| Ngozi -- Evangelistic Rally | 07-Jul-2007 | Event: Ngozi - Evangelistic Rally
Over two thousand people attended the evangelistic rally in Ngozi. The worship team from Times Square Church consisted of the worship leader and three members of the choir ensemble. The worship leader greeted the people in Kirundi by saying it was an honor to be there and the small ensemble proceeded to sing worship songs in Kirundi. The people were astounded that they were hearing them sing in their own language. There was a noticeable change among the crowd and they were no longer distracted and restless. They were truly worshiping.
Pastor Carter preached with passion and liberty to the people on the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15), exhorting the people that no matter what they had done, God would forgive them if they confessed their sins and forgave one another. He was forthright in admonishing them that they could not have tribal hatred; that they could not come to the altar if that was in their hearts. It was a sobering word and a sobering altar call yet three quarters of the people responded, especially young men, whom Pastor Carter urged to have the courage to respond to God’s call and do something that would bring blessing to their nation. The powers of darkness are being forcefully pushed back!
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| The Drive from Bujumbura to Ngozi | 07-Jul-2007 | Event: Ngozi - Evangelistic Rally
Pastor Carter and a team of staff and leaders traveled to Ngozi for the evangelistic rally there. The drive from Bujumbura to Ngozi is breathtaking and the landscape at each turn is more spectacular than the last. Plush, green rolling hills descending into valleys of red clay are surrounded by towering mountains. Winding roads wrap around and through the mountains, and all along the way people walk the steep roads with children in tow. The women stack their goods neatly on their heads, bunches of stick, sacks of rice, bowls of grain or piles of bananas. The men push their bikes up the twisting road, some grab onto the back of larger trucks to save time and energy. Their bikes are piled high with everything from heavy wooden furniture, to piles of fruit to bails of hay. It’s an incredible sight. All along the road there are clay homes clumped together. |
| Spiritual Opposition | 07-Jul-2007 | Event: Ngozi - Evangelistic Rally
The spiritual warfare began the night before. None of the drivers could find gas for their vehicles. They searched in vain for nearly an hour. Eventually, we managed to get the cars fueled with the help of a presidential contact established in the early planning stages of these events. Just over an hour into the drive, the caravan of cars was involved in an accident. The front of one of our vehicles clipped another car. By God’s grace no one was injured, because it quite easily could have been a head-on collision. As the caravan of cars tried to resume the trip, one of the vehicles had mechanical problems. We had to regroup and leave the two cars and the drivers behind in order to make it to Ngozi on time. Later that day, Pastor Carter and the elders shared that the night before they were uneasy about the drive to Ngozi, sensing fierce spiritual opposition to the rally we would be holding there. |
| Burundi! God Is Calling You! | 07-Jul-2007 | Event: Ngozi - Evangelistic Rally
Pastor Carter delivered a powerful word to a crowd of over three thousand people at the evangelistic rally in Ngozi, a city just over two hours away from Bujumbura. He exhorted the people saying they are the “heart of Africa,” and would “impact the nations around them,” if they hear what God is saying to them. Pastor Carter likened Burundi to the prodigal son, who has left God’s house and begun to do things its own way but that God is calling Burundi to return to Him. “The devil has confused you to think that you are enemies, when in fact you are all brothers, despite the past, and that God will give you the power to forgive so that you can become ambassadors of reconciliation.” “God is calling you home,” he urged them, adding that the decision they made today would bring a blessing to their nation and to Africa, but first their heart must change. In the altar call, Pastor Carter pleaded specifically to the men to come home and to let God make them ambassadors of forgiveness. 75% of the people responded to the altar call to come home to the Father.
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