Women’s Seminar
Approximately 4,000 women attended the Women’s Seminar hosted by TSC at the Mulungushi Conference Center in Lusaka. The conference hall was packed and some of the women sat on the floor because there were no more chairs. There was an air of expectation as the TSC team prayed before the seminar began. The Lord’s presence was palpable. There was praise and worship from a local team and a TSC choir ensemble. The TSC Women’s Ministry team shared testimonies about disappointment, having a religious spirit, hopelessness and abuse which struck a chord with many of the women. Teresa Conlon gave a salvation message entitled “Eve: The Mother of us All.”  Hundreds of women responded to the altar call. Sonda Williams, Women’s Ministry leader, shared a message about becoming fruitful from your barrenness. She gave her personal testimony along this vein and challenged the women to ask themselves if they wanted fruitfulness from God or from the world. The session ended with exuberant worship and dancing Zambia style. Women you are loosed!

The Kingdom of Heaven Has Come to You Today
The prison team visited the Central Prison today with a medical team from Nigeria that is part of our medial and dental outreach. The prison held 1,600 inmates. The team was unprepared for what they witnessed. Some described what they saw as hell on earth.  Humanity like this was beyond anything they had ever imagined. It was a smoldering hell. Smoke rising from the fires burning human excrement. A stench beyond description. Prisoners living in small cells with no windows, sleeping on a wooden pallet. Sores, rashes, AIDS everywhere. The team leader began his message proclaiming, “The kingdom of heaven has come to you today.” By the altar call, 458 inmates, with a hunger for the Word of god, gave their hearts to Jesus Christ.  

Signs of Revival
Many of the teams are having people come up to them and plainly exclaim “I need Jesus!” or “I want eternal life!” without any prompting from the teams. Pastor Carter said at dinner tonight that this are the signs of a revival, seeing people already under conviction of sin that hunger for  Jesus. "People live all their Christian lives and never get to see something like this." Indeed, revival is in the air.

As one team prayed for a woman on the verge of giving her life to the Lord, a drunken man flung himself at their feet exclaiming “I need to be delivered, I repent!” men started pouring out of the bars and getting saved.

Another team ministered to the staff of a clinic that had been closed off with cases of cholera and many of them raised their hands to accept the Lord. At another clinic they visited an AIDS patient’s ward. People were getting healed. All of them accepted the Lord. They ministered to a 16-year old girl with an infected wound on her leg who said she was a Christian but was not born again. She got baptized in the Holy Ghost.

A team handed out fliers for the crusade at the Chilenje market and went into a barber shop where three men accepted the Lord right in the barber shop.

This is Like the Bible
One team member on his first missions trip shared tonight at dinner saying he would not go home the same. At first he felt enormously inadequate to preach the gospel. Then he went with his team to a village where he was taken to an open field where men were gambling at a table. The pastor with him asked him, “Brother, you share.” He did and to his surprise the men were listening. First eight, then fifteen, and before he knew it a crowd had gathered. One man asked him to go pray for his father. “Here I am,” marveled the team member, “praying for people like I am somebody!” As he walked towards the man’s house people followed him. “This is like the bible,” he thought, amazed. Everywhere he went people were hungry for the Word of God.

Talikso Bukata
A team leader thought his name was too plain compared to the names full of meaning that some of the local pastors he was meeting had, so he was given a new name: Talikso Bukata – the glory of the Lord is on me and I am exceedingly blessed!” Somehow, this name expresses the way we all feel. As Pastor Carter said tonight at dinner, this is "a divine moment." Thank you Lord for allowing us to partake in your glory!