Mission Reports :: Western Micronesia 2008
November 2008
WESTERN MICRONESIAN CRUSADE REPORT
Jan and I returned from Micronesia, once again full of thanksgiving and praise to Jesus for all He has done. We spent 25 days ministering to over 1,000 people who are scattered in the islands of Kosrae, Chuuk, Guam, Yap, and Palau. As we ministered in a convention center, churches, hospitals, prisons, homes, hotels, restaurants, stores, planes, on the street - anywhere God opened the door, hundreds were saved or rededicated their lives to Jesus, were healed, baptized with the Holy Ghost, delivered; and all were strengthened in God’s Word.

PALAU – For the first time, we were able to rent a convention center for a 3-night meeting in Palau. Over 500 people – the unsaved and people from 8 denominations came together. Heaven came down and many were saved, and healed as God’s glory filled that place. Some of the greatest response came from the Emmaus High School boys of the Evangelical Church. More than half of them got saved or rededicated their lives to the Lord; got delivered from addictions, and at 10:00PM the last night of the service, they all (and others) came running forward to receive the baptism with the Holy Ghost. What a time of rejoicing we all had! We thank Pastor Ruth Snyder and her team for coordinating everything, including an awesome praise and worship team.

Every time we return to Guam, Chuuk, and Yap, we encourage the churches to press on in their God-given visions, and not to give up. God always moves every time we go to those islands as He saves, heals and baptizes with the Holy Ghost more and more people. The harvest is plentiful, and the laborers are few; but we see those churches growing in number, growing in the knowledge of God’s Word, and are determined to let their lights shine throughout their islands. Chuuk and Yap have been oppressed by great poverty, but they have received God’s Word concerning prosperity; and the blessing has begun to flow in their churches as they are now obeying God in their finances.

We returned to Kosrae for the first time since 2001, and were thrilled to watch the love of God touch those people, as many were saved, healed, and baptized with the Holy Ghost. We gave the pastor CDs and a CD player so he can continue to build himself up in the Word. God is raising them up to take their rightful place on the island.

Jesus said “…I will build my church” in the Pacific Islands “and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; and Jesus is the greatest builder in the universe. We have contacted most of these churches since we have returned, and have received such encouraging reports how God is blessing them all.

You have had a part in all these meetings, and we thank you so much. It is because of your prayers and your financial giving that we are able to go throughout the Pacific Islands, and reach the multitudes that you will never meet, so they can hear the Word of God they have never heard. Jesus says in LU 6:38 because you have given, “it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you give out it shall be measured to you again”.

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