December Christmas Crusade!

WE REJOICE IN GOD’S MARVELLOUS WORKING at the 101st Redeeming Hope Crusade held in Kanchikacherla, India! This place is a prominent Hindu city with a 135 foot tall statue of “Hanuman” – a false god that promises to grant wishes and remove obstacles in people’s lives. The irony of this that the city is known for its drunkenness, debauchery, and darkness. The Devil fought this crusade on multiple fronts to keep it from happening, but we are thankful that God mightily blessed! ALMOST 2,000 PEOPLE from the area gathered for the meeting . . . Scores of pastors and churches were involved, and they testified that this was the largest crusade that has ever been held in this area! TO GOD BE THE GLORY! 🇮🇳🔥🙏🏻🙌🏻

The Lord allowed us to rent a massive LED wall and 147 rickshaws to bring the people in. I was humbled with the opportunity to preach at this Crusade via livestream for about 30 minutes right before we showed “Redeeming Hope” (after the film Bro. Shalem Raju conducted the invitation). I was told that “many were involved with your message, sir, and the people were very happy to listen from you and were touched by the God’s Word spoken by you. It made a great impact on them to watch the movie.” My heart is full, and it makes me weep tears of joy. 😭❤️ PRAISE THE LORD!

After the film, OVER 1,000 PRECIOUS SOULS put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ!! 🙌🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻 “Wonderful grace of Jesus greater than all our sin; How shall my tongue describe it, where shall its praise begin??” Truly – this is the Lord’s doing . . . What marvellous working of the Holy Ghost!! Here are some of the testimonies from that night:

✅ “I’m going through lot of struggles and pain, my husband is not caring about me, my marriage is broken, I’ve no peace in my life. I know my life is over and have no Hope for the Future. My neighbours are coming to this crusade and they invited me too. We came here by autorickshaw, when Evangelist is preaching through screen, I literally crying from my heart. I believed there is no Hope in my life, but when I heard there is Hope in Jesus, I got very excited. After watching the film, I realised there is real Hope in Jesus, I realised He can forgive my sins and never remember them again, I invited Him into my heart and I experienced True Hope and Happiness in my life.”

✅ “I got married very recently. With many hopes I entered in marriage life. But my hopes watered down. My husband is an addicted to alcohol that I never know before the marriage, our marriage is an arranged marriage by our parents. After the marriage, by looking at his addictions I am experiencing trauma in my life, I wanted to leave him. Fortunately, I believe God led me here to watch the film and to hear His voice. I was really encouraged by Evangelist’s sermon; I felt he is talking to me. While watching the movie I realised God can rebuild the broken relationships. I believed he can save us from the worst situations and give us hope. I accepted Him as my personal saviour, and I got Hope that he’ll save my husband and help us to be together.”

✅ “I am an old woman. My husband died because of drinking lot of alcohol. When he was alive, I suggested him many times but he never listened to my voice and never cared my words. He died, now my two sons are doing same thing that their father has done. My two sons are addicted to alcohol, I’ve been suggesting them not to drink and spoil their lives. But they are no listening to me, as the Lord led, three of us came to watch the film this night and after the movie, I got hope that God who saved Denver will also save my children. After the movie they both came to me and with tears promised that they don’t drink again. I want them to completely believe in the Lord, please do Pray for them.”

✅ God saved the LED Screen technician!! He said, “I never watched film like this. We went to many programs and rented our screen to many people but never watched film like this which gives hope to the broken lives. I though life is all about enjoying, eating and drinking. But I got to know there is life after death and there are two options to choose, when pastor asked everyone to choose or reject Jesus, I choose him and asked him to come into my heart. I accepted Jesus Christ as my Personal Saviour.”

✅ Three autorickshaw drivers came together and shared their testimony: “We three came from same village. Pastor who is working in our village, rented our Rickshaws to transport people. We dropped people and we also came to watch the film. While evangelist was preaching in the screen, we got excited that he was preaching from far and so happy to see him. Mainly the message that He spoke caught our hearts. We realised we need saviour for our lives and we accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour.”

✅ God saved a medical Doctor who attended. He said, “I know of Jesus Christ when I was college student. I know him but I never had assurance that He could save my life. But after listening to Evangelist’s message and after watching the film, I realised He is only saviour who can save me. He saved a person like Denver and used him as a pastor to save many people like him. In my life I have no assurance and happiness, but I realised now that He will save me and use me for His Glory, To God be the Glory!”

✅ God saved Hindu husband and wife. They said, “We belong to Hindu Community. We do follow all the traditions and rituals that Hindus follows. Though we pray to many different gods we never had peace and happiness. I know it is a Christian meeting, but I decided to come here along with my wife, we came wondering if we could receive peace in our lives. I heard evangelist was talking about the same peace that I need in my life. I realised Jesus is the one who give peace to our lives and save us from the world. We received Jesus in our hearts as our personal Saviour. He is the one true God!”

✅ “I’m an AIDS positive person. I was affected when I’m child. When everyone came to know that I have HIV, they started keeping me aside and started avoiding me. I’ve no hope in my life, I know, nobody marries me, I wanted to commit suicide many times. But evangelist’s message encouraged me a lot. I found Hope after watching the film, I may be live single life for the entire life, but I believe God will be with Me as I trust in Him alone as my Saviour.”

✅ “I got converted into Catholicism when I got married to my husband. He was a catholic, from my marriage onwards I’ve been going to catholic church but never felt personal relation with God. I go to church and come back every week, we worship Mary idol and pray to her. I felt Catholicism is same like Hinduism which I followed before marriage. But after watching movie, I realised Mary is not goddess and Catholicism is wrong. I realised Jesus is true and one and only God when pastor was preaching. I received Christ as my Personal Saviour, To God be the Glory.”

✅ “My husband was affected by HIV AIDS and I do not know that. After several years I got to know I also got affected by HIV. I do not know any man except my husband. Though when my relatives and neighbours got to know about my situation, some blamed me and I suffered a lot; I lost hope on my life. When evangelist was speaking through screen, I realised Christ loves me and wants to hug me with His open Arms. I gave my life to Him and received Him as my Personal Saviour.”

✅ “The evangelist sermon and the movie made a great impact on my life. I know what Jesus did on the cross but never realised and personally experienced His love. When evangelist was telling JESUS LOVES YOU, I heard it very personally, I felt God talking to me. When Denver came back to His wife I cried out from my heart, God saved me this night and I received Jesus as my personal Saviour, To God be the Glory!”

✅ “Hello, for many years I always had bad opinion about Pastors. I felt they live for themselves and roam around the roads to beg money. After watching the film, I completely changed my perspective. If that Elderly pastor didn’t knock the door of Denver’s Home he might have died. I realised how precious work pastors are doing. I realised how powerful Jesus is. He is God. And I decided to receive Him in my heart.”

God also brought a spirit of revival to many of the pastors and Christians attending. They shouted, they rejoiced, they wept. One in particular who traveled a far distance approached Bro. Shalem, “After watching film and listening to you, he came directly to me and shared me that God stirred his spirit through the film and through the message. He surrendered his life to Christ and wanted to show this film to as many people as possible in His Place.” AMEN!! Another pastor testified, “Due to my financial conditions I was not sincere to Church. I always look outside for my needs. When I became pastor to my church there were around 40 Church members now, we have only 10 members in my church. I forgot my calling and my duty of saving souls. When evangelist was preaching in the screen, I realised how he was burdened about perishing souls. I felt shame about myself; after watching the film I realised many needs the Gospel. Many people are going away from God. I decided to concentrate on God and live for Him to save the Perishing souls.” 😭🙏🏻🙌🏻 PRAISE THE LORD!!

Please note that this meeting was made possible through those of you who sacrificially gave on “GIVING TUESDAY” December 3rd. Imagine all the souls who would still be in darkness and lost without Jesus Christ if we did not partner as “laborers together with God”! Your investment and intercession are vital in this ministry. Thank you for being willing to work with us for souls! For eternity! For the Gospel!

Please pray for wisdom in the days ahead. God has opened an incredible door of opportunity to preach the Gospel to many THOUSANDS. To say that we’re excited is an understatement 😇🙏🏻 We need your faithful and fervent intercession. We need prayer warriors who will “hold on to God” so that we might experience Rent Heavens in our upcoming meetings . . . Can I count on you to frequently pray for the presence, power, and protection of God upon Redeeming Hope Crusades? Please join with me in begging God for an outpouring of Glory and for the Holy Ghost to move upon the multitudes! Without intercession, there will be no outpouring. May God bless you greatly, and I am eager to see what the Lord does for His glory and the furtherance of the Gospel in the days ahead!!