ArchiveOctober 2019

Longest human prayer chain: 675 km

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The Baltic Way The longest human chain in history was formed across the Baltics just thirty years ago last Friday as a moral protest against the illegal occupation by the Soviet Union of these lands. It stretched 675 kilometres from the north of Estonia across Latvia to the south of Lithuania. Exactly 80 years ago, on 23 August 1939, a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was...

Frank Jenner – the amazing story the George Street evangelist for 40 years

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This is the amazing testimony of the simple evangelistic ministry of Frank Jenner, a resident of Sydney, Australia. You will be greatly encouraged and want to share the gospel after reading this. This all started a number of years ago in a Baptist church in Crystal Palace in South London. The Sunday morning service was closing, and a man stood up at the back and raised his hand and said: “Excuse...

The 1953 revival in the Belgian Congo

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The 1953 revival in the Belgian Congo Ibambi On the last Friday evening of July 1953, about 100 believers of a Bible School at Ibambi in the old Belgian Congo (today the DRC), came together for their weekly fellowship meeting. Jack Scholes, the leader of a team of fifty missionaries working across the province, shared what he had witnessed during the previous two weeks of revival in the southern...

A Prayer for a non-Christian to meet Jesus

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A Prayer for a non-Christian to meet Jesus: Father, Your Word clearly states that it is not Your will that anyone should die, but that all repent of their sin and live (Ezek. 18:23). Your Word also tells us that You are patient, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9). You desire for all men come to a saving knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:3-4). You loved...

Like a Mighty Rushing Wind – Revival in the Book of Acts (A.D. 30-60)

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The Book of Acts is the first account we have of revival. After the ascension of Jesus, 120 believers prayed for ten days in an upper room in Jerusalem. On the tenth day, God poured out the Holy Spirit on them. This sparked a revival in Jerusalem which spread to many countries in the Roman Empire. Reading the Book of Acts gives us a biblical picture of what normally happens during a revival...

From 10 Churches to 30 000 in 7 years

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A pastor in India planted 10 churches in 14 years. Then he changed his strategy by incorporating Discovery Bible Studies, begin to make disciple-making disciples and then gather these disciples in small churches. By December 2012, there were 55 Discovery Bible Groups, all consisting of lost people. By December 2013 there were 250 groups (churches and Discovery groups). By December 2014 there were...

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