TO THE LOST.......

We took a couple days of rest after the week with pastor Wilma and awaited the arival of a team of ministers from the US, Canada, and the UK. When the team arived, we hit the groud running and went back to the poor for a day to minister to the children. Most on the team had never seen such intense poverty.

We left the next day for the city of Ica, a city known for witchcraft. It´s even in the promotional guidebooks and travel literature as a city of witches. Not a problem for Jesus though, because we can out love the witches any day and what the witch doctors charge money for, Jesus does for free.

We went into the city with much prayer and intercession. Halfway to the city, as we were all praying in the bus, I had a vision of warring angels going ahead of us and clearing the way for the team to preach the gospel. The first night, Jim Drown preached how a seed must die and fall to the ground to produce life, offspring, and fruit. He shared his testimony of burying his first child in Peru and how that changed his life.. "Because of that, I know have many thousand spiritual children!". Jim has given his life to service for the Lord. You can visit his ministry at www.drowninhislove.com . There were over 200 people to come forward for first time salvation. After The call for salvation we invited any of the sick to come forward. There were over forty documented healings including one woman who hearing was instantly healed!

The 2 days we went to the main plaza in Ika to preach the gospel. Not in word only, but in power. Over a hundred people were instantly healed which set the stage for over 300 people to give their lives over to Christ. When I was praying for oneperson, several would gather, then when the one was instanly healed, the faith of the people increased and they would come closer. 6 to 10 people at a time would pray to recieve Christ and we would then encourage them. One young boy testified he heard Jesus speak to his heart that he was Gods son. We broke the power of withcraft off of several people. I exclaimed "the witch doctors charge you for money then place a curse on you so you have to keep coming back." Many in the crowd testified that their conditions worsened after going to the witch doctor. One woman said her life fell apart after she went to the witchdoctor. Her health and even her job suffered as a result. She had gone to church but nothing happened. When we prayed, we broke all the curses and spells, cast out the devils and she was instantly changed. I could see in her eyes she was totally delivered and set free. She was like Mary Magdeline of the bible, set free by the power of Satan, and now free to give her life and love to Jesus. While we were ministering on the streets, it caused such a ruckous that the police were called and TV station spontaneously came to televise the healings that were taking place amoung the multitude gathered. The police questioned Jim and with the Lords help, not only did we get permission to stay and minister, but they even unexpectedly helped us get into a maximum security prison where Jim and others prayed for many for salvation and God showed His love and mercy by healing almost all the sick. (Jim didn´t have his ID with him so they miraculously let him in with just a flyer announcing the crusades with his picture!) We went to the prision the next day as well, with over 25 prisioners comming to faith in Christ. We are buying all the new belivers bibles. Many wonder why we do things like this. It is simple, Jesus said to do it.

We shared at another church on sunday. One woman was instantly healed of extreme pain in her body! I exhorted the congregation to focus more on Jesus and less on Religious stuff. We must be carful of the "navel gazing christian" mindset that tends to lead to criticism, division, and quarraling. We need to get our mind off ourselves and get out and spread the love of Jesus, bind up the broken hearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, and feed the poor.

Another personal highnote was that our 4-year old Spencer responded to call of Jesus at the crusade. Completely on his own, he raised his hand and said he wanted to pray and make Jesus his Lord. I thank God for Gary Oates who delivered a simple, yet powerful gospel message that even a child could understand. The next day we took dune buggies on the sand dunes outside of Ika. They even gave us sandboards to play with.















Jesus is Lord

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