August 2024 Philippines Trip
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify Your Father which is in heaven. 🌟Matt. 5:16
During the month of August, I (Cindy) spent a full month of ministry in Davao City, Philippines along with 11 Christ For All Nations friends and evangelists. We had the privilege of preaching the gospel in schools, prisons, orphanages, villages, markets, hospitals, parks and more. Sometimes it was to thousands and sometimes one on one. Many raised their hands to receive Christ as Savior and Lord. Many were filled with joy, true freedom in Jesus for now and eternity!
Together, our 6 teams had 250 outreaches, and over 94,000 people made the decision to follow Jesus! We’re so very grateful for the opportunity and honor of partnering with Holy Spirit. I also want to honor our fiery Filipino evangelist & leader, May Flauta, who helped secure many open doors for us. We provided thousands of CFAN booklets, Bibles, Gospels of John, and devotionals to help each new believer in their new relationship with Jesus.
April 2024 Nigeria Trip
Bob had the privilege of partnering with Sola, another CFAN Bootcamp graduate, in April 2024, in Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria. Although Sola lives in the Dallas area with his wife, he was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. It was an exciting 4-night crusade put on by the local churches. Despite rain and wind, the Lord was faithful, and there was a significant number of salvations and healings!
After the crusade in Ikot Ekpene, Bob and Sola traveled to Lagos, where they conducted a School of Evangelism attended by a group of spiritually hungry young men and women, who wanted to grow and be trained to more effectively evangelize their city. After 5 days of class instruction in a local church and 2 days of field ministry on a Gospel Truck, they all were honored, receiving graduation certificates for completion of their training. They all preached the gospel and brought people on the streets into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. To God be the Glory!!🔥
Jan 2024 Thailand Trip
We began the New Year of 2024 by leaving for Thailand on January 5th, our anniversary. We just completed our 50th year- Praise God! Our destination was Chiang Mai where we joined with 20 CFAN leaders to coach and train Thai and Burmese students in what we call a FireCamp. Matthew 3:11 says that Jesus will baptize us with the Holy Spirit and fire! Students are equipped to bring people to Jesus in their own nation. It is an intense time of training, worship and outreaches with a tremendous outpouring of the Spirit. Together, we saw 235 people come to Jesus that week and we graduated 180 students, making it the largest FireCamp to date. We then served at the “Asia Shall Be Saved” conference. The presence of the Lord filled the conference as many different ministry streams came together in commitment to work together for evangelism and discipling in Southeast Asia.
Next we moved to Bangkok for Youth Campaigns reaching young people with the gospel of Jesus’ love, forgiveness and salvation. We had over 35,000 students respond in 2 weeks as 20 of us preached all over the Bangkok area. There were many salvations and seeds planted among students from many different religious backgrounds. We had great followup material handed out to every student, graciously given to us by OneHope ministry.
2023 Year in Review
Evangelism Update:
We are so grateful to King Jesus for making a way for us to be a part of His harvest in 2023! We’ve had the privilege of serving with Christ for the Nations this past year. The month of April was spent in Lusaka, Zambia. We served in pre-crusade outreaches for 2 ½ weeks with an amazing team, preaching the gospel and healing power of Jesus on Gospel Trucks and street evangelism. Together we saw 54,414 documented decisions for Christ from all the teams together before the 11 crusades even began! We really sensed that we were reaping where others had planted. There were over 1 million decisions for Christ in all the crusades and outreaches. All Glory to God!
In July, we temporarily relocated to Orlando, Florida. Cindy attended CFAN’s Evangelism Bootcamp training from August 1-November 18th. This included a trip to Kampala, Uganda for gospel outreaches during the last 3 weeks. As a class, we had 152,000 decisions for Christ through gospel truck and street preaching and Youth Crusades. It was a challenging and highly motivating evangelism training program and was truly life changing. Bob had previously graduated from the program in 2021. We both are honored and beyond grateful to be a part of Christ for the Nation’s legacy with Evangelists Reinhard Bonnke, Daniel Kolenda and the Bootcamp staff.
We drove back to California, seeing and loving on our family, grandchildren and precious friends before Christmas. We were more amazed than ever at the Father’s love and reach to redeem all of us, His children, by sending His Son Jesus so we could have His incomparable Gift of life now and forever. We are forever grateful!
“Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. Do you not say, There are still four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together! For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.” John 4: 34-38
Discipleship Update:
CFAN provides a wonderful booklet, “Now That You Are Saved”, to every new Believer in every crusade and gospel outreach. Heart for the Harvest is providing additional resources as we can, to pastors and churches in the nations where we travel. Rock Solid is a discipleship training manual developed by our friend, Mark Drake and together, we are providing the funds needed to mass produce these manuals for pastors and leaders in their native languages. We have pastors that are leading these efforts in Zambia, Burundi and India. Over and over again we’ve been told, “We need this training not only for the new Believers, but for our whole congregation!” As of now over 2,000 church leaders have been trained to lead and mentor others using Rock Solid.
Ignite the Nations Alliance had almost 17,000 saved during Christmas outreaches in 565 villages in India. 500 leaders have received Rock Solid discipleship to use in these new home churches with plans to print many more as the finances come in.
This is an ongoing financial need and prayer request. Some of these nations and regions are the poorest in the world. They need our help. Many have no connection to the internet. Their cell phones have limited service. And they need Bibles in their languages. If you can help in this area, please let us know. We are also developing new means for discipleship that will pay for itself and be able to help in a small way to fund outreaches. That’s another prayer request!