Hope Busselton: Operation Esther

Hope Busselton: Operation Esther

In January this year, Sandy had seen a vision of the South West and that the key for breakthrough was gathering local leaders together to PROPHESY over the land. In April God brought prophets (John and Monette Jacks) and we saw it as the perfect opportunity to gather local leaders and we, together, prophesied over the land from a high point. This led to a chain reaction of combined church activities (with 4 other churches involved) that lasted for 4 weeks.

One of these was the annual psychic fair. For the last 2 years we’ve had to change our venue for church, so they could have the fair. We preposed the possibility of doing something together and the churches got behind us. We ran a stall titled ‘spiritual re-birth and healing’ and the churches did a prayer chain that lasted the duration of the fair. It was a great success with one person after the other lining up for prayer and counselling for bad dreams, unwelcome apparitions, and guidance for the future. We set up a Christian bookstall and gave out many Bibles and ‘40 days of purpose’ books. We have since been able to follow up some contacts. The unity of the churches was wonderful to see.

God has now given Nigel a vision to start ‘operation Esther’ – a strategy of prayer and fasting for the kids in the local Christian school, most of whom aren’t following God.

After a time of real testing, God is now bringing some new and exciting strategies for breakthrough. He has revealed to us the 2 key strongholds here are ‘false religion’ and ‘compromise’, but we are starting to see some release. Please pray for us as we move forward in him.

Nigel and Sandy Wittwer

Hope Busselton, WA

Hope Auckland: 10th Church Anniversary

Hope Auckland: 10th Church Anniversary The faithfulness of God

Hope Auckland celebrated its 10th Anniversary on Sunday, May 27th. More than 70 people were at the service. It was a time to thank God for all He had done and will do in the future. As we reflect on the ten years in the life of Hope Auckland, we have many things to be thankful for. Our family has been here for 6 years in Auckland. Through difficulties and struggles, through victories and blessings, we have seen God’s faithfulness through it all. Two of the five Care Leaders are converts in our church and have been discipled and trained up to serve the kingdom of God. One Care Leader has been in church from the very beginning.

Building a Multicultural Church

The church comprises people from Fiji, Kyrgyztan, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Burma…a wonderful family of God. We are thankful for each person.

Moving in signs and wonders

Ps Brendan preached about “Inheriting the Promises of God” at the church anniversary. It was a tremendous weekend for the church. The first time experiencing the running of healing services and seeing people restored to health and also receiving valuable teaching from Ps Brendan. Praise God!

After the service, people were ministered to again and prayed for to healing for various illnesses. Praise God for His healing power! Kizito’s arm was healed. He had sustained injuries from work and could not lift his arm. After prayer, he could now move his arm freely with no pain. Tom had a back injury and as he received prayed, he experienced heat flowing on his back and that he was able to bend over, something he could not do for a long time.

At the end of this month, we look forward to our Annual Church Camp, A Seed Church, with Ps PN as our Camp Speaker. Do pray for us!

Pastor Bernard & Angela Soh

Hope Auckland

HOPE ADELAIDE: LIBERIA HEALING CRUSADES

Hope Adelaide: A Multicultural Church

Pastor Brendan oversees Hope Adelaide church in Australia, and he works as a research scientist for Defence Science and Technology Organisation. Brendan's wife Helen is an accountant, but currently works for the church 2 days a week. They are leading a church of around 140 people which consist of a number of nationalities such as Australian, Malaysian, Singaporean, Vietnamese, Chinese ,Hong Kong, Liberian,Sudanese, Zimbabwian, Botawanian and Congoian.

Pioneering African Ministry

The Lord gave Helen a vision to see an African care group start up, and she began with 2 africans and worked with them for about 4 months with no growth.

In May 2005 an opportunity arose to reach recent immigrants from Liberia, and a
number of Liberians then began attending the church. The church began visitation to the Africans in the community and invite them to church. Through building friendship with Africans, they started to attend church and invited their friends. Currently there are
about 65 Africanin the church.

Africa in Hope Adelaide

Country	Number of members
Liberia	35 people
Sudanese	10 people
Congolese	10 people
Zimbabwe	5 people
Botswana	4 peopl

The Africans have brought great joy to the church because of their friendly culture. It is great to see the Africans beginning to serve God in various ministries in the church and reaching out to their friends.

Liberia Healing Crusades

Some African members in Hope Adelaide introduced Pastor Brendan to Pastor Sonny from "Abundant Harvest Pentecostal Church" in Gbarnga, Liberia. The church has over 60 adults and 30 kids attending. Pastor Sonny invited Pastor Brendan for Healing Crusades over a 4 days period.

"I recently had the privilege to go to Liberia, Africa and join with Ps Sonny in Gbarnga City in Bong County for the Healing Crusades.
Over the three nights we had over 100 people
get saved, a number of healings. One notable healing where a man returned the second night without his crutch. An average attendance of probably about 400 each night. The fourth night of the crusade was washed out by intense deluge of rain, but back at the church we still managed to see 3 people saved, praise the Lord!" Pastor Brendan Kirby

Sharing the Hope Vision in Liberia

Ps Sonny is used to seeing the power of God in his crusades. I spent 10 nights in Liberia with the church, mainly preaching and teaching about the Hope Vision, Vision & Philosophy, apostolic covering and church planting.

"For four of those days I spent over 6 hours preaching/teaching and answering questions. After some deliberation and meeting with the Leadership of the church in Gbarnga, Ps Sonny agreed to join the Hope Movement."

Pastor Brendan & Helen Kirby
Hope Adelaide

CHURCH PLANTING IN DAREDIN, MELBOURNE

Pastor Mark Rusic in Hope Melbourne City Centre appointed Eric Fan to help pioneer a centre in Darebin, Melbourne. Below is a church planting testimony written by Eric Fan.

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Pioneering work in Darebin

This year, I have personally been involved with pioneering work in Darebin, Melbourne since February. I have witnessed the grace of God from the very start when 11 visitors came to our first discussion meeting on a Wednesday night. Some visitors even brought their friends which encouraged the team greatly.

First Fruit - Aussie accepted Christ

One week later, God gave us the first fruit with a young Aussie guy coming to accept Christ. He was actually the only Aussie guy in our meetings and was feeling a bit uncomfortable about this fact at first. However, what he and others visitors noticed very quickly was the friendliness and love of the members, and he was ripe to accept Christ.

Since then, God has blessed us with 3 more salvations. God has even sent workers from other parts of the Hope Movement to help us particularly at La Trobe University, Bundoora Campus with our outreach to students.

Working together as a team

I praise God for the hearts of the members who have committed themselves to the pioneering work in Darebin, whilst at the same time juggling other responsibilities. On a personal level, my wife and I are expecting our first baby at the end of July. I believe delivering a spiritual baby is equally amazing and exciting. And we feel so privileged to be involved.

Although as a team we have been challenged and stretched, there is a sense of joy as we know that God is refining and preparing us for greater things.

We aim to have a Church service started in Darebin by the end of September this year by God’s grace.

Filfilling the Great Commission

Over the coming months we pray that the momentum for his work in Darebin will continue to increase with designated care groups taking ownership of the Church, with members volunteering their time and energy in taking turns to go out for evangelism on a regular basis.

We know that apart from Him, we can do nothing. Our confidence is in God alone because we are serving a living God. We are simply obeying his command to GO in spreading the gospel everywhere. We have full confidence that God is working with us and will continue to give us encouraging signs that accompany his work in Darebin.

“After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached every-where, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.” (Mark 16: 19-20)

Please do join with us to pray for God’s work in Darebin to flourish.

All Glory to God!
Eric Fan