“LIGHT in the Darkness”
🇮🇳🎬🔥“REDEEMING HOPE CRUSADES” UPDATE!!!! 🔥🎬🇮🇳 2,400+ in ATTENDANCE with at least 920 ACCEPTING CHRIST in the meetings!!
It thrills my heart to see the Lord mightily at work in India. I never imagined that God would give us the opportunity like this to help reach multitudes there with the Gospel. 😭🙌🏻 PRAISE THE LORD!! When you think of it, for so many generations, souls have been dwelling in darkness, steeped in the spiritual bondage of paganism and pantheism. 🗿 Many have never heard about Jesus or if they have, they are taught to never consider Him because He is the God of “Christians” (who are presented as enemies to India’s culture & heritage). Yet now for the past 6 months, the Holy Ghost has been drawing in TENS OF THOUSANDS of people to our “Redeeming Hope Crusades” in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to watch this movie that brings the clarity of the Gospel.
We have heard countless times from the people who come that they are looking for Hope and never knew that there was a God Who loved them and would forgive them no matter what they had done . . . . With clear understanding, those who decide to trust Christ as their personal Saviour, they reject all other deities and turn solely to the One True God to save their soul from sin and eternal damnation. Truly the testimony is: “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined” (Isaiah 9:2). IT IS ALL THE LORD’S DOING!! 🙏🏻❤️🙌🏻
Over the past couple of weeks, our two teams have passed out over 12,000 “There is Hope” Gospel tracts! People have eagerly taken them and are found reading them right on the spot. For most, this is the first time their soul is coming in contact with the truth. During the first half of the month, we have been able to conduct NINE “Redeeming Hope Crusades” in the following nine villages:
Yaatha KummariPalem
Kommadhi
Madinaa Bagh
Kasavaran
Pragatipuram
KotiKalapudu
Obulapuram
Koduru
Ganapavaram
The Lord led Bro. Bharath Kumar to some very rough places filled with heavy drug addiction, idolatry, and Satan worship. (Even many of the women were fully alcoholics and children as young as 9 years old were smoking weed and doing illicit drugs.) As you can see from the picture of what looks like abandoned apartments, he and his men conducted open air evangelism in locations like these. These buildings were FILLED with people. Some men confronted them and threatened to beat them for bringing the “curse of Christianity” here. (Meanwhile, they are blinded by how cursed they are in deep sin and paganism!) Bharath simply talked with them nicely and shared the Gospel as they had many questions. He hugged them and prayed over them, and God gave his team great liberty to spread the Gospel. The Lord gave them favor, and hundreds of people came out each night to watch the film!
Here are some glorious salvation testimonies:
✅ My life has been very hard. I felt from last two days to take out my life. What is the purpose to live? I decided to commit suicide. But fortunately today I attended this meeting. Usually I love the movies, so I started to watch, but suddenly God started to speak to me though this movie. I realised how great Sinner I am and how far I have been living to him. While the pastor came to knocking the door when Denver suppose to take out of his life, I felt he was knocking on my heart. I surrendered my life to Jesus. He is a great hope in my life. I repented of my sins and decided to follow Him. Please pray for me.
✅ I have been suffering with some of personal health issues from last couple of months, I don't have any hope to live, I was dying everyday. No one is there for me to understand my situation, beacuse of my sins, I have been hospitalized. I don't have any hope to live. Today as I attended this meeting while the autorickshaw passing in our area telling there will be a movie on our street, I just came for relaxation. But slowly I got involved, God spokes to me very clearly through His servant. I realized there is a hope in Jesus. I decided to follow Him. He is my healer and forgiver, I repented my sins. I submitted my life to Jesus.
✅ I never knew there is God who can forgive my sins, until I watched this film, what a wonderful hope I'm Jesus. He is my forgiver. His love gave me hope to live for Him. What a wonderful movie. I understand How great the true God is.
✅ I have never been in a meetings like this, this is my first experience to have been here. I just came for relaxation to watch this movie. But when I started to watch this movie I understand how great sinner I am and How great Jesus is. He can forgive my sins. He is capable to change my situations. I decided to follow Jesus!
✅ I never knew onething, Jesus loves me until I watched this film. Beacuse no one told me this way. I was living in my sinful life, the way I committed sins maybe no one ever did. But I never knew that all those sins are which are against and shameful in the sight of God. I never knew that there is a God who can forgive my sins through His blood. What a wonderful God Jesus is. Today I understand His love upon me. He died for my sins. My sins were forgiven through His precious blood. There is a great hope in Jesus. I submitted my life to Jesus when I was praying.
✅ We recently got married, and we never have been to any church before. This is our first experience to involved like these meetings. It is a great joy to know who Jesus is. He is the great God! We both decided to follow Him, we needed His salvation in our lives. Kindly pray for us.
🔥🔥🔥 SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!!!! THIS IS WHAT THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL DOES!!! 🔥🔥🔥
God also wonderfully used Bro. Shalem Raju to reach many many people with the Gospel at their meetings. Every place they held a crusade, they went soulwinning from early in the morning until evening. He shared with me a few powerful testimonies of God saving souls while witnessing on the streets:
✅ While we were distributing Gospel tracts, God helped us to reach up to an old age woman, who is almost 85 years old. Since she doesn’t know how to read the tract, she asked us to read for her. God helped us to read the tract and shared her the Gospel. After listening to the Gospel, she replied to us that she never heard about Jesus in her life time, she never knows that, we have a saviour who died for our sins and resurrected from death. She Joyfully she received Jesus as her personal Saviour and praising God for opportunity to meet us and listen the Gospel from Us, To God be the Glory.
✅ While we were distributing Gospel tracts, we gave her tract and invitation flyer to come and watch the Redeeming Hope movie. While we were talking to her, she said she is a devotee of Rama who is Hindu god, she also said, she believes Jesus and prays to Him as well. God enabled me to share her true Gospel and Jesus is not one among all but Jesus is one and only God. I explained her what Jesus has done for her on the cross, How He loved her with everlasting life. I asked her what Rama has done for her; she has no answer for that question. I encouraged her to come and watch the film. By the amazing Grace of the Lord, she came to watch the film. After watching film she shared her testimony, “I was thinking Jesus is also one God among many Hinds gods that we have, but when I watched this film, there is no God like Jesus who died for us, cares us and saves us from sin. Today I receive Jesus as my one and only Savior”.
✅ While we were distributing Gospel tracts in Ganapavaram Village God saved this woman after reading the Gospel tract. We have given her tract and went ahead distributing the tracts to the people. While coming back, with so much happiness on her face she came to us and invited us to her home. She said, “I was in a hopeless situation, no peace and happiness. I’m struggling a lot, financially, physically and mentally. I worship my Hindu gods on every individual day I do Puja to different individual gods and goddesses. Though I worship them, there is no light in my life, I’ve no hope about my future, after reading this tract I felt, God is speaking to me and assuring me of my future and I felt my life is secure in God’s hands. I believed Jesus died for me and resurrected for me, I accept Him as my personal Savior, To God be the Glory, Amen.
✅ We were distributing the tracts and passing on the streets, and a women started scolding us and cursing us for distributing the tracts. She told us to not to come into her house and go away from her village. While we were passing her house, her husband asked us the tract and we gave him one and went on in our way. While we were coming back on the same street, woman’s husband called us and told us that he read the tract and felt joy in his heart. He believed Jesus died for his sins and resurrected from dead, he accepted Jesus Christ as His personal Saviour, To God be the Glory.
Bro. Shalem shared with me time again that after the Crusade was over, “People felt happy to watch the film and shared their testimonies personally, they never seen such a movie in their lifetime, they expressed their gratitude for us to conducting Redeeming Hope Crusade in their village.” I was especially touched by the following testimonies!
✅ God saved a young man who is belongs to Hindu Community. He was very traditional in His faith; he tied many ropes around his wrist and neck, just like Catholics wearing rosaries. When Denver realized idols and rosaries can’t save him, that specific scene touched him, and realized his Hindu gods and goddesses are just idols and the ropes he tied around his wrist is meaningless. He confessed His sins and accepted Jesus as His personal Savior, To God be the Glory.
✅ God saved a Woman who is living in confusion. After watching movie, she came to me with heavy heart and gave her testimony. Few years back husband of this woman got accident and lost his leg and he has been on the bed since then. He fell into many sicknesses and having a tough life. Somebody suggested them to go to a Catholic Church so they’ll be healed. So they went and started worshipping to Mary. There is no massive change in his health, but they converted to Catholicism and has been going to catholic church. Today she received invitation from us to come and watch Redeeming Hope movie. She said, while watching movie, I learnt many things which I never heard our catholic priest preaching. She didn’t know there is heaven and hell, she just believed Jesus so her husband may be cured. But after watching Redeeming Hope movie, she realized Jesus is our savior, who can save us from the Hell and will give us everlasting life. She confessed her sinful nature in prayer and accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Savior!
✅ As you might know, there is caste system in India. All high caste people are belonging to Hindu community, low caste people are considered as untouchables. One lady from the high caste wanted to see this movie, but she feared the people and didn’t want to come to the ground and watch movie. But she had a heart to watch the film. She was sitting outside of her home and watched the film, after the film with tears she came to me and testified that She needs Jesus in her life. She accepted Jesus is the one who can cleanse her from her sins and save her from hell. She received Jesus as her Personal Saviour!
✅ One handicapped man was watching the movie from the road. I noticed him he watched complete movie and even after the end of the movie he is not moving from that place. At last, I went up to him and asked him how he is feeling. He starting crying and shared with me: “I born with disability, I can’t walk or do anything by myself. Many times, I cried about my inabilities, I cursed myself, wanted to commit suicide many times. But this movie spoke to me directly, I really felt God is talking to me through this movie. I realized Jesus died for me, Jesus is loving me with everlasting life, when I came to know Jesus came from heaven to save a handicapped person like me, tears rolled in my eyes, I couldn’t stop myself praising Jesus. I want nothing from this world, after my death I want to see my Savior in Heaven”. He accepted Jesus as His personal Savior, To God be the Glory!
What the Lord has done in transforming so many lives through the power of the Gospel is astounding. If you have made it this far in the post, I’m sure you are like me – shouting, weeping, and smiling from ear to ear at the Lord’s doing in turning people from darkness to light!!
📣🗣️ NOW FOR THE ***BIG*** ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🔥🙌🏻
For some time now, Bro. Bharath Kumar and I have had a burning desire to host a massive Gospel crusade – a meeting where I could preach to the people through a translator on a large LED wall, then show “Redeeming Hope”, and Bro. Kumar finishing it out with a final invitation.
With the rainy season in India almost upon us, we decided that THE TIME IS NOW. God gave us peace to undertake this at the beginning of the month, and it has been incredible to see the Lord open all the doors and guide in EVERY step!! Approximately 250 churches in the Narsapuram region of Andhra Pradesh will be a part of this outreach in some capacity, and we are anticipating, preparing, and praying for at least 5,000 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE!! The pastors & churches involved are very excited, because they shared (under conviction) that no large crusade like this has been conducted in the area SINCE COVID. They are eager for how powerfully God is going to work and are fervently praying for a great outpouring of the Spirit upon this tri-city region!
WOULD YOU PLEASE JOIN WITH US IN PRAYING? Let us seek the Lord . . . . That God would bless the soulwinning and organization efforts by Bro. Kumar, his team, and the churches involved. That the people of the cities would be very stirred and constrained to attend the meeting by the drawing of the Holy Spirit (like in the revivals of yesteryear)! Would you pray for God to begin to prepare hearts for salvation?
WOULD YOU ALSO PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING ONLINE? The Lord has very quickly brought in most of the funds needed for this undertaking. Only $1,550 is left to be raised. Would you consider helping us? (“Redeeming Hope Crusades” is a tax exempt 501(c)3 non-profit organization.) If you are a pastor, would you consider taking up a special offering to help finish taking care of this need? “Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account” (Philippines 4:13). We are overwhelmed by how God’s people have rallied around this evangelistic undertaking!!
WE ARE EAGER TO SEE HOW GOD WILL MIGHTILY WORK!! We are convinced that He will. We need the Lord. Most people attending will be lost . . . . Praying for great liberty and outpouring! . . . For “great and mighty things which thou knowest not” and experience revival halfway around the world in our time! 🙏🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻
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