Dear Mission Partners,
Tonight was the final night of our first two Gospel Crusades of the year. I was able to be present for BOTH tonight! That’s a first in Nigeria!
I started out at Ngwa High, where I preached the Gospel. Then I handed off to Evangelist Rob Enge who began praying for the sick as I rushed to Ogbor Hill (the other crusade). I arrived in time to pray the closing prayer of blessing over the nation, the city and the people present. It is always a very special moment in every crusade, but somehow this one felt especially significant.
They were interviewing healing testimonies on stage when I arrived at Ogbor Hill. The crowd was pressed in around the platform, riveted. I was able to see another small fulfillment of our efforts to obey the word to “multiply.” Here, on two fields, in two different places, God was moving in power, with or without me present. I felt the joy of a father who is also a son; smiling and being smiled upon.
Another benefit of multiplication is that it enables us to reach into places we would have never gone before. In the old days, we would not have come to a place like Ogbor Hill, because it’s too small.
Evangelist Macoby Donaldson said, “The pastors and bishops I spoke to told me that for years and years they have been praying for their own crusade and finally, this was the designated time and place. The bishop who opened the meeting spoke of Ogbor Hill as a ‘city on a hill.’ He proclaimed that these people on Ogbor Hill who have been chosen for such a time as this will no longer be in the shadows of the much larger part of Aba down the hill. He said, ‘We will shine with the light of Jesus for all of Aba to see!’”
From both crusades, we heard powerful testimonies tonight.
Evangelist Rob Enge (Ngwa High) said, “When I called testimonies to come forward, a wave of joy and celebration swept over the large crowd and spontaneous worship began to break out. The atmosphere was electric, igniting a mass rush of people towards the stage where the people were dancing and rejoicing at what Jesus had done! It was truly a heavenly moment. I’ve never seen anything like it!”