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GOD USES INDONESIAN children. Not only do they gather JESUS HEALS 55 000 baptized believers in 1975
CHILDREN IN HEALING REVIVAL to praise and worship God each FOSTER CHILDREN to well over one million believers
Indonesia is experiencing mira- day, but they also pray for the “My wife Marilyn and I have today.
cles! In the area where three healing of adults and children. several friends who foster chil- Source: Dr David Hunt, Mission
Christian schoolgirls were Christians started praying for dren,” reports churchplanter Network News
brutally beheaded 18 months ago revival here about 10 years ago, Steve Hill from the Netherlands.
and over 15 000 homes and shops but they say noticeable change “They are miracle workers! They 14 000 COME TO
were razed to the ground, three only came when 12 000 Karen are God’s special heroes! CHRIST IN NIGERIA
children are being used in a gathered for a reconciliation One couple we know adopted twin One million Idoma people in
special way to bring the Gospel to camp last year. boys who had been severely Nigeria are now governed by a
many people. “People started to confess the damaged due to the crack cocaine Christian chief.
Since January 2007, Selvin, an 8 sins of the village, and commit the used by their mother. Our friends It is custom to stand and sit as the
year old Presbyterian girl has village to the Lord,” Sydney adopted them! And they were at chief does and kneel before him
been used in a healing revival in Jariyaphruttipong, a Thai pastor, an age to be grandparents, the when addressing him.
the Poso District with up to 30 000 said. age when most are thinking about That is exactly what Brett from the
people at a time attending, getting “Eighty families out of 85, are now cruises, cottages and retirement. JESUS Film Project did as he
saved and healed. Christians. People confess their The medical authorities told them shared the Gospel with the chief.
Now another two children have sins openly. Children start to see they were crazy to adopt the boys “After I shared Christ with him,
begun to minister. Moko, an 8 year visions of heaven. There’s a clear since they would never be normal. the chief asked me to write down a
old Presbyterian boy has been change in their lives.” They said the one little guy would prayer he had to pray to receive
touched by the Lord and is Source: Jay Esteban, CBN News never walk, talk, see or even toilet Christ.
preaching the Gospel powerfully Asia train. The pastors we were working with
and was invited by the Mayor of When we met them the boys were were ecstatic. They told me that
Toraja (South Sulawesi) to come about five years old and doing meant that he wanted to receive
and conduct revival meetings much better than the doctors had Christ, but in private.”
with 40 000 people attending. prophesied! Both were walking, The rest of the village was able to
Another young girl, 11 year old talking and seeing, although the see the JESUS Film, and 14 000
Maria, a Pentecostal, has begun one little guy had stopped Idoma people accepted Christ in
preaching a message of national growing and wore glasses as just ten days.
repentance as well as repentance thick as old-fashioned coke The new believers will be cared
in the local churches. bottles. for by local pastors and JESUS
All of this is happening in the area We all prayed and the little guy Film workers.
greatly impacted by massive started growing again! Then one “They are able to do the follow-up,
persecution that began Christ- morning he came to breakfast train, and disciple new believers.
mas 1998 and is still continuing. without his glasses. The mom The new believers will join local
Now it seems that the prayers of REMARKABLE asked him to go and get his churches.”
many for this area from around REVIVAL AMONG CHILDREN glasses. He said, ‘Mom, since Source: Jesus Film Project
the world are being answered. IN SHILLONG, INDIA Jesus came into my room last
Tens of thousands are being A revival is taking place in India’s night, I do not need glasses!’ And USA: CONVERTED MURDERER
saved. north-eastern state of Meghalaya. that was the truth! A trip to the TURNS HIMSELF IN
Source: Annette Hammond, The most unique feature of this eye-specialist confirmed that his The New York Post reports that 51
JN599 revival is the way God is using eyes were completely healed.” year old Michael Mohr of Arizona
children to speak to churches, Source: Steve Hill, Harvest Now shocked police in New York’s East
pastors, leaders and parents. Village recently, by walking into
Thousands of children have been VIETNAM GIVES PERMISSION the local precinct and announcing
affected and have brought on TO PRINT 100 000 BIBLES that he had strangled a woman on
many occasions, their own Dr David Hunt, president of World East 13th Street during an
parents back into a relationship Serve Ministries, reports about a argument in 2004, and that Jesus
with God. stunning development in Viet- Christ wanted him to turn himself
In many cases even divorced or nam, where the Communist in.
separated couples have been Government has just given Mohr recently became converted
reconciled through their children. permission to print 100 000 Bibles and “realized that Jesus wanted
In other cases whole congre- for the unregistered church in the him to do the right thing.”
CHILDREN'S REVIVAL SWEEPS gations have been brought to nation. “We wish Jesus would solve more
NORTHERN THAILAND conviction of their sins through “We are seeing some of the of these,” a law enforcement
Christians say spiritual revival the revelations the children greatest opportunities and open- source said. “Mohr was relieved
has come to the northern Thai- received. ings in the history of the nation,” and a little emotional. He was just
land village of Suplang because Source: Barkos Warjri, says Hunt. The church in Vietnam glad to get it off his chest.”
of the dedication of Karen tribal www.shillongrevival.com has grown explosively from about Source: The New York Post
