Entire Mosques Coming to Christ in Sub-Saharan Africa, Says Former Church Planter

By Michelle A. Vu , Christian Post Reporter – Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012

The idea of more than 200,000 former Muslims coming to faith in Sub-Saharan Africa within a few short years is mind-boggling. But entire mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa coming to faith? That news is even harder to wrap one’s mind around, but it is in fact what is happening according to reports from a former church planter among Muslims in West Africa.

In the new book Miraculous Movements, Jerry Trousdale, now director of International Ministries for CityTeam International, records amazing and inspiring stories of faith among Muslim communities in Africa. The author opens up a new world to Western readers, taking them into the heart of the “miraculous movement” of God in Africa that is transforming the hearts of Muslims.

Trousdale writes that “unprecedented” events are happening among the Muslim populations that his ministry and its affiliates are working among, including:

• Multiple cases of entire mosques coming to faith
• Thousands of ordinary men and women being used by God to achieve seemingly impossible outcomes
• Tens of thousands of Muslim background Christians becoming dedicated intercessors who fast and pray for the gospel to penetrate the next community
• Muslim people groups that never had even one church among them now have more than fifty church planted, and in some cases more than one hundred churches – within two years of engagement
• Former sheikhs, imams and militant Islamists making up 20 percent or more of the new Christian leaders in Muslim regions

“We had seven years now in Africa. And of the people in Africa, 81 different people groups that have at least 50 percent Muslim have now significant movements among them. Of those 81, 45 are people groups with 99 or 100 percent Muslim,” said Trousdale in an interview with CP. “So we are talking about fairly extreme areas of Islamic influence. These are people who have been Islamic for well over a hundred years, some hundreds of years.”

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Sunday Herald Sun Article on RUA Party School Discipline Policy / Party President Daniel Nalliah to be interviewed today Monday 16th April at 3:20pm on 2GB Sydney Talk Back Radio

Dear friends and family in Christ, 1) Click the following link to read an article from the Sunday Herald Sun with Party President Daniel Nalliah regarding RUA Party School Discipline…

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URGENT: Undeniable this Sun 15th April 7:30pm at Federation Square in Melbourne – Ben Price, Ps Dennis Prince and the Church respond to the Global Atheist Convention

Dear friends and family in Christ,

1) Below is an important article from Kirsten Jack regarding ‘Undeniable’ this Sun 15th 7:30pm at Federation Square in Melbourne for your prayer and participation if possible.

 Let’s unite as the Body of Christ in Melbourne to publicly proclaim that God is real, alive and well, and that Jesus is King of kings and LORD of lords!

 2) Also for those of you in the Melbourne area, please note that our 9:30am and 6:30pm weekly worship services are on as usual this Sunday 15th April at CTFM Apostolic Centre, 23 Melverton Dr Hallam.

Dear Friend,  I love God with all my heart. He is faithful, loving and powerful. But the Global Atheist Convention is coming to Melbourne in less than two weeks and they intend to make a mockery of our God. I don’t know about you, but I’m not OK with this!

There comes a point when something has to be done and it needs to be done loud!

Two men I know are making a public and loud stand – Pastor Dennis Prince and comedian Ben Price. (more…)

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Open Doors: Growth of Christianity in Iran ‘Explosive’

The Christian Post Middle East Sunday, Mar 25, 2012

Despite the Iranian government’s ongoing crackdown of Christians living in the primarily Islamic country, the number of Muslims converting to become Christians is growing at an explosive rate, according to the persecution watchdog group Open Doors USA.

There is even talk of witnessing a Christian revival, especially among young people living in the country, say Open Doors ministry workers in the Middle East.

A house church movement within Iran is part of that revival and has triggered “many secret meetings.” The growth in the number of Christians is happening in all regions, but mostly in larger cities, say Open Doors workers in the region.

Iran is ranked 5th on the Open Doors 2012 World Watch List of the top 50 worst persecutors of Christians.

“Open Doors workers think that the growth of Christianity has everything to do with Iranians getting to know the real face of Islam, the official religion of Iran, and the mistrust of the people toward the government and leaders following the fraudulent 2009 presidential election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,” said a Middle East worker for Open Doors (name withheld for security reasons).

Since the beginning of this year, authorities have arrested Christian converts in Tehran, Ahwaz, Shiraz, Isfahan and Kermanshah, according to news reports from the Middle East and U.S. (more…)

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Massive pro-life banner greets Australian legislators for 70 days parliament in session

by Jason Rushton, Australia correspond 

MELBOURNE, March 14, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A peaceful protest has begun at the entrance to the car-park of the parliament where three years ago Australia’s most radical abortion laws were introduced.

On each of the 70 sitting days of Victoria’s parliament this year, pro-life protesters will display a green six-foot-high banner marked with one white cross for every baby aborted since the first of January, 2012.

The unmissable banner, which due to local council regulations must be carried by volunteers at all times, will stretch along the green hedge/fence at the back of parliament house beside the car-park entrance.

“The politicians are going to have to drive past this every time they come to work for all of this year,” said David Forster, the protest organiser. “They’re going to see that banner get longer and longer and longer. Every month when they come in, there will be another 2,000 white crosses added on to it.” (more…)

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Muslims protest in streets of England / Sydney Burqa Stunt in Australian Media

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More than 200 gather to celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of Pr Daniel and wife Maryse / Live webcast – Easter Resurrection Sunday

Dear family & friends in Christ,

We thank and praise God for a wonderful time of celebration and fellowship at the 25th wedding anniversary thanksgiving service of Pr Daniel & his wife Maryse, which was held in Melbourne on 30th March 2012.

It was so nice to see family, friends, church members & many pastors, from so many different ethnic backgrounds, come together as one to celebrate this special  occasion of their loving commitment toward the Lord and one another. Some traveled from overseas and interstate to be a part of the function.

At the thanksgiving service they renewed their marriage vows as Pr Daniel put a very special eternity ring on his wife Maryse. Their senior pastors originally from Sri Lanka, now living in Australia (Townsville), Pr Camilus and his wife Karen, traveled from interstate especially for the anniversary, to conduct the service of thanksgiving and renewing of vows.

 The service started with prayer by Pr Gary, then a few beautiful songs of worship led by Nigel & Shannen (Pr Daniel & Maryse’s, Son & Daughter). They also sang aPs Daniel congratulates his wife Maryse few very special songs to Dad & Mum and then spoke of the joy, love & happiness that the Nalliah family has experienced through Jesus their Lord and Saviour, through all the challenges they have faced in their journey of serving the Lord together. Many at the party were in tears.

Their youngest daughter Brianna, who turns 5 in June, was very busy finishing all the chocolates which were on the table.

Then Pr Cami led the service and renewing of vows. He also spoke of the many years he had known the Nalliah family and that how honoured he was to be at their 25th wedding anniversary.

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Prime Minister Netanyahu Addresses Christian Gathering in Jerusalem

Teresa Neumann : Mar 22, 2012 : Nir Hasson - Haaretz "I'm proud that in Israel Muslims are free to practice their religion. At a time when Christians are under…

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Mighty Presence of God, Salvation and a BIG THANK YOU from Pr Daniel / CTFM Live Webcast Sun 1st April

Dear family and friends in Christ,

We thank and praise God for His continued manifest presence as His people unite together to glorify Him as King of kings and LORD of lords!

This is so exciting, because when people experience the manifest presence of God, they cannot deny that Jesus is real and that He is alive!

This last week has been great, as we have been receiving some very exciting testimonies of the wonderful works of the Lord!

1) Pr Daniel ministered over the weekend in Bendigo as more people were mightily touched by the Lord through the Word of God and the powerful testimonies of the many victories in the name of Jesus. On Sunday morning after the service was over, a middle aged man came up to Pr Daniel and shook his hand.  Then when asked whether he was from that church, he said to him, “Pastor, I don’t go to church. I am the owner of the local Pizza outlet. I just came because I heard that you are heading up the Rise Up Australia Party to Keep Australia Australian. I am 100% behind you. How can I help? I really like what your party stands for. I will become a member and distribute your brochures at my outlet.”

This man was so excited that he just kept talking about how he wants to help. Seeing that the man was so touched, Pr Daniel asked him whether he could pray for him and he responded, “Yes, please.” Pr Daniel first prayed for him and then was able to lead him to the Lord. The man accepted Jesus as His Lord and Saviour! What a mighty God we serve! (more…)

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Schools and Same Sex Marriage / Pray for QLD Election / Anti-Sharia Conference Video / Is President Obama a Muslim?

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We must love the Muslims and pray for them / By Pr Daniel Nalliah

Dear family & friends in Christ,

In the last few weeks, as I have been thinking very much of our dear Muslims friends, the Lord has given me a real burden to start praying for their protection. I know we all want to see them get born again, but we need to really ask a very serious question, “Do we really love them and if we love them, do we have a motive behind our love??”

As Christians, we really need to check our hearts, whether we talk the talk and also walk the walk. If we only love them because we want to win them to Jesus, although this is good and very important, our motive is wrong. Can we love all people, simply because we love them, or do we love them because we have an agenda ??

Let me encourage you, many years ago, I was the same. But when the Lord took me into Saudi Arabia, I was really challenged. I asked the Lord, How can I love these people when they don’t even let me pray in my house or have a Bible and they treat me so badly?? At once I was reminded of the scripture, “Bless those who persecute you, and do not curse them. But pray for them.”  Also the Lord Jesus said in His Word, “It is easy to love those who love you, anyone can do it. But if you are a true Christian, you need to love those who even hate you and pray for them.” In the heart of Islam, right in Saudi Arabia, I received a real love for the Muslim people.

While watching news I was deeply sadden to see the number of Muslims who are getting killed all throughout the Islamic world. I believe that hundreds of Muslims are dying every day due to war and natural disasters. This includes men, women and children. Have we prayed for their protection? Do we realise that they were also created in the image of God.

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More than 250 rockets fired into Israel this week

15th March - Dr Michael Evans  of Jerusalem Prayer Team Dear Friend, Though the pace of attacks has lessened slightly since the weekend, there have been more than 250 rockets…

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Repentance, Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Tremendous Spiritual Breakthrough

Dear family and friends in Christ,

1) All glory to God, for such an amazing weekend in the power, love and unity of the Holy Spirit!

In a sense it was quite different from other weekends, but the outcome was really great for the advance of the Kingdom of God in Australia as the Lord used Pr Daniel to preach the prophetic Word of God titled “Breaking Word Curses and Generational Curses.”

The message was well received by the congregation, who were from 25+ nationalities, plus the many more who watched the live webcast from across Australia and the nations of the world.

One lady who watched the webcast from NSW commented this morning, “I thank the Lord for using His servant to bring such a message. Even though I was not there, watching the webcast I was so mightily touched by the message and power of God. I realised that I had to deal with some baggage from before. I feel so good now. Thank you so much for having the boldness to listen to the Holy Spirit and for doing what He tells you to do.”

Many who received the Word of God were very deeply convicted of personal and generational curses.  In the house of God there was a real sense of, ‘We want to get our lives right in the sight of God.’ Many responded to the altar, and were led in a prayer of repentance, followed by Pr Daniel praying in Jesus name and breaking the word curses spoken over their lives. Many received inner healing and deliverance as the Holy Spirit started to deal with people’s bondages and set them free.

Then 12,  4th generation Australians were called out and also 12 people who have immigrated to Australia from 3rd world countries were also called out. As each person held each other’s hands, the Aussie’s repented on behalf of their forefathers who  colonised many nations and asked forgiveness. This was an amazing moment as many people in the congregation were in tears. Then the 12 people representing the colonised nations responded with much love, accepted the apology and then went on to repent for any resentment they had towards the people of the land. (more…)

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Denzel Washington Turns 57, Says ‘Ministering’ Through Career

By Christine Thomasos | Christian Post Reporter – Entertainment | Wed, Dec. 28 

Denzel Washington, who turned 57 Wednesday, is continuing to prove that a successful acting career is feasible with the proper spiritual foundation.

The multiple Oscar award winner, who has appeared in multiple films since his 1977 debut, has remained vocal throughout the years about his Christian faith. In an interview with Belief Net, Washington spoke about the importance of his spirituality in not only his life, but also his career.

“Spirituality is important in every aspect of my life,” Washington said. “I mean, that’s why I’m here. That’s what I’ve been blessed to do,”

In the interview, the actor also spoke about his career being his ministry. (more…)

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