Ikire, Nigeria & Leku, Ethiopia 2026

MISSION REPORT ETHIOPIA & NIGERIA MAY 2026

Evangelism in Leku (Ethiopia) and Ikire (Nigeria)

Dear Friends, In March, we were in Leku, Ethiopia, for an evangelis�c outreach, and in April, we were in Ikire, Nigeria. In both places, the Holy Spirit was at work, and people were saved, healed, and bap�zed in the Holy Spirit. In Ethiopia, there was some heavy rain, which affected the mee�ngs. But people weren't deterred and s�ll came to the mee�ngs.

Another speaker is Ben Kroeske from Amsterdam.

He is the pastor of River Church, one of the fastestgrowing churches in the Netherlands. Pastor Peter De Fin from Johannesburg, a fi�h-genera�on descendant of Smith Wigglesworth, is also expected.

He leads a church-plan�ng movement, Acts Chris�an Church, in South Africa with thousands of members.

In all the mee�ngs, we witnessed the power of God in ac�on. One woman had been blind for two years. On the third day, she received her healing and said, “Today, for the first �me, I see the white man on the stage.”

We are living at the end of the Age of Grace, and God is pouring out his Spirit and awai�ng the precious fruit of the earth.

In May, I'm invited to a five-day evangelis�c outreach in the Philippines.

In June, we have two more evangelis�c outreaches in Ethiopia, and in July, I’ll be a�ending the pastors’ conference of the ECFE, the Evangelical Church Fellowship of Ethiopia. Pastor Dereje Tafesse, our organizer for the past 18 years, was elected president of this associa�on and is organizing this pastors’ conference. 5,000 pastors are expected. All mee�ngs will be broadcast live on na�onal television. Ethiopia is truly ready for transforma�on.

Pastor Peter Wenz will be one of the keynote speakers at this conference.

Therefore be pa�ent, brethren, un�l the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, wai�ng pa�ently for it un�l it receives the early and la�er rain. You also be pa�ent. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

James 5:7-8 In faith, we have planned 17 evangelis�c outreaches for this year; last year we had 13. This means we need more funding. Please pray for us and help us.

Perhaps someone would like to sponsor an en�re outreach? There is no be�er investment than helping to plunder hell and populate heaven.

Warmest regards!

Ekkehard

HEALING TESTIMONIES ETHIOPIA

Front page: The child in her womb had shown no signs of life for a week. A�er prayer, the baby began to move again.

This woman could not hear and was cross-eyed.

Jesus healed her.

For 12 years, this man had blurred vision.

Now his vision is clear, and he can see clearly again.

Jesus freed her from a spirit of death that had bound her for 18 years.

This woman had been blind for two years and said, “Today, for the first �me, I can see the white man on stage.”

For 15 years, this woman suffered from stomach ulcers.

Jesus healed her.

Many people came to faith in Jesus Christ during the event in Ikere, Nigeria.

FAITH IS OF THE HEART

by Ekkehard Hornburg

For with the heart one believes …

Romans 10:10

The mind is for thinking, and the heart is for believing.

Most people believe with their minds. They want to see, feel, and understand something first before they believe it. The Bible speaks of the spirit figh�ng against the flesh. The flesh refers to our senses and our intellect. The intellect accepts only what makes sense and seems reasonable. God’s Word does not make sense to our intellect. The mind will always contradict the Word of God. That is the struggle we find ourselves in.

Pastor Adaboye was a professor of mathema�cs at the University of Lagos. He says that in mathema�cs, you only believe something once you can prove it. With God, you must first believe without having proof, and then comes the seeing and experiencing. His conversion was therefore a great miracle. God called him to be a pastor, and he gave up his profession. He took over a congrega�on with about 1,000 a�endees.

Today, the RCCG (Redeemed Chris�an Church of God) has over 51,000 congrega�ons worldwide. The revival con�nues to this day. His mee�ng place in Nigeria consists of interconnected halls, 3 km long and 3 km wide. Every month, several million people a�end a Holy Spirit service. Unbelievable but true.

The Word of God is the proof. Hebrews 11:1 states that the Word of God is the proof of things not seen.

God comes to the weak and says, “You are strong!”

But the weak person does not feel strong and doubts God’s Word. He lives according to what he thinks and feels, rather than affirming God’s Word.

This is what happened to Gideon. God called him a “mighty warrior,” but Gideon had nothing but excuses to say that wasn’t the case. When God calls you strong, then you are strong! Because the moment God says something like that, it is so.

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God said, “Let there be light!” and it became light, even though the visible condi�on was darkness. We would probably have said, “It’s so dark in here!” What God says, IS! Jesus came to a paraly�c at the Pool of Bethesda who had been wai�ng for a miracle for 38 years. The miracle was now standing before him, in the person of Jesus. Jesus spoke to him (as it says in the Aramaic transla�on): “Can you believe that you are healed?” The paraly�c wanted to be healed first and then believe.

Jesus told him, more or less: “Get up, take your mat, and go home, for you are healed.” Now it was the paraly�c’s turn. He had to believe the Word and act on it.

Faith looks to the Word and not to the circumstances.

Faith does not take nega�ve circumstances into account. Abraham did not look at his aging body or Sarah’s, but believed that what God says IS. Jesus tells you: By my wounds you are healed! You must believe this first, before you see it and feel it.

Treat God’s Word as if it were true, for it is true. It is already true in the Spirit, even if you do not yet see it.

Someone asked Kathryn Kuhlmann what faith is. She replied, “Faith is when you stop believing what you see and start seeing what you believe.” That is faith of the heart, not faith of the mind.

God’s Word contradicts human logic. That is why we must believe with our hearts, even when we have doubts in our minds. The heart receives; the mind contradicts. When Peter felt the wind and saw the high waves, his mind took over and the miracle ended. He began to sink. As long as he looked at Jesus, he walked on the water. Every word from God has power and is capable of doing what it says. But it must be received with faith in the heart.