WWE Mission Report, Ethiopia, June 2023

ETHIOPIA

JUNE, 2023 MISSIONREPORT

Dear friends!

Very warm greetings to you!

At the end of May and beginning of June we had another two evangelistic campaigns in Ethiopia.

The ﬁrst was in Guder and the second in the far south, in Elgo. During the ﬁrst campaign we saw many healings, but fewer people giving their lives to Jesus. In the second, we saw many giving their lives to Jesus, but fewer healings. Each evangelistic campaign has its own character.

The boy on the title page had been deaf in one ear for two years. His mother tested him and now he can hear. We experienced the glory of God in Guder. We saw many healings and during the ﬁnal service the Holy Spirit came upon many people like at Pentecost. Some staggered as if drunk, others could no longer stand and fell to the ground. Many began praying in other tongues just as it happened in Acts 2. The Holy Spirit is the key to a victorious life. The Holy Spirit reveals to us who God is and makes God’s fatherly love real to us. The Bible is a revelation of God and can only be understood with the help of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our generator. He raised Jesus from the dead and the same power is available to us today.

The pastor in Elgo told us that he remembered how they had all been walking around naked just 40 years ago. But the gospel came and animists turned into Christians. Our evangelistic campaign was the ﬁrst in Elgo. Unfortunately, our sound system failed during the last service, so we had to cut it short. That has never happened to us in 15 years. We are trusting God for a new sound system for Ethiopia. Our current one is struggling and we are believing for a larger, more powerful public address system.

From 19 to 23 July we have our evangelistic campaign in Nigeria. This has been postponed several times and is now taking place next month.

From 14 to 27 August we are in Ethiopia again for two campaigns.

From 5 to 9 July I am at the Toronto Harvest Church in Canada and from 11 to 17 September we are in Sri Lanka again for an evangelistic campaign.

I would like to thank every donor for your faithful support, without which this ministry would not be possible. Jesus is the Lord of the harvest and he sends us into the harvest. Just before Jesus returns, there will be the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the greatest harvest. We are living in that time. The devil thinks he can already now establish his antichrist kingdom on earth, but as long as the church of Jesus is here he will not succeed. Light drives out darkness and light is stronger than darkness. The church of Jesus is rising, standing up and gathering in the ﬁnal harvest. Then the end will come.

Best regards and have a blessed summer!

Ekkehard Hornburg

HEALING TESTIMONIES

One eye had been almost completely blind for three years.

The right ear had been deaf for three years.

For four years, the left eye was completely blind.

For 16 years he had needed the stick to walk. Without it he would fall over.

For ten years she had been deaf in her right ear.

ETHIOPIA

Pamela’s testimony

“On a summer camp at the age of ten, I invited Jesus into my heart. I didn’t feel any strong emotion, but I believed that God had accepted me. When I came home, I told my parents, who were very happy, and my pastor, who told me this was the most important decision of my life. During my teenage years I went to the youth group and went to church every Wednesday and Sunday. We didn’t smoke, drink or take drugs.

“I tried to be a good Christian, read my Bible every day, prayed and invited others to come to church. My spiritual life developed in spurts, whenever there were altar calls to devote ourselves anew to Jesus. I often had a longing to get to know God better, but I had the feeling that I hadn’t actually got to know Him better since I had given my life to Jesus. I got married and we sat in church every Sunday and were a model couple. A friend invited me to a seminar and I went along for her sake. I was expecting the usual sermons in which you heard how lukewarm you were and then got invited to devote your life to God anew. Deep down I believed that I would one day really get to know God, and perhaps it would happen here?

I would one day really get to know God, and perhaps it ally. He loves me because He is love and not because never water to me. I always heard in sermons that we half-hearted, behaviour, was a completely new thought for

“That seminar completely turned my life upside down. In the ﬁrst hour I heard that God loved me unconditionally. He loves me because He is love and not because I have done well. I had been in church my whole life but I had never heard that. I was like a woman in the desert dying of thirst and those words were fresh water to me. I always heard in sermons that we should make ourselves even more available to God in order to really please Him. I had always had the impression that God was tired of having such half-hearted, lukewarm Christians. The fact that He loves me, irrespective of my behaviour, was a completely new thought for me. I could hardly sleep. The Holy Spirit was doing overtime with me. I reﬂected on my life.

Why do I go to church, why do I read the Bible and why do I pray? Why don’t I do things that others do? Why do I give testimony? I had to admit that the real reason was that I wanted to please God. My whole life had been a half-hearted attempt to earn His love.

“And that new understanding changed everything. If He loves me because He is love and not because I behave well, then I don’t need to earn His love because He already loves me.

“As I lay there, I cried out of relief and joy. Again and again I said: Thank you, Jesus. These words sounded strange. I had never said or felt anything like that before. I said: Jesus, I love you! That, too, was something I had never said before. My whole understanding of life changed. I didn’t do anything to be a better Christian but simply loved Him back for loving me. That night I stopped wanting to earn His love or wanting to please Him. That desire died and was buried that night. I praised Him that whole weekend and repeated again and again the words: I am loved! He couldn’t love me any more than He already does, for He is love!

“If He loves me, why am I spending my whole life trying to convince Him to love me? In those few hours I developed a burning desire to read the Bible to discover this God whom I had never really known. I wanted to pray and talk to Him. I was no longer afraid of Him. I had the greatest news in the world for my neighbours and could hardly wait for the ﬁrst opportunity.

“I was bewildered that many friends in the church didn’t want to hear what I had discovered. They wanted to continue working hard to earn God’s favour, and so I lost a few friends. It wasn’t always easy. I have had many personal trials but since that time I have had a compass that leads me – the magnetic north of His love for me.”