did not plan to come to the village, but I’m going to be to the village. I mean to just maybe a 15 to 20 minute drive. But what happened yesterday? And you prophesied. So when my uncle came, he was so excited. When you pray for him,
(17:39):
He said he fear something that you have never feared before. And when you left, he told me, he said, from today I will be called Pastor Peter, because his name is Peter. He is not even a Christian yet. But he says, I will be called Pastor Peter. He have not yet even said, but when you pray for him. And then he said, I will be Pastor Peter. And I brought Joe to me. And last night when we came back to the crusade, why you were ministering. And I walked down the aisle and behind the profile I call him and we started talking and he told me not, I’m ready now to accept Jesus Christ and his wife. And he accepted Jesus Christ. And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (18:24):
After the crusade last night.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (18:25):
Yes. And I led him to Christ also world by word. And he told me that right now, if you’re ready to play in a church in ma, our hometown, I’m going to be the first man to be the disciple of Jesus Christ. And then we talk a lot. He was so excited. I could see a joy and happiness on his face that, I mean, I have never seen him. These are people you don’t tell them about Christianity before. And I’ve been praying over 30 years for this village.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:00):
Wow.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (19:02):
I go,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:03):
This is the younger brother of your father?
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (19:05):
Yes, the younger brother of my father. From one mother and one father. Wow. So you’ve been praying for this village. I’ve been praying for the village for over 20 some old years that Jesus, if I, this morning I received a call from one of the friend that we grew up together and he said, you in, but we heard that you’re supposed to be coming here, but we are waiting to work to do anything you going to do. You want to be part of it
(19:40):
And God have opened the door. I read a scripture yesterday from Psalm 60 verses eight and nine, and God said, who will bring me to a strong city who will lead me to either? And there are strong city taken by the strong men, demon, the strong men, but God is looking for people. So I mean you just an answer, God bring you. This has been the first of it. Come over a decade to have a crusade in Koala. I know foia, it been happening, but in this is the first. So you broke the hatch, you break the stronghold over the ceiling. You have been the first for over decades, even when I was a little child growing up here, we have not seen no crusade like this here. This is the first of his car.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (20:37):
And you were at the crusade last night. Tell us what you saw. What impact do you feel the crusade had?
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (20:43):
In fact, the first thing I saw, the hunger of the people,
(20:47):
The cry was just increasing and increasing. And lastly, when you minister, I could see from the people, they were so hungry. But one of the things that happened is that when a lady came up who been blind, could see for several years, nine could see, and even he was trying to touch your nose. The whole place went, wow. I mean, this is the doing of the Lord. And we believe that you are sin by God. It is our prayer that you come back again because you are just started the fire. You need to come back and keep fleeing the fire. Amen. I’m so happy I’m one of the happiest person on the face of the island. Now I’ve been praying for my village to know Jesus Christ. And now they are telling me if my brother and I, we were discussing, he said He going to give my number to one of my uncle who have access to the learning, that they would make an arrangement to give a land to start a church. Wow. Praise God. It’s a miracle. It’s a miracle. And this is a city, and this is a village that when we were growing up, every missionary that come, they will not accept the missionary. The missionary will go to the next village,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:11):
But they
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (22:12):
Will accept you
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:13):
Because you’re a son of the village.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (22:14):
They have already accepted me. I’ve been receiving a lot of call that they are ready to accept me. It means that Jesus had opened the door. And guess what? This year when we started the beginning of the year before the watch night, I was praying, and the Lord said to me, 2025 is a year of open doors. I was not looking at either side. I was looking at maybe open door to other nations, other continent. But now I know it’s an open door to my hometown. Hallelujah. Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:53):
Well, it’s so exciting to be here. It’s so exciting to be a part of this miracle bringing Jesus to this Muslim village in Liberia. And I believe that the church that you plant will grow strong and powerful and you will be able to disciple your uncle and he will be Pastor Peter. He spoke the prophecy even out of his own mouth before he even became a Christian. But then last night, he gave his life to Jesus. And so God is working here. Let’s just finish by taking a moment to pray for all the Muslims in Liberia. Jesus loves Muslims.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (23:38):
Yes,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (23:39):
Jesus died for Muslims. And Muslims have great respect for Jesus. They call him the prophet Issa, and they know that Issa does miracles in the Quran. Jesus does many miracles, and I’ve seen all over the world that Muslims will come to Jesus when they see him do miracles. And so let’s just take a moment to pray for the Muslims of Liberia that they would see Jesus not only as a prophet, but also as their Savior. Go ahead and pray.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (24:12):
Father, in the name of Jesus, you said, who will bring me to the strong city? Who will bring me? Father, we make ourselves available. Lord, we thank you for the testimony that Muslims are coming to Jesus Christ. We thank you for this ing. We thank you for your seven Daniel King that you are sent. Father, we know that this is a Macedonia call that will been calling, Hey, we need you. And today here is he. We thank you for using to break the stronghold over the city that today the fire has spread above. Father, I thank you that today my own people are calling for the church for Jesus to be in the Muslim lion. Father, we thank you, oh God, because you have opened the doors and no man will shut the door. I thank you for many who are already hot, been softened because you said the heart of the king is in your hand. You are already soft in your heart. We thank you that my will be saved, my will be delivered. My will be liberated. In the name of Jesus, we pray for all the Muslim in Liberia. We pray for all the Muslim in the world that day. We come to know Jesus. Lord, as you appear to me, appear to them one by one in the name of Jesus. Thank you, father, for saving my people. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (25:51):
Amen. Thank you Pastor Ku for being on the Evangelism podcast. I’m so glad,
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (25:59):
And I want to say this is one of the greatest thing that ever happened in my life to see my people being saved. I’ve been praying. Praise God. Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:13):
Thank you Pastor Kuma.
Pastor Ostranuel Kamara (26:14):
So keep praying for us. We need your prayer. Amen. Amen.
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Evangelism in Sierra Leon | Orenta J.S. Macauley
On this episode of The Evangelism Podcast, I connect with my old friend Apostle Orenta J.S. Macauley, (I call him Solomon) from Sierra Leone. We talk about what God is doing in West Africa. Prepare to be inspired as was talk about how to catch, keep, and spread the fire of revival. One note before we get started. I had a problem with a bad microphone when I recorded this and there are lots of hisses, crackles, and pops. Please forgive the bad sound.
Connect with Pastor Orenta J.S. Macauley on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/omacauley
Summary:
- Evangelist Daniel King interviews Apostle Orenta J.S. Macauley, a pastor from Sierra Leone, about their longstanding friendship and shared vision for reaching West Africa with the gospel.
- Macauley shares his experiences of planting a church in a predominantly Muslim area of Sierra Leone and the challenges he has faced, as well as the miracles he has witnessed.
- King and Macauley discuss the opportunity to do large-scale evangelistic crusades across West Africa, leveraging resources and teams from different countries in the region.
- They express a desire to build a “crusade machine” that can move from country to country, preaching the gospel and reaping the spiritual harvest, while calling on viewers to support this vision financially.
Transcript:
Evangelist Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. I have a very special guest with me, pastor Solomon from the Nation of Sierra Leone, and it’s so good to have you with me today. And not only are you a pastor, you’re also an apostle. So tell me your full name.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (00:50):
Well, I’m Orenta J.S. Macauley. And tell me the name of your church. I’m as Mission of Hope International Church. And you are in Freetown? I’m in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone East part of Freetown. Wonderful. Well, I love Sierra Leone. We’ve been there. We’ve done a crusade in Sierra Leone and we want to go back. And so you and I have been friends for many years. Yes. Tell us, where did we meet? How did we meet?
You Had a friend called Trey. Trey Twyman, yeah. Yes. Who was a missionary when he was in ORU University.
(00:56):
So they came from missions in Ghana. I was in Ghana already as a missionary pastor under Reverend Doctor said, so we went for missionary trips in then he said a lot about you that he has a friend who loves missions. He loves reaching out to the law souls. And he said, the way I saw your drive, I want to connect you and Solomon, so you and Daniel so that you can reach out to the world. Then we spoke, I think he reached out to you. Then the following year you had an opportunity to come with Born to Ghana. So
Evangelist Daniel King (01:31):
We
Orenta J.S. Macauley (01:31):
Met,
Evangelist Daniel King (01:32):
Both of us. Were very young at that time.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (01:34):
You were very young.
Evangelist Daniel King (01:35):
And I came and stayed a couple of days With you. In Ghana? Yes, in Ghana. And we were talking about doing crusades in Ghana, doing crusades since Sierra Leone, other parts of Africa. And we were just dreaming together as two young men, two young men, wondering what God would do with our lives. And so I had the opportunity to introduce you to Dr. Tia Osborne, the great missionary evangelist. And what did you see with
Orenta J.S. Macauley (01:58):
Dr. Osborne
Evangelist Daniel King (01:59):
There?
Orenta J.S. Macauley (02:00):
Well, that really motivated me and gave me a fresh fire by God and not turn him back. That’s why we still in the race.
Evangelist Daniel King (02:06):
Amen.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (02:07):
Yeah.
Evangelist Daniel King (02:07):
And so after some years in Ghana, then God sent you to Sierra Leone?
Orenta J.S. Macauley (02:14):
Yes. Back to
Evangelist Daniel King (02:15):
And you planted a church there. Church, yes. Tell me about that
Orenta J.S. Macauley (02:18):
Process. It’s a tough process. Looking at the community where God sent me is a dominating community of Muslims. The first year of the church, six months we went down. Yes. And we told our ourself, come today, come tomorrow, the gospel of Jesus who be preached there. Because when I listened to The Osborn, he said a lot of things about the challenges or going to places where there are domination of people that are against the faith. So the trials will be there. So we started again after a year, another attack came again to the church. And the community rules up that they don’t want the church in that community. They don’t want the church. It’s an Islamic area. Everybody there is a Muslim, but God’s so good by the grace of God and prayer, like you said, catch the fire. Keep the fire, spread the fire. So the
Evangelist Daniel King (03:14):
Fire, yeah, that was the message yesterday at the fire conference here in Liberia. I told the people catch the fire and then you need to keep the fire because some people lose the fire. So you’ve got to keep it bright and then you have to spread the fire. And you said something very good today. In your message, you said that fire always changes what it touches. How did you say that?
Orenta J.S. Macauley (03:42):
I said that whatever fire touches changes completely,
Evangelist Daniel King (03:45):
Completely.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (03:46):
It
Evangelist Daniel King (03:47):
Makes
Orenta J.S. Macauley (03:47):
Everything
Evangelist Daniel King (03:47):
Different. And that’s what God has done in your life. You got touched by the fire of God, it completely changed you. And here many years later, you’re serving the Lord. Now I remember back many years ago, in 2007, we were doing a crusade in Guatemala. Guatemala. And you wanted to come and we had plans. You were going to come to the crusading, Guatemala, see how the crusade took place. And then we were planning to sit down and talk about the next step for doing something in Africa, coming to Ghana. And tell me what happened. It was a tragedy. Really. Tell me about it.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (04:27):
What happened? You sent me the visa for Guatemala and I never knew I have to take a transit visa for Mexico. So bought the plane, came to Amsterdam, and then transited to Mexico. Then from Mexico I was stopped at the airport that I need a Mexican transit visa before I coast to
Evangelist Daniel King (04:46):
Guatemala. And you didn’t know that? We didn’t know that. You didn’t know that? I didn’t know that. And so I remember you were calling on the phone, can you help me? Is there anything you can do? And we were busy with the crusading Guatemala, and we didn’t have any contacts in Mexico. And so you stayed there for two days under arrest at the airport. They wanted you to get a transit visa. And it was so sad because you were just trying to come to the crusade. And so they sent you back home.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (05:15):
Back
Evangelist Daniel King (05:15):
Home, and you never made it to that crusade. And so now 19 years later,
Orenta J.S. Macauley (05:23):
19 years later,
Evangelist Daniel King (05:24):
You have come to a crusade that I’m doing here in Liberia. And so you’re 19 years late, where were you?
Orenta J.S. Macauley (05:32):
Well, I was still doing the Lord’s work coming back in Sierra. Leon. Sierra. Leon need it needs to done because it’s a population with Muslims. And the Muslims are going rapidly. The church is diverting from evangelism to socialism. Yeah. The churches are diverting from evangelism to socialism.
Evangelist Daniel King (05:56):
And so how that work in the churches, instead
Orenta J.S. Macauley (05:59):
Of preaching the gospel gospel, they’re preaching another gospel. They’re not preaching about winning souls running after the lost. And we are losing many people. Wow. Yeah. Going back to Islam. Wow. Yeah, because when the Muslim, a Christian, it forces you not to go to church. It stops you completely. We had those things come on, but in my church, we break the rules. I have a pastor whose husband is a Muslim. He’s anal, but he comes to church. Wow. Yeah. We’re dragging into church gradually. And
Evangelist Daniel King (06:34):
So God is working in his life. God is working. He’s really, really
Orenta J.S. Macauley (06:37):
Working.
Evangelist Daniel King (06:37):
Wow. What a miracle. Well, the last time I was in Sierra Leone, we had a cameraman who came from the TV news station
Orenta J.S. Macauley (06:52):
And
Evangelist Daniel King (06:52):
We hired him to come with us to take pictures because it said he would be good at taking pictures. And on the first day he told us that he was a member of the Mandingo tribe. And the Mandingo tribe is like 99% Muslim to be Mandingo is to be Muslim. And they’re very proud people. They’re very strong, very proud. And so he came and he was taking pictures every day. And that was during the time of COVID. And so the big crusade was actually canceled because one week before we came, they made a rule. No large gatherings. So we decided instead of doing the big crusade, we would go from village to village. So instead of bringing many villages to the crusade
Orenta J.S. Macauley (07:40):
Location,
Evangelist Daniel King (07:41):
Every day we went to seven villages and we’re preaching. And so I was there with my friend, he’s an evangelist, his name is Will Jones, he’s got a great ministry. And me and brother Will, were going from village to village. We were preaching and in every village, many of them were Muslim villages. We saw miracles. Jesus was healing so many Muslim people. And so this man from the Mandingo Trap, he was taking pictures of every person that was getting healed. And so then on the last day, we had a big baptism service in a river. And we invited everyone from all the villages who had given their lives to Jesus. And they all came to the river and we baptized them. I think it was over 300 people. And the night before this cameraman, he came to us and he says, tomorrow I want to be baptized. Wow. We said, wow. He said, do you know what that means? That means that you are turning away from Islam and you’re turning to Jesus. You’re becoming a follower of Jesus. He says, yes. He says, all week I’ve seen Jesus do so many miracles. He says, I must become a follower of Jesus. And so we baptized him. It was a huge
Orenta J.S. Macauley (08:54):
Miracle.
Evangelist Daniel King (08:55):
And then when we went back to Freetown, we sent a pastor to his house and he baptized his whole family. He had a couple of wives, many, many children. Everyone got baptized and they all became followers of Jesus. And so God is working in Sierra Leone. Now you’ve come here to Liberia and it was not easy for you to get here, easier than Guatemala. But tell us the road, the journey that you took to get here.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (09:27):
The roads are bad. I did a video. I’ll send it to you on the ocaa. We have to cut down from the hills and the ocaa has to come up. So it’s about almost three hours on an ocaa. And the road is not paved. It’s muddy.
Evangelist Daniel King (09:41):
How long did it take you to get from Freetown to the border? Took me like four hours. Okay. So the roads there are good, they’re good. But then you got on a motorbike, got on a motorbike, and it’s just dirt, roads of dirt, path, roads. And you came across the border, across the border to the city of Ung. And we’re doing a crusade here this week. What have you seen at the crusade so far?
Orenta J.S. Macauley (10:05):
I’ve seen the hand of God mighty moving, very mighty. And last night it was amazing. It was really, really amazing that the woman was completely blind, said she has not been seen a visualist all gone. I received her the steps and I excitement was unexplainable, like somebody having deprived sight. And now he can see her excitement was uncontrollable. That’s why you were saying I reacted that way.
Evangelist Daniel King (10:36):
Yeah. I announced on the first night of the crusade, tomorrow night we will pray for blind eyes. And so many blind people came and I preached on blind Bartimaeus from the Bible. He was sitting beside the road, and as Jesus was leaving Jericho, he began to cry out and say, Jesus, son of David have mercy on me. And the people said, be quiet, don’t yell so loud, buddy. He yelled Louder, Jesus. I told the people, if you cry out to Jesus, then you can receive a miracle. And last night I asked the people to begin to cry out to Jesus.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (11:13):
Then
Evangelist Daniel King (11:14):
Everybody lifted their hands high and they began to shout. They said, Jesus. Jesus. And when that happened, there was such a strong anointing that came on the crusade field. Exactly.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (11:25):
We had Mary miracles because of the rain. We couldn’t take them. There was a woman who came to me. She had stroke and she has not been able to walk. She was the one raising the crutch when he said the survey, the crowds did not allow it to come forward. By the time she was coming, the rains were coming heavily.
Evangelist Daniel King (11:43):
The people with the crutches
Orenta J.S. Macauley (11:44):
Were coming forward. There were many were walking. She walked. She had stroke for three months and she has never walked. Wow.
Evangelist Daniel King (11:52):
Well tell about Sierra Leone. Do you think it’s possible to do crusades in some of the Muslim areas of Sierra Leone? Yeah. And what would you like to do there? What does God put
Orenta J.S. Macauley (12:04):
On your heart? What is the crusades? The dream we had 20 more years back together when we start to reach out to the lost Sierra Leon. Leon is ready. Like you said, today the harvest is ready. And like you said, it’s a time. Harvesting has timing. I wrote that thing and I began to ponder about it. When you plant a crop, it tells you about six months this crop will produce. So every harvest hasty. And if you
Evangelist Daniel King (12:36):
Miss it, the harvest will never come in.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (12:39):
Yeah. You’re going to lose
Evangelist Daniel King (12:40):
Some crop. The crops will just rot in the field.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (12:43):
Yeah.
Evangelist Daniel King (12:45):
So you feel like this is God’s time for Syria.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (12:47):
It’s goes timing. When I heard that you come into Liberia, I said, this is God’s breakthrough because there was a crusade in the city. It was mega. They have to break some compounds just for the crowd to be accepted. And that was
Evangelist Daniel King (13:04):
Massive. God has really put West Africa on my heart. And the neat thing is, is that when you have a passport from West Africa, it opens the door for you to go into other countries. And so it’s called, what’s it called? The Ewa KOAs. ECOWAS
Orenta J.S. Macauley (13:26):
Passport. That’s what
Evangelist Daniel King (13:27):
Does that stand for?
Orenta J.S. Macauley (13:27):
Do you know? It stands for West Africa and economical. It’s a union of,
Evangelist Daniel King (13:33):
So all the different countries here have made an agreement. And so it’s like Liberia, Sierra Leone,
Orenta J.S. Macauley (13:39):
Guinea, Guinea, Ghana,
Evangelist Daniel King (13:41):
Ghana
Orenta J.S. Macauley (13:42):
And Bina. Faso. Nija. All inside
Evangelist Daniel King (13:45):
Ivory Coast.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (13:46):
Ivory Coast, Senegal.
Evangelist Daniel King (13:50):
And so Nigeria here in Liberia with the ministry of Brother Billy
Orenta J.S. Macauley (13:56):
Bimba.
Evangelist Daniel King (13:57):
We have a truck. He has a ministry. It’s called Liberia for Jesus. But God has given him a truck, a sound system, a platform. And with this crusade setup, we can cross the borders because with the truck, we can get special insurance that will allow us to go to any of these countries in West Africa.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (14:18):
Exactly.
Evangelist Daniel King (14:19):
And so what I am asking God for is a crusade machine that will go from country to country, from place to place, from village to village, town to town. And that we could do not just one or two, but hundreds of crusades across this entire region of West Africa. And we can build a team. We can have some team members from Sierra Leone, from Liberia, get some team members from Ghana, Nigeria, people that are on fire for God. And together we can build a reaping machine that will bring in the harvest because it is harvest time.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (15:01):
It’s harvest time.
Evangelist Daniel King (15:02):
And to just go from city to city, town to town, village to village, country to country, nation to nation, preaching the gospel and bringing in the harvest. What do you think? You think that’s a good idea? That’s a
Orenta J.S. Macauley (15:13):
Brilliant idea.
Evangelist Daniel King (15:14):
You want to be part of the team.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (15:16):
I’m already done living Sierra Leon crossing
Evangelist Daniel King (15:19):
For 20 years. You’ve been praying to be part of the team. I don’t think it’s by accident that God has brought us back together at this
Orenta J.S. Macauley (15:25):
Time. I know. I know. It’s not really an accident that she really said to have a drive for Christ. Like we discussed, many have depart from the faith. I kept thinking about that word from the first night we sat at the dining room, were eaten. We said, many have departed from the faith and for God to keep us on this thing. It means he has a bigger plan. And to all our viewers who are listening, I will tell everybody that the support to the king’s ministry is not in vain. It’s a fulfillment of a heaven mandate. And God will really bless you.
Evangelist Daniel King (16:06):
Amen. Yeah. If you want to help support us, go to king ministries.com and give a donation today. We still need more equipment. This part of Africa is very hard on equipment. Last night it rained and some of the equipment, we are so worried it might get wet. We were wet actually to you and I were completely soaked when we got back. My shoes were squish, squish, squish puddle in my shoes. And every piece of clothing on my body was, you ring out the water, it was just completely wet. But it because the conditions here, so we need more equipment. We need to buy a big generator that costs about $12,000 to get a big generator that’s good
Orenta J.S. Macauley (16:54):
For wheel.
Evangelist Daniel King (16:55):
That has the wheels. That has the wheels to run the sound system. We need more sound equipment. We need another truck. You know what we really need? We need a land cruiser to be able to go anywhere
Orenta J.S. Macauley (17:07):
Across countries
Evangelist Daniel King (17:08):
Because sometimes the roads are very bad. They’re very bad. Exactly. And so we need the best land cruiser, Toyota Land Cruiser. And I went to look at one in Monrovia yesterday or a few days ago with Brother Bimba. And for maybe 50, $60,000, we can get a good Land cruiser that can take us anywhere here in West Africa, anywhere. And so I’m trusting God. I’m saying, God, send us the team, send us the equipment. We want to do crusades across this entire region of Africa.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (17:39):
Well, for our viewers around the world, and I want to say it’s a blessing. I’ve followed Daniel King for the past 20 years. So when I you online and I was following the Crusades, I said, wow, the dream is still on fire. Daniel is on fire. He’s just,
Evangelist Daniel King (17:57):
You got to keep the fire.
Orenta J.S. Macauley (17:58):
I know. And you really keeping it. And you spreading the fire. And you spreading the fire. And I want to tell all those, you can spread the fire with whatever support the Lord lays on your heart. Sometimes it’s not necessary that maybe you can leave your office, but your finances can be of a great benefit. And I want to say I’m already part of it. Although the work of an evangelist to meet out to the Lord souls and those who the Lord will touch. I know providing the vehicle, providing equipment for evangelism, it’s a breakthrough. It’s a spiritual breakthrough because nothing that is done for the Lord is in vain.
Evangelist Daniel King (18:41):
It
Orenta J.S. Macauley (18:42):
Saves generations. I have a testimony of a man who roofed the church and his son was suffering poem. There is an English woman, somebody who just, and the day he made the provision to just roof the church, his son was completely heal. Maybe somebody’s watching this today, and you’ve taken a lot of pills, medications. You are asking yourself how this happened. Just see the King’s ministry. I can buy that vehicle for the King’s ministry. Maybe no one not to. I can provide the trucks. I can provide the generator. I can provide the equipment. The Lord just laid up upon your heart. Just be a blessing to king’s ministry and it’ll be the greatest testimony, not only for you, but for your generations. Amen.
Evangelist Daniel King (19:38):
Amen. Well, brother Solomon, thank you so much for coming here to Liberia to meet with me. It’s my pleasure for trying to come many years ago to Guatemala. I know. And I believe God’s brought us together again for such a time as this. Amen. And so thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast.
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Lance Alves | Gospel Trucks for Africa
Lance Alves, his wife, and their five kids are called to be missionary evangelists in Central Africa. God has given him the mechanical ability to turn a normal truck into a tool that can be used for evangelism. His trucks are transformers for Jesus. In less than five minutes, a normal truck can turn into a platform with a sound system for preaching the Gospel in a marketplace or village. Today on the Evangelism Podcast he shares about his plans to reach Africa using Gospel Trucks.
Website: https://alvesministries.org/
Summary:
Lance Alves, a missionary evangelist, and his family are called to reach Africa with the gospel. They have developed specialized gospel trucks that can be set up in just 5 minutes to preach the gospel and perform baptisms in marketplaces and villages. The trucks are equipped with sound systems, power, and other necessary equipment to effectively reach large crowds of up to 100,000 people. Alves and his family, including his 5 children, are planning an upcoming 7-day mission trip to Central Africa during which they will conduct 35 outreaches in schools, prisons, and unreached villages. Their goal is to efficiently reach as many unreached people as possible with the gospel.
Transcript:
Evangelist Daniel King (00:00):
Lance Alves, his wife and their five kids are called to be missionary evangelists. In Central Africa, God has given Lance the mechanical ability to turn a normal truck into a tool that can be used for evangelism. His trucks are transformers for Jesus. In less than five minutes, a normal truck can turn into a platform with a sound system for preaching the gospel in a marketplace or village. Today on the Evangelism podcast, he shares about his plans to reach Africa using gospel trucks.
Evangelism Podcast Host (00:50):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast with Dr. Daniel King, where Daniel interviews full-time evangelists, pastors, missionaries, and normal everyday Christians to discover how they share their faith, their powerful testimonies, and amazing stories that will inspire you to reach people with the good news. And now here’s your host, missionary, and evangelist
Evangelist Daniel King (01:12):
Daniel King. Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. I have a very special guest with me, Lance Alves, thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast,
Lance Alves (01:26):
An honor to be with you today.
Evangelist Daniel King (01:28):
Alright, so Lance, you and your wife Heather, you were missionaries in Central Africa and now God is sending you back. You’re called to be an evangelist and you are building trucks. I’m so excited about the trucks that you’re building. Tell me a little bit about them.
Lance Alves (01:47):
Sure. So the trucks that we’re building are made for to do volume. So the five minutes set up and tear down, it’s very simple, very easy, and we can show the gospel many times in a day. It’s very simple. So everything’s prebuilt in and simple, but everything’s in it.
Evangelist Daniel King (02:11):
Now, where I met you was the Tulsa State Fair here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and you had your truck parked at the state fair. And as people were going by, you were ministering to them and even had a baptismal baptism like pool
Lance Alves (02:30):
Where
Evangelist Daniel King (02:31):
People who got saved. You gave them an opportunity right there at the Tulsa State Fair to be baptized. And one of the things I really loved about you is you have five kids and all five of your kids are involved with you in the ministry. So tell me a little bit about your kids, how old they are and what they do in the ministry.
Lance Alves (02:51):
Sure. So I have five kids ranging from 11 years old to three. And every one of them since being born in some way has been part of it. And so even from when we were on the streets of San Francisco, they were all on stage, even as we were rocking the baby carrier. And we just made a place for them in our ministry as a family. We felt that God had wanted us to do that. And so we never left them out. We always found a way that they could get involved. And some things that we would try to do is make it fun for them, so find their interest, but also make it fun. And at the end, we all really had a great time.
Evangelist Daniel King (03:35):
I recently saw a picture on your Facebook page where your kids were doing a puppet show. And it really brought me back to when I was a kid because when I was 10 years old, my parents became missionaries to the country of Mexico. And to be part of our family was to be part of the ministry. And so I did thousands of puppet shows on the streets of Mexico. I used to dress up like a clown, run through the streets and invite people to come to the service. And then we would do dramas and my dad would preach and I would pretend to be Jesus. And my sister would pretend to be a crippled lady and Jesus would touch her. And suddenly she was healed. And then my dad wanted to crucify Jesus. And so it was a great way to grow up. I’m a big believer that God does not just call individuals, he calls families to the ministry. And so talk to me a little bit about what you feel the call of God is upon you, but then how that it extends down to your whole family.
Lance Alves (04:32):
Sure. The calling that God has put is all of Africa. And so it’s not one particular region but the entire continent. And also there was other places that Lord had showed me that he would one day open up. And so we’ve never been one place only, but utilizing equipment, specialized equipment and people and be able to, for our family, that they could share the gospel, be part of it in almost a sense of multiplication. That was very important to us as a family. And so the kids have been able to be involved in music and puppet shows as you mentioned. And also they’ve been able to, if we had any food involved, they were part of that sharing what’s next, praying for the sick. And really it is just been an honor.
Evangelist Daniel King (05:35):
One of the things I really like is your focus on building these trucks for evangelism. And God’s given you a very mechanical mind, an innovative mind for taking a truck and turning it into a tool that can be used for evangelism. And the reason I think this is so important, what you’re doing is because we need to develop the infrastructure of evangelism. Think about it. When a church is wanting to minister to people, they do a capital campaign to raise money to build a church building. And the reason that people give to build a church building is because for a church, that’s where the ministry takes place. But it’s different for an evangelist. An evangelist doesn’t do his ministry inside a church building because the evangelist is going after people who are lost and who need Jesus. And so the evangelist is out on the dusty fields of Africa.
(06:39):
It could be a marketplace, it could be just a soccer field, it could be out in the jungle somewhere. That’s where the ministry takes place. And the evangelist needs to amplify his voice so that hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people can hear. So the ministry for an evangelist takes place not in a church building, but on a platform. And one of the things about doing crusades that I’ve learned is it is really expensive sometimes to rent platforms, to rent sound systems. And so I think the church needs to make some investment in the infrastructure of evangelism to build trucks, to build sound systems that can go from place to place and do evangelism in brand new places. And God’s given you a really innovative mind for developing this. So tell me a little bit, you’ve got your first truck, your second truck, and then you’ve got some plans for bigger systems. Walk me through what you’ve already built and what God has put on your heart to build in the months and years to come.
Lance Alves (07:46):
Sure. A long time ago, my mom had noticed that when I was playing the guitar, that I would listen to how other people were playing their styles. And I would really focus in and she noticed that I was always trying to make it better. I would come home, I would take that same song. I would work on how different things could be a little bit more efficient and make the sounds a little bit better. So when I look at equipment, I look at how can I make it more efficient? How can I reach more people, how can I do it cheaper and stronger and be able to do even more? So there’s a lot of variables in my mind that I pray through and really analyze. So the first truck, I call it state truck number two, or that’s our oldest daughter, Isla. We named it after each one of our kids just at home. But our first stage truck takes five minutes to set up and tear down. Everything is pre-built. So I pay attention to the sounds of the speakers, what it’s giving off of. I pay attention to every little detail from the,
Evangelist Daniel King (09:00):
So tell me a little bit about the stage truck. Sure. It actually has a stage built into it.
Lance Alves (09:06):
Yes. It’s like a box truck and it opens up on the passenger side, and there’s speakers that are connected. It’s all run by iPad. There’s a generator on board, and so there’s outlets, there’s lighting, light switches, fire extinguishers, and it’s built to San Francisco code, which is the top code for building and
Evangelist Daniel King (09:30):
Stuff. So you bought a truck and then you started innovating and building the different aspects of what it would take to turn it into an evangelistic tool?
Lance Alves (09:41):
Correct.
Evangelist Daniel King (09:42):
Okay. So you got your first truck, now you’re working on a second truck.
Lance Alves (09:46):
Yes.
Evangelist Daniel King (09:47):
Alright, tell me about that.
Lance Alves (09:48):
Okay. The second truck I looked at how I wanted to do something different. So the first truck opens up kind of, I don’t know how to explain
Evangelist Daniel King (09:59):
Audio. The side kind of opens up.
Lance Alves (10:01):
Yes, from left to right on each side. The second truck, I wanted to do something different. Each truck, I get bored after a while. So second truck, I was noticing that some trucks were folding down on one side. Well, I wanted to do something different. So I wanted both sides to fold down the driver’s side and the passenger side still have five minutes set up. I wanted sound system running all the every open space. So we’re running 180 degrees of sound. I visualized that there would be people and I wanted them to hear the gospel clearly, even in the very back. And so that was something that was a challenge, a creative challenge, and that was really exciting for me.
Evangelist Daniel King (10:44):
And so what size crowd can these
Lance Alves (10:46):
Trucks reach? Sure. So the first truck can easily do 1000. Second truck can easily do 5,000
Evangelist Daniel King (10:55):
In the years to come. You have plans to build systems that can reach the tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands. So tell me what comes next.
Lance Alves (11:05):
Sure. I run across different sound technicians and they give me graphs and all that kind of stuff and explain how it can’t work. Then I look at it and I pray and really check it out. And I say, okay, what are they seeing and what are they not seeing? I try to say, well, why can’t it work? And that’s how I approach it, why can’t it work? And so then we do that. So the second, or not the second, but the next equipment includes shipping containers. It’s very important for me to know that I could ship it to any country in the world via ship. And so everything is connected. So imagine three shipping containers and from one plug, that’s it. One plug the side sound towers plug into each side of the center stage shipping container. And so everything is running through that one plug. And again, that will take one hour sediment tear down with a minimum easy if not more, but 100,000 people.
Evangelist Daniel King (12:11):
Wow. And God’s already given you the blueprints, the plan to make that happen. I think that will be such a valuable tool to use to evangelize. And so let’s talk about your plans to evangelize. Tell me, it sounds like you want to do not just one crusade a month, but you want to have this equipment once it’s ready to just be going full time.
Lance Alves (12:37):
That’s right. In my mind, it is about efficiency being effective. And I really truly believe that the roughly 3 billion or so unreached people can be reached a lot faster than people actually realize. When you look at it on paper, put everything on numbers, and then you break it down how it is to reach those people and really come up with different steps to reach those people, it can really be done a lot faster. And so what we need specialized equipment, we need teams of people that are willing to do that. So the equipment takes a big load off of people. But here’s the thing, we can do multiple outreaches per day and then we could lead up into a bigger crusade and we’ve got to have all specialized equipment to do that. We could do training for evangelism as well and make it take equipment. And I want it to be fun for people. So imagine a missions trip that blows your socks off. You’re able to take rides in bush planes land right in the middle of the jungle where there’s no runway. You’re able to utilize different types of equipment that people would never have thought about in use of advantage of them, and you’re able to reach people.
Evangelist Daniel King (13:52):
That’s exciting. Now, coming up really soon in August, you’re going to be doing a mission trip to Central Africa and you’re taking your entire family, so all your kids are going with you. Tell me about what you plan to do on that trip.
Lance Alves (14:06):
Sure. So we’ll have, over the course of seven days, we’ll do 35 outreaches, five outreaches a day, and be back.
Evangelist Daniel King (14:13):
What are you going to do in your free time when you’re not? No five outreaches a day. That’s that’s a very aggressive schedule. No sitting around the hotel.
Lance Alves (14:25):
Well, actually that’s right after breakfast
Evangelist Daniel King (14:27):
And
Lance Alves (14:27):
Then being back, leaving the last outreach by 5:00 PM and being back at the hotel for dinner. So that’s our thing. And we have an hour in one powerful one hour event, and we allow for travel time in between. And so that’s how we’re able to really analyze things, how we could be efficient. Everything’s very simple, easy, and everything is just compiled into that one hour.
Evangelist Daniel King (14:55):
And so that’s going from village to village? From marketplace to marketplace.
Lance Alves (14:59):
That’s right.
Evangelist Daniel King (14:59):
And doing 35 outreaches in just one week.
Lance Alves (15:03):
Every school, prison and village. So we pick out, we map in unreached particular area and we look at every village, school, prison along the way. And we want to make sure that nobody’s left out.
Evangelist Daniel King (15:18):
And so you’re not just going to easy places, you’re specifically targeting places where there’s unreached people groups.
Lance Alves (15:25):
That’s right. Going into difficult areas. It doesn’t bother us. So in fact, even in different parts of the states, we take people with us and they’re very nervous, but we say there’s nothing to be afraid of. So
Evangelist Daniel King (15:42):
That’s right. Well, if someone wants to participate in your ministry, pray for you guys, maybe give to help you with what you’re called to do. What is your website? What’s the best way for people to find out more information about you?
Lance Alves (15:58):
Sure. They could go to alves ministries.org. That’s A-L-V-E-S ministries.org.
Evangelist Daniel King (16:04):
And tell me a little bit about the long-term passion that God has put in your heart for evangelism. Just talk to me about how you knew you were called to be an evangelist. What’s your story? How did you develop this in your life?
Lance Alves (16:21):
Sure. The Lord had called a absolute nobody, a zero, somebody who was stuffed in the lockers, picked on, beat up on, and God had a plan. And I laid everything before the Lord. They said I was convulsing for two hours, but the Lord was showing me what he wanted and if I would just trust him and believe him. And so we’ve seen a lot of powerful things. What we believe that God has is to reach again, every unreached people and that they’ll hear the gospel in a way that they can understand very simply, and that God would accompany with signs, wonders, and miracles and be able to connect them to churches for discipleship. And so we wanted to see both our family involved and other people and just multiply that. It can become in time, really a powerful evangelism movement. And so that’s certainly within our heart.
Evangelist Daniel King (17:30):
Amen. Well, thank you so much for being on the Evangelism podcast. Let’s finish with your favorite scripture about evangelism. What scripture do you like to preach about to inspire people to get involved in God’s plan for humanity?
Lance Alves (17:51):
Yeah, I think first of all, it’s an honor to be with you. It is actually a portion that comes from the story of Samson. And where Sams hint had tied Fox’s, their tells together, he had sent them out and there was nothing ordinary or special, rather about the foxes. They were just foxes. But the thing is that they were sent out two by two. They were accompanied with this flame and they were sent out into the harvest field. And I believe that that was almost that moment where Samson had done that. It was really resembling what Jesus does today.
Evangelist Daniel King (18:35):
Amen. Well, brother Lance, thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast. It’s
Lance Alves (18:40):
An honor. Nice to be with you. Thank you.
Evangelism Podcast Host (18:43):
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Evangelist Daniel King (19:44):
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Peter Kalagi | Uganda for Jesus
Evangelist Peter Kalagi from Uganda has been involved in extensive evangelism efforts across Uganda and other parts of Africa, including street preaching, feeding programs, and revival meetings. He had a powerful encounter with Jesus at the age of 14 that led him to pursue full-time ministry, though he initially resisted this calling. Peter Kalagi is now focused on a campaign called “I Am a Soul Winner”, seeking to inspire and equip more Ugandan believers to engage in evangelism and reach the lost.
Learn more about Peter Kalagi: https://enjiricenterministries.org/
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. I have a very special guest with me, Peter from Uganda. And can you please say your last name?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (00:13):
Peter Kalagi
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:15):
Okay. So tell me, what are you doing for God in Uganda?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (00:21):
I do the work of evangelism.
(00:24):
I evangelize, we do quite a number of things. We do capacity building, we do street preaching, we do kids feeding, we do revival, prayer summits. And we recently, we started a fellowship in Ginger City where we have over 400 plus people come. We meet once a month, every second years of the month. And this is also a platform where God is redefining Destin of so many believers in the city of Jinja. And we believe that being that Jinja is where the source of the nano starts from Uganda, it goes all the way to Egypt. So I believe that there is a great move of, God is going to hit the entire continent of Africa, and God is changing the trend before, especially in Africa, we’ve been receiving the gospel from the Europe, from guys like you. They’ve been coming to Africa. And you remember that the Ledan bank said that Africa shall be saved. And I believe that God is raising missionaries from Africa to Europe now. So I believe that there is a great move of God that is hitting Uganda and it’s going to go across the continent of Africa. Yes sir.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:50):
And so tell me, how did you know that you were called to be an evangelist? What’s your testimony?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (01:57):
My testimony at the age of 14, Jesus appeared to me. I was staying with my auntie from the side of my mom. I lost both my parents when I was young. I grew up with a strange, strange way. Life wasn’t that easy for me at all. I ended up being a houseboy in a family where I felt that they were going to take care of me. So Jesus appears to me at the age of 14, and I remember that entire night, the full night, like an overnight when I woke up, they told me, Peter, you’ve been praying the entire night. I’m like, I’ve been sleeping. No, we had you pray all night. And guess what? I was seeing a vision of Jesus. I was like, when? Every time I talk about it’s like it happened yesterday, five minutes back. So God called me in two minutes at the age of 14.
(02:54):
And that it’s one of the challenging moment for me because I didn’t want to go and do ministry. I didn’t want to just be in ministry. So after some time I started going to church, a local church. I was staying in a village called Kenya. That’s where I was raised up. So I started joining a local church, but later alone, I wanted to do business. So I quit the ministry staff. I’m like, I don’t want this stuff. Let me maybe make money. I supported Venice till 2016. You know what happened? I went to one of the Arab countries to make money. I almost died from that country. I won’t mention the name. I was poisoned. I repented and I told God, if you ever give me a chance, please, I will serve you the rest of my life.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:46):
So
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (03:47):
God saved me from those country countries. And then I went back to Uganda. Surprisingly, when I left Uganda and went to that country, by the time I came back, they had broke into the house where I was staying. I lost almost everything. I went back to zero. So I discovered that I cannot run away from the coal. I said, God, now you have me. What do you want me do? So he came me a ministry, which I’m running right now in G Center and G stands for Gospel Center. So through that ministry, we reaching out to the schools, reaching out to the community, to the slum areas where people are not willing to go. And even during Covid, I was moving from Uganda to Kenya, Tanzania, those countries I was doing evangels, even in Covid. So
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:36):
You’ve been evangelizing in many parts of Africa?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (04:38):
Yeah, many parts of Africa.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:40):
Wow.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (04:40):
Yeah, even Arab countries as well.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:44):
Wow. And what do you see God doing
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (04:50):
In these countries where I’ve been going?
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:52):
Yeah, share with me some testimonies of what God has done.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (04:56):
I remember one of the scenarios when I was in Tanzania, I happened to preach in one of the churches and God connected me to a family. When you go, Jesus met this lady on the well. And the conversation went far and far. And then the lady discovered that this is a prophet. And then she went and brought other staff, other people to hear Jesus. So for me, when I was in Tanzania, I met a bishop. God connected us in a molecular way. So he went to his church, preached there, God performed miracles, signs, and wonders. And then I used to meet people and someone came for prayers. Well, we are praying. He said, Papa, pastor, can you pray for my mother? My mother lives in the us. I’m like, okay, no worries. So they call the mama in the us or when I was talking on the phone, I said, mama, I see you.
(05:56):
You are in Maryland. Say, how did you know? Yes, I’m in Maryland. I’m like, you even have twins. Instant word of knowledge. God has been giving you word, instant word of knowledge. You meet a person, you tell them they’re in the first name. And that has been opening doors for me. Most of the people that have been discouraged, wounded, abandoned, and God, just you bump into someone they don’t know, you speak to them and you give them word of knowledge and then they open up. So now, every time I go to Tanzania, that family hosts me because of that word of knowledge that
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:33):
Wow.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (06:33):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:35):
What a great testimony. Now, just recently, Christ for All Nations came to Uganda and did a De Capitalis event, which is multiple
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (06:47):
Crusades
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:48):
In different cities. And so I teach every year at the Evangelism Bootcamp that Daniel Kalinda leads with the Christ world Nations. So many of the graduates from the Evangelism Bootcamp went to Uganda. I just finished doing a crusade in partnership with Christ for all nations in Congo. And while I was there, I was hearing so many stories of what God had done in Uganda, and they were just sharing so many testimonies. So I wanted to hear about the miracles and what you saw God do through the eyes of an evangelist from Uganda.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (07:27):
Yeah. First and foremost, for the first time in history, Chan, they’ve been celebrating 50 years of adversely
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:35):
And
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (07:36):
In ministry and also,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:38):
And their goal is to do 50 crusades all over Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo and Reinhard Bonky many years ago, had a vision of Africa, washed in the blood of Jesus. And so like you mentioned earlier, he said all of Africa should be saved. And so to celebrate 50 years, they’re doing 50 crusades this year. And how many took place in Uganda? There were quite a
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (08:03):
Few. 17.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:04):
17. Just in Uganda?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (08:06):
Yeah, just in Uganda.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:06):
Wow.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (08:07):
And it was first time. It was the first time to have such s happening. And Uganda being not like any other country, most of the areas we had distant were far five hours drive, six hours drive. They were not just closed to each
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:26):
Other.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (08:27):
So the team, the standard coin, had to fly in these whole cities in order to accomplish
(08:36):
The assignment. So I’ll talk about the tremendous move of code that happened. First and foremost, the first engagement I was given because I knew Chan, but I never worked with them. And I have coordinated several events work of God in Uganda for other ministries in Kenya and Uganda. So a friend of mine that I went with on a mission in Kenya is the one who connects me, recommends my name to one of the senior directors of Chan. So they needed to have a father’s meeting, a father’s gathering in Kampala to meet all the fathers. And it, it’s not easy. Most we’ve been having challenges where fathers are crashing with one another. So I came on board, they had a list. I’m also come up with a list. So we started to strategize paying a cut service to each one of them. And surprisingly, by the grace of God for the first time in history, for the first time in history, to have all of them in one room, even those that were busy, they had to send their,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:42):
It was a miracle.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (09:43):
It was a miracle. Actually. One apostle greater apostle called me and said that, you know what, this is not even a miracle. It is awanda
(09:49):
Because they have never seen it. And that is one of the greatest move of SI that brought in Uganda. First of all, they brought reconciliation, they brought peace, love, and harmony in the board of Christ. And it went all over the news, pastors, bishops meeting in one place. So after that, God opened up the hearts of Ugandans and pastors, including the church of Uganda. And every denomination came on board, not for any other business, but for the souls and for the sake of the gospel. And I even the C can say this, for the first time we had the government, the statehouse being involved in the crusades, they offered, the statehouse offered transportation for Daniel Lander. They offered, they cleared the trucks, the VIP, the treatment, everything and the impact, even rain action. Let me say this. The guys who were serving as some of them were serving in the army. And what they have been promoted, yes, they’re been promoted to those who came to serve. Those who are moving with dk, they are promoted right now.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:08):
They saw what God was doing
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (11:11):
After two weeks, three weeks here, a guy in the news being promoted by the president. That’s an anointing that came with Chan. And not only that, the wind, there is a wind that has been growing all over Uganda whereby there is an awakening of evangelism. Every church, the pastors, the bishops, denominations have been a awakened to evangelize. You hear, everyone is talking about evangelism. You go now to Kampala, you go to every east, west, north, south. Everyone is talking about evangelism. There is a move and any hunger that cannot be moved, people they own fire to evangelize.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:53):
Wow.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (11:54):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:55):
Wonderful. And so what do you see God doing? Lots of people were saved at the Christ for all nations. Crusades
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (12:02):
Over, I don’t want to give wrong, but over 200 plus.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:08):
Wow.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (12:08):
Over 200 plus
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:10):
200.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (12:11):
Yeah. 200,000,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:12):
200,000. Yes. 200 is not very much, but 200,000. Praise the Lord.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (12:17):
Yeah. 200,000 plus.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:19):
Wow.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (12:20):
Because people came on, all crusades, people came.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:23):
Wow. So what role did you play? How did you get to help out?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (12:28):
Surprising. I don’t know. Dunno how I can say this, but I was almost everywhere. I was almost everywhere. Everything that was happening in computer, we are stuck. Peter, the visa. My visa has linked, someone is coming at the airport. Peter, the police is not doing this, Peter. So for the first time in my life, I had never worked like that. And I wasn’t doing it for money. I wasn’t doing it for pay. People think that, oh, maybe I was paid money to do this. No, I am committed to the work of the Lord. And I made sure that the work of God moves on smoothly, even when my body was, because I reached a point when I was sick, I fall sick. I was on drips. But even the drip could not stop me to go and do ministry. Even when that’s how serious it was. I had to make sure God, Uganda, I was standing there for my country and for the sake of the gospel and for the sake of Africa because I ended up serving everywhere.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:32):
Wow.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (13:33):
Yes sir.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:33):
And so even though you weren’t paid, God will reward you for that and he will give you great fruit in your ministry.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (13:40):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:41):
Because that same anointing will come upon your life.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (13:44):
Yeah. Yeah. Because why did I bring out that? Because most people, when they see big ministry coming, they think of money. They don’t think of winning souls. You get my point. So for me, I was, I’m fully persuaded and focused on winning the lost owe my energy because God is our great reward. You get my point? Because if I didn’t do that, I wouldn’t have met you because that’s the connection. You don’t know how many people have been calling me like, oh, you’ve been working with si. We saw you take this. And because God looked at my heart, it was pure. It wasn’t about anything.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:24):
Talk to me about the future. What visions and dreams has God put in your heart? What would you like to see God do through your ministry?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (14:34):
First and foremost, in 20, in 21, when we are crossing, I think we are coming to 2022. God spoke to me to print out T-shirts written on. I am a solo winner. So we are running a campaign written called I Am a solo winner campaign. Like the book you’ve written?
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:59):
Yeah. I wrote a book called Soul Winner or Soul Winning. And we’ve given thousands of those books away all over the world. But just trying to stir up people to have a passion for soul winning. Yes.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (15:10):
Now it’s almost the same because God told me, just do that. We’ve printed over 1065 T-shirts, those T-shirts. We go on the streets. We’ve given them out in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, us and other countries. But God told me to print 20,000 of them.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:32):
Wow.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (15:33):
So we do that. And people that have been shying away from winning the Lost, when they put on that T-shirt, someone just feel like, I want to go win a song. I want to go win a song. So we are running that campaign every day. I have a team of over 100 people, like guys that are ready that we do. We meet in Jinja, even other places. But mainly now I’m putting a base in Jinja because we started, we launched a fellowship there and on every before the fellowship on Monday, we go on the streets of Jinja. We cover over 17 streets with evangelism, solo winning, going to the streets and the churches joining. It’s a platform that brings everyone to go and win. The lost people are not settling, they are not just now focused on, they are small congregation. They want more to come because there is more. When we go out and we win them, they come to our churches. So that is one of the areas that God has called me. And by his grace, we are pushing on that. And then I am building leaders that are kingdom-minded people who are Kingdom-minded people are willing to go to Egypt. People are willing to go to Pakistan for the sake of the gospel. And this is going to happen in Uganda. God is going to use Ugandans to go to these Arab countries and Europe to bring a revival.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:10):
Amen. Well, if someone’s listening and has a heart for Uganda, how can they get in touch with you? What’s your website?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (17:18):
The website is ww dot jeri center
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:27):
Com. You might have to spell Jeri. How do you spell
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (17:29):
It? Jeri. It is E-N-J-I-R-I-C. Center.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:41):
And then Center?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (17:42):
Yes. And then.org
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:45):
Center ministries.org?
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (17:47):
Yes. Judy
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:49):
Center Ministries Do org.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (17:51):
Org. Yes. Thank
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:51):
You. Okay, wonderful.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (17:54):
I’m also on the Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:59):
Wonderful. Well, brother,
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (18:02):
It’s
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (18:02):
So exciting to hear what you’re doing in Uganda. I celebrate with you,
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (18:06):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (18:07):
Thank you so much for being on the Evangelism podcast.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (18:10):
Amen. I’m humbled. Thank you so much.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (18:13):
Yes, sir.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (18:13):
Yeah. Thank you so much for the work you’re doing, and I believe that this is a movement that God is steering up advantage across the globe to move out. I just loved when you’ve been sharing with us, I just loved everything because there is an anointing of multiplication. Like we are deprecating ourselves in so many nations. And this is going to happen. You, you’ll be hearing testimonies upon Testimon. Why? Because God is raising an army that is going to go and win the lost.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (18:51):
Amen.
Evangelist Peter Kalagi (18:52):
Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (18:52):
Well, thank you. God bless you. Bless you too.
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Jean-Claude Chaffra | Evangelism in the Ivory Coast
Francophone Africa (including countries like Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, and others) has unique cultural and linguistic differences compared to other parts of Africa. Today, Daniel King talks to Jean-Claude Chaffra who has a heart for reaching people in French speaking Africa.
Connect with Jean-Claude Chaffra: https://www.facebook.com/chaffraj
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. I have a very special guest with me from Francophone Africa. So how do you say your name?
Jean-Claude Chaffra (00:11):
My name is Jean-Claude Chaffra and I’m based in the Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire). And it’s a great privilege to talk about what God is doing in the Francophone Africa.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:21):
Alright, so Francophone Africa is very different than the other parts of Africa. What do you think are some of the differences?
Jean-Claude Chaffra (00:33):
The first one will be the language, the culture, and also how we understand and how we do things.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:41):
Yeah. And you are connected with the Global Network of Evangelists and representing GNE for Francophone Africa. And tell me some of what God is doing in the areas of evangelism across Francophone Africa.
Jean-Claude Chaffra (01:00):
Thank you for this opportunity. Daniel, the Global Network of Evangelists exists to equip, to raise evangelists, and also to build the network of evangelists within the countries. And so far we have been working in 12 country, 12 francophone country.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:21):
Okay. Let’s name off the, what are the Francophone countries?
Jean-Claude Chaffra (01:24):
Look, Francophone country where we are working now, we have Covo, we have Togo, Benin, Nija, Mali, Guinea, RI, we have Cameroon, central Africa Republic, we have Gabon, we also have DRC Congo.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:43):
So I was just in Congo, DRC, and I was wishing I knew more French. I was like, I felt like, oh, I don’t know enough French, I only know a few words and I felt lost. It’s
Jean-Claude Chaffra (01:56):
Okay. We are trying from the francophone angle to be able to express ourself in English. It’s not always the case from the English speaking country, but God is working. We have embraced the work of the global network of evangelists and through the training that we organize with the mental guide provided by me trust, we undertake some training called advanced training. And advanced training has been a great tool to revive, to equip, to challenge ordinary believers to start and do the work of an evangelist.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:33):
Yeah, the advanced training was written by Ben Jack who’s here with us this week. We’re actually in South Korea at a conference. They’re talking about the billion soul harvest, reaching a billion people for Jesus. And so it’s such a delight to meet you here. We were also last week at the Uzon Conference and you and I actually went out with a small group witnessing in South Korea.
Jean-Claude Chaffra (03:00):
Yes. The aim of the global network is to raise evangelists. We have been seeing all over the US that it has been forgotten, redeem the church. And church people are keeping quiet, not taking advantage of everyday life to share their faith. So it was very great to size this opportunity during Lausanne to express our faith and also reach out to people to present the gospel.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:27):
And so tell me a little bit about your background, how you became a believer, and then how you received a call from God on your life.
Jean-Claude Chaffra (03:37):
Thank you. I gave my life to Christ since 31st December, 1990, almost 34 years now. And it came while I was at the Sunday school and come from and home background where my mom was no more in the family and my dad was having another wife. And it was very tough because when my younger sister was misbehaving, they were criticizing my mom. So it has create a kind of bitterness in my heart and sitting in the church and the pastor was preaching, clearly hear the voice of girls talking to me saying that Jean Claude, you can’t love me if you don’t love your sister. And I was like, God, I love you, but I can’t love my sister. She’s so difficult. And it was like, unless you love your sister, you can’t pretend that you love me. So with ts, I came to my need. I confess my sin and I vented him to my heart, praying that I’ll devote my heart to love him and to love my siblings. This is how I gave my life to Christ. And I pray over one year, 12 months for me to have the kind of love that God is having for his people. And since then I’ve started serving.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:53):
Wow. And so what about the call for evangelism? What’s on your heart for evangelism?
Jean-Claude Chaffra (05:00):
Since the school, even on grammar school, I’ve been leading student, young people to reach out to others. I came to the university I was doing with the same passion, the same zeal for prayer and also to share the gospel. So it’s like I’ve been serving him since 1995, even though I was still in the grammar school.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:25):
Wow. Talk to me about the Ivory Coast. What do you see God doing in the Ivory Coast and what do you think God will do in the future?
Jean-Claude Chaffra (05:36):
It’s good to know that Ivory Coast is located in south in West Africa and we have the heart and we have the calling to send missionary, and this is what you have been doing. The church in Ko Devore, I’ve been sending missionary to Guinea, to Niger, to Mali, to other places, to Senegal, to other places because we are more vibrant in terms of zeal, in terms of engagement. And we have this burden to see all the Francophone Africa being touched by the word of God. So it’s like a responsibility that we are carrying on our shoulders and we are praying and asking God to help us in his way to spread his gospel.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:20):
Amen. Well, thank you so much for sharing your heart for Francophone Africa. Let’s finish today by praying for Francophone Africa, but I want to ask you to pray, but pray in French, not in English.
Jean-Claude Chaffra (06:33):
Thank you, Daniel King, for this opportunity.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:18):
Amen. Well, many evangelists listen and so just take a moment to invite evangelists to come to Francophone
Jean-Claude Chaffra (07:27):
Africa. This is a great opportunity and I would like to call to each one of you who are listening to what Daniel is sharing through this podcast. Please remember Francophone Africa for long we have been left out and we believe that even the language should not be a barrier. We are desperate to experience a revival. You are desperate to experience the power and the work of God. God is doing something and we’re calling you to be partner to join hand with us. God bless you. Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:58):
Thank you for being on the Evangelism podcast. Thank you.
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Zambia
Missions From A-Z – From America to Zambia
Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega. Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and Omega is the last letter. Jesus is the beginning and the end. He loves every nation on earth, from A to Z. I have ministered in many countries, but Zambia is the first nation I have ministered in that begins with the letter Z. To me, going from America to Zambia was symbolic of our desire to follow the command of Jesus to “Go into all the world.”
Our outreach to the city of Ndola was led by the Global Network of Evangelists, a ministry of Luis Palau. The goal of this outreach was to reach out to every level of society in the city. The outreach was a great success. Over the course of a week, we ministered face-to-face to over 141,373+ people in Ndola during the Love Zambia Festival with 24,474 people giving their lives to Christ, including 271 recommitments. I am thankful for Desmond Henry and the staff of the Global Network of Evangelists for organizing all the ministry.
Outreach to the Government
When I arrived, we had the privilege of meeting the Provincial Minister of the Copperbelt region. He reports directly to the President of Zambia. The main export of Zambia is copper. Half of the world’s copper comes from the mines in this area.
I shared a story about the great evangelist George Whitefield who once ministered to the coal miners of England. He stood outside the mines and preached and as the coal miners got saved their tears made white tracks down their cheeks. So many miners got saved that the donkeys who worked in the mines were confused about whether they should stop or go because so many of the miners stopped cussing. I told the Provincial Minister that we would pray that God would send the same revival to the miners of the Copperbelt region of Zambia.
The Provincial Minister welcomed us to preach the Gospel in Ndola. He told us that the President of Zambia has declared that Zambia is a Christian nation! He asked us to pray for the economic growth of the region, but he said that the greatest battle that needs to be won is the spiritual battle. He lifted his Bible in the air and said that everyone in his region needs to read and obey the Word of God.
Outreach on the Streets
A pickup truck with a small sound system and a generator is all you need to attract a couple hundred kids for a mini-Gospel festival. We sent these Gospel trucks out to many locations around the city each day.
At one street meeting, when I gave an altar call a woman named Mika Chanda came forward. She fell to her knees, lifted her hands in the air, and cried out to God. Tears streamed down her face as she repented for her sins. God touched her and by the time we left she was smiling.
My goal is to lead a million people to Jesus every year. A million is a big number. But you have to remember that every number represents a face, a name, an individual. Heaven is celebrating that Mika Chanda had an opportunity to hear about Jesus and respond to His love.
Outreach to the Young People in the Schools
Zambia is full of young people. Zambia has more than 4.8 million young people aged 15-35. They represent 36.7% of Zambia’s population. That’s why we visited schools to proclaim the Gospel to children and teenagers. Our school outreach was led by Kubamba, a team of young adults from Kenya. They lived in Zambia for four months and ministered at over one hundred schools.
At each school, they encourage the young people to make the right choices in life. They use music from a live DJ to get the kids excited. Then they do a drama about how Jesus can set people free from every kind of vice and addiction. The drama begins with a young man who is being called by Jesus. But soon he is distracted by a girl who encourages him to listen to secular music and to promote himself on social media. Then he is tempted by a man who offers him money. Next comes drinking alcohol and addiction to drugs. He gives into the temptation of pornography and sexual promiscuity. A witch does witchcraft over his life and he is attacked by thoughts of depression and suicide. The entire time an actor playing the part of Jesus is calling him. Finally demons come to torment the man. Jesus steps in and fights the demons and overcomes the devil. Jesus takes all the man’s sins and places them on Himself and gives the man a sign that says, “Saved.” When the school kids see the drama their hearts are open to give their lives to Jesus.
Outreach to Business Leaders
We asked the local churches to invite business leaders and young professionals from across the city to a lunch meeting on Friday. They gathered in the ball room of the hotel we stayed at and we fed them lunch. Since young professionals consider appointments and schedules to be of great importance, I preached to them a message I originally heard from Evangelist Daniel Kolenda about the importance of the calendar. Here’s what I said to them:
Did you know that God has a calendar for your life? Who wants to know what is on God’s calendar for your life? In Ecclesiastes 3:2, it says, “there is a time to be born.” So God knows the day of your birth. Your birthday is written on God’s calendar.
Hebrews 9:27 says, “It is appointed onto man once to die.” This means that death is not an accident. Death is an appointment. The day and the time of your death is written on God’s calendar.
There is another day written on God’s calendar for your life. It is the day of salvation. Would you like to know which day is written in God’s calendar for your salvation? If you could peek over God’s shoulder and look at his calendar for your life it would say, “Today is the day of your salvation.”
In 2 Corinthians 6:2 the Bible says, “now is the day of salvation.” It does not even say, “TODAY is the day of salvation.” It is more urgent than that. It says, “NOW is the day of salvation.”
If a man is drowning in the river, he does not need to be saved sometime today. He needs to be saved NOW. This is how important salvation is to God. He says, “NOW, not just today.”
How can you tell if you are hearing God’s voice? God always says, “NOW.” The devil always says, “Tomorrow” because the Devi knows a secret. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow is just an idea. You do not have tomorrow and you may not ever have tomorrow. All you have is this moment. Right now.
There are people in hell right now, not because they said, “no” to Jesus, but because the devil convinced them they could say “yes” to Jesus tomorrow. But tomorrow never came.
Today is your day of salvation. Now is the time for you to be saved. When I gave the altar call, many of the business leaders gave their lives to Jesus.
Outreach at the Love Zambia Festival
Jesus made His disciples “fishers of men.” As evangelists we are fishing for souls. Every fisherman knows that in order to catch fish you have to use the right bait. In order to reach young people we used soccer, bike tricks, juggling, music, and bouncy houses to get people to come hear the Gospel. As everyone partied, we preached the Good News about Jesus.
Thousands of people responded to the message and gave their hearts to God. After the people prayed for salvation, they were met by councilors who helped them to fill out a decision card and gave them a copy of the Gospel of John.
One elder lady broke into tears when she received the Gospel of John. Holding it close to her heart, she exclaimed, “Surely God has not forgotten us.” There is nothing better than bringing hope to those in desperate need of it.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo
Gandajika Gospel Crusade
It was the biggest crowd in the history of our ministry. How big was the crowd? What message caused thousands of people to come to Jesus? What are the three biggest miracles God has ever done? Watch this video above to find out. Tears came to my eyes the first time I watched it.
Power to Preach the Gospel
To preach the Gospel you must have POWER…first you need the power of the Holy Spirit but you also need the power of a generator to run the sound system. Yesterday, our generator got stuck in a muddy rut in the road so the crusade team was scrambling to find a replacement.
In the town of Gandajika, Congo DRC they were able to find only one generator powerful enough to run the sound system. But the generator was built into a little building designed to protect it from the rain. So our crusade director had to rent a shovel truck to lift the roof off the building and then to lift the generator out of the building to put it in a dump truck to haul the generator to the crusade.
Tonight I preached on the paralyzed man who was LET DOWN through the roof. But for this crusade I have a new story about a generator that was LIFTED OUT through the roof. To make a crusade happen we must often go to great lengths and fight great battles, but this is the first time we have literally lifted the roof off a building.
As I preached on the paralyzed man we had an actor play the part in an illustrated drama. The bed he was laying on was carried to the stage by his four friends. The sight of the bed being lifted above the heads of the crowd attracted lots of attention. The friends laid the bed at the front of the platform and we read the story from Matthew 9. Jesus says three things to the paralyzed man.
Strengthen Your Heart
First Jesus said, “Be encouraged.” The local language of Gandajika translates this verse as “Strengthen your heart.” Jesus encouraged the man because he was sad, worried, and lonely. I told the people, “Jesus wants to encourage you tonight. Jesus wants to strengthen your heart. Jesus will take away your sadness and give you joy. He will take away your worry and replace it with hope. He will remove your loneliness and give you His presence.”
Your Sins Are Forgiven
Second Jesus said, “Your sins are forgiven.” I explained, “Jesus came from heaven to earth to forgive our sins. Everyone has sinned and the price for sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. Jesus dies on the cross to pay the price for our sins and tonight Jesus wants to forgive your sins.”
Get Up, Take Up Your Bed, and Go Home
Third, Jesus healed the man’s body. Our actor on the stage stood to his feet and began to dance. “I’m healed!” he shouted. The entire crowd clapped because they were excited to see that Jesus is a healer. After the drama was over, I prayed for three things.
First I explained the greatest miracle is when Jesus forgives your sin. “If you want Jesus to forgive your sin, lift your hand,” I told the crowd. Across the field, thousands of people lifted their hands. I led them in a prayer of salvation. Our counselors immediately got to work recording the names of the people on decision cards so the local churches can follow up on them later.
Second we prayed for emotional healing and third we prayed for physical healing. Many people were touched by God and we had a variety of testimonies to share with the people.
Let the Little Children Come
Here in Congo ministering to children is unheard of. Typically, pastors tell the kids to sit in the back of the church and to be quiet. So when we announced we were doing a “Children’s Festival” at the crusade grounds on Friday morning the children began to cheer.
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me.” That’s exactly what happened. The children came running from all over the city. They had big smiles on their faces.
We sang with them. We played games. We had a dance competition. Several of the graduates of the Christ for All Nations Evangelism Bootcamp told stories to the children. Hidden in each story was a Gospel truth. Repeatedly, the children heard the message, “Jesus loves you!”
Before I became known as an international evangelist I was a children’s minister. In my teenage years I dressed up as a clown as a tool for reaching children for Jesus. So, even though I am here to preach at the crusade I jumped at the opportunity to juggle for the children. As I threw balls high into the air, the kids laughed and clapped.
I balanced a pole on my finger. The key to keeping it balanced is to look at the top of the pole. I told the children, “If you keep your eyes on Jesus, your life will stay balanced. But if you take your eyes off Jesus, your life will fall apart.”
Then I told a story about a monkey who lived in the jungle. Some monkey hunters trapped the monkey using bananas. In the same way, Satan uses a sin trap to capture us. But Jesus came to set us free from the trap of sin. All the children shouted, “Jesus sets me free!” After the altar call, we gave each child a mini-book written by Daniel Kolenda. The book uses fun illustrations to teach the children how to follow Jesus.
The Father of Hugs and Kisses
On the third night of the crusade I preached on the Prodigal Son. The story is one of three stories found in Luke 15. First is the story of man with one hundred sheep. He loses one and he leaves the 99 to look for the one. Then there is the story of a woman who has saved ten silver coins. When she loses one, she searches the house until she finds the lost coin. Finally, is the story of a lost son.
In this story Jesus reveals God the Father to us. Many people think of God as an angry judge who is ready to condemn people who sin. But Jesus reveals that God is like a father who is searching for his lost son.
The son asks for his inheritance and then he wastes the money by living a sinful lifestyle in a faraway land. The son runs out of money and is stuck feeding pigs. He remembers his father and he decides to return home and beg for forgiveness. But as he walks the long road home he wonders if his father will be angry at him.
But the father (who represents God the Father) is out in front of his house looking for his lost son. He sees him coming from a long distance and the father runs to his son. The son falls to his knees in shame, but the father lifts him up and gives him a hug and kisses him. He gives his son his coat and puts his shoes on his son’s bare feet. He puts a ring on his finger and calls his household together to celebrate the return of his son.
In this story, Jesus reveals the Father of Hugs and Kisses. I told the crowd, “God is not angry at you. God loves you. God is looking for you.” I asked the people, “Will you come home to the Father’s House tonight? Will you turn away from your sin and come running home to your heavenly Father?” The crowd shouted “YES!” and I led them in a prayer of salvation.
Jesus said that all of heaven rejoices when one sinner gets saved. Tonight thousands of people came home to their heavenly Father and heaven is rejoicing!
I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All People
We invited all the local pastors and church leaders to a Fire Conference on Saturday morning.
Here in Congo many of the churches do not believe women can preach. Because of this religious doctrine, they have silenced half of the body of Christ. Also many of the pastors are older because they tell the young men they are not old enough to preach the Gospel.
So I preached on Acts 2 which tells about what happened on the Day of Pentecost. After the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit Peter began to preach. He quoted from the book of Joel, “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit.” I asked the pastors, “Do you want God to pour out His Spirit.” They all shouted “Amen.”
I continued to read, “God will pour out His Spirit on all people.” I posed the question, “Do you believe God can pour out His Spirit upon all people? The pastors shouted, “Yes!”
“Your sons and daughters shall prophecy,” I read, “Your young men will see visions…Even on my servants, both men and woman, I will pour out my Spirit in those days and they shall prophecy.” I asked the pastors, “Do you believe God can use the women and the young men?” They pastors were a little hesitant this time, but a few replied quietly, “Yes.”
I told the story about the time Reinhard Bonnke was asked, “Do you think God can use a woman to save someone?” He replied, “If I was drowning, I would not care if it was a man or a woman who threw me a life preserver.”
I explained, “God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people.’ God can use your sons and your daughters if you will let Him.” I asked the pastors again, “Do you believe God can use the women and the young men?” This time they answered with more enthusiasm, “Yes!”
Then I invited two of the women evangelists who are on our team to share. Their names are Grace Smith and Anastasiia Dvoinikova. They both shared a powerful word and by the time they finished, the pastors were all shouting, “Amen.”
At the end of the Fire Conference we laid hands on every pastor and the fire of God fell.
Holy Spirit Night
Saturday night at the crusade in Gandajika was Holy Spirit night. I preached on the three greatest miracles in the Bible. Creation, Calvary, and Pentecost.
Creation: At creation is where we see God the Father’s greatest work. I told the crowd, “God created you. You are made in the image of God. You are God’s special creation.” I explained that God created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, to be His friends. Every day God walked and talked with them in the Garden of Eden. But one day they disobeyed God and this sin broke their fellowship with God. I told everyone, “You were created to be God’s friend, but your sin separates you from God.”
Calvary: At the hill named Calvary, we see God the Son’s greatest work when Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay the price for our sins. I announced, “At Calvary, Jesus saved you.” Jesus, the Son of God, came from heaven to earth. Every day he walked and talked with His disciples. Then Jesus gave his life so we could once again have fellowship with the Father. The price for sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus. The crowd listened intently as I explained, “If you will call of Jesus, He will forgive your sin and you will be saved.”
Pentecost: The day of Pentecost is where we see God the Holy Spirit’s greatest work. One hundred and twenty disciples were gathered together in the upper room when suddenly a mighty wind began to blow. Tongues of fire rested on every head and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. Now, the Holy Spirit wants to come walk and talk with every believer. I prayed for everyone to be filled with the Holy Spirit. As the thousands of people began to pray in the Holy Spirit, it sounded like the roar of a mighty lion.
Jesus Breaks Every Curse
People in Africa are intensely aware of the supernatural world in a way that the Western world often does not understand. They believe in curses and they often go to witchdoctors in search of a cure or a benefit. For example, a businessman might go to the witchdoctor and pay her to cast a spell upon his business rival. A barren woman might ask the witchdoctor for a potion to help her get pregnant. The witchdoctor makes money off of curses, so there is often a spiritual struggle when a Gospel crusade comes to town.
On Thursday night a witch doctor came to our crusade. She intended to walk through the crowd and place a curse on Christian believers. But as she walked around she found that her magic was not working. She stopped to listen to the message and she heard about how Jesus has the power to break every curse. She was convicted by the Holy Spirit for her evil ways of living and she decided to cry out to Jesus for salvation. She repented of her witchcraft and she was saved!
I pointed to two big barrels on the field and said to the crowd, “Tomorrow night we are going to burn every work of Satan. I want you to bring your juju beads, your witchcraft charms, and anything that represents your life of sin. We are going to burn everything in the barrels and send the devil’s curses to the fires of hell.”
The following night the former witchdoctor brought a paper with the names of all of her curses written down. She came to the front and threw the cursed paper into the barrel.
We doused the contents of the barrel with gasoline and threw a match in. Woosh! The fire burned hot. Our team of intercessors danced around the burning barrels and shouted, “Jesus! Jesus!”
From the platform I proclaimed, “Jesus breaks every curse. When Jesus died on the cross, He destroyed the power of sin and the power of Satan. Be free from every evil curse in Jesus’ name.”
Night of Blessing
The final night of the crusade in Gandajika was awe inspiring. The crowd size increased substantially. No one in the city wanted to miss the final night of the crusade.
The theme of the night was Deuteronomy 30:19 “I set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life!”
I gave the crowd a list of words. Some of the words were God words and some of the words were devil words. I asked the crowd to point up to heaven if a shared a God word and I asked them to point down to hell if I shared a devil word.
The first word was “LIFE.” Everyone pointed to heaven.
The second word was “DEATH.” Everyone pointed down. I explained that Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus comes to give us abundant life (John 10:10).
“BLESSING” It is a word that comes from God.
“CURSING” It is a word from the pits of hell.
The next word was “SALVATION.” Every index finger on the field pointed up. “SIN” Everyone pointed down. I repeated the word “SALVATION” and listened to my translator say the word in the local language. I tried to repeat it after him. I must have messed up my pronunciation bad because everyone laughed at me. “Do you think I should learn your language?” I asked. “Yes,” they all replied.
“HEALING” comes from God. “SICKENESS” comes from the devil. The people knew the right answer even though some theologians get this concept wrong.
“PROSPERITY” is from God. “POVERTY” is from the devil. “LOVE” is a God word, “HATE” is a devil word.
I preached, “Everyone must make a choice. You can choose to go to heaven or hell. You can choose to trust in Jesus for salvation or you can walk away from God. There is a broad road that leads to hell and many people are following it. There is a narrow path that leads to God. The name of that narrow path is Jesus! If you cry out to Jesus, and turn from your sinful ways, you will be saved.”
“Do you want to choose to follow Jesus?” I asked.
“Yes,” roared the crowd. I led them in a prayer of salvation and the councilors moved through the crowd giving books to all the new believers.
Everyone chose blessing instead of cursing. At the end of the evening, we burned two barrels full of the curses of witch doctors. Then I prayed a powerful prayer of blessing over the crowd. “You are blessed, blessed, blessed!” The whole crowd went home full of God’s blessing and thankful that the crusade had come to their city of Gandajika.
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Humanitarian Outreach in Burkina Faso | Samuel Ouedraogo
Samuel Ouedraogo, a pastor from Burkina Faso, discusses his background and the work he is doing in his country. He explains that his father, also a pastor, raised him to serve those in need, and he now leads a social work organization called Word of Hope. The organization focuses on healthcare, education, and farming, with the goal of helping people have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Ouedraogo shares testimonies of lives impacted by their work and discusses the challenges of reaching people in a country with a large Muslim population and ongoing terrorist attacks. He invites listeners to get involved in helping to reach West Africa for Jesus.
Learn More About the Ministry of Sameul Ouedraogo: https://www.paroledespoir.org/
Transcript:
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King, and I’m excited about telling people about Jesus. Today I have a very special friend with me, Samuel Ouedraogo from Burkina Faso. Thank you for being on the Evangelism Podcast.
Samuel Ouedraogo (00:12):
Thank you for having me,
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (00:13):
Brother Samuel, you are from the nation of Burkina Faso. That’s right. And you are reaching many people in the nation of Burkina Faso. Tell me a little bit about your background and how God brought you to the point where you are now.
Samuel Ouedraogo (00:30):
So thank you, Dr. King for having me here. It’s a joy for me to do this broadcasting with you. So my name is Samuel Ouedraogo and I am from Burkin Faso and I live in a capital called Ouagadougou. So background, I was born in a Christian family. My dad is a pastor, but he has a unique childhood. So while he was a child, my grandfather passed away and at that time he was in the primary school. So a few days later, the death of my grandfather, they chase him out from school. So he didn’t get any chance of finishing his primary school. So during those difficult time, the Lord called him into the ministry. So he raised us up with some tools into serving the needed one because he was one of them. So that’s how we grew up as a
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (01:37):
Family. Your father pastors a church in Burkina Faso, and it’s an Assembly of God church. And he has influence in the Assemblies of God throughout all of West Africa here. And so what do you see God doing during this time in Burkina Faso?
Samuel Ouedraogo (01:54):
So the Lord hasn’t done with Burkina Faso and he is doing great things. It’s true that my country is going through difficult time because we are under terrorist attack. So the current president usually say that we are at war against the terrorist, but that doesn’t stop us preaching the word of God. So in my country right now, we have three different ways of showing the love of Christ, of preaching the word of God. The first one is door to door evangelism. The second is crusades in those cities where there is not some issues. And the third one is through social work. And this is what we’re doing. So we have, of course, my dad is a pastor of the Assembly of God, and while he was pastoring the Lord gave him the vision of studying a social work called Para Depo. And within Para Depo, we are able to reach thousands of children, thousand of people for the Kingdom of God.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (03:03):
And so you are helping to lead this social work and you work in several different areas. Tell me about the work that you do.
Samuel Ouedraogo (03:14):
Yeah, so after my studies in the United States, while I was there, I wanted to finish quick my studies so I can go back and help my dad with the ministry because he was very busy with the Assembly of God because at that time he was the superintendent of the Assembly of God, of Burkina Faso and the President of the West African Assembly of God and the Vice President of the entire continent of the Assembly of God. So when I finished my studies, I went back home. So the three areas we
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (03:45):
Work. Now, your studies, you were at Oral Roberts University.
Samuel Ouedraogo (03:48):
Of course, I went to Oral Roberts University.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (03:50):
That’s the same university that I’m a graduate of. That’s, and so you came and got your learning and kept your burning as we like to say at ORU. But what were some of the things you learned during your time at ORU?
Samuel Ouedraogo (04:04):
Oh, I learned so many things. I did like Chapelle, it has brought to my spiritual life to a certain level. And also I took one class called Spirit and Empower Living, and the teacher was President Billy Wilson. And I have learned a lot about the Holy Spirit, which has helped me grow my intimacy with the Lord and also having friends, Christian friends around me. It has also helped me have a solid foundation.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (04:45):
So you went to ORU, then you came back to Kinno Faso, and you started working in the area of social work. Yes. And there’s several different areas that you’re working in. Tell me about those different areas of social work.
Samuel Ouedraogo (05:03):
Our ministry is called Word of Hope in English. And within Word of Hope, we have three different areas. So the first one is healthcare. When it comes to the healthcare, we have a big hospital in the city in the capital of Ouagadougou where we have about 100,000 a year. So the vision over there is to provide medical healthcare to the community while showing the love of Christ to the community. And within the medical center, we have a chaplain every day from 7:00 AM to seven 15, we start the day with a little of devotion and we pray for the patient. So everybody gather the doctors, the patients, and then we pray. And after that, the chaplain will go to the hospitalization rooms and pray for the patient. So we have a lot of testimonies about people who have been healed through the prayers. So that’s what we do.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (06:00):
That’s very interesting coming from Oral Roberts University, that you have that paradigm of ministry because Oral Roberts was one of the first to teach the theology that prayer in medicine should be combined. That we believe in medicine, that all healing comes from God. And God can use doctors, God can use medicine to heal people. But along with medicine, we also bring the healing power of God. And when you combine the power of medicine with the power of prayer to together, it brings healing to people. And so I think this is a very appropriate ministry for a graduate of or university to lead, to go into the hospitals, to pray for people to show the love of Christ. Yes. Okay. What’s the second?
Samuel Ouedraogo (06:45):
So the second is education. So at the education level, we have a primary school, high school and college. So at the primary school and high school, the vision is to make leaders who have the fear of God into their heart for the entire continent of Africa. So we recruit unfortunate kids, orphans kids, displaced children, all over high country. And we take them to our boarding school in where we feed them three times a day. We educate them the word of God, and we also teach them general education. So from age of six, seven years old, by the time they leave, they have a high school degree in their hand ready to go to college.
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And at the university level, the college level, the vision of the funder is to give the opportunity of those surrounding countries, Muslim countries, to have a place to pursue their university education within Wago. So that’s what we do when it come to the education level. And then we have farming and agriculture. But before I talk to that, I come to the farming and education. We also have a vocational training center where we teach young girls who don’t want to pursue their general studies. We give them the opportunity to be trained into sewing, hairdressing, and also cooking. And so we train them and then we send them back to their areas so they can be helpful. And while the kids are in the compound with us at the boarding school, we also teach them how to raise pigs, how to raise cows, how to feed them, how to milk the cows, and also how to do gardening. So we teach them how to do vegetables so that when they go back, they can be helpful to their communities.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (08:49):
And so you are working in the hospitals, you’re working in education, and then you’re working in farming and training people in how to raise different kinds of food. And ultimately your goal is to help people to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. And so what do you feel are ways to reach out to people in Burkin Faso? There’s a lot of challenges. Like you mentioned, there have been recent terrorist attacks in Burkin Faso. And so because of that, there’s potential danger. But in the midst of great darkness, Jesus still shines bright. So tell me a little bit, how does Jesus shine in the hearts of people? You have some testimonies of people’s lives who have been impacted.
Samuel Ouedraogo (09:42):
Yeah. Burkina Faso is a country I that I love, and it’s a special country. So as you mentioned, in the midst of darkness, we should shine because we represent Christ in the nation of Burkina Faso. Right now, we have approximately 1 million of people displaced families. So reaching those people through social work will be a good way of sharing the love of Christ and making them disciples because we have those displaced camps that we can go to and help those people don’t lose hope and let them know that Christ can be their helper and that he hasn’t done with them. And also, Burkina Faso is a Muslim country in the sense that more than half of the population is Muslim. So one of the strategy we have is door-to-door evangelism. We will go sometimes to a neighborhood and just knock the door and tell them we are here to shed the word of God.
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If they accept, we’ll, shed the word of God. If they don’t, we ask them if they have any sick person in the house, we will pray for them. If they allow us, we pray and we leave. If they don’t, we close the door and we move to the next door. And we have major cities in Castle where crusades, high skilled crusades can be done, where we can have thousands of people gathering of people to share the word of God. So this can be a way of reaching more people in those measure cities. And as you said, we have testimonies. So the founder of Word of Hope has been putting pressure on me to recruit displaced children. And when those kids comes to the compound at the boarding school, they’re terrorized. When they hear a noise, they get panicked. So the work we have been doing is to a lot of prayer counseling and letting them know that this is a safe community. So at the end of the day, we’ll see that they have their confidence back, and that even becoming prayer warriors, praying for their parents, and also doing good at school. So we have a lot of testimonies.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (12:19):
Wow. So as people are listening and maybe they have a heart to help per Keno Faso, maybe they want to help with your hospital ministry or some of the education or social work that you’re doing, what is a good website where they can find out information about you and maybe even get involved, pray for you, even give some funds to help out the people of Burkina Faso?
Samuel Ouedraogo (12:43):
Yeah, we would love to have some help. We would love to have people, Tim, come to Kin AFA and to help us reach the unreached and make disciples for the Lord. So a good website to get to know us will be www do ppo, P-A-R-O-L-E-D-E-R-P-O-I-R mean.org.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (13:15):
Here. Spell that again.
Samuel Ouedraogo (13:16):
So www.paroledespoir.org. And I also have my email address that you can send me an email, which is O ns dot s@gmail.com.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (13:44):
Wonderful. And so I encourage you, if God puts it on your heart to be a part of the ministry in Burkina Faso, I encourage you to reach out, be a part, and get involved in what God is doing in this nation. It’s landlocked in the middle of Africa, really, the heart of West Africa. That’s
Samuel Ouedraogo (14:02):
Right.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (14:02):
But I believe that God is doing great things in Kinno
Samuel Ouedraogo (14:06):
Faa. Yes, yes, yes. So we are looking forward to having Dr. King with a team to help us reach the unreached.
Evangelist Coach Daniel King (14:14):
Yeah. Thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast.
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Missionary from Ghana to Guinea | James Obeng
Daniel King interviews missionary James Obeng from Ghana, who is currently serving in Guinea. James shares how he became a missionary after receiving a prophecy about serving in a French-speaking country. Despite not knowing French, he learned the language and started doing evangelism and ministry work. James faced challenges in communicating with the locals but found ways to overcome them, such as using translation tools and working with a young boy who could translate for him. He also established a church in Guinea. James credits his spiritual father, Evangelist Dag Heward-Mills, for inspiring him in his missionary and evangelistic endeavors. He learned from Dag Heward-Mills’ teachings about patience and perseverance in ministry. James also shares how he supports his ministry through various entrepreneurial activities, such as selling perfumes, farming, and baking bread. Additionally, he talks about his journey to finding a wife and how God led him to a Guinean woman named Fatima. Despite initial resistance, James followed God’s leading and proposed to her. The episode concludes with Daniel expressing his admiration for James’ faith and the impact he believes James will make as a missionary.
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King and I’m excited about telling people about Jesus. Today I have a very special guest, James Obeng. Yes. Did I say that right? Correct. From the nation of Ghana. Exactly. And we are actually in Guinea right now. And you have come from Ghana to Guinea as a missionary, and it’s a big mission field. I mean, Ghana, you go from an English speaking country to a French speaking country. Exactly. From a country that is majority Christian, to a country that is majority Muslim. Muslim, yes. And very different culture here. Yes. And so how did you become a missionary?
Missionary James Obeng (00:46):
Wow, thank you. First of all, I became a missionary. By one day I was in school. That was when I completed junior high school. In the year 2006. We were youth and we used to go for prayers. So one day we went for prayer and the leader who was leading, he was a prophet and he gave me a prophecy that he sees me in a French speaking country. By then, I received the prophecy bets. I didn’t take it.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:21):
And at that time you didn’t speak any French?
Missionary James Obeng (01:23):
I didn’t speak throughout my life. I didn’t go to any French school. So by then I never knew any French. And even when I got here, it was in Guinea here, I started learning French by the grace of God. Wow. So when I received the prophecy, it kept on three times. So we finished secondary by the grace of God. And when I finished secondary, I used to move in the church. I was by the grace of, I was the leader for the youth. So I did the little that I could in the church. And when I completed the secondary school, I got the chance to go to university. So in university too, we used to go to every Christmas we used to go to the villages to go and preach and stay there whilst our parents would be calling us, oh, come home, let us celebrate the Christmas together.
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But we stayed in the villages and we used to win soul for Christ. So from there I was a member of Church of Pentecost. Since my childhood, that was where my mother sent me. So I grew up in the Church of Pentecost by James McKeon. So when I completed university and I came to the capital city, that’s Accra. I didn’t know which church to attend the area where I was staying. There were a lot of churches there. So I prayed to God one morning that, oh God, I want to go to church, but I don’t know where to attend. Lead me to where you want me to be. And lo and behold, I attended one of evangelist Dag Heward-Mills church, which is Morning Star Cathedral headed by Bishop Ka Bidden. So when I entered the first day, they had a meeting after church service to teach people how to go out and win souls and how to do something for God.
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And it was something that always motivated me to do something for the Lord. So after the meeting the following week, I went back to the church and prophet called out for people who have completed university and who feel that there’s the call of God upon their lives. And I was someone who used to be shy. Anytime I see crowd, I didn’t want to push or go there. But I don’t know what happened. I found myself in front of the church and we were about 30 something people, if I 30 something people who went forward. And among all these people, prophet asked me whether I’m interested to come and work at the church as a receptionist. And I said, Hey. And we just finished university and we were posted to different places to go and do our national service. And it wasn’t possible. There were, it wasn’t possible to get transfer from where you were posted to come back to Accra, the capacity to come and do the service.
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So when he told me, I said, oh, this one is very difficult. And he said, well, pray about it and start doing something because I felt that I want you to work with us here. So when I went back to the my station, I went to see the director for the health service, and the director to lo and behold, was a member of this same church, Morningstar. So went after explaining everything to her, she said, okay, if that’s the case, I’ll help you with a letter for release. And with that letter go to the National Service Headquarters and present that letter to them and they will see what they can do and by the great. So when I went there, everything went on smoothly and I was transferred from the town where I was doing my service back to Accra. So a month later, prophet told me that I should prepare.
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I’ll be going for missions. And I said, if missions I love do evangelism, and when I see people coming to Christ, there’s this joy that comes to my heart. And Bishop Dag Heward-Mills has been some, anytime I see his crusade, the way people are crying, lifting up their hands, coming to Christ, there’s this burning, I don’t know how to explain it in ways, but I feel this desire and this hunger to also win. So for the Lord. So when he asked me to prepare, I said, okay, I will. So I started praying six months later, he said, it’s time. But initially he didn’t tell me the place where I’ll be going. He said, James, prepare. I think you’ll have to go to Guinea. I said, Guinea, I never knew the language that Guinea speaks, whether it’s a French or so. I went online and I checked, I said it French, and I’m someone who likes French. I’ve never studied French in my life. And that’s
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:53):
What the prophecy came earlier, that you would go to a
Missionary James Obeng (05:55):
French nation. Exactly. And it was exactly 10 years. When the professor came in the year 2006, and I completed university in the year 2017, and it was in 2017 that the professor started manifesting the grace of God. When he told me that, I started remembering, I say, oh, if that’s the case, I was afraid initially I say, I don’t have any French background, so how am I going to do this machine work? But I believed in that prophecy and I kept it in my heart and I wrote it in my diary. So I remember the prophecy and I said, oh God, if you are the one me working here, because the church had over 5,000 Sundays, over 5,000 people go to the church. So out of this 5,000, I was new. I was new in the church. The prophet didn’t know. My parents didn’t know me from anywhere, and he called me to work at the reception.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:52):
So how long have you been here in Guinea now?
Missionary James Obeng (06:55):
I’ve been here for five years now by the grace of God.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:58):
And what were some of the challenges that you faced initially, and what have you seen God do while you’ve been here?
Missionary James Obeng (07:06):
Initially when I came because of the French barrier, I had my phone. So when I want to talk to people, I pick up my phone, I go to translate Google, I’ll see the thing, the words in English, and the Google will translate it into French. Then I couldn’t read the French, so I gave it to the people around those who can read. Or sometimes I click on it, then the audio will play. So there was a name they called me, the pastor who uses his food to translate. That was in Wow. And it was a little challenging for me to communicate with people, but lo and behold, I got this. God brought this young guy who was 11 years old, he used to attend English school. So the mother went to see the mother through evangelism, and the mother said, oh, I can take the boy.
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So wherever I used to go to the evangelism, I was with this boy, this boy will translate it in their local dilate. That was gey. So he was the one I used to move with and go told me that whatever he wants me to do, I should continue to do. I shouldn’t look at the barrier, which is the language. That’s the reason why the boy and everything, the thing is I have to have the desire and I have to do what he asked me to do. And through that, by the grace, I started picking it, picking it small, small. And there was this thing to that helped me. My senior pastor, who is Reverend Wanda, asked me to do something, not just come in without working on anything. So I brought some things from Ghana, and when I go out, I used to force to speak the French, communicate with them in the French language. So that was what helped me initially to start forcing with the French language, one by one, one by one, and also with the aid of the Google translator. So that’s where I started picking the French.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:51):
And so now you’ve established a church here? Yes. You planted a church? Yes. About how many people would come on a typical Sunday morning?
Missionary James Obeng (09:01):
By the grace of God, our largest attendant has been 96.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:06):
Okay.
Missionary James Obeng (09:07):
We had a program called SW Sunday. It’s a program that my spiritual father, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills has been organizing, and we followed one day. So all the members, we told them, I try and invite someone to church because I realized that most of the people come with the mindsets of coming to receive their healing, the miracles and breakthrough. And after that, they go back to the world. Initially, that was the challenge that I encountered. Here, we’ll go out after preaching. Oh, God has been healing a lot of people. So when they heard that, oh, God is healing people in this church, they will come.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:46):
Wow.
Missionary James Obeng (09:48):
A day on that
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:49):
Sunday, you’ve seen lots of miracles.
Missionary James Obeng (09:50):
Exactly. So when they receive the miracles and they go home, and by the grace of God has been healing, a lot of people, God has been so after that, they refuse to come back to church. When you encounter, oh, I came to receive my healing, or I came to receive a miracle. So I’m a Catholic, I’m a Protestant, so I’ve gone back to my church. Meanwhile, they’ll be in the house, not going to church. So that was the challenge. And also for now, we are in our forties by the grace of God, and there’s a challenge here. Most of the people, those who are committed, they try to move from this city, go to a different place, look for money. They have a mining place called Sigrid, and also manna. So the youth who used to help committed a time will come and they be moving. So those are, the attendance have been fluctuating that by the grace of God for now we are in our forties.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:45):
So let’s talk about your spiritual father, Dag Heward-Mills. Exactly. He is an evangelist. He’s a great evangelist from Africa, from the country of Ghana, and he’s very well known all over Africa. He’s been having huge meetings, just as big a meetings as any American evangelist who would come. And people in Africa love Bishop Dag Heward-Mills. And so tell me some of what you have learned being under his ministry about being a missionary, about being an evangelist.
Missionary James Obeng (11:20):
Okay, thank you. Evangelist Dag Heward-Mills has been someone who has been inspiring me a lot. I came into contact with the evangelist. That was in the year 2011. One of my colleagues in secondary school came to visit, and when he came, I was in the process praying and studying, and he told me that there is one man of God called evangelist that you were nurse. And he was in a university by then. I was in my first year in the university. And he said, oh, I would like to share some of his messages and his books with you. And I said, okay. So he shared some of his audios, preaches, and some books with me. And the message that touched me a lot was a message title, the word of my patience. And the evangelist thought on how God called people and how he, after speaking or giving them the prophecy, how it takes the duration, the way for us, it seems that it has delayed.
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So the long time it takes before the prophecy come to pass. So I listened to how he spoke about Abraham and the promise God gave to Abraham. He said, you are the father of all nations, many nations. And it took 25 years for this promise to come to pass. He spoke about Jacob when Jacob was leaving his father’s house, when he had an issue with his brother and was going to his uncle. And the way it took long time over 20 years before he saw the prophecies and the promise of Welcom coming to pass, he spoke about David, how God told David that I have anointed you to be a king, and still he has to fight with soul. So the challenges that they went through. And he said, when God calls you, you have to be patient, to be frank. I dunno how to explain, but this message touched me.
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And I used to always listen to that message. When I’m going wherever I’m going, I used to have a e piece and I had a Nokia phone, so the Nokia phone will be in my pocket when I’m sleeping, I listen to that message and it has been a message that I cannot forget. And I always encourage those that I meet. And by the grace of God, I’m trained that anytime God speaks to you or you receive a prophecy, be patient with God, do not rush. When you rush, you’ll be making a mistake and always believe in the way that God has spoken over your life. And also, I saw some of his crusades. It was my first time swinging some of his crusades. I used to see the crusades of evangelists, Han Bonky and bein and other men who got bes. It was my first time I saw the crusade by evangelist dark gold mills and how people were crying the way he has the zeal, the hunger.
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He said he, no matter nowhere is far for the gospel to reach. So that because of that, no matter what it takes, he try to sacrifice, make sure the gospel go. And also he wants all the villages. He said, the men of God go to the big, big cities, but there are towns and villages where people cannot afford to go or to hear the gospel. So no matter where you are, the gospel must reach you. And it was, we have to go to those places, we have to go to them. He said, those people, every town and village, every town and villages, we have to be there. And they said, Jesus went to the towns and villages so we don’t have to be in the towns only, but in the villages to reach the poor. Because he came to preach the gospel to the needy and the needy people, most of them are the poor people. So as we preach to them and they come to Christ, there’s this joy. I watch one video and I realized how they were Muslims and how it was in Covo, how the people were crying, weeping, and in fact, I couldn’t stand. I also started crying and I said, God, give me this grace. I want to reach out no matter where they are, to go and preach to them. And that’s how I started.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:31):
It takes great faith to be a missionary. Yes. Did anyone support you when you were starting to be a missionary? Were there churches or individuals that helped to support you? How do you support your ministry? At least in the beginning?
Missionary James Obeng (15:47):
Okay. When I came initially, it was a bishop, Bishop, prophet Rabin. He’s the bishop for the address of Kadesh Kosh. So he used to send us support and other thing. But when I came, he told us that to be a missionary and to survive, you must try and do something on your own.
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So whatever you can do, try and do it on your own to survive. And that’s something that the evangelist has been encouraging us with. That wherever you go, do not put it at the back of your mind that, oh, people have to support me. And when it happens that you try and rely on the people instead of putting your faith in God in order. God is the one who has sent you there. So whatever that we can do. And he used the way he said Abraham was a missionary. Abraham moved to different nations, and as he went, he was working to survive.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:48):
And so what have you done to work to survive?
Missionary James Obeng (16:51):
Okay, thank you. I used to, initially I was selling perfumes and other things from Ghana. I realized that Guinea loves things from Ghana. So I started with perfumes and some mosquito repellent cream, some clothes, long sleeves. So I used to sell them in farm. And when I came here to, I realized it was not working here. So I started by farming. And also I started, what’s the name? Baking bread, doing some juice. Wow. So for now
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:25):
It And are you still doing that now?
Missionary James Obeng (17:26):
Yeah, the bread. I still doing the bread that
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:29):
Wow. Yes. Now God has given you a great blessing while you’ve been here. Yes. You met a girl and you asked her to marry you. And so now God has brought you together and she’s beside you. Tell me, what is her name?
Missionary James Obeng (17:46):
Her name is Fatima ob.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:49):
Okay. And she’s a beautiful young lady. Yes. And tell me about how you met her and how you asked her to marry you. Okay.
Missionary James Obeng (17:59):
When I was coming, initially I was single. So it was in 2020, I went back to Ghana and my senior pastor James, it’s not good for you to be single on a mission field. And I was someone who was afraid to propose to a lady why? I didn’t want to give my word a promise and fill the person. So it was very challenging for me to propose to a lady. So when they told me, I said, okay, I’ll pray about it. And there was this lady when I was in Ghana, she used to come and help me at the reception. When I’m busy, I’ll ask her to sit at the reception and help me. So when I came, when I went back to Ghana, I proposed to her and she had said, I said, let’s pray to go so that the will of God will come to pass. So when I came back in 2020 and we were still doing courtship and doing marry school, but it got to a time, I realized the lady was afraid deep in her heart, he was afraid to come for missions because she used to hear about,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:02):
This was a girl from Ghana?
Missionary James Obeng (19:03):
Yes. This was a girl from Ghana. And she used to hear about how missionaries suffer the way their wives still suffer, the challenges. And sometimes when I’m
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:12):
Talking, and she didn’t want to suffer,
Missionary James Obeng (19:14):
She didn’t want to suffer. Sometimes when I’m talking with her and I tell her about the challenges that I’m going through, she becomes discouraged in terms of finances and other things. So when it happened, I told our bishop that, oh, to be frank, the lady is trying to pull back. And she said, okay, if that’s the case, we should separate. And when we separated, to be frank, it was very difficult for me because I wanted to get married. And also I realized being a missionary and single wasn’t easy. So I prayed to God and my mind was always in Ghana that I wanted to get a Ghanaian woman. My senior pastor in Zel, Corey told me that, James, I think you have to get a woman here. I said, rev, no Guinea. I don’t want marry in Guinea. Our bishop in Corner Creek also mentioned, I said, my mind was fixed and I wanted a Ghanaian woman.
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So one day our bishop came to Guinea for mission to come and visit us. And when he came, he called me one day and he said, James, do you mind marrying a Guinean woman? I said, Bishop, as a Guinean, it has been a fight. I don’t want to marry here. I want to marry from Ghana. He said, well, you have to pray about it. So as I was praying, it’s like God made me go blind the same way I dam slipped. My mind was fixed. And I realized that was my challenge. My mind was fixed to marry a Ghanaian woman. So one day I prayed a certain prayer. There was this friend of mine who asked me. He said, God told him to inform that I should first and pray for three days, drive first. And then it was my first time and my prayer was, father, let your will be done in my life and everything that I do.
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And after that prayers, three days later, a bishop called me and told me about this marriage stuff. And I said, oh God, I don’t want to marry from Guinea, but if it’s your world, that job will be done. I want to hear your word, and I want a word from, because I don’t want to make a mistake. I’ve had challenges of marriages because of that, I have trusted you and I have put my faith in you that I don’t want to make a mistake. So one day I was praying and I received a from God. And I said, okay. I wrote a Rima, what both told me concerning my marriage, concerning this lady. I receive an assurance. And there was these friends that I pray with, Rima, took him from their prophecy, came from them, James, you’re going to get married, but you have to be flexible.
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I said, Hey, flexible. Okay. So one day I had a dream. After that four days, the fourth day I had a dream and I realized that’s my bishop who came from Ghana, one of my spiritual fellow. He gave me a gift. And that gift, I didn’t see the gift, but I was very excited. And I went back to him. I said, oh, Bishop, thank you very much for this gift. To be frank, I’m blessed. This gift has transformed my life. So after that, in the morning when I woke up and I was praying, I received within my heart, the gift that you need is the suggestion that the bishop has given you, has given you, if you will take it, it’ll become a blessing. That’s the marriage. So I said, wow, three. The first one was the assurance from me. The second one was from the prophet that I pray with, and the third one was the dream. And I said, okay, if that’s the case, father later will be done. I don’t want to fix or be rigid and refuse to flow with you, that here will be done. So that was where I got in touch with the lady. We started chatting and I realized that the chemicals, the connections started,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:50):
The chemistry was good. The
Missionary James Obeng (22:51):
Chemistry. The chemistry was good. So I took a risk and I went to Corner Creek to go and visit her. And it was my longest journey ever in my life, moving from here to Corner Creek. And the car goes forward on the road, and I said, this risk that I’m taking to go and see a woman, that the prophecy came back, that oh, become and be patient. And when I go there, to be frank, I was very excited to meet her. I felt this peace and this joy and meeting this lady, I chatted with her. And that was where I proposed Wow, the grace of God.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (23:30):
And so God brought you together. And I believe that God’s hand is on the two of you together. Exactly. And you’re going to make a big impact. I’m so impressed with your faith coming as a missionary and what God is doing through you. And I think God has many more amazing miracles to do in your life. Amen, brother James, thank you for being on the Evangelism Podcast. I appreciate it. Thank you
Missionary James Obeng (23:55):
Very much. I’m so honored to be here and to be with you. God bless you so much. Bless you. Amen.
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Liberia
Report from Kolahun, Liberia
Turning From Juju to Jesus
Many people in West Africa go to a witchdoctor or medicine man to buy protection from curses. The witchdoctors perform a ceremony and tie a string of beads around the person’s waist or give them a fetish or a ring to wear. This practice is called juju.
The witchdoctor warns the person who wants protection, “Don’t ever take off the juju beads or a curse will kill you.” As a result, people often keep the string of beads on their waist for many years or they carry the fetish with them everywhere they go. Often if a child is sick, people go to the witchdoctor instead of visiting a real doctor. Mothers tie the beads around their child’s bellies.
The problem is that these fetish beads are actually tools of the devil. Instead of protecting the recipient from a curse, it actually brings a curse upon their lives. Often children with these beads are paralyzed and can not walk. Often when people visit a medicine man, they are tormented by demons which causes them to go back to the witchdoctor to purchase more protection.
At our crusade, we preached about how Jesus sets us free from every kind of curse. We gave an altar call and hundreds of people lifted their hands for salvation. After we prayed a prayer of salvation with them, we told the people they no longer needed demonic juju beads for protection. We announced, “Jesus is more powerful than any juju curse.”
Right next to the stage there was a woman with a paralyzed baby. She pulled up her boys’ shirt. She tugged at the string of beads around his stomach. In a sudden burst, the string broke and beads flew everywhere. She grabbed the string and threw it to the middle of the stage. We prayed for the child and for the first time in several months the baby started to move his arms and legs.
Suddenly another mother tore the beads off her child. Then another.
We announced, “If you gave your life to Jesus tonight, you no longer serve the demons that held you captive. Cut the beads off your waist and bring them to the stage. Remove every fetish or ring the witchdoctors have given you and throw them here.”
As we sang a song of praise, people cut off their juju beads and threw them to the platform. From the left and the right and the front and the back the colorful strings of beads came. As the people cut off their juju beads they shouted, “Halleluiah!” Quickly a small mountain of juju formed in the middle of the platform.
We found a metal bowl and put all the juju beads and fetishes into it. We doused everything with a generous amount of gasoline and then we lit a match. Woosh! The fire instantly sent flames leaping up into the air. People moved back from the heat of the flames. Then they began to dance and celebrate. No longer will they be held by the power of the witchdoctor. Now, because of Jesus, they are free.
Report from Foya, Liberia
The story of our recent crusade in Foya, Liberia begins at the New York Bagel Café in Tulsa, Oklahoma. One day I was in the café working on my laptop and a friend introduced me to an evangelist from Liberia named Billy Bimba. He was born in Liberia, and his father was a pastor in Foya. When Billy was young he traveled from village to village preaching about Jesus. But when a war broke out in Liberia, his family was forced to flee to the United States.
As we spoke, Brother Bimba told me he had a calling from God upon his life to preach the Gospel. I recognized his passion for evangelism. He asked, “Why don’t you come to Liberia and do a crusade?”
He shared with me his vision to reach all of Liberia for Jesus. God had given him a sound system and a platform for doing crusades. Brother Bimba just needed a truck to transport the crusade setup. Because of the generosity of King Ministries partners, I was able to give him a gift towards the purchase of a truck. He used the news of my gift to raise the rest of the funds to purchase a beautiful new truck for his ministry. With everything in place to do a crusade, we scheduled the dates to go to Liberia.
Arriving in Liberia
I landed in Monrovia and Brother Bimba met me at the airport. We got in a Landcruiser and headed towards Foya. It is only 283 miles on a map but it took our team two days because most of those miles are on dirt roads.
As we traveled, I learned a new song:
If you believe and I believe
and we together pray;
the Holy Spirit will come down
and Foya will be saved.
The Holy Spirit will come down
And Foya will be saved.
On the second day of our journey we bounced over dirt roads for over twelve hours. On the way we stopped for a brief break. There was a group of boys and teens carrying machetes headed to work. I pulled out a Gospel sticker and shared the good news with them. The whole group prayed with me for salvation.
When we finally arrived, the local churches in Foya greeted us with a parade. They played drums and shook gourds covered in beads in rhythm. The noise was deafening but full of rejoicing. As we traveled through the center of town, we saw banners announcing the crusade everywhere. The city was excited to welcome us.
Early Morning Prayer Meeting
The churches in Foya were hungry for a move of God. They held a prayer meeting at 5:30 a.m. every day we were there. At that time in the morning it is still dark outside, and I had to use a flashlight to walk to the church. Inside I saw pastors laying on the floor crying out to God for revival. More and more believers arrived at the church and by the time the sun came up over the horizon, the church was full of men and women on their knees earnestly praying for a move of God. By the time the roosters started to crow, we all had our hands up as we asked God to touch the city.
The Crusade in Foya
In the Kessi language, names reflect where a person stands in his family’s birth order. All first born sons are known as “Sah.” I am the firstborn son of my father, so Brother Bimba introduced me as “Sah-King.”
The first night of the crusade we launched “Liberia for Jesus,” an initiative to reach everyone in Liberia with the Gospel through rural crusades. The verse God gave me for this plan to reach the nation is Matthew 9:35, “Jesus went to every town and village…teaching…preaching…and healing.” We saw all three principles from the ministry of Jesus at work in Foya.
Teaching – Our Fire Conference was packed with hungry leaders who were excited to receive teaching on evangelism and the Holy Spirit.
Preaching – Thousands of people attended all five nights of the crusade. When we gave the altar call people came running to the front to give their lives to Jesus.
Healing – Jesus healed many people. One night so many people came up on the platform to testify that we were worried the platform might collapse because of the weight.
Over the course of the five-day crusade, thousands of people were touched by the power of God. Thank you for helping us preach the Gospel in Foya, Liberia! The ministry partnership we launched at this crusade will continue until all of Liberia is impacted by the Gospel.
Your Missionary Evangelist,
Dr. Daniel King
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Roman Nechay | Youth Crusades in Africa & Asia
In the past year, Roman Nechay spoke over 1,000 times to over 300,000 people and prayed with over 200,000 people to receive Christ in seven different nations. On today’s podcast he shares one of the messages that he uses at Youth Crusades to capture the attention of young people, to present the Gospel, and to lead them to Jesus.
Visit Roman Nechay online: https://www.romannechay.com/
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
In the past year, Roman Nache spoke over 1000 times to over 300,000 people and prayed with over 200,000 people to receive Christ in seven different nations. On today’s podcast, he shares one of the messages that he uses at Youth Crusades to capture the attention of young people to present the gospel and to lead them to Jesus.
Evangelism Podcast Host (00:37):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast with Dr. Daniel King, where Daniel interviews full-time evangelists, pastors, missionaries, and normal everyday Christians to discover how they share their faith, their powerful testimonies, and amazing stories that will inspire you to reach people with the good news. And now here’s your host, missionary, and evangelist Daniel King. Welcome
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:01):
To the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King and I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. Have a very special guest with me, Roman Nche. Thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast.
Roman Nechay (01:12):
Thank you so much, Daniel. I’m glad to be here.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:15):
So you were a student at Christ for All Nations Evangelism Bootcamp, and I was one of the teachers, and then we were together over in Tanzania, and you came to me and said, is there anything that I could do to serve King Ministries? And a few months later you came over here and you spent several days with me just helping me to edit the videos for my School of Apologetics. And you put a lot of work into that. And now thousands and thousands of atheists have watched those videos and many of them have made very negative comments. They have said that this Daniel King guy is an idiot. He doesn’t know what he is talking about, but the amazing thing is that they’re listening to the gospel from those videos that you edited. So thank you for doing that.
Roman Nechay (02:06):
My pleasure. I’m just glad to be that part of that experience. And man, this is amazing that what you’re doing is you’re bringing the light of Jesus Christ to the atheist. Not everybody can do that, and not everybody is able, like, capable of bringing the gospel that way. So thank you so much Daniel.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:21):
And so last time that you were here, you were just about ready to go on an adventure to go to different nations around the world and do youth crusades. And now here we are, we’re a year later, and I want to get a report. What has God been doing?
Roman Nechay (02:40):
Amen. So last year around in the beginning of the year, around January 2nd, I left out to Rwanda. And Rwanda. We got to preach there for about two two months, and we saw many amazing things happen. So we mostly focused on youth and teenagers. And I remember just one instance where we were in a church and we got to preach on a Sunday morning to about a thousand youth. And then we started taking testimonies. And one gentleman, he came out and he testified that his shortsightedness was healed and in front of all, all his friends, I wanted to check that if, if it was true or not. So I took my Bible, I flipped it open, and I asked him, if before when you had the shortsightedness, would you be able to see this far out? And he said, no, I wouldn’t. And I said, okay, let’s test out your vision.
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Now what does it say? And he read exactly from the Bible at a distance where he couldn’t do it before and the whole crowd exploded. They just started shouting and praising the Lord because they saw what Jesus has done. And his, his life was a miracle. So his eyes were completely restored and Jesus had done that. And of course there’s many other instances, for example, where in Rwanda there’s a gentleman who he was he was of a different religion, but afterwards he experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit so strongly that you can see in her his eyes, he was almost tearing up. He was saying, wow, I felt the power of God. I felt something on the inside of me. And now I’m a different, a different man. I’m a different person today because of what Jesus has done for me. And there was so many other miracles. It was an amazing time, Daniel.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:21):
Well, Jesus is wonderful, and Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever the same Jesus that healed people 2000 years ago can heal people in Rwanda. And so you were part of a Christ for all nations team there in Rwanda doing youth crusades. And I heard phenomenal reports about what God had done. And, and, and so what were some of the results? How many people did the team minister to during the ministry there in Rwanda?
Roman Nechay (04:49):
So collectively in the year 2022, Christ for all nations has seen over 1 million decisions for Christ in the, in the country of Rwanda. We literally hit so many people. I mean, Daniel Rwanda itself has about 12 million population where we hit over a million and a half population and over a million decisions for Christ. We hit one 10th of that country for Jesus Christ. So that was a phenomenal just feat with all the evangelists. And of course, it wasn’t just me on the ground and just people. There was, I think, you know, 20, 30, 40 evangelists that came and went in just that period of three months in the beginning of the year and the last two weeks in December.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:30):
What a great victory. I mean, one outta every 10 to actually pray a prayer of salvation and come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. I I pray that we would see revivals like that happen in nations all over the world. Okay, so you were in Rwanda, but you also got to visit some other places. Where where else did you go?
Roman Nechay (05:51):
So total of seven Nations in 2022. So Rwanda, Uganda, Ivory Coast, Ghana, and then I hopped over to Asia in the middle of the year when I got to minister in south country of Bangladesh. So, and then I got to minister in Thailand and Cambodia. So all of those countries I got to visit last year. So
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:11):
Let’s talk a little bit about Asia versus Africa. The cultures are very different and the people are very different. In Africa, I think you can go and all the kids will run up to you and they will scream and they’re super excited. And then in Asia they might be more reserved and sit very quietly. What, what were some of the, the differences that you saw in administering in Asia versus Africa?
Roman Nechay (06:38):
Man, definitely what you’re saying is the children in Asia are so much more reserved than compared to Africa. I mean, in Africa, let’s say, especially in West Africa, would just walk through, you know, the town and kids are screaming, they’re touch, trying to touch you, they’re trying to, you know, like touch your skin and all these kids are all around you. In Asia, they’re a little bit more shy, so they just wanna first see, okay, who is this foreigner? What are, what are they doing here? And so on. And some of the culture differences, as I told you earlier, you know, in Thailand it’s not good to touch somebody’s head like that’s, that’s wrong, that’s disrespectful. And I remember one of our evangelist friends came from Russia. He’s just laying hands on these kids as in Africa, and he didn’t know this. And so we had to, we had to tell him, Hey, like we can’t lay hands and just, and kids and expect, so that’s kind of rude. So we had to explain that to them and we were learning so much on the way, like in, in Asia, just about the culture and everything. Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:36):
So after this, this full year of ministry, I know that you kept careful track of all the people that you ministered to and the people that prayed with you for salvation. Give me the final numbers and statistics from the, the full year of ministry that you got to do.
Roman Nechay (07:50):
Yeah, so I got to preach over 1000 times in the whole year of 2022. I got to see over 300,000 youth face-to-face that I got to speak to about Christ with. And then over 200,000 decisions for Christ in one year of ministry. So praise God for that.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:09):
What an amazing victory just to have the opportunity to, to preach a thousand times. I mean, I, if you think about a, a pastor preaching once every Sunday morning, once every Wednesday night, you know, that would be a hundred times in a year. He would have to go 10 years to preach a thousand times. And here you got to go, you preached over a thousand times. So you basically got 10 years of experience stuffed into one year. And then to have the opportunity to speak to so many people and to see so many people give their lives to Jesus. I mean, there’s some ministries that they may see a few hundred people come to Jesus in a year, and you had over 200,000. So I would say this is a, a major victory. What a tremendous opportunity that, that God gave you. And I I really celebrate with you the harvest and thank you. And it’s, it’s neat seeing you this time versus last time we were together because last time you, you had big vision and he, I feel like God’s calling me to do this and I want to do that. Well, now you come back as an experienced, a very mature minister because now you’ve gone and done it. It’s not just talk in rhetoric. You know what it takes to actually lead thousands of people to Jesus.
Roman Nechay (09:33):
Amen. And what’s also wonderful, Daniel, is not that these people just heard the gospel, but they’re actually being discipled in the process. So a few weeks ago I got a report that in Thailand, they’re out there again visiting these same places where we preached the gospel and they’re bringing, they brought the, the Christmas story to the children. So for example, they would show the video of Jesus being born and coming into this earth, dying and raising from the dead. They, they’re talking, you know, they’re preaching to them, they’re showing videos, they’re playing games with them. So, and also same thing in Uganda. There’s many people, or there’s, there’s some pastors and leaders that are visiting these places. They’re doing bible study with them. I got pictures of kids, you know, open with the Bible open studying the word of God. And so this is not just us preaching one time and leaving forever, but there’s people who are following up with these children, that these children get to grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and they get to be mature Christians.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:28):
Wow. What a tremendous blessing that is. And so Roman, let’s imagine that you’re in Rwanda, you are doing a youth crusade, and in front of you it are thousands maybe a a thousand or 1500 young people, and you have the opportunity to present the gospel to them. What does that sound like? Are you there with a suit and a tie? You have your you know you’re starting in Leviticus. What, what, what, what do you tell these kids to capture their attention and, and present the gospel to them?
Roman Nechay (11:04):
Well, first of all we try to have the African attire or wherever we are. If it’s the Asian culture, we try to have the Asian attire. So we try to be very presentable. And you know, we try to match what, what they’re wearing. That’s one thing. And another thing, before I even start preaching, you know there’s different stories or d there’s different ways that we present the gospel depends. The, the instance, it depends on the age, it depends on the, on the place where we’re preaching at. But this is how something would go. So,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:32):
So, so why are you using stories to communicate to young people?
Roman Nechay (11:38):
Well, I mean, Jesus used parables all the time. Jesus used the parables of the, of the, of the sower, going out to sow the seed. Jesus always communicated with parables because we can imagine these things, and then we connect these stories into the gospel because that’s way Jesus did it. And again, the gospel is an illustration. Jesus, he died on the cross. Jesus rose from the dead. We see that mentally. We can imagine that. And then we communicate that into our own lives. So this is why we use stories. Another reason why we use stories is because that grabs the tension of the children. You know, we don’t want to just rebuke them and say, you must repent and you must believe the gospel. They don’t understand that. So to grasp their attention, we use stories in the beginning. So they, they’re interested, they maybe they laugh a little bit, and then all of a sudden we go into the gospel.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:26):
That’s awesome. Alright, well give us a story. How are you presenting the gospel to this group of young people?
Roman Nechay (12:32):
Once upon a time, there’s this one little boy, he’s walking down the street and all of a sudden he gets this idea, he wants to build a small toy wooden boat. And so he goes to the shop and he, all of a sudden he starts building this boat, and he built it, and it was so beautiful, and he decided to go and take it out for a test. So he ran down to the river, he put this boat into the river, and this boat sailed perfectly. The boy’s so happy, he’s so rejoicing, but suddenly there’s this windstorm that just blows in out of nowhere, and it takes his boat far, far away from the boy. And the boat gets lost. And the boy became so sad, he started crying. But the next day, the boy is walking through the town and all of a sudden the boy spots his own boat in the window of a shop.
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The boy, he runs into the shop and says to the shopkeeper, shopkeeper, that’s my boat. I made it. But the shop co keeper says, little boy, somebody gave me that boat yesterday. If you want the boat, you must buy back from me. So the boy, he was determined to buy back the boat. The boy ran back home and he worked hard for three days. He helped his parents, he washed windows, he cleaned the toilets, he did everything possible to get enough money to buy that boat back. So the boy ran back to the store, and the boy paid for the boat and ran out with the boat. So happy. Then suddenly the boy lifted the boat behind the air and said, little boat, little boat. You are twice mine. First I made you, and second I bought you back. And this story relates to the gospel.
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We are like the boat, and God is like the boy. God created us in his image and likeness. God put us here on this earth for a reason. God made us. But then suddenly we, because of sin, were separated from God. We all disobeyed God. And we fell short of the glory of God, meaning that we were not perfect and we made mistakes in our life. But then God, he liked the boy, purchased us by sending his son Jesus Christ into this world to pay for our sin. Jesus, he died on the cross. Jesus paid with his own blood. Jesus didn’t pay with gold or silver or with money or with dollars. Jesus paid with his blood dying on the cross for us. So he substituted that, that sin in our place. And then Jesus overcame death. Jesus overcame sin, and Jesus rose from the dead. And today is alive. And I have the kids repeat, say, Jesus is alive, and they say, Jesus is alive.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:55):
Jesus is
Roman Nechay (14:56):
Alive. Amen. And Jesus is the only way to God. So what we must do is we must turn from our shameful acts, from our sins, and we must, must turn to the honor and honor of Jesus. We must turn to Christ himself. And we must say no to all our sins if we lie, cheated, stolen, if we dishonor parents or our friends, if we, if we fo if we’re angry, we must turn away from all those things and follow Jesus with our whole heart. And then we’ll be saved. So then I tell all the children, close your eyes. This is a holy moment. Now you get to make a choice. Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, your relatives, they can’t make this choice for you, only. You must make this choice. And so right now, Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart, and only you can open the door to Jesus.
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If you want to repent and turn from your sins and turn to Christ, raise your hand. If you want to give all of your life to Jesus right now, raise your hand. And so these kids all over the place, they start raising their hands with their eyes closed. And then we pray the prayer of salvation. Dear Jesus, I give you my life. Jesus, I turn from sin. Jesus, I turn to you, Jesus. Save me from my sin right now and fill me with your joy and fill me with the Holy Spirit in Jesus name. Amen. And afterwards, they, they say, amen. We say, we wanna celebrate and sing a song with you. And so we dance to this song called One Way Jesus. And they’re in Africa and Asia. They love to dance. And so we worship together with them. And afterwards we encourage them by saying this. Now you made a decision to follow Christ. Please read and re read the Bible every single day. Pray and join a local church so you can grow in the things of God and, and you can grow in your relationship with Jesus. So that’s about how it goes. Just a simple message. It’s all about Jesus. And we bring him to that decision where they get to make a decision to follow Christ themselves.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:43):
I love how sharp your message is. It goes right to the heart of the matter. You’re not wasting time in rabbit trails that don’t matter to the gospel, but you’re telling the story, presenting the gospel, and bringing kids to the point of decision. What a tremendous ministry in, in Roman, I’m, I’m so proud of what you’ve done this, this past year. You have been out there giving your life for the sake of the gospel. And God has given you a, a great reward of, of many souls that have come into the kingdom of God. And so it’s just so exciting to see what God is, is doing through you. So thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast. If someone wants to get in touch with you or find out more about your ministry, how can they connect with you on, on social media or on the internet?
Roman Nechay (17:37):
So I have a website, roman nache.com, R o m a n n e c h A y.com. Or they can find me on Instagram, evangelist dot roman, or Facebook, also evangelist Roman Nache. Whatever you do, please reach out to me. I’d love to get more in touch with you and just connect with you.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:55):
And so if you’re listening, I’d encourage you to go to Roman’s website and to help support his ministry. By supporting him, you will be helping to bring people into the kingdom of God. So Roman, thanks so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast.
Roman Nechay (18:11):
Thank you so much, Daniel. God. God bless you.
Evangelism Podcast Host (18:16):
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Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:17):
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Evangelism Podcast Host (20:38):
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Billy Bimba | From Liberia to the Nations
Billy Bimba is an evangelist from rural Liberia in West Africa. In 1986, he attended the Reinhard Bonnke Fire Conference in Zimbabwe. His life was transformed and ever since he has been on fire and he preaches about Jesus all over Africa. On today’s podcast you will hear about how God healed him from cancer and about how God has used him raise up spiritual sons like Rob Enge.
Connect with Billy Bimba: https://billybimbaglobalministries.org/
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Billy Bimba is an evangelist from rural Liberia in West Africa. In 1986, he attended the Reinhard Bonnke Fire Conference for evangelists in Zimbabwe. His life was transformed, and ever since he’s been on fire and he preaches about Jesus all over Africa. On today’s podcast, you will hear about how God healed him from cancer and about how God has used him to raise up spiritual sons that are continuing to impact the world.
Evangelism Podcast Host (00:44):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast with Dr. Daniel King, where Daniel interviews full-time evangelists, pastors, missionaries, and normal everyday Christians to discover how they share their faith, their powerful testimonies, and amazing stories that will inspire you to reach people with the good news. And now here’s your host, missionary, and evangelist Daniel King.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:12):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King, and I’m excited about telling people about Jesus. Today I have a very special guest with me, Evangelist Billy Bimba. Thank you so much for being on the Evangelism Podcast.
Billy Bimba (01:26):
Thank you. I am so excited to meet you and to have this opportunity to be on your podcast and to share my experiences since, uh, God saved me and called me to ministry.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:38):
Now, Evangelist Billy, you have been an evangelist for many, many years now. Yes. You were born in Liberia. Yes. And God has called you and anointed you to take the gospel around the world. Tell me a little bit about your testimony and how you became an evangelist.
Billy Bimba (01:59):
Praise the Lord. I was, uh, born in Liberia, the northern part of Liberia, um, in the largest country from Liberia is, uh, Lofa County. And I was born in foyer district. That’s where, um, Jesus met me and saved me. And, uh, it was under the Swedish Pentecostal mission that was established there and a church. And my dad happened to be the senior pastor of that church during the great revival that broke out there when the Swedish Pentecostal mission sta established there. That was, that was when I received Christ through the preaching of the Swedish missionaries that that started u uh, youth services for the young people in the rural era of Liberia.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:41):
Now, how old were you when you gave your life to
Billy Bimba (02:43):
Jesus? Oh, I would say I was probably 14 years old. Okay. Yeah. 14 years old. So God arrested me when I was in the very early age because he had a great plan for using me in the earth. So I was, I received Christ 1972 and 74, I received a baptism and the Holy Ghost. And man, from that time forward, it was just an explosion in my life. I began doing village evangelism. I began to go from village to village, and I started, um, establishing teams to go with me. So who could go to villages, to towns and preaching the gospel everywhere. It was like a daily thing. One week after the other month after month, I was having this burning desire. We didn’t have vehicles to do that. No bicycle, no mo a motorbike to do that. We would go mine sometime 20 miles, sometime 30 miles, and sometime we’ll cross over to the border between like, uh, Liberia and se Leon and Guinea. So I started evangelism at a very early age.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:45):
And tell me, what are you seeing that God is doing in Africa?
Billy Bimba (03:50):
Africa is right now at a place I, this, it seems that God is shifting a move to Africa. It’s like there’s a concentration of God’s effort to bring source out of darkness into the kingdom. I mean, everywhere I look around, there’s people that are going there to do, to do evangelism, to preach, to start churches, either to equip pastors, to, to equip evangelists. I just recently came from Zambia, uh, one day to do a church girl conference. And man, the Holy Ghosts was moving so powerfully. The, the young pastors, the older pastors, they were just pouring into the meetings and God was just transforming their life through the team that I carried there, they were teaching and I was preaching revival as well, and salvation healing. And they were just on fire. And they immediately, before we left the bishop who was our host, he said, This month I’m gonna have evangelism all over my city. In, in Luaka. Before we left here, he already organized a, a great evangelistic efforts. I mean, and they were before even we left, they started, they started evangelism. So Africa is really ready right now. There’s a level of expectancy, there’s a level, there’s a shift right now in evangelism in Liberia. I mean, in, in Africa as a whole. I believe that this hour is a special hour for the harvest in, in Africa as a whole.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:22):
One of the things I love about African evangelists is you are full of red hot fire, full of the Holy Spirit, enthusiastic about preaching the gospel all over the world. And in years past, people from the United States and from Sweden went to Africa as missionaries. Yes. But now God is raising up Africans Amen. Who are full of the Holy Spirit Yeah. That are bringing Holy Spirit fire. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> to, uh, the parts of the world where they’re used to send out missionaries. And so you have now come to the United States, and you’ve been here in the, the United States
Billy Bimba (05:57):
For since 1993 for,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:59):
For quite a while now. Yes. And, and tell me, what have you done in the area of evangelism here in the United States? You’ve built lots of relationships.
Billy Bimba (06:06):
I’ve built a lot of relationships God has really connected me with churches. Like when we came as refugees, we settle in upstate New York and in upstate New York. God gave us a lot of connection with churches there, pastors. And we began to preach in 10 meetings. We saw so many, we saw so many souls saved during the 10 meetings. The revival, so many souls save. I mean, America is ripe for the hav. And you know, you just mentioned you send missionaries. Yes. Hundreds of years. You send missionaries to Africa. But you know, what you saw is what you read. I believe there’s a ho there’s hope for America, regardless of what is going on. I believe there’s hope for America, because there are, number one, Africans are praying for America. And two, there are sincere remnant dedicated Christians in America that are praying for this nation.
(06:56):
So no matter what the enemy is trying to do, we will win because our gospel is the power of God onto salvation. And I’m so happy that I met you, that you are on fire. And when I saw your pictures of the countries, the Lord is touching through you. It’s just excite me. I can’t wait to bring you to our country Liberia so we can, you know, work together and spread the gospel. But there’s hope for America, no matter what they say. There’s hope. Because this gospel we preach is the power of God onto salvation.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:24):
Amen.
Billy Bimba (07:25):
Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:25):
You and I have a mutual friend. He works for Christ for All Nations. Oh, yes. He is the personal assistant to Evangelist Daniel Kolinda. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, who is the successor to Reinhard Bonke, great evangelist, leader of Christ for All Nations. And so our mutual friend, his name is Rob Enga. And your ministry actually had an impact on him. Tell me that story…
Billy Bimba (07:51):
To God be all the glory. I went to visit, uh, I was invited by his local pastor, his mom, local pastor, and uh, and I had a revival service there. And one of those, in one of those services, Rob Enge, the laws saved him, deliver him and set him free. And he was transformed in a, I mean, just like God just did it in one second. Rob was transformed. And after Rob became a Christian and born again, he wanted to just follow me. He said, I want to follow you. I want to carry your back. Whatever you want me to do, I want to go with you. So I said, Rob, I wanna, I want you to stay with your local church and get inside house training. And he said, Whatever you say I’m gonna do. So I said, Okay, Pastor, let Rob Enge stay here for some time and serve in the local church.
(08:44):
Immediately I give you an assignment. I said, Rob, you are supposed to clean all the bathrooms in this church. He said, No problem, I’ll do it. And the pastor told me every Friday, when young people are going out, you know, messing up their life, that’s the time Rob took to clean all the tallest, to clean all the, you know, to make the place look ready for services. And when I called the pastor to check on him in Tulsa, I was living here in Tulsa. I called the pastor, Pastor Bob, How is Rob doing? He say, Man, you can’t believe it. Rob is doing a tremendous work in the church. God’s using him. He’s cleaning the toilets, his bathroom. Sometimes when I go in to look after him, I can almost see my face in the commod. That’s how diligent he is. So we kept the relationship going, and later on, my wife and I decided to go and visit.
(09:29):
We went back and then the mom and the pastors said, It’s time for you to take Rob. We say, we need Rob now to come on the road with me. So Rob actually is my son. He, he was birthed out of my ministry. And God gave me the grace, my wife and I, to receive him as, you know, as if he was my biological son. I, we took care of him. We help him guide him, pray for him. And I said, Rob, you’re gonna be my assistant. He said, No problem. He drove me all over the United States, here, everywhere I went to do camp, uh, Crusades revival. Rob was the one who was serving, driving and doing everything, taking appointments and making sure that everything is okay before I preach. So Rob is, is, is, is a gift from God to the kingdom of God. And I’m so blessed to see him serving as an executive assistant to this wonderful brother whom I have met, which is Brother Daniel is one of the most humble men of God I’ve ever seen. I have met Daniel and he took good care of me when I went to Florida. I’m so grateful that God, you know, move him on to go and serve Daniel. And I believe his future is greater, better than what he can see.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:38):
What a tremendous testimony, you know, Jesus said, If you’re faithful with the small things, that’s it. I will place you in charge of many things. That’s Rob. And so now, uh, Rob Inga is helping to reach literally millions of people all over the world, the ministry of Christ for all nations. They’re sending evangelists all over Africa and other parts of the world. They’re, they’re going and doing youth crusades and all that. Wow. They, they are having such a tremendous impact. And it all started with just cleaning the bathroom <laugh>. And, and, and you trained him how to be a personal assistant. And now God is using him in such a tremendous way.
Billy Bimba (11:17):
I mean, I, God was just using me to train. I never had somebody from another culture get saving my ministry and train. He was the first American, you know, to, for me to serve because that you, you understand culture difference. If it’s an African, I know the culture, but he, he was going against everything in his, in his culture. But he was men. He was serviceable, he was open to God, whate. I mean, Rob would sleep on the floor, Rob would sweep, love, would, would wash, Rob would pray. As long as I want him to pray, he would pray. Whatever we told him, he did it. And I’m not surprised that God has elevated him to that. You know, at one time I sent him to Africa. I said, I’m want to test him. Let him go to Africa and represent me. And when they, he went to Africa to book enough Faso, the president of the, uh, of the assembly of God, then who’s not our father, he who’s not in law, to my daughter, he called me and said, Man, the drop is a very, very diligent, humble and and powerful man of God.
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When he came here, he did everything you told him to do. And he went beyond, you know? So I’m very grateful to go and give God all the glory that he brought us, our ministry in his life, and, uh, that he’s, uh, developed now. He’s a great man of God.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:34):
Let’s talk a little bit about your testimony, cuz you were attacked by Satan with cancer. Yes. But now you look very healthy. You look very whole. <laugh>. Tell me, what did Jesus do to set you free from cancer?
Billy Bimba (12:48):
I was attacked. I was attending Oral Robert University and I was almost about to graduate and I got hit with cancer the first time and they say it was a lymphoma. So I was to the point of death and my wife, Queen Elizabeth, she’s a prayer warrior. She’s decided like, I’m gonna pray for my husband. I don’t believe it’s time for him to go. God has plenty your work for him to do. I’m gonna stand with God to get this thing out of his body. And she is also an herbalist. So she was praying and using her, praying and using herbs. And God gave us a direction to go to Mexico in South America. I mean, uh, Mexico right across the border with San Diego went to Oasis a hope for treatment. And while we’re there, I went for treatment. It turned into a mission field.
(13:38):
The owner of the hospital said, I read your record. I found out that you are an evangelist. And these patients that are coming from all over the world, they don’t know Christ. I always come and give them Christ yet. So today you are gonna preach for me. I said, Wow. My wife came and told me, say I sick. I mean I was sick. And then my wife said, You thought you came here for treatment. But today I was told by the, the, the, the owner of the hospital that he wants you to preach his chapel. I said, Okay. I pray to the Lord. The Lord said, Go and do it. And when I stew on that platform, I was so thin and so sick, I I stew on that platform, the power of God hate me. I began to preach and miracles started happening. People’s lives were just transformed.
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After this, after the service, a Buddhist was in the service, came to my wife. He said, Hey, Mrs. Biber, can you, can I talk to you? Miss be said? Yes. He said, I was in the meeting yesterday when your husband was preaching, I’m a Buddhist, I’m not a Christian, but what he had to say, Touch my heart. Can you please come and pray for my mom? And then we said, Okay, before we pray for your mom, we want to introduce Christ to you. She sat down, she received Christ and went, and we pray for her mom. Those were some of the miracles that were happening in the, the hospital and the patient. And all these patients now are going bring, I mean all the, uh, the caregivers that carry their patients were in the meeting. They were bringing their, their, their, their patients out of the, their room, their their hospital room to come to my room to for prayer.
(15:06):
This was the miracle that was happening. And then the pastor in Mexico, who was a chaplain in that hospital, when he saw the move of God, he said, I’m a pastor in town here. I work in this hospital, but half my church, the move of God that is in this hospital, I would like you to come and preach in my church. I said, This is crazy here what God is doing. So I said, I told my wife, what can we do? She said, Well, let’s go. We went there. I, I mean, two months, you could see two months. I mean, my stomach was. So I went in, preach and people, God bless people, God deliver. And it just, the story went on and on and on and on. And at the end of the day, and an American missionary who was in that survey was so touched with what God was doing in that service.
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He said, I know you came here for treatment and you are sick. We just had an earthquake in that part of, uh, Mexico, way down in the Border of Mexico. The pastors are devastated. I believe your ministry’s going to encourage them. Can you imagine that? We drove how many hours, honey? We drove about two, three hours in the Border of Mexico. We went there 110 degree. So hot. And I mean, they have to open all the doors in the, in the building because in the church building, because there’s no way you could, you could stand the heat preached under that intense temperature and the power of God move, miracle took place. And then we drove back to the states. So these are someone saying God was doing in Mexico, and God just opened that door. And many, many people were riched with the, with the gospel through the hospital and, and the church that I minister to.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:41):
Wow. Well, let’s talk about Africa. You were born in Liberia. Yes. You have ministered in Sierra Leone, in Bukino Faso ,Guinea, many Pakistan, many other places, Sweden, and Africa. But, uh, what is it that God has put on your heart? Tell me about your vision for reaching people for Jesus in Africa.
Billy Bimba (17:03):
I really believe that through the local church, we can have good substantial evangelism. We can go out there and have these cru says, and hundreds or thousands of people show up. We believe that building the, and strengthening the local pastors in any region is God’s strategy for, uh, uh, uh, preserving the harvest. Because when you build relationship with pastors and show them how important they are in their region and work alongside with them when you go and harvest, they’re the one that going to preserve the harvest. Yeah. So one of the strategy for Africa is I like to, I like to build relationship with pastors. I like to encourage pastor, I want to help them, them to see the bigger vision, just, just than just their local church that God has called them to, to carry the kingdom further than their local church. And, and, and when we do that, we do the intrude, the seminars, they are build up, They see the vision, they are excited.
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So when we do the crusade, people get safe. Now they can, they can disciple those people. So in Africa, I’ve seen that when you go make pastors your best friends, help them encourage them, pray with them, and, and share the vision that God’s giving you, enriching their community for them. When you do that, when you leave that place, there’s going to be greater testimony to the glory of God. So right now for me, as your question is God is specifically calling me to back to Africa, but my base is Liberia right now, my wife and I in preparation, trying to raise support to go back so that we can reorganize things because I got sick with cancer and got miraculously heal me. I mean, have cancer in my lung, cancer in my, in my small power, cancer in my boom boom, marrow cancer in my bones. I was a dead walking man. Hard. I was alive for these two and a half years. It’s only the resurrection power that was sustaining.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:01):
And now Jesus has healed you
Billy Bimba (19:03):
And I touched my body.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:04):
And you’re gonna go tell everyone what Jesus has done.
Billy Bimba (19:06):
Yeah, man. That’s what I, I immediately, the doctor released me. I went to booking a Faso, thousands of people in, in churches, buildings, in cities, two cities. We, we, we touch in Burkino Faso, God moved so mindly in science and wonders and, and we have created a base there to reach the francophone countries in West Africa. But Liberia is going to be my concentration. And in next coming, uh, yes,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:31):
If someone is listening and they want to help to support your ministry and help send you to Liberia and to the rest of Africa, what is your website? How can they find out more about you?
Billy Bimba (19:43):
They can go to www.billybimbaglobalministries.org. www.billybimbaglobalministries.org.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:53):
Okay, So that’s B I L L y. B I M B A, Billy Bimba. Well, it is so wonderful to have you on the Evangelism podcast. I love your passion for Jesus. Amen. Your enthusiasm for serving him. And I know that God is going to do amazing things through your ministry in the years to come.
Billy Bimba (20:14):
I wanna mention one more thing. I want to give the credit to, to who the credit belonged to. I thank God for, uh, uh, uh, late Reinhard Bonnke when I started my ministry in the ruler eras of Africa. He didn’t know me, but I, somebody who saw what God was doing through me, send my name to South Africa to Reinhard Bonnke. And he pray over the names that were, you know, presented to him. And I was choosing as one of these delegates, participant of the fire conference that took place 19 19 86 in Zimbabwe. Wow. In Zimbabwe. American preachers came. European preachers came. That’s what, that was my first time I saw Kenneth Copeland. That was my first time I saw Mohan, and, and saw African preachers from Rhema. It was just an awesome conference. It was there. God really transformed my evangelistic ministry.
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Reinhard Bonnke released the anointing upon the evangelists, and he said, Right now under this tent, I want you to go and practice any sick person you find. Lay your hand on them. I met a person whose nose was black on this side. He could only, they could only breathe through one nursery. And I lay my hands and the stuff came out and the person began to breathe normal right in the tent. The fire fell in that tent. From that day when I came home to Africa, Miracle started happening in Liberia in our home church. One of our church worker daughter was scraper, and the missionaries were having a, a meeting. And God spoke to me to go and pray for that, for that young lady. And she got, she got raised up and I saw some cripples, some blind. It was just an awesome fire that I, that, that ran Bonky ministry released into my life.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:01):
What a great testimony. You know, I have read stories about that great gathering of evangelists in Zimbabwe in 1986.
Billy Bimba (22:10):
I was there,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:11):
But it’s so wonderful to hear the testimony of what God has done. And all these years later, you continued to have that same fire for
Billy Bimba (22:17):
Eventually Oh man. It’s just going on and on and on. Wow.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:20):
Yes. Well, Brother Billy Bimba, you are a great evangelist. It is so wonderful to meet you and to hear your story. Thank you for sharing today on the Evangelism
Billy Bimba (22:30):
Pipe. Thank you so much for having me. Jesus. Bless you.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:33):
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Tanzania
Iringa, Tanzania Rings With Shouts of Joy
By Evangelist Daniel King
Greetings! I am reporting from the frontlines of Gospel Evangelism. We are in a battle for the souls of men, women, and children. I am happy to report that Jesus is the Winner!
When I arrived in Iringa, Tanzania, I saw hundreds of posters, billboards and banners advertising a Christ for All Nations Gospel crusade. The bright colors immediately caught my eye, and I knew the city was ready for a move of God. The setup for this crusade was done by graduates of the CFAN Evangelism Bootcamp. As an instructor at the Evangelism Bootcamp, I was proud to see their diligence and dedication produce results.
On the first night of the crusade, I preached that “Everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord shall be saved.” During the altar call, people all over the field raised their hands to receive Jesus. A total of 4,703 people filled out decision cards which was a great start to the crusade. When we prayed for the sick, cripples lifted their crutches into the air and started to walk. A crippled woman was the first to come on the platform. She lifted her crutch high and began to dance. A 12-year-old girl with “brain abnormalities” was completely healed. A woman who visited a witch doctor seeking a cure announced, “The witch doctor was not able to heal me, but tonight Jesus healed me!”
On the second night, Daniel Kolenda arrived in Iringa to preach. Christ for All Nations is doing five crusades in five different cities in Tanzania at the same time in an effort called Operation Decapolis. It was an honor to be invited to participate in this historical event. Evangelist Kolenda preached on three spiritual laws found in Romans 8:1-2. The Law of Sin will pull you down all the way to hell. The Law of Death will destroy you. But the Law of Salvation will lift you up. He shared a great illustration. Imagine you are holding a Bible in your hand and you let it go…it will fall because of the Law of Gravity. But, if your hand is under the Bible, it will not fall. In the same way that the Law of Gravity pulls things down in the natural world, the Laws of Sin and Death pull us down spiritually. But the nail-scarred hand of Jesus catches us and lifts us up to heaven. The Law of Salvation is greater than the Laws of Sin and Death. Thousands of people responded to his message, and they cried out to Jesus for salvation!
We found the city of Iringa to be ripe for harvest. One morning I went out with one of the sound trucks into the city center. The sound truck is a small pickup truck with two big speakers, a generator, and a sound board. As the truck drives around populated areas, the speakers blast an invitation to come to the crusade. I stood in the back of the pickup and waved to people. They quickly recognized me from my picture on the poster. A crowd gathered around the truck, so I grabbed a microphone and began to preach. Right there in the marketplace across from the fruit stand, I led five hundred people to Jesus. Afterwards they promised to bring their families to the crusade.
Another night, we invited people to drop their witchcraft items and juju beads into a large barrel. We lit the contents on fire. Flames leapt fifteen feet into the sky. We took authority over every demonic spirit. Demons began to manifest. I saw a woman fall to the ground and roll around in the dirt. She was being controlled by a demon. Some ushers lifted her up and carried her to a tent that is set aside for casting out demons. We called it “The Snake Pit.” Pastors prayed for her, and she was delivered. When she came out of the tent she was smiling because Jesus set her free.
On the fifth and final night of the crusade, I preached once again. I asked how many people were there for the first time and almost half of the audience raised their hands. My message was on the three greatest miracles in the Bible: Creation, Calvary, and Pentecost. These are the three greatest miracles for your life. God created you. God saves you. God empowers you. At Creation, we see God the Father’s greatest work. At Calvary, we see God the Son’s greatest work. At Pentecost, we see God the Holy Spirit’s greatest work. The people were delighted to hear they were made in the image of God, saved by the blood of Jesus, and could be filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit. We prayed for people to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and many people shouted for joy as they were filled with God’s power.
Over the five nights of the crusade, attendance each night was between 20,000-32,000 people. A total of 15,715 people filled out decision cards. I stand in amazement at the awesome things God did in the city of Iringa.
Thank you for helping us reach people for Jesus in Tanzania!
God Moves in Kahama, Tanzania
By Evangelist Daniel King
Christ for All Nations, the ministry founded by Reinhard Bonnke and now led by Daniel Kolenda, invited me to minister at a Gospel Crusade in Kahama, Tanzania.
This year, I had the privilege of teaching fifty students at the Evangelism Bootcamp hosted by Christ for All Nations. Now these students are on the ground putting into practice the lessons they learned in the classroom. As an evangelism coach, I am so proud of them for reaching people for Jesus.
The students are visiting hundreds of local schools in Tanzania to preach the Gospel.
They are taking evangelism trucks into the streets and marketplaces to tell people about Jesus. 
Plus they are organizing a great Gospel crusade in Kahama, Tanzania (one of five crusades taking place in Tanzania over a two week period).
For several months they prepared for the crusade by putting up posters, banners, billboards, and passing out flyers.
They organized the local churches and trained counselors. Everyone in town has heard about the event. Now it is time to preach the Gospel.
I preached a simple gospel message and thousands of people responded to the altar call.
God performed many miracles.
Over the week in Kahama, a total of 13,457 people filled out decision cards as an indication of their decision to follow Christ. Now the local churches are following up on these new believers to make them disciples.
Thank you for your financial support. It is because of your generosity that we are able to go tell people about Jesus.
Excitement Fills the City of Kahama
By Evangelist Daniel King
I landed in Tanzania on Sunday and was greeted by the CFaN team. Despite my jet lag, it was an exciting moment to step foot in this nation for the first time. On my plane were many of the technical engineers who come from different nations around Europe to run the sound and lighting systems for each crusade. The team is highly experienced in doing crusades with CFaN in Africa, but this time is different because they are splitting up and each going to different cities. Doing multiple crusades in multiple cities at the same time presents new challenges to overcome.
After an overnight stay in Dar es Salaam, our team took a much smaller plane to Kahama. We were greeted upon our arrival by Lukas Repert who has been living in Kahama since August in order to organize the crusade. He was one of my students at the Evangelism Bootcamp in the spring, and now it is amazing to see him organize his first crusade event. He has been working hard to secure permissions from the government, build relationships with local pastors, distribute publicity material around the city, and to train counselors to help follow up on new believers.
As we drove from the airport into the city, I could see already that this was going to be a great crusade. The city was covered in posters, banners, and billboards all announcing the crusade. I heard sound trucks driving around telling people about the event. I felt an urgent anticipation in the city.
We stopped by the crusade grounds where the platform was in the process of being assembled. One team was hard at work digging a trench to bury electric wires from the generator to the sound system. Another team of local workmen were helping to erect a light tower so the field would be well lit.
The following day, I went with Paul, another Evangelism Bootcamp graduate to visit local schools. Before the crusade even begins, the team has gone into every school in the region in order to tell the students about Jesus. Our first school assembly was at 7am and in the course of the day we visited nine different schools and had the opportunity to minister to a total of 3,341 students in both primary and secondary schools. In each school we communicated a clear Gospel message and we found the students were eager to pray with us for salvation.
On Tuesday I asked my driver to show me around town so I could take some pictures. We visited the local market place and passed out flyers. I found that everyone in the city has heard about the event. One woman at a fruit stand saw my face on the flyer and she asked if I was one of the speakers. She was so excited to hear that I was and I gave her a personal invitation to come to the crusade. She promised to bring her whole family. A Muslim man asked me if Muslims are allowed to come to the event and I assured him that Jesus loves Muslims and that Muslims are most welcome to come. He said he would be there. I also visited a local ranch where cattle with long horns are bought and sold. There were twenty young men taking care of the cows. I gave them all flyers and invited them to the crusade. I took the opportunity to preach a short message to them and all of the young men prayed with me for salvation.
I climbed on the back of one of the five sound trucks that is driving all over the city announcing the crusade. A generator provides electricity and big speakers blast a jingle inviting people to the crusade. I grabbed a microphone and with the help of a translator I gave people a personal invitation to come to the crusade. As we drove through the center of town, I saw people dancing to the upbeat music we were playing and when I waved at them, they waved back enthusiastically.
On Wednesday, it was time for counselor training. Hundreds of counselors came to the field and the crusade director explained to them the process for giving books to all the people who will get saved at the crusade. He gave them instructions to help the new believer fill out the decision card in the back of the book. He said, “Please, treat these decision cards as if they are gold. We use the decision cards to follow up on all the new believers.”
There is anticipation throughout the city. The stage has been set. Now we are eagerly waiting to see what God will do this week in Kahama, Tanzania.
The Devil is Frustrated in Kahama, Tanzania
By Evangelist Daniel King
The first day of the crusade in Kahama, Tanzania started with a parade of cars, motorcycles, three wheeled taxies, and a host of singing Christians marching through the center of the city. Paul Mauer and I sat in the lead vehicle and waved. The Christians smiled at everyone in the street and invited them to join the parade as we marched toward the crusade grounds. The highlights included a man who made a hat and a poncho out of crusade posters and a car that was completely covered in posters except for a tiny portion of the windshield for the driver to see through.
As the parade arrived at the crusade grounds, the music started. People rushed forward to secure a good spot near the platform. Spirits were high as the band led the people in high-energy songs about Jesus.
Bishop Emmanuel, the crusade organizer for Kahama, greeted the people. Then the commissioner of the state arrived along with other dignitaries. The commissioner officially welcomed CFaN to the city and he said, “I will be the first to receive a miracle tonight.”
Paul Mauer took the platform and preached a message on “The Two Doors.” One door is a devil door and the other door is the Jesus door. He asked the people, “Which door do you want to go through?” Everyone shouted, “The Jesus door.”
When Evangelist Paul gave the altar call, thousands of people responded. The councilors quickly captured the information of those who accepted Christ and a total of 3,024 decision cards were filled out.
The moment Paul started praying for the sick, demons began to manifest in the front of the crowd. A woman threw herself to the ground and shrieked loudly. The people around her were distracted from the prayer but the deliverance team arrived and carried her to the “demon tent” also known as “The Snake Pit” in order to pray for her. No sooner was the demon possessed lady out of sight when another lady in the front of the crowd started to shriek. It was obvious the devil was trying to distract people from the prayer. Again, the deliverance team carried the woman to the tent. This happened several more times and it quickly became obvious that the devil was frustrated at his inability to distract from the meeting.
Paul continued to pray for the sick. When testimony time came, several people came up to the platform to share that Jesus had healed them.
Overall, it was an excellent first night for a crusade. The people of Kahama are hungry for the Gospel.
Rain, Go Away in the Name of Jesus
By Evangelist Daniel King
Today’s crusade meeting was scheduled to begin at 2pm, but at one o’clock rain was falling from the sky. The Christians knew that people would be hesitant to come if it was raining, so they started to pray. Slowly, the sky cleared and soon the rain completely stopped.
The music was powerful and anointed and everyone danced as they heard the sound of the drums and the keyboard. All the songs were upbeat and specifically chosen to build faith in the people to receive from Jesus.
When I arrived at the field, I felt the expectation and excitement of the people. They were ready for miracles.
We were pleased to welcome Peter Vandenberg, the executive vice president of Christ for All Nations. He has attended hundreds of crusade meetings across Africa and it was an honor to have him sit in the front row as I began my sermon. After a few minutes, he stood up and walked around the perimeter of the crowd in order to carefully count the number of people who were in attendance, a task he has performed many times before.
Tonight I preached on the paralyzed man who was let down through the roof. In Matthew 9, Jesus said three things to him. First, Jesus said, “Be encouraged.” Second, Jesus said, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Third, Jesus said, “Get up, take up your bed, and go home completely healed.” Jesus healed the man spirit, soul, and body.
As I preached, five actors did a drama about the story. One man pretended to be paralyzed and his four friends carried him on a stretcher through the crowd. They brought him up on the platform and laid him right in the front. The crowd watched to see what would happen.
I preached, “Jesus saw the faith of the four friends. Tonight Jesus is looking for someone who has faith.” I asked the crowd, “Do you have faith in Jesus tonight?” They waved their hands and shouted, “Yes!”
I told the crowd that Jesus encouraged the man because he was sad, worried, fearful, and lonely because of his sickness. In the same way that Jesus encouraged the paralyzed man, I told the crowd that Jesus wanted to encourage those who are sad, worried, fearful, and lonely. Smiles broke out on the faces of the people as I shouted, “Be encouraged!”
Jesus also forgave the man’s sins. The reason Jesus came to earth was to forgive our sins. He died on the cross to pay for our sins, but He did not stay dead. After three days he rose from the dead. Now, Jesus is alive and He says the same thing to you as he said to the paralyzed man, “Your sins are forgiven.”
Finally, Jesus said to the man, “Get up and go home completely healed.” The actor playing the part of the paralyzed man began to move. He stood to his feet. He took a step and another step. Then he began to run back and forth across the stage shouting, “Jesus healed me!” The crowd erupted in applause.
I gave the altar call and thousands of people responded by raising their hands. They all wanted Jesus to forgive their sins. After I led them in a salvation prayer, the counselors gave each new believer a book and recorded their names on a decision card.
Then I prayed for the sick. First I prayed for emotional healing and Jesus encouraged the hearts of many people. Then I prayed for physical healing. As I rebuked every pain and sickness, miracles broke out across the crowd. Across the crowd, over a dozen crippled people lifted up their crutches and began to take steps of faith.
The first woman to come to the platform to share her testimony was carrying her crutch in the air. She said she was unable to walk for ten years but now Jesus had healed her. The band began to play music and she danced with her crutch lifted high.
The second testimony was from a young girl who had an enlarged heart and was unable to run for over a year. The music started and she ran back and forth to show that Jesus had healed her.
The third testimony was a woman with pain in her stomach for three months and pain in her shoulder for over a year. She told the crowd that both problems were healed.
The fourth testimony was from a woman who was paralyzed for one year and nine months and was unable to walk. Her neighbor brought her to the crusade on public transportation and she was healed. Her face had a big smile as she danced with the crowd.
The fifth testimony was another person who was paralyzed and was healed. It became clear that the theme of all the miracles tonight were of paralyzed people who were being healed. I preached on a paralyzed man being healed by Jesus and then Jesus proved He is still alive by healing many paralyzed people in Kahama, Tanzania.
The sixth testimony was of a woman with terrible back leg pain for four years. Because of the pain, she went to the doctor for expensive injections. Now she can walk pain free. There were many more people lined up to testify including a woman who was deaf whose ears were opened and another woman who was blind whose eyes are now able to see.
Right as the testimony time was finished a drizzle of rain fell from the sky. God had held back the rain all the way to the end of the crusade. The crowd pulled out umbrellas and went home happy because of everything God is doing in Kahama.
Send Rain to the Farmers and Not to the Crusade
By Evangelist Daniel King
The third day of the crusade in Kahama, Tanzania started with rain. As the music began, there were only a few people close to the stage. Everyone else was huddled around the edges of the crusade grounds trying to find shelter from the rain under overhanging roofs.
We began to pray, “God, please send rain to the famers, but not to the crusade.” Soon, a breeze stirred and pushed the rain clouds away. When the people saw the clear sky, they left cover and ran forward to find a good spot on the crusade grounds.
I preached on the Four Greatest Miracles in the Bible. I held up my Bible and proclaimed, “This is God’s book. In this book is the history of many miracles, but tonight I will share with you the four greatest miracles contained in this book.” As I preached, actors on the stage did a little drama about each point.
Miracle #1 – God Created You. In the beginning of time God created the first man and woman. He walked with them and talked with them. God created them to be His friends. But one day, they sinned and this broke their relationship with God. This is why God hates sin.
Miracle #2 – God Loves You. Even though we have sinned and disobeyed God’s commands, God still loves us and wants to have a relationship with us.
Miracle #3 – God Saves You. God sent His Son Jesus Christ from heaven to earth. Jesus was born to a virgin named Mary. He grew up and walked the dusty streets of Israel. He had twelve disciples and He walked with them and talked with them. Then Jesus died on the cross but He did not stay dead. After three days, He rose from the dead. Now Jesus is the bridge between heaven and earth. He is the only way to get to heaven. Everyone who calls on the name of Jesus will be saved.
I led the crowd in a salvation prayer. Thousands of people prayed with me for salvation. By lifting their hands, they indicated they were ready to turn away from sin and to turn toward Jesus. After the salvation prayer, the counselors gave away copies of Reinhard Bonnke’s book, “Now that You are Saved” to all the new believers. Then I talked about the final miracle.
Miracle #4 – God Heals You. The same Jesus who healed people two thousand years ago is alive today and ready to heal you. I was the first to pray for the sick. Then I turned to three of the Evangelism Bootcamp graduates and gave them the opportunity to pray for the sick. It was their first chance to speak from a crusade platform. They prayed with fervency and when it came time for the testimony time, it was obviously their prayers were effective because many people lined up to give a testimony.
A woman who had pain in her legs for ten years was healed. A man who had a stroke three years ago and who needed a cane to walk was healed and he lifted his cane high into the air as he shouted “Jesus healed me!” A woman with double vision was healed and she cried because she was able to read the Reinhard Bonnke book. A woman with stomach pain, high blood pressure, and shoulder pain was healed of all her ailments. A girl had to take injections in order to eat, but Jesus healed her two nights ago and now she can eat without pain. There were three woman who were all healed of deafness and ringing in the ears. A woman had blurred vision and was unable to see the faces of her children but she said Jesus healed her. A woman was carried to the meeting by her parents and another woman had a hip problem. Both were healed and are now able to walk and even dance.
The crowd danced and shouted with joy as they heard each testimony. I asked the people to come on the final night of the crusade to hear Evangelist Daniel Kolenda and to bring a friend. Anticipation is high in the city of Kahama, Tanzania to see what miracles God will do on the final night of the crusade.
Almost Eighty Million People Saved Since 1987
By Evangelist Daniel King
On the final night of the Kahama Gospel Crusade, Evangelist Daniel Kolenda spoke on three spiritual laws. The first two laws are the laws of sin and death, but the third law is the law of salvation. He gave an illustration using his Bible. If he holds the Bible up in the air and drops it, it is pulled down by the natural law of gravity. This is an example of the laws of sin and death. But, if his hand is under the Bible, it does not fall. This is what the law of salvation does. It keeps us from falling to destruction.
When Daniel Kolenda gave the altar call, a total of 4,737 people responded by filling out decision cards. When this number is added to the other numbers of people who have been saved this week, it pushes Christ for all Nations closer to a significant milestone. Since 1987, CFaN has been counting decision cards and before this week, the total number of decision cards filled out equaled 79,957,136. This week, the total number of decision cards filled out at CFaN crusades officially approaches the eighty million mark and with two more crusades next week, we will surely go over eighty million! We rejoice that almost eighty million peo
ple have made a decision to follow Christ through the ministry of Christ for All Nations.
Daniel Kolenda also prayed for the people to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Across the field, people began to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
As Daniel Kolenda prayed for the sick, demons began to manifest. Members of the deliverance team grabbed them and carried them to the demon tent, also known as the snake pit. There the deliverance team cast out the demons and led the newly free people in a salvation prayer.
Several graduates of the Evangelism Bootcamp were invited by Daniel Kolenda to help pray for the sick. As they prayed, many people were healed and the stage was full of testimonies by the end of the evening.
The final night of the crusade in Kahama Gospel Crusade was the best-attended night. It had the most salvations, the most healings, and the most people filled with the Holy Spirit. Tonight was a great success!
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Egypt
Right after I landed in Cairo, our evangelism team of two evangelists, several pastors, and a fifteen-member music group drove four hours north to the city of Alexandria next to the Mediterranean Sea.
The city of Alexandria was founded in 332 B.C. by Alexander the Great. In 41 B.C. Mark Antony and Cleopatra met in Alexandria. It was the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the Ancient World, and the location of the world’s greatest library.
The first Christian evangelist to go to Alexandria was Mark, the Gospel writer. It is said that when Mark first entered the city of Alexandria, the strap on his sandal was loose. He visited a cobbler to get it fixed. As the cobbler, a man named Anianos, repaired the sandal, he accidentally pierced his hand with an awl. He cried out in pain, “O One God!” Mark heard his cry and told him about the one true Living God. Mark prayed for the man to be healed and his hand was miraculously made whole. Because of the miracle, Anianos got saved and his whole family was baptized. This was the beginning of the church in Alexandria.
Mark continued to preach in Alexandria for several years and was martyred there in A.D. 68 by a group of pagan priests who tied a rope around his neck and dragged his body through the streets until he died. To this day, there are Coptic Christian churches in Alexandria that trace their spiritual heritage back to Mark.
In A.D. 641 the Muslims conquered Egypt. Modern-day Egypt is 90% Muslim which means it is a huge harvest field.
We did a two-night evangelistic meeting in Alexandria. Attendance the first night was 130 people and the second night was 171 people. The same Jesus who healed Anianos in the first century proved He is alive today by healing lots of people who came to our meeting. A total of 68 people prayed with us for salvation in Alexandria! It was an honor to preach in the same place that Mark once preached.
Soul Winning Conference near Cairo
We gathered together 75 pastors and evangelists and did a three-day soul winning conference. The conference was held at a beautiful campground. Your giving helped us house and feed these precious men and women during the conference. We taught these frontline leaders how to share their faith with people who need Jesus. On the final day of the conference, we prayed for them to be filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak in other tongues. Hallelujah!
Preaching in Cairo
I ministered in several churches in one day in Cairo. One was an Episcopal church, one was Presbyterian, one was Baptist, and one was a Coptic church. At these churches, a total of 115 people came forward for the altar call and 43 people testified they were healed by the power of God. It was wonderful to see that God works the same no matter what denominational label is on the building.
Thank you for sending me to preach the Gospel in Egypt! Because of your prayers and your giving, we saw a harvest of souls and miracles in a hard-to-reach country.
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South Sudan
We have done Gospel festivals in two cities in South Sudan. The first was Juba, the capital, and the second was in the city of Yei.
Please Send Missionaries NOW! – A Plea from Sudan
In the Missions Library at Yale University, one can find the handwritten letters of a British missionary named Karl Krumn, who served in the nation of Sudan from 1898 to 1907.
The missionary traveled the length and breadth of Sudan assisting Great Britain as a cartographer mapping central Africa. Periodically he sent a report back to his church in England. He reported on the great hunger for the Gospel among the tribes of Sudan. Entire people groups came to Christ because of his witness.
He recognized the great need in the nation and in almost every letter, he asked for more missionaries to be sent to Sudan. He wrote, “This nation is ripe to become a Christian nation. Please send missionaries now.”
He reported that one heathen tribe noticed that a Christian tribe stopped working and gathered together on Sundays. Because the chief wanted to be a Christian, he commanded all his people to stop working and gather together one day out of seven. They sat around and did nothing on Sundays because they did not know what Christians are supposed to do in their services. The chief begged for a missionary to come and teach his tribe about Christ.
The missionary noticed the creeping influence of Islam among the tribes and wrote his missions headquarters, “If we do not take advantage of this open window for the Gospel, this nation will become a Muslim nation.”
Towards the end of his life, his letters grew more desperate. He criticized, “For years I have been begging for missionaries to come, but no one comes. I fear that our opportunity to turn Sudan into a Christian nation is slipping away. I am afraid that Sudan will be conquered by Islam.”
Today, as we look at Sudan, we find that his fears were justified. All of north Sudan is Muslim. The Church missed one of the greatest opportunities to change this nation.
But today, we face a similar opportunity. After twenty-two years of war between north and south Sudan, a peace treaty has been signed. It is now possible to openly proclaim the Gospel in southern Sudan, but this window of opportunity may not last forever. If we do not act now, we may miss today’s opportunity.
From over a century ago, the English missionary’s words still ring true, “This nation is ripe to become a Christian nation. Please send missionaries now.”
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South Africa
The Legend of the Zulu King
The Zulu nation is an estimated 10-11 million people whose majority lives in South Africa, as well as Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. During apartheid, the Zulu people were considered third-class citizens and discriminated against heavily. Today they make up the largest ethnic group in South Africa and enjoy equal citizen rights.
At the invitation of Pastor Billy and Marianne Allen, we partnered together with a team from Christ for the Nations in Dallas, Texas, for a two-day Gospel festival, medical outreaches, and children’s events in the heart of South Africa. Our mission team was there by invitation from the King of the Zulus, His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini.
At the Gospel Festival, we heard this testimony about a prince of the Zulu people.
Over one hundred years ago, the king of the Zulu tribe was viciously murdered by his own brother.
The sixteen year old crown prince, scared for his life ran and hid in a cave. He was kept alive by faithful followers who fed and clothed him for two years. His warriors fought to put him back on the throne, but they lost every skirmish.
As they went out to fight a final battle against the evil uncle, the prince was sure he was about to die. But, a man of God prophesied, “Prince, if you bow down to Jesus Christ, you will win the battle and be crowned king.”
That day, the prince and all his warriors gave their lives to Jesus Christ! They won the victory and the prince was crowned king of the Zulu nation.
On the anniversary of this great victory, we ministered through a Zulu Gospel Festival in the exact spot where the prince became a Christian.
Thousands of Zulu’s gave their lives to Jesus
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Nigeria
Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa and it was here that we did a Nigeria Evangelism Conference. The evangelists came from eleven different states in Nigeria and from several surrounding countries. Hundreds of evangelists gathered together to learn how to preach the Gospel with signs and wonders following.
Nigeria is about 50% Muslim and 40% Christian, with the remaining 10% practicing indigenous religions. Most of the Muslim population lives in northern Nigeria. In the last few months, Islamic terrorists in northern Nigeria have burned churches and killed Christians. These Muslim areas represent a huge harvest field that desperately needs to hear about Jesus. That’s why we held our evangelism conference in the city of Ede, a city that is 90% Muslim.
As these evangelists preach the Gospel, thousands of people will be saved. I am so thankful that God gave us the opportunity to train these precious men and woman of God. They will go to villages that I will never go to and preach to people I will never meet on this side of eternity.
Here is the story of one of the preachers who attended the conference.
The Story of Abdulkereem
Abdulkereem was born a Muslim. One day an evangelist walked down his street at 6 o’clock in the morning preaching the Gospel. She proclaimed, “Jesus is Lord. Heaven is real. Hell is real. You need to repent and make Jesus your Lord and Savior.” Abdulkereem tried to cover his ears with his pillow. He was angry with her for preaching the Gospel. She preached every morning for two weeks straight, and than stopped. He would never see her again. But, he continued to hear her voice in his head. Eventually, he visited a local church and become a Christian believer.
Today, he is known as Pastor Festus Alilu. When he heard about our Nigeria Evangelism Conference, he knew he had to attend. He drove over eight hours to hear me teach about evangelism and to learn about how to effectively reach out to his community. Pastor Festus is now inspired to go back to his hometown and reach out to other Muslims.
Please pray for thousands of souls to be saved as these evangelists venture out to preach the Gospel in unreached areas.
Thank you! I was able to travel to Nigeria and host an evangelism conference because of your giving. You helped us impact the nation of Nigeria. Only heaven will know the fruit of this conference. Your participation will be celebrated in eternity.
I knocked on the devil’s door, and no one answered.
Our 2nd Annual Nigeria Evangelism Conference attracted evangelists from across the nation of Nigeria. We trained these evangelists to rescue people from their old lifestyle of worshiping false gods. Here is a video about my visit to a sacred forest.
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Malawi
Malawi is one of the smallest nations in the world. It is located in southeast Africa and ranks 173 out of 188 countries on the United Nations Human Development Index because of poverty, high infant mortality, and low life expectancy (mostly due to the African HIV-AIDS crisis). The country is land-locked; it share a border with Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The majority of the economy is based on agriculture.
Despite all the problems the nation faces, Malawi is nicknamed “the Warm Heart of Africa.” The people are kind, willing to accept travelers, and the nation has never experienced a civil war between ethnic groups.
Report from Second Mission Trip to Malawi
Because of your prayers and support, I am excited to announce some amazing results in the nation of Malawi. I was invited by the Global Network of Evangelists and the Luis Palau Association to participate in their outreach to the nation of Malawi. On the team were nine evangelists from multiple nations. Here are the bottom line stats of what happened:
3 Cities: Mulanje, Luchenza, Balaka
Estimated Attendance: 60,000 over 9 days
1250+ Partner Churches
9 Festivals in 10 Days
6,082 Documented Decisions for Christ
3 Evangelism Conferences
2 Schools
2 Prisons
1 Orphanage
7 Marketplace Ministry Opportunities
Become All Things So Some Might Be Saved
On Sunday morning in the city of Blantyre, I was invited to speak in the first church ever planted in Malawi. The name of the church was St. Michaels & All the Angels Presbyterian Church and it was planted by David Livingstone, the great missionary explorer from the late 1800’s. The church was not named for some of the angels, it was named for ALL the angels. The service I ministered in was highly formal. The elite of society were in attendance. Many were wearing three-piece suits and ties. Of course, I wore a suit and tie also and had to ascend a flight of stairs to a raised pulpit in order to deliver my sermon. The message was well received and when I gave the altar call, over thirty people raised their hands to receive Jesus as their Savior.
On Sunday afternoon, I ministered in the children’s festival at Andrew Palau’s festival. To minister to the children, I dressed in a clown suit with funny multicolor hair and a giant bowtie. Thousands of children prayed with me for salvation.
In the morning, I wore a suit and tie, and in the afternoon I wore a clown suit. But, both times people got saved. It reminded me of what Paul said, “I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some (1 Corinthians 9:22). Paul was willing to become all things to all people so that some might be saved. In the same way, I am willing to do whatever it takes so that some might be saved.
But look at the next verse. Paul writes, “Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you” (1 Corinthians 9:23). Paul preaches for the Gospel’s sake and I love how he includes his partners from the Corinthian church in this verse. Paul is celebrating the people who have been saved in his ministry and he tells the Corinthian church they are also partakers in the preaching of the Gospel. This means that when I see someone get saved in Malawi, that you, as a supporter of this ministry, are partakers and participators in what God is doing.
You make it happen through your prayers and your support. Thank you for your generosity! We cannot preach the Gospel without you.
Report from First Mission Trip to Malawi
The ministry of Luis Palau did mass evangelistic events in Mazuzu, Ntcheu, Blantyre, Zomba, the Dzaleka Refugee Camp, and the capital of Lilongwe. These six campaigns will include events for children, women, business and civic leaders, and large evangelistic outreaches. Our ministry was invited by the Next Generation Alliance, a ministry of evangelist Luis Palau, to participate in this nation-wide outreach to Malawi.
I was invited to preach at the Love Malawi Festival in the city of Mzuzu. The city is about a five-hour drive from the capital of Malawi and the population in this area is 175,000 precious people. Mzuzu is the capital of Malawi’s northern region and the Mzuzu University attracts students from across the nation.
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Kenya
The purpose of our Gospel Festivals is to reach everyone with the message of Jesus Christ. We want to reach the young and old, the rich and poor, the influential and those forgotten by society. From the highest to the lowest, everyone deserves to have the chance to be saved.
In order to accomplish this goal, we plan ministry designed to reach into every level of society. The main vehicle we use for evangelism is the big festival but with each one there are many opportunities to extend the impact.
Jesus called us to be “fishers of men.” If you have ever gone fishing, you know that different types of fish require different kinds of bait. That’s why we do multiple events in a variety of different venues in a city in order to reach all kinds of people for Jesus. Each event is designed to appeal to a different segment of society.
At our recent Love Kenya Festival that we did with the Global Network of Evangelists in the cities of Embu and Murang’a, we were able to minister at many different events in our quest for souls. Here are some testimonies from ten different outreach events.
- Young Adults – We used bicycle tricks, techno dance music, dancers, and DJ’s in order to attract teens and young adults so we would have the opportunity to share the Gospel with them.
- Marketplace – We put a sound system and generator on the back of a flatbed truck. We drove the truck to a marketplace where fruit, vegetables, meat, and every other kind of food is sold. We preached about Jesus and right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the marketplace people got saved.
- Children – We used bouncy houses, games, balloons, and face painting to attract children. Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me” and we want to give kids an opportunity to hear about how much Jesus loves them.
- Prisoners – I was sent to prison. But don’t worry…they let me out! In the men’s prison we preached to 300 inmates and in the women’s prison we ministered to 107. We also held a service for about 80 prison guards. In each service, they listened to the good news about Jesus with rapt attention and then gave their lives to Jesus. When the prisoners prayed with me for salvation, it made me so happy.
- Prison Guards – Since we were at the prison, we hosted a special meal for the prison guards and talked to them about Jesus.
- Government Leaders – We visited the governor and the city commissioner. In both offices we had the opportunity to share the Gospel and to pray with these influential officials.
- Pastors – We always work with and for the local church. The churches are responsible for follow-up after we leave so it is important for us to train and encourage the spiritual leaders. We hosted a pastor’s conference and on Sunday our team split up and ministered in over a dozen local churches.
- Students – A team of Kenyan young people named Kumbamba visited all the local schools in the area. They danced, performed dramas, and shared their testimonies. As they ministered, they led several thousand students in a prayer of salvation.
- Businesspeople – Often business leaders feel they are too important to come to an outdoor festival. So in order to reach business people, we rented a banquet room at the nicest hotel in town and sent personalized invitations to influential people. When they arrived, they sat down to eat a feast in an upscale environment. I preached to the businesspeople about Zacchaeus, a rich man whose life was changed when he had the opportunity to eat a meal with Jesus. 37 of them rededicated their lives to Jesus and 51 made a first-time decision to follow Christ.
- Police Officers – We held a police officer forum. When I gave the altar call, the captain of the police stood up and following his example, all the police officers stood up too.
In addition to these targeted outreaches, we also had thousands attend each night of the Gospel Festival. Every night, a crystal-clear Gospel message was preached, and many people were saved. In the city of Embu, we had 50,591 total attendance at all our events and a total of 5,593 documented decisions were made for Christ. Through all our efforts in Murang’a, we reached 45,113 people in person. In this second city a total of 5,650 people made first-time decisions for Christ!
On one trip to Africa I had a brief layover in Kenya. I was invited to preach at a small street meeting in Nairobi. Here’s some raw footage of what God did.
Jessica King lived in Kissi, Kenya for one year. She fell in love with the people of Kenya.
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Madagascar
Most people in North America know Madagascar as a funny cartoon with talking animals, but in reality this island off the coast of South Africa is a nation full of people that need Jesus.
Report from Sambava Crusade
Our outreach took place in the city of Sambava. The Prime Minister of Madagascar was on our plane. When we arrived at the airport, thirty people came to greet him. To his surprise, over 1,000 Christians were at the airport to greet our team of evangelists! The believers paraded through the middle of the city to welcome people to the Festival.
Thousands of people showed up at the Festival grounds. On the first night, a woman who was deaf in one ear was healed. Her eardrum was punctured and for nineteen years she was unable to hear in her left ear, but God healed her and she was able to repeat the quietest whisper. On the second night a seven-year-old boy who could not walk began to walk. These miracles prove to the Malagasy people that Jesus is alive today.
Ten thousand salvation cards were distributed to people who decided to follow Jesus. Over 1,500 believers came to the Fire Conference for an impartation from the Holy Spirit. On our last day in Sambava, 41 people arrived at our hotel to be baptized in the ocean. Great joy filled the city as the people rejoiced that so many had been saved and healed!
We also held a youth outreach in the capital city of Antananarivo, a two-day pastor’s conference, and ministered at many different churches.
Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. This nation is distinctively different from the rest of Africa. The people are a mix of Indonesian, East Indian, Arab, and African descent. Plus, the nation has an island feel to it that is dissimilar to sub-Saharan Africa. I found the Malagasy people to be friendly and hungry for God. In the northern part of Madagascar a large percentage of the population is Muslim.
Report from Diego, Madagascar
Thanks so much for helping us preach the Gospel in Madagascar! Here are some excerpts from my journal during the event:
Tuesday: After flying for over 30 hours, I landed in Antananarivo, capital city of Madagascar, late in the evening.
Wednesday: Despite jetlag, first thing in the morning I spoke at a leadership conference for about 40 leaders. Then I preached at an evangelistic service announced by a local pastor on the radio. About 150 people came and over 40 got saved. Then we drove to a congregation on the outskirts of the city and ministered to about 200 people.
Thursday: We boarded a domestic flight to Diego, Madagascar. On the airplane, a stewardess told me she is praying for the campaign. Her aunt is on the planning committee and she is excited about what God is doing in Diego. When we arrived, hundreds of believers greeted us at the airport tarmac. We formed a giant Jesus parade complete with a semi-truck flatbed full of singers and marched through downtown inviting everyone to come to the Gospel Festival. The parade ended up at the soccer field where the festival will be held and we dedicated the field as holy ground. Directly behind the soccer field is a Muslim seminary. The students will be able to hear every word that comes out of our sound system.
Friday: In the morning, about 500 people attended our Fire Conference and I preached on Soul Winning, emphasizing the individual responsibility to the Great Commission.
At dusk, the ministry team and I arrived at the Festival grounds. The worship team was energetically dancing and singing. The music was led by an anointed young woman who had eight backup dancers. The lyrics of her songs included this Gospel truth, “There is a heaven; there is a hell; you must choose where you will spend eternity.”
The mayor of the city of Diego greeted the crowd and declared the festival to be officially open. He is a Muslim but he shook my hand and welcomed us graciously. There was a light misty rain the entire night but the crowd did not leave. They stayed to enjoy the music and listen to the sermon despite the dampness. I preached on the paralyzed man who was let down through the roof. Five young men enacted the drama. At the end of the story, the paralyzed man jumped up and started dancing across the platform. The crowd cheered. During the altar call, the light rain became heavy rain. But the people responded to the message. Virtually the entire crowd prayed with me for salvation. There were about 3,000 people in attendance. The church in Diego is few in number, perhaps a total of 1,000 believers in a city of 125,000. So, the number of people who responded to the Gospel was amazing.
When I prayed for the sick, a crippled man walked up to the platform. He was carrying his crutches. He had hobbled on crutches for two years but Jesus healed him. At first his steps were halting, but they got stronger and bolder. I asked him if he wanted to dance. He said, “Yes!” and the band began to play. He jumped up and down and danced energetically. I told the crowd that his moves are so good, he could join the backup dancers. Everyone laughed because it was true.
There was a ten-year-old girl who had a growth on her neck the size of a small fist. During the prayer time, the growth completely disappeared. She showed us where the growth was located on her neck and her neck was completely normal.
Saturday: At the Fire Conference, about 550 people attended. I preached on the Fire of God and our team laid hands on every person there. On the second night of the crusade we had good clear weather and lots of miracles!
Sunday: Our team preached at six local churches. Both churches that I preached in were packed full. I asked how many people came to church for the first time and many lifted their hands. The Gospel Festival is already making a difference.
At the final night of the festival, I preached on the lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son, and the lost man (Zacchaeus). In total, we prayed with about 7,000 people for salvation.
Monday: We visited a nearby waterfall that is considered sacred to the local tribes. Believing that the spirits of their ancestors dwell at the waterfall, they regularly journey there to offer sacrifices and pray to the spirits. I ministered to the guide who showed us the waterfall and had the privilege of leading him to Jesus. He was beaming with joy and happiness. He said, “I think God brought you here to Madagascar just to talk to me.”
Tuesday: We had a final prayer meeting with the local pastors. Every pastor in town worked hard to make the Gospel Festival a success. They will continue to meet together for regular prayer meetings. Our time in Diego has produced a great move of God that will continue for many years to come.
Thanks so much for helping us preach the Gospel in the farthest corners of the earth!
Report from Antananarivo Crusade
At our Gospel Festivals, we see miracles. Blind eyes are opened by God. Deaf ears begin to hear. Cripples stand up and walk. These kinds of miracles are frequent and always exciting.
But, one of the greatest miracles at our recent Gospel Festival in Antananarivo, Madagascar, was how the local churches were unified in supporting our evangelistic collaboration.
Sometimes, getting pastors to work together is like herding cats. Churches often have their own agendas and their own schedules. Sometimes, when an evangelist comes to town, churches will politely decline to participate or even attend.
This is why I rejoice when pastors get excited about reaching the lost, and catch the vision for what God can do if the entire body of Christ works together. When pastors are willing to put aside their logos and their egos to work together, an entire city can be impacted.
This is the miracle we experienced in Madagascar. Arriving three days before the Gospel Festival was scheduled to begin, I asked a pastor at the airport, “What are the churches doing to prepare for the Festival?” He eagerly told me, “Tomorrow, we are meeting in the marketplace to pass out invitations to everyone there.”
The next morning, I was tired from jet lag but decided to go to the market to see for myself what was happening. To be honest, I thought there would be 15-20 people participating, but to my surprise, hundreds of church members from all over the city were gathered.
One man brought a bucket of homemade glue so he could stick posters to the walls. Another pastor had the creative idea to turn the Festival posters into walking advertisements. Church members glued a cardboard strip to the top of each poster and used string to turn the posters into a costume for a human billboard. They had prepared enough posters for everyone to wear.
The marketplace in Antananarivo is several streets wide and two kilometers long. It has everything that a Wal-Mart offers, but each item comes from a different shop. If you want tomatoes, you visit the tomato stall. If you want batteries, you stroll down a couple of streets and visit a battery store. If you want to buy a pencil, you go and visit a stationary merchant.
The teams fanned out across the marketplace and offered every person the enclosed flyer with the details of the Gospel Festival, visiting every stall and shop. They also asked, “What do you need prayer for?” Right there in the market square, before the festival even began, people were giving their lives to Jesus.
Our first day in the marketplace was so successful that the believers decided to return the following day. But on the second day, they brought their musical instruments. Soon, the sounds of drums, horns, guitars, and accordions filled the city center. The churches formed a parade and danced, sang and played in the streets.
As they marched, they announced, “If you need salvation, come to the Festival. If you need healing, come to the Festival. If you enjoy music, come to the Festival.” Because of the enthusiasm of the churches, thousands of Malagasy people came to the parking lot next to the soccer stadium right in the middle of downtown Antananarivo. Thousands of people were saved at our Gospel Festival.
It is your faithful financial support that allows us to print posters and flyers to invite people to come hear the Gospel and receive Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. Thank you! The part you play in helping us to print these flyers is just as important as the role of the believers who hand them out by the thousands, and their role is just as important as that of the preacher who shares the good news and invites people to respond to the altar call. We are all part of the body of Christ and every role is important. Thank you for playing your part in helping us impact the nation of Madagascar with the story of Jesus Christ!
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Ethiopia
Jesus promised that His disciples would be witnesses to the ends of the earth. One of these far away places is Lalo Kile in Ethiopia. I recently landed in Addis Ababa, the capital city, and drove fourteen hours to the location of our Gospel Festival. On the journey, often over bumpy dirt roads, we had a miracle encounter. We were passing through Nekemte and stopped for a coffee (everyone in Ethiopia drinks coffee). At the roadside table next to us we heard some men talking about a Bible school. I greeted them and met the director of an International Victory Bible Institute, a Bible school planted by my home church, Victory Christian Center. It is amazing the impact that Victory has had around the world. I had the opportunity to visit the school and minister to the 198 students. They eagerly study the Word, despite lack of desks and sitting on wooden benches.
The conditions on this mission trip were quite primitive. There was no bathroom near my room so I had to walk up a little hill to a smelly public outhouse. Each morning, I was brought a plastic bucket of cold water to wash in and I had to scoop water out of the bucket and pour it over my head.
When we finally arrived in Lalo Kile, a delegation of pastors met us at the entrance of the town with a warm welcome. On the first night of the Gospel Festival, about 15,000 people came. There was a man who had an infected foot. The doctor told him the foot would have to be amputated. Jesus miraculously healed his foot and the man started to march and dance. When he shared his testimony, all the people rejoiced with him.
On the second night, 18,000 people came and I spoke on the paralyzed man in the Bible who was let down through the roof. A man blind in his right eye was healed. He brought a document from the hospital that proved he was blind. Each morning we held a Fire Conference at a local church for all the leaders. On the first day every seat was filled; the next day people were leaning in through the windows and lined up outside to listen.
On the third day, there were so many people that the church was not able to hold them and we were forced to move outdoors. On the third day of the Festival, 35,000 people came and there were many more miracles.
There was a mosque right next to our grounds. Five times a day, an imam called Muslims to prayer. His sound system was loud, but ours was louder. As we drove by the mosque on Friday, there were only about ten pairs of shoes outside. On Saturday night as we drove by, a large rock flew from inside the mosque compound and hit the side of our car, leaving a large dent. The rock made a loud bang. If it had hit our window, it definitely would have shattered glass all over our car. We told the police, and they posted a guard next to the mosque to make sure they did not throw any more stones at the people walking by.
On the fourth day, 45,000 people were in attendance and I preached on the Four Greatest Miracles in the Bible. We put a large wooden cross right in the middle of the platform and did a drama about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Those who raised their hand to accept Jesus, received a booklet and a counselor wrote down their names for the local churches to follow up on the new believers.
On Sunday morning, the fifth and final day of the Festival, approximately 55,000 people gathered together. The field was not big enough to hold everyone. I preached on the three greatest events in the Bible: Creation, Calvary, and Pentecost. We prayed with the whole crowd to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and thousands spoke in their personal prayer language for the first time. In Ethiopia, people were saved, healed and filled with the Holy Spirit. This Gospel Festival is another great success. Thank you for helping us to preach the Gospel of Jesus to the people living near the “ends of the earth.”
Kemba, Ethiopia
Ambo, Ethiopia
Agere Maryam, Ethiopia
Metu, Ethiopia
Chuko, Ethiopia
Wondo Genet, Ethiopia
Guder, Ethiopia
Lalo Kile, Ethiopia
Abuna, Ethiopia
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