District 1
Trained 58 people in 5 villages. In one village, a farmer and father of four had a heart attack during the training. Word spread throughout the village that help was needed. One of the men who responded to help was a thief who had spent half of his life in jail. As the thief arrived, he was amazed at the "foolishness" he saw, as all the believers could do was pray for the man who had the heart attack. After 20 minutes of praying, the Lord touched both men. That day, the village experienced 2 healings; one physical and one spiritual. After his conversion, the thief surrendered himself to the courts. He then spent a month in jail, during which he preached King Jesus to more than 70 fellow inmates and even baptized 2 of his cell mates. This district is reporting 7 new house groups and 4 new house churches.
Trained 58 people in 5 villages. In one village, a farmer and father of four had a heart attack during the training. Word spread throughout the village that help was needed. One of the men who responded to help was a thief who had spent half of his life in jail. As the thief arrived, he was amazed at the "foolishness" he saw, as all the believers could do was pray for the man who had the heart attack. After 20 minutes of praying, the Lord touched both men. That day, the village experienced 2 healings; one physical and one spiritual. After his conversion, the thief surrendered himself to the courts. He then spent a month in jail, during which he preached King Jesus to more than 70 fellow inmates and even baptized 2 of his cell mates. This district is reporting 7 new house groups and 4 new house churches.
District 2
Trained 67 people in 5 villages. One of our supervisors went to a new area where one of our trainings was happening. This village is a central village and is the key to access to more than 30 villages. As he prayer-walked the area he found a man who had been sick and in bed for several years. He began to talk to this man about the healing power of Jesus. He then laid his hands on the sick man to pray for healing. When he did this, many demons manifested themselves and the bed-ridden man jumped up and attacked our supervisor. Our supervisor went back to the training site and shared what had happened. He and those being trained began to fast and pray for the demon possessed man. The next morning, several of the men went with our supervisor to cast out the demons. The men began to pray and after two and a half hours, the sick man was delivered from the demons. When this was done, the man immediately got up and cleaned himself up. He then asked to be baptized and our men took him to a river where this could be done. The supervisor believes that the territorial spirit was driven away from this area as this man was delivered from demonic possession, which means that we should see even greater things to come from this area. This district is reporting 11 new house groups, 5 new house churches and 34 baptisms.
District 3
Trained 52 people in 3 villages. Our
trainers were getting ready to conduct a training in a village that has
been a hot spot for persecution this year, with one man killed and
several injured as well as much property damage. Two of our
supervisors had gone to help, because of their experience. On the
first day of training, a representative of the local fundamentalist
group came and warned them to stop the training. The next day, a group
came with sticks, swords and batons. As one of our supervisors tried
to talk to the men, one of the fundamentalists raised his iron rod to
hit him. Before he could come down with the rod, our supervisor yelled
at him, warning the man and the group that he is a servant of the one
living and true God and if anyone threatens or tries to harm him they
will be facing the Lord of the earth soon. This was followed by a
brief silence and then one-by-one the mob began to leave.
From this point on, the training was not threatened. Our supervisor
was asked what it was that caused him to say what he said. He said, "I
still remember day and night when brother Eric and brother Mark came
for the first time and kept on mentioning the words of King Jesus and I
remembered the same words, that I am a servant and representative of
King Jesus and no one can harm or kill me unless the King allows it."
This district is reporting 9 new house groups and 5 new house churches.
District 4
Trained 73 people in 5 villages. Our training material is being thoroughly taught to our disciples and volunteers, which is resulting in a rapid spreading of the teaching material and thus the Gospel. In one village, a volunteer has taking up the responsibility to share the training with his fellow villagers by providing a training session in the evening, two nights per week. In another village, a man has volunteered to pay for the travel expenses of two other volunteers so they can go and teach other villages. In another village, during the training our trainers heard that there were three men in a village home who were making strange noises and acting weird. Our trainer and a volunteer went to see what was happening and they found the three men cursing, banging their heads on the floor and making hissing sounds like snakes. The trainer and the volunteer commanded, in Jesus' name, the demons to leave the men. Immediately, the men fell on the floor, speechless, and were free of the demons. They were still for several hours and when they woke up, they were normal. This district is reporting 8 new house groups, 3 new house churches and 63 baptisms.
Trained 73 people in 5 villages. Our training material is being thoroughly taught to our disciples and volunteers, which is resulting in a rapid spreading of the teaching material and thus the Gospel. In one village, a volunteer has taking up the responsibility to share the training with his fellow villagers by providing a training session in the evening, two nights per week. In another village, a man has volunteered to pay for the travel expenses of two other volunteers so they can go and teach other villages. In another village, during the training our trainers heard that there were three men in a village home who were making strange noises and acting weird. Our trainer and a volunteer went to see what was happening and they found the three men cursing, banging their heads on the floor and making hissing sounds like snakes. The trainer and the volunteer commanded, in Jesus' name, the demons to leave the men. Immediately, the men fell on the floor, speechless, and were free of the demons. They were still for several hours and when they woke up, they were normal. This district is reporting 8 new house groups, 3 new house churches and 63 baptisms.
District 5
Trained 59 people in 4 villages. One of
our volunteers has started finding villages where we can do our
training and then following up with the training by finding new
volunteers who can help with future training. In one village, a widow
and mother of 3 heard the good news and started to attend a group. She
was healed of body and back stiffness one day while attending the
group. This healing came because she realized that she believed what
the people were saying, that Jesus was a healer. When she believed
this in her mind and heart, she was healed. This district is reporting
11 new house groups and 8 new house churches.
District 6
Trained 48 people in 3 villages. In one
village, a very wealthy man was bitten by a snake. One of our
volunteers, who was known to have been preaching about a healer, was
called on to come and see the man. Our volunteer kept sharing the
gospel, but the rich man did not want to hear it. He just wanted the
volunteer to do his magic and heal him. Our volunteer persisted in
saying that he could do nothing, that Jesus is the one who could heal
him. After some time, the rich man lost interest and decided to try
and make it to a nearby hospital. On the way to the hospital, he had a
heart attack and died. This is a very sad story of a soul that was
lost, but what did happen is that our volunteer has now been able to
share further with those who were present and their focus has been
taken off of him and they are beginning to see who Jesus is. This
district is reporting 5 new house churches and 44
baptisms.
District 7
Trained 66 people in 6 villages. A man
from the low caste was trained when brother Eric came several months
ago. He then began to preach the gospel and offer the training in his
village. The high caste fundamentalists threatened this man and told
him to stop his teaching. When he did not do so, they agreed to
boycott him socially, which means that he cannot use the village water
well, school and the local market. By the time the fundamentalists did
this, our man had already started 2 house groups and he had more than
22 disciples in the village. The boycott forced him, however, to move
his wife and 7 kids to another village. This district is reporting 3
new house churches and 37 baptisms.
District 8
Trained 70 people in 4 villages. In
this district there is a remote village with a population of about
7,000. The village is surrounded by mountains on 3 sides and a river
on the 4th, so it is very isolated. Because of this isolation, the
gospel had never reached this village, or so we thought. One of our
volunteers was led to go to this village. He learned that this closed
community already had 4 existing worship groups. These groups had some
fuzzy beliefs though. No one in the village is literate, so all they
could do is believe and worship. They had been passing stories down of
a God named "Yesu" (Jesus). Apparently, a villager had brought back a
story of this "Yesu" in 2002. About 6 months after this villager
brought back the story about "Yesu" he died and since then the
villagers have been following "Yesu" as best as they knew how. Our
volunteer is now working to bring the training to this village, knowing
that the 350 believers are ready to follow the Truth. This district is
reporting 9 new house groups and 5 new house churches.
