INDIA 2024/2025

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 Every year we look forward to getting to be a part of the widows ministry. 

This year, there were about 100 women that we were able to love on. We got the opportunity to give them each a hot meal, big bag of rice, and a new outfit as well. The day we were going to do the widows ministry we were out walking within the neighborhood and a woman saw us and recognized some of the team from last year. She told Pastor Daniel that she knew us and that last year she went to a widows meeting where we had prayed for her and she got healed. She asked Pastor Daniel if there were any more meetings like that, that she could go to. 

Such an awesome testimony of the impact that ministry is having. He invited her to church. 

At the widows service, a lady gave a testimony of how she could barely walk  last year and the team prayed for her for healing. She went on to say now she was healed and could run. After she shared, Grace preached a message about a God who knows you. It was such a great message for these women to hear. 

In a culture where they are outcasts, they got to hear and be reminded about a God who knows them. We prayed for all of the women and when asked who got healed, 40 hands were raised. 

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During our last trip we were able to do four mini crusades and one open air village.

Using a truck, they pull up to a village and drop down the side into a stage with lighting and sound. People come out from all over the village to see what is happening. This allows us the opportunity to lead some worship and then preach the good news from the stage. 

These crusades were much different compared to the past ones.

 We were informed we weren't allowed in the villages since they were Hindu villages. But the only reason it became possible was because of two Pastors that had connected with a couple known men from these villages and with them we had permission. Not many people came out to these crusades but we could see people coming out of their houses to listen. By the time we did the altar calls we would still see anywhere from 15-20 hands go up. After we would pray for healing and then as time went on more would find their way to us for prayer.

This one particular village people wouldn't even stand in front of the stage. During our preaching we noticed this older gentleman standing outside his house with a walker. When time for prayer came he was assisted by someone as he made his way to us. They told us he needed prayer for his legs. Even with a walker he still couldn't walk and needed help. So we prayed. 

During my message I shared a story about someone we prayed for in a wheelchair, we picked up this person out of the wheelchair and he walked! 

The man that had gotten us permission to go to the village was a christian and he must've been listening to that very story because he took the mans walker away and told him to walk! One step at a time we watched this man walk down an uneven hill. God had healed him. Later we found out that he was the one in charge of that village. The other exciting thing is the guy who got us permission said that now he is retired and plans on going to each house with a bible after we leave.

We look forward to the plans God has for this Hindu village.

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