Sunday Morning Church & Suryapet Festival | Day 4

Update 29 November 2009 | Comments Off

Today we attended the local Manna church in Suryapet for Sunday service where 600 members attend. The worship was amazing! It was so uplifting to see the people in the church worship with everything they had! There were even small children clapping and lifting their hands to the Lord! Dr. Pete preached and then closed the message with a call for salvation. There were over 20 people that gave their lives to Jesus for the very first time! Then the team laid hands on them and prayed that God would bless them and their families.
After lunch the pastors took us to a brand new coffee shop that had recently opened in Suryapet. They were so excited to take us, explaining that it was so nice. They were right! We couldn’t believe it. It was very modern and clean. We ordered café latte, iced coffees, milkshakes, and espresso. It was so good! It would be awesome to have one in each future city we have a festival in!

Tonight was our last night as a team to pray and worship. We have really enjoyed this time together over the past week. It has been a time of growth as Dr. Tony taught us the Word, a time of encouragement through prophetic words, and a time of intimacy through intercessory prayer. None of us will ever be the same because of it. We received communion again and it was very special this time because a new friend, our 14 yr old sound tech that received Jesus, joined us. He had such a diligent, servant’s heart and he wanted to see his Hindu family saved! He was such a blessing to us.

We arrived at the festival tonight worshipping in the van! When we got on stage it was breathtaking to look over the crowd and see so many people that needed a touch from God. We had an Indian Christmas Celebration prior to Dr. Pete speaking. There was much dancing, singing and celebrating the birth of Jesus!

When Dr. Pete stood up to preach the Gospel there was already such a heavy flow of the Holy Spirit. He just continued within that flow and preached the message of salvation just as he had the past 3 nights.
The response was incredible! Thousands raised their hands committing their lives to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior! Dr. Pete then prayed a corporate prayer for the filling of the Holy Spirit. It sent chills over your body as people throughout the crowd received the Holy Spirit and were healed.

It’s almost impossible to describe with words what we experienced over the past four days of the festival. There isn’t anything that can replace the emotion of seeing people run to give their lives to Jesus!

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