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Africa@Revival April 2005 |
Look what God is doing in Africa
Benin
(Adams)
Twenty-one received the Holy Ghost at the national conference.
Five
new preachers were licensed.
Burkina
Faso
(Adams)
Four
were baptized in Jesus name.
Democratic
Republic
of Congo
(Grosbach)
New
city, new pastor, and
new church: UPC Airways flew a home missionary into the city of Kamina.
He
established the first UPC there.
The
pastor prayed for the city the entire time they were flying.
As
they reached the airstrip the pastor began to sing and rejoice.
Equatorial
Guinea
(Mua)
Three
baptized in Jesus name and two received the Holy Ghost.
God
has supplied a place of worship and money to pay the rent for six months.
Gabon
(Adams)
Seven
were baptized in Jesus name.
Four
received the Holy Ghost.
Ghana
(Poitras & Sisco)
Sixty-four
received the Holy Ghost at the Central region convention.
Twenty-one
children have received the Holy Ghost at one local church in the last two
months.
Ivory
Coast
(Adams)
Bible
school classes have resumed with nineteen new students.
Kenya
(Crumpacker & Droke)
Contact
has been made with an apostolic group of 100 preachers interested in joining
the UPCI.
Ten
of the pastors have expressed interest in attending our Bible school.
Twenty-three
received the Holy Ghost at a recent conference.
Liberia
(Stewart)
Seven
received the Holy Ghost and five were baptized at a displaced person’s
camp.
Five
received the Holy Ghost and seven were baptized at a revival.
Madagascar
(C. Richardson)
487
received the Holy Ghost at a recent conference.
150
of these were children.
Crowds
peaked at 7,000.
Malawi
(Tolstad & Simoneaux)
Four
children received the Holy Ghost in a local Sunday school class.
During
a meeting held to deal with a serious church problem, the Holy Ghost moved
in, the problem was solved easily, resulting in unity and fresh revival taking
place.
Nigeria
(Nickerson)
Brother
David Bernard has just completed a wonderful Oneness Conference at a Baptist
college. 380 were in attendance. Brother Bernard was also able to speak about
the Holy Ghost. A contact may lead to six other major Baptist colleges in
the country.
727
ministers were present at three Oneness seminars.
Fifty-seven
of these were baptized in Jesus name.
600
preachers attended four leadership development seminars and many received
the Holy Ghost and miracles took place.
Forty
received the Holy Ghost in one evening service.
Two
new churches have been established.
A
new state (district) is being formed for the UPCI in Nigeria.
Fourteen
ministers will take license with us.
Sierra
Leone
(Conteh)
Ninety-four
received the Holy Ghost at a Last Hour program.
South
Africa
(Smith, Flowers, Louw, & Davis)
143
received the Holy Ghost in three weeks.
Twenty-two
of these were in a prison.
Eighty-six
backsliders prayed back through to the Holy Ghost.
Togo
(Adams)
Nine
pastors and local workers, in a remote region of central Togo,
completed Level A – Portable Bible Schools.
Uganda
(Royer)
Forty-five
has requested baptism in the Lira region.
Two
pastors were sentenced to jail for leaving the fellowship of another church
organization.
God
has intervened and the charges have been cancelled.
Fifty-eight
enrolled in a recent Purpose Institute.
Eight
pastors were baptized in Jesus name.
We
are sharing God’s Word through lessons and Bible verse memorization
at our primary school.
The
school is gaining access to parents of various ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Zambia
(Abernathy)
2,871
attended Big Sunday program.
Twenty-two
received the Holy Ghost.
Twenty-seven
were baptized in Jesus name.
On
another Sunday one pastor baptized fifty-one, and another pastor baptized
thirteen.
Zimbabwe
(Simoneaux)
Twenty-five
were baptized in a district service.