Zambia Team Report - Conference

Rev. Sanchez Reports: The morning meeting was absolutely powerful!  The church was packed!  The meetings are so full, we have people sitting outside to listen to God's word, and people looking in the windows and doorways.  And if that was not enough, we have overflow rooms where people are sitting and listening in the classrooms!  It is amazing!

I preached a message called “I Declare War!”.  The Spirit of the Lord challenged the heart of His people to fight for the promises of God and to defeat every enemy that stands in the way of you and what God has spoken to you.  While I preached, the power of God saturated the church!  It was explosive!  People were running and shouting and jumping and crying!  The Holy Ghost took over the service!  The Holy Ghost hit Rev. Robbie Grubbs and he was jumping and shouting all over the place!  Then the Holy Ghost hit Evangelist Joshua Bell and he caught on fire and ran around the church and the pastors and leaders ran right behind him!  And the church went wild!  People were being filled with the Holy Ghost, souls were getting saved and demons were coming out of many people!  In the doorways and windows people were crying, shouting and falling out under the power of God!  Right outside by the water well, the water of living life was splashing on every thirsty soul!  In the overflow rooms, it was reported that people were being healed and delivered and the power of God was so strong that people were falling out in the Holy Ghost!

As God kept moving, many young children were baptized in the Holy Ghost and were taking in tongues as the Spirit gave them the utterance!  The power of God just kept falling and people were being healed.  Restoration had taken place for many pastors who lost hope in the battle!  It was glorious!  Shouts of victory filled the air!  As the meeting went on, one of the pastors ran over and grabbed Sister Saunders' hands and the power of God hit them both.  They both started shouting, talking in tongues and dancing all over that altar; it was dynamic!  Service lasted from the morning til the afternoon!  We touched God this morning and we will never be the same again!

Lunchtime & Fellowship: during lunchtimes the food is lined up on tables and passed out; we are all eating together, family-style!  During the breaks, everyone is going over their notes from the messages.  People are in groups, laughing and singing.  We have been sitting in circles, playing games with children.  We are all becoming a family and it is beautiful!  There is so much strength and encouragement during this time.

Evangelist Joshua Bell Reports: Today, before the youth service, a group of 40 young people from various churches marched down the dirt paths of Misisi Compound, singing, praising God, and inviting everyone they came in contact with to church.  It was incredible.  As we were singing, all the people came out of their houses.  Kids surrounded our feet and touched our hands.  The joy that you could feel in the midst of God’s people is almost unexplainable.  I could feel Jesus walking with us; it was so real.  Only God’s love could bring light to the darkest places.  After we got back, we sang some children’s praise songs and if anyone has a gift to sing, it has to be African children!  They sing with passion and a natural harmony that could captivate anyone!

After the songs, I preached a sermon called “God Has Not Forgotten You.”  In my message, I testified about my younger brother Delcardo and how the Lord cared so much about this baby boy that was dying that he took him from Haiti and placed him in a loving home and healed him.  If God never forgot about a little boy from Haiti than that tells me God knows where you are and He has not forgotten you! The power of God was in this youth meeting.  Many young people came to the altar, crying out with knowledge that Christ has not forgotten about them.  What a wonderful experience that it was to see these beautiful children reaching out to their Heavenly Father with faith and God was so faithful to shower down His presence like a gentle rain, letting His children know that He was there and He cares.  It felt like Jesus just came down and hugged us and I am so grateful to be a part of what God is doing here in Lusaka.