Day 1 - Wednesday, 24 January 2007

Dear Mission-Partners,

The Gospel Crusade in Ado Ekiti started today and the meeting was glorious. A great altar-call and some mighty miracles happened. But we had a problem. There is a petrol-crisis in this state at present which has negatively affected the traffic.

When sitting on the platform, I only saw one car approach – it was unbelievable. Yet, the people came on foot as much as possible, although the huge venue, a gigantic open field, was a stretch outside the city. Please pray that this problem will be resolved quickly.

Our eyes are upon the Lord. I am sure that the crusade will develop into a mighty crescendo.

Yours in His love and service,

Reinhard Bonnke, with the CfaN-Team.

Day 2 - Thursday, 25 January 2007

Dear Mission-Partners,

Tonight’s crowd grew considerably, almost 3 times from yesterday – thank you for your prayers. The dynamics of the Gospel Crusade kicked in in a big way for which we thank the Lord. A mighty harvest of souls was reaped today and we also witnessed wonderful healings. This morning the Fire Conference started in the stadium. The momentum grows rapidly and we believe in a mighty breakthrough by the weekend.

Please continue to remember us in prayer.

Yours in His love and service,

Reinhard Bonnke, with the CfaN-Team.

Day 3 - Friday, 26 January 2007

Dear Mission-Partners,

What a glorious meeting! The Gospel landed, with mighty wings, in the hearts of the people like an eagle in a ready-made nest. Multitudes were changed and blessed. I felt so honored to be able to preach the eternal Gospel to these wonderful Nigerian people. Every one of them is precious in the eyes of the Lord.

Also the Fire Conference today had huge significance. One clergyman said "I have earned two doctorates in theology, but I never heard what I have learned today." That happens, of course, when Jesus opens our understanding.    
We are looking forward to a mighty weekend and ask for your continuous prayer.

Yours in His love and service,

Reinhard Bonnke, with the CfaN-Team

Day 4 - Saturday, 27 January 2007

Dear Mission-Partners,

This morning the Fire Conference came to a close and climax. 40,000 people filled the stadium, and when the fire of God fell it was thunderous! May it all translate into real action for the salvation of the lost, which is the sole-purpose of these conferences.

We are just returning from the big evening meeting. I wished you could have been here in person. Jesus truly saved and delivered. He healed the physically and mentally crippled and many, many others. The testimonies touched the hearts of all present, including my own. Thank you for your prayers. Tomorrow is the great closing rally and we say a big thank you to Jesus and those who helped us financially to make this harvest possible. Jesus will reward you a hundredfold.

Yours in His love and service,

Reinhard Bonnke, with the CfaN-Team

Day 5 - Sunday, 28 January 2007

Dear Mission-Partners,

At noon today, the petrol-problems in Ado Ekiti were resolved and lo and behold, the people were flooding to the crusade-ground like a pent-up river! It was a glorious meeting with a mighty harvest of souls and glorious miracles of healings. Thank you so very much for all your prayers and help. I am determined to keep driving God’s combine harvester until the last wheel falls off. We are unstoppable! We are surely called to reap the great harvest fields of the world.

Our eyes are already on Oshogbo, the city in Nigeria, where we will be next month. We still need some financial miracles, but I am sure that God is faithful. You can help make a difference in Oshogbo here. We are in this harvest together, you and me, and the Lord will see us through.

Yours in His love and service,

Reinhard Bonnke, with the CfaN-Team

Salvation, the greatest Miracle of all

Two great Gospel Crusades in Ado Ekiti and Oshogbo (Nigeria)

"And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord; it shall rejoice in His salvation" Psalms 35:9

Both campaigns, which ran almost back-to-back, were a wonderful demonstration of God’s power and strength to save! During these harvest days, hundreds of thousands made positive salvation decisions – individuals among the multitudes, each one with their personal life-changing testimony and each one a demonstration of the greatest miracle of all!
Lives were radically impacted, demonic strongholds were broken, and night after night the Gospel message and a call to receive Jesus was proclaimed.

Just as it is promised, many healings followed the preaching of the word the paralyzed walked, and the dumb spoke. One night a well-known witch surrendered to Jesus. He burned his fetishes, gave testimony before the delighted crowds and committed his life to serve the King of Kings! There is great rejoicing in Heaven when even one turns to Christ and much jubilation among the throng that witnessed God’s saving power in action!

Each day at the ‘Fire Conferences’, Bonnke passionately inspired church leaders and workers, to step out for God and to enfire their passion for the lost. ‘Those that are not reaching the lost, are lost themselves!’ he shared as he pressed home the urgency of the hour and the need to send workers into the harvest fields of the world. These are more than ‘conferences,’ these are times of impartation where soul-winners are multiplied, challenged, and equipped to reach the lost in their cities and throughout the nations.

Das Follow-up Literature, the crucial Bridge!
CfaN’s „Now that you are saved“ booklets form a bridge between the convert and the local church. They are the vital, meaningful, link in the follow-up chain that connects the new believer to a Bible-believing church. Each night, the sea of responding hands is followed up by an army of counselors. The key points of salvation are personally reiterated, decision cards are filled in and the need to become part of a living church explained, (just as a ‘living baby’ needs a ‘living mother’). A wave of individual prayers goes out across the crusade grounds as the counselors pray for each and every convert. These are no longer strangers in a dark world, these are now new believers, each one brother and sisters in Christ.

Five full shipping containers of these booklets were positioned at each crusade site the week before the campaigns. In another part of the country another 21 containers full have just arrived from the printers and are being made ready for future crusades. The preaching, the follow-up, the connection to the church … all vital and essential aspects of each and every Great Gospel Campaign.

Global Impact
For the first time ever, a CfaN Crusade was broadcast live, by satellite, direct from the Oshogbo crusade site, via studios and rebroadcast stations in Jerusalem, Washington and England, to countless millions of homes in over 200 nations. In a partnership with Rory and Wendy Alec of GOD TV, a live studio and satellite base station was flown in from South Africa and set up to make such an up-link possible. Experiencing the crusade via broadcast, one viewer reported “while Reinhard Bonnke prayed, I could feel the action of the Holy Spirit!” Others responded sharing testimonies of healings that had occurred while watching the crusade right in their own homes! The Word of God and the Power of the Holy Spirit transcends all barriers and borders and reaches out to wherever there is a need … and an open heart.

Dear Mission-Partners,

People often ask me what is the greatest miracle we’ve seen in our Gospel Crusades. It is true that we have seen unbelievable healings and deliverances that defy modern science and human understanding, and for which we praise God. But sickness is not the greatest evil, so healing is not the greatest miracle. Sin is the greatest evil – therefore, salvation is the greatest miracle. Jesus said, “there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance” (Luke 15:7). We share Heaven’s joy in the greatest miracle of all – salvation!

Participants of Joy
God’s plan for the salvation of the world involves us as instruments through which He can work. The great miracle of salvation is of the Lord; yet he calls us to be involved in saving the world and to share his joy in the success of his plans: “Come and share your master’s happiness!” The Father has special joy when the godless turn to him and, as he loves us, his aim is to bless us with the same divine level of joy. I cannot think of any greater thing that you or I could do, and no privilege surpasses it.

Double Blessing – Ado Ekiti and Oshogbo Crusades
We were witnesses and participants in this very miracle – God’s salvation – in our recent crusades in Ado Ekiti and Oshogbo where we saw a mighty harvests of souls, over 550,000 made registered decisions for Jesus Christ! What joy there must be in Heaven for multiplied miracles of salvation! Thank you so very much for all your prayers and help.

Yours for the Salvation of One Soul … and the Millions,

Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke