Brother
Clive was formerly Field Director for World Horizons
in Niger, West Africa, where he and his wife were missionaries
for twelve years. Clive and World Vision hosted The Elijah
Challenge in Niger in November 2002 for an historic Campaign.
He later trained and ministered with The
Elijah
Challenge
on a mission trip to Indonesia.
November 2003
"I just got back from a visit to India. Here's a short report
of what happened.
Arriving at Chennai, I was met at the airport and taken to a village
some 4 hours journey away. I was asked to speak at a meeting that
same day. Some 200 people had gathered to fast and pray so I took
the opportunity to teach on healing. The first day about 35 people
were healed, mostly of neck and back problems. One lady testified
that she was healed of a neck pain she'd had for 30 years.
The day after I was able to continue teaching and a lot more people
were healed in the meeting, some of eye problems, and some of hearing
problems. A lady deaf in one ear received her hearing in that ear.
Another partially deaf lady had full hearing restored to her. There
were many other testimonies that I simply couldn't write down. All
the healing was done through the believers and I told them many times
to minister healing to their unsaved neighbors and friends and so
win them for the Lord.
I visited Pastor Paulose and family in Rameswaram.
Word seemed to have reached them about the
Seminar and I have been invited
to teach
it at the Bible and missionary training school
they run there. Since evangelism is a regular
part of the curriculum I will insist
that
directly after the teaching, they go out
to the villages and heal the sick and preach
the Gospel. Paulose has given me an open
door
to go to his churches (150 of them) when
I like and do the Healing Seminar. I am hoping
that I can arrange some small "healing
festivals" to which we can invite the
lost, to accompany these meetings. The laws
in Tamil Nadu prevent a more open approach
by
foreigners.
Next, I went to participate in some meetings in north Tamil
Nadu state. In fact I went to receive at the meetings and was
asked to
preach twice. I didn't feel it was right in the context
to speak on healing but was able to minister to people personally
after meetings.
One evening I was approached by several ladies, some
of whom wanted me to pray a prayer of blessing for them. One
lady said she had pain
in her back. I ministered and she was healed. Many
others approached and I had to ask a sister to help. I asked
the sister to lay hands
on the sick stomachs and then placed my hand on hers.
Several were healed. Then I told her to do it on her own and
use her authority. The first person she ministered
to was healed and after that another 4-5 others as I watched. The impartation was quick
and powerful.
Others came with demon problems. Some were delivered but those with
more serious problems were not. This is an area I would like to grow
in more. One pastor at these meetings who had come from Sri Lanka
has invited me to do the Seminar in his church in Colombo, the capital
of the country. This should happen in February next year. Incidentally,
the pastor had a back problem. I was shy of ministering to him but
one day he was really suffering and I felt obliged to minister. The
Lord gave me a supernatural faith for it and he was completely healed.
This confirmed for me that the open door in Sri Lanka was from the
Lord.
I was really on my own on this mission trip, but the Lord was
specially graceful towards me
and a lot happened. Doors seem to be opening and I am hoping that
soon the opportunities for crusades
will present themselves. It was a thrilling time
and I am looking forward to the
trip to Colombo next year."