It was a long travel experience. First from Charlotte NC to London, England, then London to Johannesburg, South Africa, then a short flight to Harae Airport in Zimbabwe. After over 20 hours of flying, then it was a 2 hour drive on some bumpy roads to get to Chinhoyi and share the Good News of Jesus with the precious people who reside there. But it was all worth it.
I will share the statistics I received from the leadership of Global Network of Evangelists and Chinhoyi. Every number represents a person:
There were 77 collaborators on this mission. This includes 45 visiting evangelists from African Enterprise who were busy going out along with 336 local AE missionaries to share the good news with those in every location possible.
Through social media and the various radio ministry moments that took place, we reached 149,549 individuals and saw 578 documented decisions. These came in via SMS and WhatsApp through Platinum FM.
Here's the rest of the numbers:
Chinhoyi Schools Ministry – Kubamba: Schools 21 / Attendance 5,035 / Total Decisions 2,713
Chinhoyi Church Preaching – includes festival promotion and festival week: Total churches 17 / Attendance 8,490 / Total Decisions 163
*Chinhoyi Festival and Festival Week Outreaches: Events 12 / Total Attendance 62,750 / Total Decisions 21,779
And for the big one, which includes many events that took place prior to the Festival Week activities:
ALL Zimbabwe in person outreach activities, including Schools, Street bashes, Youth bashes, etc.: Events 58 /
Total Churches 751 / Total Attendance 79,448 / Total Decisions 25,127
Here is one testimony from social media. If you pray and financially support Proclaim Good News, this testimony and all the fruit above is credited to your spiritual fruit. Thank you for everything. Philippians 4:17
You are truly impacting the world with the Good News of Jesus!!!
I want to THANK all who were involved in making this great Good News opportunity to happen and everyone I had the chance to collaborate with:
· All the churches of Chinhoyi, all the pastors, government officials, and business leaders. Especially the committee leader: Rev. Jacob Tafaszwa.
· Set up and clean up teams, all the teams for the festival, street outreaches, schools, business leaders, outreaches, men, women, and all the other opportunities, photos and video: Daniel Simon, Jessica Miller, and Denver Sumption.
· The band Cypres, Jimo, Cjay, KuBamba, Al Johnson (with soccer skills), BMX team, Children’s outreach team, Ben Jack, Tembalami, and everyone who joined us even though I cannot name everyone here.
· Speakers/Preachers of the gospel who I got to share the main stage with - we each had our own night: PJ Meduri, Mike Silva, Alpha Haywood, and Desmond Henry.
· Global Network of Evangelists leadership: Desmond Henry, Edd Mungai, Heather Zimny, Bryce Kwant, Karen Kandia.
· And the many others I have perhaps failed to name.
Above is a preaching clip from Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
Next: Jakarta, Indonesia May 4 – 15 / then Neveda / then in August back to Zimbabwe / and more!!!
We just ask you to continue praying about how God may lead in prayers and financial support. With all the Good News opportunities ahead and operating expenses, it takes a lot.
Nothing is more important than reaching people with the Good News of Jesus before it’s too late!
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Grace & Peace,
Paul Durham