Engage the Nations

Dear SWIM Partner, 2010 has been an incredible year as we have followed Christ to bring hope through evangelism and Leadership training to thousands of people locally and internationally.  Minnesota 2010  Earlier in the year, we hosted the Evening of Hope in Brooklyn Center, a Suburb of Minneapolis, MN as part of our local outreach. We ministered to 560 young people, 93 of them inquiring about Christ for the first time. Additionally, each week Suzanne and I have travelled to minister, encourage, and equip believers in dozens of local churches around the country.  Our ministry took us to more than 20 congregations around the United States.  Rwanda 2010  Our overseas missions saw us work alongside churches in the countries of Rwanda, Kenya, and Malawi with a cumulative attendance at the outreach events of 80,000 people. As we proclaimed the gospel of Christ, an estimated 20,000 people made commitments to Christ throughout our mission.   Malawi 2010    W

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Hundreds of delegates from all over the world have arrived here in Cape Town and many more are on their way for this historic congress on World Evangelization.  Pray for God's Mighty Spirit to grip all the participants to leave here with a burning fire.  Revival now!.

View of Table Mountains  Cape Town, what a spectacular and scenic city surrounded by the majestic Table Mountains.      Monday, Moments after arriving at Cape Town Airport.  Yesterday we held one of our congress briefing sessions in a small town called Wellington, about an hours' drive from Cape Town. This happens to be the town where Andrew Murray, famous for His faith-based ministry over a hundred years ago, was based. He ran an orphanage and there were times when there was nothing for the children to eat. But as they prayed, God would miraculously touch somebody to show up with supplies for the orphans. Most significantly, His prayer birthed a revival in South Africa that spread in many directions across Africa. There are amazing tales of God's move then as the man of God spent many days in prayer for revival.  A statue of Andrew Murray outside a church in Wellington  Today, a hundred years after his death, his books on prayer are some of the most refreshi

Sammy speaks to several thousand believers in multiple services at NPC Church, Valley Road, Nairobi Kenya on September 14th regarding global missions For four nights, they had no electricity in their humble dwelling.  When we visited the Great Mercy Children's Center on the outskirts of Kitale town, Kenya on Tuesday earlier this week, the only food they had available was maize and beans cooked together.   Pastor Ken Kimiywe, Sr. Pastor of NPC welcomes Sammy to speak to his congregation during the missions emphasis Sunday.  For the most part, the children as well as their caretakers had been fasting and praying that God would provide some money for them to pay for electricity which had been disconnected as well as buy some food.  Other than that, they hardly showed any signs of distress.  Some among the ninty three kids at the center are as young as two years old. The older ones are in their early teens.  And they all displayed such great faith and confidence in God's a

Sammy Wanyonyi gives the evangelistic message in Lilongwe, Malawi on Sunday evening. Finally, God crowned our efforts with breakthrough as several thousands of people flocked onto the local soccer field in Area 25 of Malawi's Capital Lilongwe, to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ. Several hundreds responded to the call of Salvation. Now we are praying and looking forward to a great harvest of souls on the closing night of the Festival here tomorrow, Wednesday night.  Until then, it had been a tough week, to say the least.  On the openning night of the events last Wednesday September 1st, it felt frustrating.  The rally was scheduled to start too late in the night.  The sun sets by 6:00 PM here.  But the events started around 7:30 PM.  In a country where power is unreliable, it was not surprising that half-way through the program we lost power.  The few hundred people that had gathered began to scatter in the dark.  By the time my friend Nick Hall got up to speak, we barely ha

Sammy speaks at the closing rally in Huye, Rwanda, Sunday August 29th as Rwanda's national director for Africa Evangelistic Enterprise and Huye Mission director John Kalenzi translates. The final day of the Huye Mission for Jesus was a cellebration and thanks giving as an estimated 6500 people, including the city mayor, gathered for the Jesus march through the streets of Butare and for the final rally at the city soccer stadium.  To cap the week-long messages off and given the history of Rwanda, I spoke from the book of John 8:1-11 highliting the fact that God is the God of second chances.  He does not condemn us because of our history nor does He bent to our accusers, right though they might be. Rather, he extends His amazing grace to all who are willing to heed His command to "go and sin no more."   Earlier, believers from all churches in Butare led by their pastors prayer marched through their city. Pastor Harman Kabutware president of pastoral forum holds the m

One of University of Rwanda Christian Choirs leads more than 2000 students in worship on Friday night. On Friday night, more than 2000 students gathered for the final campus outreach event at the University of Rwanda.  Throughout the week, we have been giving teachings at the University focused on equipping them in their calling as Rwanda's  new generation of leaders.  For the final message, I spoke on Joshua's call in Joshua 1:1-9.  I highlighted the fact that Joshua's journey was one that progressed from success to significance.  When we encounter him in Joshua 1:1, Joshua is described as Moses' servant.  But at the close of the book, he is described as the servant of Yahweh (Joshua 24:29).  Moments later, Sammy speaks, challenging the students to embrace God's new future of hope and healing for the nation of Rwanda Drawing from the openning verses to Joshua, I highlighted the fact that God's call to Joshua is three fold.  He is being called by God to

Several hundred of Residents in one of Butare neighborhoods respond to the altarcall for Salvation on Tuesday evening following Sammy's message.  Since Monday, about 8000 people have given their lives to Christ in different parts of the city. It is now our fifth day since we kicked off outreach efforts here in Huye, Rwanda.  God is doing wonderful things as our partners pray.  In just five days, nearly 30,000 people have been ministered to.  As many as 8,000 have prayed with our team to receive Jesus Christ into their lives as Lord and Savior.  The local follow-up teams are extremely busy gathering names, distributing booklets, assigning the 200 trained counselors to various groups of newly saved individuals.  It is now apparent that the 200 trained counsellors are too few for what God is doing here.  One pastor wondered how they are going to care for all the people who are coming to Christ, suggesting that maybe we should stop the work for now until those that have respon

  As you know by now, God is moving and doing great things as we continue with ministry here in Rwanda and Malawi next week. Over the last several days, already more than 5000 people have prayed to receive Christ into their lives as Lord and Savior. We are doing everything possible working with the churches here in Butare to make sure everyone is connected to a church. Thank you for continuing to pray. With a few more days of evangelistic outreach to go that will touch every segment of the society here in Butare, we are anticipating that as many as 10,000 people will have made decisions for Christ by Sunday evening. What a joy! Already 30,000 people have been ministered to here in Rwanda over the past four days. This is in addition to the large stadium events that are still to be held this weekend!  Besides continuing to pray for us, we are greatly in need of financial resources in order to complete this work successfully. I request you to consider a generous gift

Several hundred Rwandan University Students listen to the message of Christ August 23rd Gary joins in street dancing during an outreach in the Muslim neighborhood as hundreds of residents watch. It was another very fruitful day as our teams worked to multiply the impact around the city. In conjunction with Rwandan evangelists from around the country organized by African Evangelistic Enterprise Rwanda, we ministered in sixteen different venues around the city of Butare.  To the glory of God, we have received more than 2,500 names of people who gave their lives to Jesus Christ from all the sixteen sites.  Our team from the United States worked in two locations.  I spoke twice to University students at the University of Rwanda.   Several hundred kids pray with Sammy to receive Jesus Christ into their lives in the Muslim neighborhood Later in the evening, we preached at an open air in a muslim neighborhood. It is the main Muslim neighborhood here in Butare. To the glory of God,