Our Partnership with Jesus produced a BUMPER
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Our Partnership with Jesus produced a BUMPER
CELEBRATE UPDATE Look at the headlines in Hindu newspapers! Jesus is present today! Solid Faith, Trust in God. SEPTEMBER 2011 Formerly blind, now she can read Hindu man, who just received Jesus, is reading “Salvation God’s gift to you” in his own language. God is the Greatest. Deaf man healed Youngren says: No religion! I have come to proclaim God’s Love for all. Healed of paralysis Another young man, who had been deaf is weeping as he testifies what Jesus has done. Our Partnership with Jesus produced a BUMPER HARVEST OF SOULS! 1600 Pastor and Leaders In conjunction with a Gospel Campaign, pastors and leaders from the surrounding regions are invited to participate in a Gospel Revolution Seminar. Many of them are very poor but they still travel a great distance to come and receive from God. Through 10 hours of intense training, coupled with a five day Gospel Festival, pastors’ spiritual eyes are opened. While Gospel Festivals touch hundreds of thousands, mostly nonbelievers, the pastors take the message of the Gospel of Grace which they receive in the seminar back to their own area and multiply the effect several times. Thank You! God has favoured our Gospel partnership! World Impact Ministries U S A : P. O . B o x 4 9 0 , N i a g a r a F a l l s , N Y 1 4 3 0 3 - 0 4 9 0 | C a n a d a : P. O . B o x 9 6 8 , S t . C a t h a r i n e s , O N L 2 R 6 Z 4 UK: PO Box 4679, Coventry CV6 9EQ | Singapore: Robinson Road Post Office, PO Box 647 Singapore, 90124 w w w. p e t e r y o u n g r e n . o r g | 1 . 9 0 5 . 3 4 6 - 4 8 2 8 EDITOR IN CHIEF: Peter Youngren | GRAPHIC DESIGN: Melanie Hines | PRODUCTION MANAGER: Marius Nicolaisen. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. Publications Mail Product Agreement No. 40011290. If you enjoyed this issue of Celebrate and would like to receive additional copies, they may be ordered. Please call 905-346-4828, or e-mail: info@peteryoungren.org. Send any comments or questions to the attention of The Editor. by Marius Nicolaisen D oes Jesus love Animists? Hindus? Some may say “NO, these are idol and demon worshipers”, but after World Impact Ministries campaign in Ranchi, India I can assure you, “Yes.” God’s Love reaches everyone, even those who make daily sacrifices to numerous deities and even those who worship stones and trees. Tens of thousand of Animists, Hindus, Christians and Muslims gathered each day on a huge open field at the outskirts of the city. It was clear from day one that God loves without discrimination. Peter Youngren preached a simple but clear Gospel message. The crowd received, and after the preaching God confirmed His Gospel with signs, wonders and miracles. The platform was filled with people from all backgrounds and religions who wanted to testify of fantastic healings. UNPRECEDENTED MEDIA ATTENTION I have coordinated over 20 Gospel Festivals, but I can’t recall any time when the news media so eagerly covered a Campaign as in Ranchi. Hindu newspaper and TV reporters surrounded the platform each night capturing every word. The next day newspapers had articles recapturing last night’s message and highlights of the miracles that took place. One article stated: “More then a hundred thousand people from different religions listened to Ranchi is the capital city of Jharkhand State in northern India. It is a predominantly tribal area consisting of 32 tribes, mainly from Hindu and Animist background. Dr. Peter Youngren as he spoke of God’s Love for all people. God made a perfect world, man brought sin into the world destroyed it, God fixed it by giving His perfect son Jesus as sacrifice. Now we can receive new life though Jesus.” The article continued, “The gospel has no limits. It is the power of God through Jesus. Hundreds were healed from incurable sicknesses”. It was amazing to see how the media, radio, tv and newspaper, so clearly and accurately published the Gospel message. Even Hindi newspapers, operated by Hindi fanatics, who usually would protest against anything Christian, beautifully proclaimed what had taken place. God’s love was melting all hearts. Reporters carefully investigated those who had been healed to confirm that it was real, and then they published their findings. The local organizing committee, consisting of pastors from many denominations were surprised by all the newspaper columns devoted to the Gospel, saying they had never seen anything like it. One of the keys to this favour was the way in which the message was presented, clearly and without compromise, and yet in an atmosphere of friendship and respect to all people. This made it easy for people to receive. Follow up books were distributed to 60,000 new believers. GOSPEL REVOLUTION SEMINAR The Pastors’ Seminar was held in a bamboo constructed tent on a local school campus. 1600 pastors from every denomination and from all over the state gathered to hear Peter teach on the Gospel of Grace. He showed them how religious traditions have caused an inability to reach the society we live in. Somehow we have become so occupied with ourselves that we forgot that God’s Love is for everyone. Peter commented, “First each pastor needs a revelation of who Christ is in them, and from there we take them to the point of being able to reach society around them”. The Gospel Revolution Seminar is vitally important to open people’s eyes, and to tear down walls of religion and legalism. I interviewed many pastors after the seminar. It is always interesting to see what the pastors have learnt. One of the pastors said, as tears ran down his face: “I wish I had heard this message 30 years ago. I am so tired of religion and the traditions we have created to keep us busy in church. Somehow we have forgotten the gospel, the true gospel. From now on I will take this message to the people in my city and to my people.” Another pastor commented: “This has changed my life and my ministry. I am not preaching condemning religion anymore. From now on I am preaching the good news of Jesus.” The leader of the Baptist denomination in Ranchi said; “I have attended countless Christian seminars and workshops, but what I have heard here at this seminar has truly blown my mind. Until now we have brought so much legalism, religious rules and church tradition into our churches that we have forgotten about Jesus and what happened at the cross. From now on I am preaching Jesus and my church will start to reach out to the lost communities in my city.” UNREACHED Our mission is to the unreached regions of the world, and Ranchi is certainly one of those places. Hundreds of thousands received the new life in Christ and only God knows the long term effect this will have on the region when the new believers take the gospel back to their villages. Thank you partner for making it possible for World Impact Ministries to go to places where the gospel light has been desperately needed for a long time. Nothing is as rewarding as to present Jesus to people who have never heard of Him. You were a part of this campaign in a big way through your support and prayer. Thank You! CELEBRATE UPDATE Look at the headlines in Hindu newspapers! Jesus is present today! Solid Faith, Trust in God. SEPTEMBER 2011 Formerly blind, now she can read Hindu man, who just received Jesus, is reading “Salvation God’s gift to you” in his own language. God is the Greatest. Deaf man healed Youngren says: No religion! I have come to proclaim God’s Love for all. Healed of paralysis Another young man, who had been deaf is weeping as he testifies what Jesus has done. Our Partnership with Jesus produced a BUMPER HARVEST OF SOULS! 1600 Pastor and Leaders In conjunction with a Gospel Campaign, pastors and leaders from the surrounding regions are invited to participate in a Gospel Revolution Seminar. Many of them are very poor but they still travel a great distance to come and receive from God. Through 10 hours of intense training, coupled with a five day Gospel Festival, pastors’ spiritual eyes are opened. While Gospel Festivals touch hundreds of thousands, mostly nonbelievers, the pastors take the message of the Gospel of Grace which they receive in the seminar back to their own area and multiply the effect several times. Thank You! God has favoured our Gospel partnership! World Impact Ministries U S A : P. O . B o x 4 9 0 , N i a g a r a F a l l s , N Y 1 4 3 0 3 - 0 4 9 0 | C a n a d a : P. O . B o x 9 6 8 , S t . C a t h a r i n e s , O N L 2 R 6 Z 4 UK: PO Box 4679, Coventry CV6 9EQ | Singapore: Robinson Road Post Office, PO Box 647 Singapore, 90124 w w w. p e t e r y o u n g r e n . o r g | 1 . 9 0 5 . 3 4 6 - 4 8 2 8 EDITOR IN CHIEF: Peter Youngren | GRAPHIC DESIGN: Melanie Hines | PRODUCTION MANAGER: Marius Nicolaisen. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. Publications Mail Product Agreement No. 40011290. If you enjoyed this issue of Celebrate and would like to receive additional copies, they may be ordered. Please call 905-346-4828, or e-mail: info@peteryoungren.org. Send any comments or questions to the attention of The Editor. by Marius Nicolaisen D oes Jesus love Animists? Hindus? Some may say “NO, these are idol and demon worshipers”, but after World Impact Ministries campaign in Ranchi, India I can assure you, “Yes.” God’s Love reaches everyone, even those who make daily sacrifices to numerous deities and even those who worship stones and trees. Tens of thousand of Animists, Hindus, Christians and Muslims gathered each day on a huge open field at the outskirts of the city. It was clear from day one that God loves without discrimination. Peter Youngren preached a simple but clear Gospel message. The crowd received, and after the preaching God confirmed His Gospel with signs, wonders and miracles. The platform was filled with people from all backgrounds and religions who wanted to testify of fantastic healings. UNPRECEDENTED MEDIA ATTENTION I have coordinated over 20 Gospel Festivals, but I can’t recall any time when the news media so eagerly covered a Campaign as in Ranchi. Hindu newspaper and TV reporters surrounded the platform each night capturing every word. The next day newspapers had articles recapturing last night’s message and highlights of the miracles that took place. One article stated: “More then a hundred thousand people from different religions listened to