Dear friends,
In October, it will be 18 years since I first came to Ethiopia, at that �me only to visit, not to preach. However, the Ethiopian evangelist I was accompanying said to me, “Since you’re here, you can preach on the weekend. I’ll take you to a city and pick you up again on Sunday. If nothing happens, you don’t need to come back, because they won’t invite you again.”
I preached on a sports field and remember that a blind woman received her sight and other miracles of healing took place. As a result, I was invited back. My translator at the �me was Dereje Tafesse, a student at the Assemblies of God Bible School. A�er Bible school, he became our full-�me evangelism director, who has since prepared all evangelism eventsandtakencareofourequipmentandvehicles.
At that �me, he was s�ll single, but now he has a beau�ful family (see cover photo) and God has blessed him in every way. We couldn’t have asked for a be�er co-worker. We have been working together for almost 18 years now, and in January we completed our 175th evangelism campaign in Ethiopia.
God’s Word says in Proverbs 28:20, “A faithful man abounds with blessings.” Now Pastor Dereje has been elected president of the Evangelical Churches Fellowship of Ethiopia (ECFE), an associa�on to which almost all Pentecostal-charisma�c denomina�ons belong. In total, this associa�on represents over 20 million Chris�ans in Ethiopia.
Many well-known evangelists have been invited to Ethiopia by the ECFE, including Reinhard Bonnke. Pastor Dereje will con�nue to prepare our evangelis�c campaigns and he believes that his elec�on as chairman of the ECFE will only make our campaigns even be�er.
We are planning a total of 17 evangelis�c campaigns in 2026, including 4 in Nigeria. In 2025, we held 13 evangelis�c campaigns, including 3 in Nigeria. The total budget is at least €300,000, but most likely more. Our mission is Jesus’ Great Commission: to win people for Jesus, heal the sick, cast out demons, and proclaim the bap�sm into the Holy Spirit. We do what Jesus did, and we experience this in all our evangelis�c campaigns.
Please pray for us and help us to fulfill this mission. I believe that we are the last genera�on that will fulfill Jesus’ Great Commission. God’s prophe�c calendar is: harvest, rapture, An�christ, apocalypse, and the return of Jesus at the end of the 7-year tribula�on period. We want to redeem the �me and work as long as the opportunity presents itself. Love and blessings!
Ekkehard Hornburg
HEALING TESTIMONIES
ETHIOPIA
He had been bedridden for 5 years and suffering from tuberculosis. Someone brought him and all the pain and coughing disappeared.
A�er eye surgery 2 years ago, she lost 80% of her vision. Now she can see clearly again.
She had a growth in her stomach and was scheduled for surgery. The growth and the pain have disappeared.
Seven years ago, she fell and broke a vertebra. Since then, she has been unable to bend over and has been in a lot of pain. She was healed and all symptoms disappeared.
She had had a growth on her breast for 1 year. The growth, along with the pain, has disappeared.
She had been suffering from hip pain for 15 years and could only bend over or move with severe pain. All the pain is gone.
He had been squin�ng for 8 years. Now he can see normally again.
She has been almost deaf for 5 years and could hear very li�le. For 10 years she suffered from constant body pain. Now she can hear well again and is pain-free.
SICK, WEAK AND POOR?
by Ekkehard Hornburg
I grew up in a church where we were taught that signs and wonders, spiritual gi�s, and speaking in tongues only existed during the first genera�on of Chris�ans. When the last apostle died, these supernatural signs and wonders ceased. They taught that bap�sm in the Spirit, speaking in new tongues, apostles, and prophets no longer exist today. There are only pastors, teachers, and evangelists. When perfec�on came, everything supernatural ceased. By perfec�on, they meanttheBible,God’sWord.Gi�sofhealingrefertodoctors who care for the sick. Speaking in other languages refers to people who are gi�ed in learning foreign languages or who can translate the Bible into many languages. When praying for the sick, they added: “Lord, heal him if it is Your will.” When someone died, they said: “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. The Lord’s will be done.” Whatever happened must have been God’s will, they believed, because a�er all, God had allowed it. But God allows many things that are not His will, because a�er all, He gave people free will.
The Bible says, “Every good and perfect gi� comes from above, from the Father of lights.” Jesus said, “The thief comes only to kill, steal, and destroy.” Satan is the thief who wants to steal our health, who wants to steal our money, who wants to kill us, who wants to make us poor, weak, and sick, not God.
following Jesus. They were his idols. God tested Abraham and asked him to sacrifice his only son. Abraham passed the test, and God blessed him and made Abraham very rich. So God has nothing against wealth, but He is against us se�ng our hearts on things. In order for God to bless us, we must pass the money test in terms of giving and le�ng go. God said to a man when he had nothing: “When things no longer mean anything to you, I will give you all things.” Today, this man is one of the greatest givers, and God entrusts him with millions. But he sees himself only as a steward, not as an owner.
“It is God who gives you the power to acquire such wealth” (Deuteronomy 8:18) in order to build His kingdom. Money is needed in these last days to bring in the final harvest. “The wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous” (Proverbs 13:22), for “the righteous are merciful and give” (Psalm 37:21).
“To the man who pleases him, he gives wisdom, understanding, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the trouble of gathering and heaping up, to give it to him who pleases God” Ecclesiastes 2:26.
I grew up thinking that “rich” is bad and “poor” is good. Didn’t poor Lazarus go to heaven and the rich man go to hell? Jesus said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” “Whoever loves father, mother, or possessions more than me is not worthy to be my disciple.” Is poverty a virtue? Jesus tested the rich young man to reveal the condi�on of his heart. He wanted to follow Jesus, and Jesus said to him, “Sell everything you have, give the proceeds to the poor, then come and follow me.”
But he could not do that, because he loved his possessions more than Jesus. His possessions owned him, instead of him owning them. The young man missed a unique opportunity. He could have become one of the 12 apostles, but his possessions meant more to him than
Jesus is coming for a glorious church that is strong, healthy, and lacks nothing. That is why we must teach about the power of the Holy Spirit, about healing, and about finances. When Israel le� Egypt, there were no sick or poor among them (Psalm 105:37). They plundered the Egyp�ans and took Egypt’s gold and silver with them (Exodus 12:35). The lamb they ate was for their healing. Jesus is our Passover lamb, and by His wounds we were healed. “For mine is the silver and mine is the gold, says the Lord of hosts” (Haggai2:8).WearepartakersofallHisgoods.Whatbelongs to Him also belongs to us. In faith, we may appropriate everything that already belongs to us in Christ.
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” (3 John 2). God wants you to prosper spiritually, physically, and financially, so much so that you have enough for yourself and can s�ll give to every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8).
