In 1999 we made our first trip to South Africa. While we ministering in KwaZulu Natal, Pastor Stanford Mamize called several times to confirm my coming to Salubinza. Pastor Stanford Mamize is a dynamic man with a strong vision for a thousand-plus member church. My heart was deeply touched when he told me how the women and children had spent two weeks leveling the ground and building a tent for the crusade. There were no bulldozers or backhoes just the loving labor of many wonderful people expecting God to do something in their midst. To the natural eye it was nothing but raw poles and tarps but when the presence of God came there was no tabernacle more wonderful.
The first night there were more than 200, and more than 300 the second. Some walked miles to get there. Many stood in the rain for hours. What a blessing as hundreds were set free as they made professions of faith over the course of the crusade.
There were too many healings to recount them all, but toward the end of the first night’s service a word of knowledge came forth identifying several who were suffering from deep, suicidal depression. By my estimate somewhere around 50 came forward for a prayer of deliverance. Among the mostly women, I was shocked to see children, some as young as seven or eight. Perhaps the most indelible image left in my mind is the face of the last little girl I prayed for that night. After a lifetime of abuse she could not even look up at me, she was so crushed under the weight of her oppression. As I prayed she collapsed and wept tears of release. I held her as I would my own daughter. She was so precious. When she left that night her bright smile could have lit the tent all by itself.
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