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