Today, Tom and I led the final pastor’s conference in Madurai. This series of conferences and open air meetings had been billed as an “End Times Crusade,” so we both spoke out of the book of Revelation. Tom spoke on the letters to the 7 churches in Asia Minor, asking the question: “How did Jesus end up on the outside of His church?” I led the group through the holiness of God as described in Revelation 4 and the redemptive task of the church in our world. I challenged them with the urgency of our mission to share the good news of grace to all mankind.
The worship in this meeting was powerful and many people were giving testimonies. The most meaningful for me was a woman who had been blind when I prayed for 3 years ago. She testified that she received sight in one eye immediately after I had prayed that night. Her other eye was so touched that doctors were able to perform a sight restorative surgery, that before they had told her would be of no use. She was able to look on me today for the first timeough both eyes.
Tonight we took Tom to the Madurai airport to begin the first leg of his journey back to Vancouver. He will arrive home around 2AM Friday morning. This time with Tom has been a good learning experience for both of us and we took time to speak into each others lives. Tom and I both believe that we will work together in a similar capacity again at some point in the future.
Tomorrow I will travel to Tirchy where I will lead another pastor’s conference and speak in the evening. On Friday I will be accompanying Elishba & Benjamin (pastor Jesudoss’ daughter and son-in-law) to a colony of about 300 lepers, where they minister weekly. On Saturday, I will go to Dindigal and lead another pastor’s conference and speak in the evening. From their pastor Paul and I will take a train to Chennai, where I will speak in his brother and brother-in-law’s churches, where I spoke last year. On Monday I will lead a final pastor’s conference in the morning before heading to the airport for my flights home.