Mission Update

We are now in Kumbanad, Kerala ministering at the 84th India Pentecostal Church General Conference. It truly has been quite the experience and we all have memories that we will never forget. God is doing some powerful things here and we are honored just to be a part of it. Our main focus has been in praying for the sick and those who need prayer. In our first night at the conference, we were thrown right into the mix, being asked to pray with people at tha altar. Instead of an "Altar Line" it was more of an altar mob! Of the 20,000 - 30,000 people there, probably close to 5,000 came forward for prayer. We were ministeringto people for well over 3 hours! God also did some amazing things at the altar...

The second night was more of the same at more thousands came forward for prayer. It got rough as men would try and jockey for position and sometimes they would shove others out of the way. More miracles and people getting set free. Another highlight from today was being able to minister in the Healing Rooms here, with many more testimonies of God's healing power being poured out here in India. It seems that we are praying a lot for people with Diabetes, overall body pain, neck pain, thyroid conditions. Most people are instantly healed, but some require a bit of waiting.

Tomorrow we will be a part of the last service of the General Conference with some 60,000 people expected to attend. I thought that the amount we have been seeing has been a lot, but I don't know what that will look like tomorrow. Please be praying that we will have annointing and breakthrough tomorrow. We won't be praying for the sick per se, they will be offering communion to 60,000 people so that will take about 3 hours they say.

We have recedived the report about the Wednesday prayer meeting, and thank you all for your prayers as we are gone. There is a real spirit of unity among the team and it is amazing to see these men work together for the Kingdom. Kyle and I were praying for a woman and we both got to hear parts of the word we were to give her and in the end, she received her healing both physical and emotional. This is just one small example of the massive work that God is doing here.

The more I think about it and interact with the people here, the more I realize that we really are the same. We are all human beings, created by God, needing a Savior and dependent upon a Holy Spirit.

That is all for now, I promise to update tomorrow after the conference wraps up and I will try to include some testimonies of what God has done here.

-Samuel

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