Jesus is the King of Kings! 1/2020 - CfaN

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Jesus is the King of Kings! 1/2020 - CfaN
1/2020

            CfaN Gospel Campaigns
           Abeokuta & Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

           Jesus
           is the
         King of
          Kings!
Jesus is the King of Kings! 1/2020 - CfaN
ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA
     7 – 10 November 2019

              k o f Y o u r t e st im o n ie s
I will spea
 a ls o bef ore kings,
 An d will not be ash amed.
 Ps alm 119:46

                               Abeokuta:
                               77,879 decisions
                               for Jesus –
                                              nt!
                               before the event!
Jesus is the King of Kings! 1/2020 - CfaN
The weather in Nigeria
                            is hot and humid,
                            the conditions tiring,
273                         to say the least. But
OUTREACHES IN               that didn’t stop these
7 WEEKS                     committed teams from
                            preaching, over and
Seven weeks before the      over again. In the seven
start of the CfaN Gospel    weeks, they conducted
Campaign in Abeokuta,       an astonishing 273
Nigeria, we sent a          outreaches. That’s
team of evangelists to      an average of 39
begin bombarding the        outreaches every week!
region with the Gospel.     It was an immense
Two-by-two, they            labor of love, with a
went anywhere and           glorious result. Before
everywhere that we          the main campaign had
could get permission        started, we recorded
to hold an outreach.        77,879 decisions for
Schools, markets, jails     Jesus.
and hospitals became
fertile ground for the      It’s tremendously
Good News.                  exciting for us to see
                            the Decade of Double
                            Harvest strategies
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“I COME
REPRESENTING
THE KING OF
KINGS!”                     was then whisked                                                           told the king that he
Anticipation in the         away to the governor’s                                                     came representing
Abeokuta area was high      mansion, where the                                                         another king – not
when Evangelist Daniel      governor (a believer) had                                                  just any king – but the
Kolenda, Reverend Peter     invited Daniel to share                                                    King of Kings and the
Vandenberg and the          the Gospel with the                                                        Lord of Lords. Right
team arrived for the        entire cabinet.                                                            there and then, in the
Gospel Campaign. They                                                                                  courtroom of the palace,
were greeted on the side    Straight after that,                                                       Daniel led some of the
of the road by a lively     Daniel was taken to                                                        chiefs to Jesus.
crowd of local believers,   the local king’s palace,
pastors, bishops and        where he once again
other leaders. The team     shared the Gospel. He
Jesus is the King of Kings! 1/2020 - CfaN
TODAY, THE
DAY OF
PENTECOST HAS
FULLY COME
In the Fire Conference
on Saturday morning,
                              Total decisions:

                              298,754
Daniel and the
team prayed for an
impartation of the
Holy Spirit on the
thousands of church
leaders attending. That
evening, he preached:
“In the last 2,000 years,

                              in Abeokuta
it is the Holy Spirit who
has been waiting for
you! That’s why this is
not a “waiting meeting”.
This is a receiving
meeting. Today, the
Day of Pentecost has
fully come.” With a
shout of praise, tens
of thousands received
the baptism in the Holy
Spirit. All over the field,
there were moving
scenes of tears and
worship.
Jesus is the King of Kings! 1/2020 - CfaN
MY SCARS ARE
GONE!
We saw many
powerful healing
testimonies, like the
young man who had
a motorbike accident
and injured his leg.
After the prayer,
he unwrapped his
bandages, to see
that the massive
scar on his foot had
disappeared. On stage,
he joyfully showed
Daniel the pictures
he had on his phone
of the injury – now        On the first night,
completely healed.         Daniel had a word
                           of knowledge for
                           someone with a
                           growth on their neck.
                           He sensed that it was
                           painful and affecting
                           the person’s ability
                           to speak. The next
                           night, a lady came
                           forward. She said she
                           had suffered with a
                           painful growth on her
                           throat for years, that
                           made it very difficult
Another beautiful          to talk. But during the
moment was the             prayer for the sick,
testimony of a young       the growth vanished.
man who had lost his       With a loud voice, she
voice for the past six     shouted, “Thank you,
years. His face shining,   Jesus!”
he leaned into the
microphone and loudly
sang an acapella solo.
The crowd roared and
began to sing with
him, praising and
thanking God.
Jesus is the King of Kings! 1/2020 - CfaN
ADO-EKITI, NIGERIA
5 – 8 December 2019

                                        The welcome continued
                                        as we made our way
                                        into the city, many
                                        hundreds of people
                                        waving and singing
                                        alongside the road.
                                        Something touching
                                        and unusual were the
                                        many motorcyclists
                                        wearing jackets and
                                        hats they had made
                                        from CfaN campaign
    Reverend Peter Vandenberg,          posters. It literally took
  CfaN’s Vice-President, shared         the entire day to make
 with us his report from the CfaN       our way to our hotel,
 Gospel Campaign in Ado-Ekiti,          such was the level of
    where 173,680 people gave           excitement. After 3
                their lives to Jesus.
                                        long and weary days of
                                        travel, we were ready.

WELCOMED AT
THE “GATE OF                            WALKING MANY
THE CITY”                               HOURS TO HEAR
Ado-Ekiti is a remote
                                        THE WORD
place. It’s not easy to                 When we publish
get to, and not many                    photos that show
outsiders go there.                     the amazing size of
After landing in Lagos,                 the crowd, there is
we drove for over five                  something most people
hours on the most                       don’t realize. As many
horrendous roads you                    as 95% of the people
can imagine. But as we                  you see have walked
neared the city, still                  to be there. There were
driving through bush                    around 110,000 people
on all sides, we were                   in a single meeting
greeted by a hundred                    in Ado-Ekiti, but we
pastors and bishops.                    counted less than 2,000
They were waiting on                    vehicles in the parking
the outskirts at what                   area. Even with cars
they call the “Gate of                  bursting with people,
the City” to welcome                    that’s still only around
us, a tradition of the                  12,000 passengers.
local Yoruba people.                    And there’s no public
There was loud                          transport at all. In a
singing, and dancing,                   place as rural as Ado-
and the rhythmic                        Ekiti, where the vast
music of talking                        majority do not actually
drums, which look like                  stay in the urban area,
hourglasses and make                    this means that people
an incredible range of                  have walked hours,
sounds. We stopped                      and sometimes days,
and prayed together                     to attend the meetings.
for God’s blessing on                   What a great hunger
the campaign.                           for God!
Jesus is the King of Kings! 1/2020 - CfaN
Ado-Ekiti:

A giant
has marched into Heaven

             Total decisions:

             173,680
             in Ado-Ekiti
Jesus is the King of Kings! 1/2020 - CfaN
WITH PETER VANDENBERG
A FITTING GOODBYE
TO A GREAT MAN OF

                                           Adventure
GOD

                                       CALLING
On the third day of the
campaign, we received the
news that Evangelist Reinhard
Bonnke had gone to be with
the Lord. For the entire team,
most of whom have been with
CfaN for many years, it was a                     40 Years at
very emotional, difficult day. But
                                             in h a r d B o n n k e’s side
there was no doubt for any of             Re
us, that precisely on this day,
Reinhard would have wanted
us to be preaching the Gospel.              DAT E S 2 0 2 0
On the very day that he went
home, tens of thousands gave                THURSDAY 19 MARCH
                                            B R AMS C H E , 19 H 0 0
their lives to Jesus. It was the
largest altar call of the Ado-              FRIDAY 20 MARCH
Ekiti campaign. There could                 H ANNOV E R , 19 H 0 0
be no greater tribute to a man
whose life and ministry were                SATURDAY 21 MARCH
utterly dedicated to bringing the           D U E S S E L D O R F, 19 H 0 0
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Gospel to African people.
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                                            BAD K R E U Z NAC H , 10 H 0 0                    BELOW
That evening, when Daniel
shared the news with the
crowd, and showed a brief
tribute video on the giant
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screens, there was a great
outpouring of emotion. A loud
wave of prayer and praise
swept across the crowd, many
people weeping where they
stood. It went on and on and                                                   There’s much more to come!
on, a beautiful and moving
                                                                                MISSION
expression of love and sorrow.
We joined them in celebrating
                                                                                ACCOUNTS
Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke’s
life of service. As my wife,
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