Tuesday, December 11, 2007

News from our India Ministry Trip



Thanks to all of your for your prayers while we were in India. I can assure you that your prayers were heard and answered! I was accompanied on this trip by Felicia Burgess, Linda Epperson and Deloris Holden.

Here are some of the highlights:

1. We led the first ever Church of God Women's conference in Kakinada, India.
2. There were over 330 in attendance including pastors' wives, district pastors' wives, 50 Bible college female students and over 100 local ladies.
3. I preached to over 800 men and women on Sunday.
4. KSM gave out over 300 hair barrettes to the participants of the conference. We distributed 20 pairs of shoes to the college girls and shirts to the boys.

On the last Sunday that we were there, we had a mighty move of the Holy Ghost. A lady who was paralyzed on her right side was healed. She lifted her right arm in the air and moved her right leg up and down! I had her walk all by herself in the church as a witness to her healing. Brother Reddi's music director after prayer was so overcomed by the Holy Ghost he became uncontrollable to the point the Bible Schools kids had to sit on him. (I had never witnessed anything quite like it!) His dad is a COG preacher that could not feed him and his brother so he ws sentto the orphanage to be raised. He is now married and has a calling on his life. God really gave him an unusual anointing to the point he said He would never be the same. The overseer's wife was slain for the first time in her life. She had asked God to slay her and He gave her the desires of her heart.

Both the overseer and his wife said it was an awesome conference and the ministers' wives said they were going back to their villages to do more for God.

To those of you who prayed and gave to this project, remember, you have sown a seed in this harvest!

It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. (1 Cor. 3:6, The Message)