WWE Mission Report Shenen & Gebre Guraacha, Ethiopia April 2021

MISSION REPORT SHENEN & GEBRE GURAACHA, ETHIOPIA APRIL 2021

Dear friends, At the end of March and beginning of April we were in Ethiopia again for two evangelistic campaigns. The first campaign was in a very remote place. I was the first white person who had come to preach there and it was their first public evangelistic campaign. The last stretch of road (70 km) was so poor that it took us three hours with our Hyundai bus. We also had to repair several tyres.

In the meantime we have ordered the new truck in Dubai and next we want to exchange our bus for a Land Cruiser.

Our German postal vehicle and the bus were built for good roads, not bad terrain. In May we have another two campaigns. Then comes the rainy season in June and July.

During that time we want to make as good a sale as possible of the old truck and the bus and buy a Land Cruiser instead.

We still need to raise about $24,000 for that. At the beginning of August we then want to put the new (11-tonne) truck and the new Land Cruiser into action.

With these new vehicles we can go anywhere and reach places we hadn’t previously been able to because our vehicles wouldn’t have coped.

I would like to thank everyone who has made it possible for us to buy the truck. The fact that we managed it was a miracle, as in addition to the purchase there is the customs duty, and Ethiopia has the highest import duties in the world.

It is definitely worth going where no one goes and reaching precious people with the gospel.

Our second evangelistic campaign was in Gebre Guraacha.

For them, as well, it was the first public evangelistic outreach and we had very blessed meetings. The Holy Spirit confirmed the preached word with signs and wonders.

Here, too, they asked us to come again in a year..

John Wesley founded 700 churches on three continents.

One instruction to his young preachers was the following: Always take people books so that they can grow in their faith..

We, too, see the necessity of providing people, especially the pastors and leaders, with good, faith-building literature. That is why we translated Kenneth Hagin’s faith courses (Faith, Prayer, Healing, Holy Spirit) into the Amharic language.

As soon as we have the necessary funds we plan to print thousands of these courses and send them to the leaders and pastors in all the towns and villages we have been to so far (121 places to date). If we send just 1000 courses to each place, that alone makes 121,000 sets and each set costs about $7. That is basically impossible for us, but everything is possible with God and we are convinced that God wants this literature to get into the hands of the pastors and leaders.

Every Christian has the task of building God’s kingdom, whether it is as a lawyer, teacher, doctor, business person, pastor or preacher. We no longer live for ourselves but for the one who gave himself for us and purchased us, Jesus Christ. Every Christian is called to seek first the Kingdom of God. A life that is lived only for oneself is ultimately a wasted life. “My life entirely for the eternal crown,” I often heard Reinhard Bonnke say. Believers will not face the judgment that sinners face. Rather we will be judged for the prize, when we are rewarded for what we did for Jesus on earth.

Some will receive a large reward; some works will burn like hay and stubble. But even a cup of water that we have given someone in his name will be rewarded. Jesus will not reproach us, but each of us will hear the words: Well done, you faithful servant. Whether the reward turns out to be big or small will depend on how much we have done for Jesus. Our salvation depends on what Jesus did, our reward on what we have done.

Best regards,

Ekkehard Hornburg

HEALING TESTIMONIES

SHENEN & GEBRE GURAACHA, ETHIOPIA

She had had trachoma for 10 years and it was as if there was a veil in front of her eyes.

Now she can see clearly again.

She had suffered from asthma for 15 years.

Her first child was born 12 years ago. Since then she has been bleeding, had pain and been unable to have any more children.

Jesus healed her like the woman with bleeding in the Bible.

Years ago, he was hit by a car; since then he was disabled and couldn’t move his leg properly. Here he is walking without difficulty.

For the past year, one of her ears had been completely deaf.

Now she can hear.

For 9 years she had been deaf.

For years, her one eye was totally blind and the other almost blind.

MADE RICH TO MAKE OTHERS RICH! „For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich“ (2 Corinthians 8:9). „And God is able to make all grace [all favour and every earthly blessing] abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.“ (2 Corinthians 9:8).

Everything we have received from God has not been given to us because we earned it but out of grace. Grace means God doing something for me that I don’t deserve. The grace of God is the power of God that saves me, heals me, sets me free and gives me everything I need or desire. God has made his power available to me, and faith connects me with that power. Faith gives me access to this grace, this power. „Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.“ (Romans 5:1–2). „And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power [grace] to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.“ (Deuteronomy 8:18). „Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.“ (Romans 4:16).

God forgives us our sins—out of grace. God heals our diseases—out of grace. God gives us the ability to produce wealth—out of grace! We cannot work for and earn this grace. Jesus purchased this grace on the cross.

The old covenant is based on works! If you do this and this, you will get this and this blessing. The new covenant is based on faith.

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Through faith I gain the blessings that Jesus attained for me: forgiveness, healing, wealth...

The old covenant says: Forgive and you will be forgiven. In the new covenant it says: Forgive just as Christ forgave you.

The old covenant says: Give and it will be given to you. In the new covenant, we give because God first gave to us. He gives seed to the sower.

The old covenant demands that I love God and my neighbour as I love myself. In the new covenant, God loves me first and pours his love into my heart so that I can love him and others. We love because he first loved us.

The law was not given to us so that we would keep it but so that we would realize that we can’t keep it. We need help, we need grace, to be able to live as God wants us to. Under the new covenant, God first does something for us so that we can then do something for others. Everything we have and are comes from God. The old covenant starts with a working day: We work for God. The new covenant starts with a day of rest: God has done something for us!

God wants us to be able to bless others, so he blesses us. God wants us to make others rich, so he makes us rich. God wants us to forgive others just as we have been forgiven. God gives to us so we can give. We don’t give so as to be blessed, rather we give because God has blessed us. God gives us seed to sow. Then he gives the seed power so that it can produce a great harvest. In that way we are blessed and can give more again.

Everything starts with God. Everything comes from God and everything flows back to God. Don’t just believe that God forgives sins and heals the sick, believe that he wants to make you rich as well so that you can make others rich and be an even greater blessing. Faith does not sit back, it reaches out for MORE!

Ekkehard Hornburg