Like many villages in India, the Sita Rama Puram village in northwest Andhra grew up around a wealthy farmer who hires the local people to work on his farm. Though Hindu, the farmer did not object when many of the villagers, including those who worked in his fields, became Seventh-day Adventists. He even noticed that his Adventist workers were more diligent and faithful in their work, honest in their dealings, and lived more peaceable lives than the other villagers. They were also very … [Read more...]
Papaiah had been driving a government bus for many years,(bold) and he had formed bad habits along the way. He drank, chain-smoked, abused his wife and children, and generally was not a nice man. One day he began to vomit blood. This continued for three years. Finally he went to the doctor, who said Papaiah had a terminal disease. Papaiah was sent home to die. Papaiah’s brother, an Adventist, visited and prayed for him. Suddenly, Papaiah sensed a healing power within him. He promised he … [Read more...]
Mrs. Kmalamma had become a Sunday-keeping Christian. With no church in her village of Magavaram, she moved to a neighboring village where there was a church, though she unaware it was an Adventist church. During the next several months, Mrs. Kmalamma learned more about the Lord from the Seventh-day Adventists. Soon she resolved to return to her home village and pray that the Lord would somehow provide an Adventist church there. Though not yet baptized, she enthusiastically tells as many as … [Read more...]
One Million for Jesus
What a privilege to be a part of Gospel Outreach as God works in the lives of people all over the world and here at home! The Lord is carrying us above our human capacity as we gear up for “One Million for Jesus,” a three-year goal to baptize one million into the family of God. The harvest is ripe and the requests for workers are many, but no task is too big for our God! Children’s literacy centers, which began with 30 centers in Nepal and northern India, are doing an amazing work. … [Read more...]
Keep preaching
As Jonathan entered the village of Annemelia, he obtained permission from the village elders to hold meetings for 15 nights. To his surprise, more than 300 people gathered to hear something besides town chatter, and attendance never dropped. Then it happened. On the 13th evening, the topic turned to idols as Jonathan preached from Psalms 115:5–8: “They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; they have ears, but they hear not; they have hands, but they handle … [Read more...]
School for deaf coming to Philippines
Sarah Famisaran, worker for the deaf in Mindanao, recently joined a team from North America to dedicate the Sulads* School for the Deaf, which is under construction near Malaybalay and will be the first Adventist school for the deaf in the Philippines. The group continued to Mountain View College, where nine deaf people were baptized by Jeff Jordan, a pastor from Collegedale, Tenn. Several more asked him to return next year to baptize them. The work for the deaf in the Philippines is … [Read more...]
Janet’s GIFT
Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, ‘Come ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungered, and ye gave Me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave Me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took Me in’” (Matthew 25: 34, 35). If you ever find yourself thinking there’s not much you can do for the Lord, we’d like to tell you about Janet Prichard of Kelowna, British Columbia. “She always wanted to be a … [Read more...]
Deaf ministry reaches Africa
What a difference two letters can make in Africa. Clifford Owusu-Gyamfi, an Adventist pastor in Ghana, wrote to me on Sept. 27, 2006, to describe the needs of the deaf people in his area. Just one month later, I received a letter from Henry Kamau, requesting help for him and his deaf friends in Mombasa, Kenya. Many letters later, there is wonderful growth of the deaf ministry in Africa. Reaching Ghana When Harrison Antwi asked for help because he noticed that the Adventist Church in … [Read more...]
Those gods on the shelf
VISAKHAPATNAM, India—Gospel Outreach worker Joseph felt strongly impressed to visit a certain house as he began work in one village. During his visit, he noticed the family gods lined up on a shelf, their stony faces blindly staring over the room. “Let me ask you, can those gods see you?” he asked. “Can they hear you? Do they ever talk to you?” The family admitted they did not. “How then can they bring you salvation, or help you with anything?” Joseph asked. “I began to … [Read more...]
Sikh couple eagerly accepts the God who heals
PUNJAB, India—On the first day of evangelistic meetings by pastors and Gospel Outreach lay evangelists, Baljinder Kaur and her husband, Tarsem Singh, joined hundreds of other villagers in the tent. Baljinder, who had suffered from a painful sore on her neck for more than 12 years despite consulting medical doctors, visiting shrines and trying traditional charms, reports, “As soon as we sat down, we felt peaceful and received assurance that something good was in store for us.” After a … [Read more...]