Butch
and his wife Janet first trained with The
Elijah Challenge in Zambia in February 2005. They have
since trained many other
servants of God with The Elijah Challenge.
More
reports from Butch
EVERY
infirm person was healed in a month of evangelism following the
Basic Training
"I
am a missionary in Zambia, Africa with Overland Missions. Recently
we held a conference
where Butch Berner taught
the power evangelism course through The Elijah Challenge. The indigenous
men and women of the Chitonga tribe received the teaching with
enthusiasm and expectation. After the teaching, we took our men
out for a two-day outreach in a neglected area of the Nyawa chiefdom
called Chili.
We first encountered one of the more powerful witchdoctors in
the area and took a time to share the word of God with him and
his five wives and various patients who lived on his property.
The Zambian men and women who attended The Elijah Challenge Training
were asked to pray for the various patients and every one of them
were healed. Our men weren't asking, they were declaring...they
were commanding. It was a beautiful sight.
The witch doctor gave his life to Jesus Christ along with the
rest of his household. The next morning we held a large meeting
and had over 60 testimonies of people being healed of blindness,
pains throughout the body, demonic strongholds, etc. Every person
we ministered to testified of being healed. This pattern has continued
as the norm for an entire month of ministry through over 20 villages
representing thousands of people.
This
sudden experience has set our disciples on fire for Jesus. They
are now convinced of his desire to operate
in power through
his people so that the nations may come to Christ. It has been
nearly a month since this teaching was given and the men and women
are begging me to take them into areas where they can demonstrate
the power of God to an entire village. Praise God for his truths
that are wonderfully expressed through this teaching!"
-Jacob
Schwertfeger