Initial report from local sponsor Clive Cook, Director of World Horizons for West Africa

"News is reaching me that God is doing some wonderful healings in town through the believers. I will try to get hold of some testimonies and send them to you. There are already plans for outreach and I heard that one church is going to have a crusade on Christmas day! Something is happening!

Pastor Baradje ministered for a deaf person at his church who was healed the Sunday after you left. We also heard of a girl who was in a coma at hospital. Some believers prayed for her and she woke up some minutes later and was well.

The churches are all so happy that you came. The time was one of great blessing and encouragement. What greater encouragement can there be for a church than to to sinners saved and God's glory revealed."

Joanie Petersen, YWAM
Joanie Petersen is a YWAM missionary who attended our recent Campaign and Healing Encounter in Niger. She and a local pastor had been asked to minister to a Musl__m girl oppressed by demon spirits.

Tuesday, Nov 19:
"Greetings from Niamey. I trust you had a very good trip home and are still rejoicing with us here for all the good that the Lord has done during your time in Niger. Bless you for your obedience to the Lord in serving the body of Christ. ....My next door neighbors have come to me for help concerning their problems with demons. Their children came to see the JESUS film in Hausa, their language, during the time that you were here and we spoke then of how Jesus can heal and that we, the members of the church, were willing to pray for healing and deliverance in Jesus' name. The neighbor girl took this to heart and shared it with her parents. She went to the mother's family in the village during the month of August and came back severely ill with malaria and also with some kind of demonic problem. Each month she falls sick on the 15th according to her father. The whole family is asking for help as they have heard that we will pray. We, that is, Pastor Laurent Pare and myself, have set a time for this Wednesday night at 5:00 pm Niger time to speak with them and to present the gospel...."

Thursday morning, Nov 21:
"Just to let you know how things went with the neighbors last evening. Laurent, myself and another pastor from town who is Hausa went together to meet the family. After allowing the father to describe to us what was happening with his daughter and wife, which he himself said was demonic activity and we agreed, the Hausa pastor shared the gospel with them in their language. We also spoke again of how when Jesus evicts an evil spirit from someone it will go but may return and if it finds the house empty will invite others to join him in his old residence. They seemed to really appreciate hearing the gospel and they saw the manifestation of God's power as we gently laid hands on the girl, commanding the headache to leave along with the spirit, which of course happened. We also delivered in Jesus' name the wife from her chest pains and the spirits controlling her. Both testified that they sensed an immediate change, no pain! We left a New Testament with the father as he is an intellectual and is very fluent in french. The children read also. So now we pray they will also respond to the gospel message."

A Year Later, December 15, 2003:
Today we begin a 10 day city wide evangelism campaign "Christmas Special" with all the churches in Niamey involved. It's been a work of God to see the differences between brothers and denominations reconciled and we can only give thanks to the Lord. My prayer is that those who've been trained last year during your time with us will put into good practice what you shared. In our little church in Lazaret we do practice this authority over sickness and demons and have continued to see God at work.

Pastor Athanase Minyogog
"I will start by giving thanks to the Lord who sent you to us in NIGER. We were abundantly blessed and I have been so touched. Surely, the ministry in Niger will not be the same, especially for some of us who attended the campaign!"

Pastor Joel Biao, World Vision
"As for us in Niger, we are still bearing the great impact of your minstry in Niger. We have a very small meeting outside our church meeting room and many people were healed. On the day of Christmas 25th December three people came to confess the Lord Jesus. Pierre Machiels is bold in ministering to people of his ADP. A woman was marvelously healed from a bad sickness from demonic attack." "The first important thing the campaign has achieved for the churches is the unity. That was the first time that really the churches worked together in real spirit of unity. Also many barriers have been knocked down; indeed some of the churches that ministered healing didn't believe in it. They thought that is for the pentecostal churches. Through your teaching and training they were convinced that anyone who is engaged in announcing the Good News in the name of Jesus can do so. Moreover, henceforth the churches are united and free to work together without any denominational discrimination."

Brother Maisel, a Brazilian missionary with World Horizons
"Since you left we've had lots of opportunities to minister to the sick and, once again, the Lord has been faithful. Some people have been healed... Last month I went to Burkina Faso to do some ressearch among the Songhai people group and found no believer, no church, and no missionary work in the region; we've got a lot of work to do... I met some missionaries there working with the Fulanis (another people group) and shared Jesus' teaching about healing with them. Afterwards, we had an outreach meeting when we ministred to the sick and some of them were healed. One young man came to Christ and shared that, since then, he felt an incredible change and peace in his heart. Praise God."