India

Excerpt from Angel Letter January/February 2007

MY THIRTEENTH MISSIONARY TRIP TO INDIA:   It was a great joy to return to India after many years. I had the honour of being a speaker at the Annual Convention of Mission India in Nagpur, Central India. This great ministry is founded by a young man with a powerful testimony, Saji Lukos. He endured great trials and persecution to become the powerful servant of God he is today. He has hundreds of young men and women working under his leadership. It was so inspiring to see God doesn’t need long-term foreign missionaries in India any more; He is raising up a mighty army out of the loins of India, itself. Hallelujah! It is a new day for India! We also traveled to Nanital in the Himalayan Mountains for a series of meetings. This ministry is under the auspices of Mission India. Then we had the joy of returning to our old “stomping ground,” Jaipur, Rajasthan, where we again raised a tent and had wonderful meetings with our old friend, Rev. Claude Roberts, who was the Manager of my Tent Revivals in North India so long ago. His daughter, Olive, who was a little girl then, and her husband are now helping to pastor the church.

THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR JOURNEY:   Many ask me what the highlight of the trip was. I think it was when I met Samuel Hilel Lal, one of the speakers at the great Conference in India, and he told me that he had been in one of my tent meetings years ago in Rajasthan, when he was a young lad, and that he had dedicated his life to Christ in those meetings. Today he is the leader of Every Home Crusade, an international ministry founded by another Canadian from Saskatchewan, Dr. Jack MacAlister and his wife, Hazel, in 1946. In 1964 they started the India Every Home Crusade. They had a special place in their hearts for India. God called him Home on January 12, 2006. The Lord gave them the vision to reach India through the printed page. Samuel is the new Executive Director of this great all-India ministry which has an outreach to millions of souls throughout India. What blessed me, were the kind words Samuel spoke to me when he thanked me for raising the tent in Ajmer, Rajasthan so long ago, and how it was through my life he dedicated his life to God at the altar, and is impacting millions of souls today because I made that sacrifice so long ago. I used to call Ajmer “the city of my sorrow” because I had so many troubles there. That was also where I contracted Typhoid Fever. Now I can say, “It was worth it all!” I was often in tears as I saw the impact my life has had on these nations. I know I am nothing. But the “seed” I sowed was good seed. And God has seen fit to bless it, and it is bringing forth an even greater end-time harvest.