Written by: Evangelist Daniel Kolenda
Article source: JOY! Magazine
What a wonderful way to end last year at Christ for all Nations! Our Flagship Gospel Campaign of 2022 took place in Kumasi, Ghana in November. The road to get there was fraught with many dangers, toils, and snares. In fact, it was miraculous that we were able to conduct the event – and then have such excellent results.
Bootcamp students pictured with a CfaN Gospel truck, a mobile stage with a sound system that can be used to take outreaches to multiple locations each day of Initiation.
One of the biggest challenges we had was with the campaign field. There was simply no place in Kumasi large enough to hold the massive crowd that we were expecting – except for one. It’s a 29-acre field in the centre of Kumasi, but it was considered a “sacred” ground and was initially off-limits. The major reason for the opposition was that this field had never been levelled or prepared for a mass gathering (even though it’s in the centre of the city), and there was an eleventh-hour reluctance to allow it. Furthermore, it is the centre of the Ashanti kingdom, one the largest kingdoms in Africa, reaching far beyond Ghana. For centuries, this has been the traditional venue for spiritism and animistic witchcraft practices. But thank the Lord, after extensive deliberations and negotiations, we prevailed.
A man who had been on crutches for the last eight years as the result of a truck accident was healed on the first night and walked without his crutches.
Rising to the challenge
Another problem we faced was getting our eight trucks, filled with equipment (speakers, sound equipment, lights, platform, etc.), across three international borders. At one of the borders, our team was stranded for nearly 10 days. This means they had to compress five days’ worth of setup into two! The team looked exhausted that first night, but they pulled off the Herculean feat.
Right before it was time to pray for the sick, lightning began flashing in the distance, and rain began to pour on the field. The vast majority of the people never moved. I prayed for the sick and took testimonies in the pouring rain.
We also had more than 120 Bootcamp students there for nearly three weeks completing their training, what we call their “Initiation”. In less than three weeks, they conducted 2862 outreaches and saw 350,693 documented decisions for Christ! And that was before the campaign even started!
A little girl who suffered from epilepsy and had not been able to speak, was healed.
Multiplication
As I’m sure you know by now, one of the big mandates on this ministry in this season is “multiplication”. At this point, it plays a part in everything we do as we work to train, equip, and deploy labourers into the harvest. In this campaign, the impact of these multiplication efforts could be felt. The whole city was reeling from the 2862 separate outreaches that shook the region in a three-week period leading up to the campaign resulting in 350,693 documented decisions for Christ! We heard many reports from local pastors that they have been stirred and convicted by the passion of these Bootcamp evangelists – so much so that many are continuing to conduct the same kinds of outreaches after we’ve gone. We even heard from one major denomination in Ghana that sent representatives to learn what we are doing so that they can implement the Bootcamp outreach strategies across the entire nation.
The work is never done until Jesus returns! You can be a part of this great harvest by praying for us and supporting this ministry financially. Contact info@cfan.org.za or click here. Thank you for standing with us.
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Date published: 17/02/2023
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