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Stories and Reports from the Holy Spirit in Mission Conference

P.C. Alexander, an IMA member from Delhi, India, told of a pastor from south India who worked and prayed for 21 years before seeing a church of 150 now beginning to thrive in the north Punjab region. Eight Indian states have recently passed anti-conversion laws, but Christians continue to reach out, founding Christian schools in regions where church planting is too sensitive.

Adi Walujo, a leader in the GITJ Mennonite Church in Indonesia, praised God that their local church, which had been closed for eight months by Muslim leaders, was miraculously granted permission to worship again. “This kind of reversal is unheard of in Indonesia,” he said, but a breakthrough came after special prayer at the IMA last year.

Tefera Bekere reported from Ethiopia that they are seeing unprecedented responses to the gospel in neighboring countries as they use a more contextualized approach to witness. Currently 262 missionaries are working in Ethiopia and beyond its borders.

Rubén Carrasco from Peru reported that last year he had come to the Holy Spirit in Mission conference frustrated and ready to resign from leadership of the Peruvian Mennonite Church. Instead he made some radical changes in organization through what he had learned at the meetings and the church grew about 60 percent for the year. “Many of us have been working in our own strength,” he said, “but when we hear from God, and obey, there is new life.”

— Jewel Showalter, EMM staff writer