Pastor Francis Nyameche, a 25 year old
youth evangelist from Nairobi, Kenya, graduated with his Bachelor of Ministry
degree from the School of Ministries of Christian Heritage College at Brisbane
Christian Outreach Centre in May 2000.
He tells how the Lord has opened doors for effective ministry and
revival.
My Dad, Samson Nyameche, is the pastor of Believers Fellowship Tabernacle
Church in Kisumu, Kenya, with 2000 attending, so I grew up with a strong
Christian background.
I was converted at 5 when I saw a vision of Jesus calling me to follow
him. As a teenager I was a bit
rebellious, but my parents kept praying for me and encouraging me. When I was 16 the Lord spoke to me that he
loved me, I felt the wind of God, and I was suddenly transformed. I was filled with the Spirit in my room
after seeking God desperately, calling out loudly in tongues.
After completing high school at 18 I preached to a home group for the
first time from 1 Kings 18 about Elijah on Mt Carmel. I was amazed when I prayed for people and they were delivered. Soon I was speaking in many home groups, and
co-ordinating evangelism in my father’s church. I read the Word constantly, often crying, and prayed and fasted a
lot.
When I was a part time youth pastor I also travelled to the Middle East
for a non-christian businessman until his wife was converted, then I was
sacked. I came to Australia for a
holiday but through Alwyn Hartwig immediately had opportunities to preach in
many Christian Outreach Centres. Then
the Lord led me to be the youth pastor in my father’s church. We saw the church and the youth work grow
strong. We had many outreaches,
missions and evangelistic crusades. I
would go to a park with my brothers and sisters who are very musical. They would sing and play instruments and
soon a large crowd would gather. I would
preach, and many were saved and filled with the Spirit that way.
In one place while I was preaching a powerful witch doctor came to the
park and began doing his magic to attract a crowd and oppose our work. Many people who had been listening to me preach
moved over to watch the magic. So I
called on the Lord and the Spirit gave me boldness to call down the fire of God
on the evil magic. Suddenly the witch
doctor began running away and screaming as though he was on fire. The people were amazed at the power of God,
and returned to hear my message. Many
became Christians.
I felt the call of God to Bible College and heard of the School of
Ministries in Brisbane so asked my father to send me there. English was hard for me because my main
language is Swahili, and I understand French, but at college I soon learned to
communicate much better in English, learned to type, and struggled to complete
my assignments.
We had many opportunities to preach and pray for people in class, on
outreaches, and in visiting churches.
Various prophetic words in college really encouraged me. One prophecy from another student was that
on my return home the Lord would take me through a large door which would then
open the way for me to go through many other doors.
My friends at home arranged a large convention in Kisumu on my return
in November 1999. The Renewal
Fellowship in Brisbane covered the costs of hosting delegates for this
convention. The main speaker was Robert
Karanja, a well known and powerful evangelist and one of my heroes. He spoke for the first two days and I spoke
on three days. Over 5,000 people
attended. God moved powerfully. I will always remember the last meeting on
the Friday. The power of God healed so
many people. A young man who had collapsed
was carried into the meeting and was totally healed, shouting and praising
God. A woman who had severe ulcers and
was scheduled for major surgery was totally healed, which was confirmed by her
doctor.
That convention led to many invitations to speak in various places in
Africa, and overseas. I was invited to
speak at a churches in Indonesia for two weeks. I was amazed to see one church building had three balconies and
could seat 20,000 people. In fact I was
overwhelmed and didn’t know what to do.
As I came to the platform God impressed on me to call the people to
pray. Suddenly his Spirit moved in
great power on the whole congregation and the roar was deafening. I was anointed to preach with great
authority.
One of the most powerful healing evangelists in Africa is Pamela
Wairumu who has a well known healing ministry.
She invited me to be the speaker at the launch of their youth healing
evangelism ministry in May 2000. I was
surprised and greatly honoured.
I have been led by the Lord to establish a Christian Outreach Centre in
Nairobi in which we are developing home churches in twelve regions of the
city. The committed leaders in my core
group are each responsible for one of the regions. Teams from various churches in Australia have come over to help
us, including for the official commencement of our church in June 2000. I really value your prayers for God’s mighty
hand on this work for his great glory.
Nepal
Kathmandu pastor Raju Sundras reports on meetings around Easter 2000 with an Australian mission with Geoff Waugh.
Greetings in the name of our Almighty God
Jesus Christ from the land of Himalayas!
The Lord continues to do great things in
this land, we have not much to do but to praise Him and thank Him for every
good gift raining on us from Him and only Him.
It was a great blessing from the Lord to
send us a team from Australia mid April. The fellowship, the Word from God, the
mighty touch of the Holy Spirit, the love of Christ flourishing from our
Australian brothers and sisters, the awesome presence of the Lord throughout
the rushing schedule of conferences, trips, visits and etc., all were
overwhelmingly expressing the great love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards this
nation.
During the short stay of about two weeks
with the team of eight people we had the privilege to see the ministry of the
Holy Spirit through them in several occasions.
On 18 April some of the group along with
me had a short trip to the Tibetan border.
We started early morning and arrived there about noon time. The towns of Liping on the Nepali side and
Khawsa on the Tibetan side are practically connected through a bridge on
Bhotekoshi river and right in the midst of the bridge is the border white line
showing the boundary of each country.
At the end of the bridge on Tibetan side is the entry gate which is
controlled by Chinese guards and immigration officials. After praying on the bridge we approached
the Chinese officials to get a permission to enter Tibet. The first official refused but the second
one nodded approvingly, taking the four Australian passports from my hand as
security. The official received them
and let us go free of charge! This
could happen only by the supernatural intervention of our Almighty God,
Hallelujah! We had good prayer inside
Tibet specially on those individual shopkeepers whom I would grab and pray on
without any resistance from them!
On 21 April all the 8 of Australians and
I had a trip to Gochadda in west Nepal and held a three days conference over
there at Easter. While driving toward
the destination I shared the Word with the driver of the private bus and during
the inauguration of the conference he approached the altar and accepted Christ
as His personal Savior. On the same day
a Christian brother whose hand was sort of crippled for six years was touched
by the Holy Spirit and healed absolutely, shaking in his whole body and raising
his hands, even the crippled one already healed, praising the Lord with all his
strength he glorified the Lord for His greatness, Hallelujah!
Out of about two hundred participants in
the conference by the grace of God a hundred of them were baptized in the Holy
Spirit praising the Lord, singing, falling, crying, and many other actions as
the Holy Spirit would prompt them to act.
About ten of them testified that they had never experienced such a
presence of power and love of God. Some
other testified being lifted to heavenly realms by the power of the Holy
Spirit, being surrounded by the angels of the Lord in a great peace, joy, love
toward each other and being melted in the power of His presence. Many re-committed their lives to the Lord
for ministry by any means through His revelation.
On the second day of the conference the
trend continued as the people seemingly would fall down, repent, minister to
each other in love of Christ, enjoy the mighty touch of the Holy Spirit,
singing, prophesying, weeping, laughing, hugging and all the beauty of the Holy
Spirit were manifested throughout the congregation by His grace and love. One woman of age 65 testified that she never
had danced in her life in any occasion even in secret but the Lord had told her
that she should now dance to Him and she was dancing praising Him with all her
strength. For hours this outpouring
continued and the pastors of the churches were one by one testifying that they
had never experienced such a presence and power of God in their whole Christian
life and ministry.
Some sixty evangelists from Gorkha,
Dhanding, Chitwan, Butwal declared that they were renewed in their spirits by
the refreshing of the Holy Spirit and they are now going to serve the Lord in
the field wherever the Holy Spirit will lead them to be full fledged in His
service. In the last day of the
conference while praying together with the congregation and committing them in
His hands, many prophesied that the Lord was assuring them of great changes in
their ministry, life and the area, while the power of God was at work in our
midst three children of 6-7 years old fell down weeping, screaming and testifying
about a huge size of hand coming on them and touching their stomachs and
healing them instantly. After the
prayer all the participants got into the joy of the Holy Spirit and started
dancing to the Lord, singing and praising Him for His goodness.
Before leaving Gochadda while we were
having snacks in the Pastor’s house a woman of high Brahmin caste came by the
direction of the Lord to the place claiming that she was prompted by a voice in
her ear to go to Christians and ask for prayer for healing of her chronic
stomach pain and problems and that is why she was there. We prayed for her and she was instantly
healed and we shared the Gospel, but she stopped us saying, “I need to accept
Christ as my Saviour so
don’t waste time!” And she accepted
Jesus as her personal Savior being lifted in spirit even the body as she said
she wouldn’t feel anymore burden in her body, and spirit, Hallelujah!
On 25 April we held another conference in
the Nazarene Church in Kathmandu, pastored by Ringi Lama, where ten churches
unitedly participated in the two days gathering where about 100 people
participated. The outpouring of the
Holy Spirit continued in this conference refreshing many in their spirits and
bringing much of re-commitment. Some
cases of healing were testified, and in one case the brother testified that he
had received healing from the Lord and his swollen feet and the high Uric Acid
had disappeared from his body, confirmed by the Holy Spirit. We showed the Transformation video brought
from Australia! All committed
themselves for constant prayer to bring transformation to their cities too by
His power.
On 27 April we held a one day conference
in Hosanna Church where the touch of the Holy Spirit was tremendous and people
blessed by the Holy Spirit and His might were manifesting His power and
presence in the place. While people
were worshipping and praising the Lord a prophecy came and the Lord said, “What
happened to the vision given to you six years ago? You have forgotten to pray
about it but I have not forgotten what I have promised to you through the
vision!” And I was reminded by the Holy
Spirit that I had seen a vision where I was taken over the highest mountains in
this country with few of my foreign friends and some of our evangelists and as
we put our step on the top of the mountain it started shaking and melting and
my friends and the evangelists started disappearing, then I cried out, Lord
where are my friends? And He said open
your eyes and see, and I saw all my friends and the evangelists were scattered
all over the mountains and they were coming towards me with multitudes of
people behind them. I started weeping and with a feeling which words cannot
explain I was thanking the Lord for His goodness, I was laughing in the Spirit
for the repetition of the vision which I could see again. Hallelujah!
I have to thank the Lord for His great
outpouring of the Holy Spirit and I have to thank the Lord also for my
Australian brothers and sisters who took all the burden to come over to this
place and minister to our people.
In His service
Hosanna Church Ministries, Nepal
Raju Sundas
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