26 September 2016 | London, England [Andrew McChesney, AR/Natasha Mirilov, SEC/tedNEWS]
A multi-location evangelistic outreach across London and the South East of England has resulted in 87 baptisms, hundreds more contacts, and even the conversion of a woman was preparing to be a high priestess for Satan.
She hated Seventh-day Adventist evangelist John Lomacang.
A few weeks back, she felt an urge to go to the Croydon Seventh-day Adventist Church in London, her new home. She didn’t realize that the church was one of 11 London sites holding a two-week evangelistic series organized by the South England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in partnership with 3ABN.
The woman, who was once deep in the occult, is among dozens of people whose lives have been affected through the 3 – 17 September evangelistic series titled, ‘The Right Time, The Right Message’, organisers said. With a total of 87 people baptized at the conclusion of the meetings, many more are now taking Bible studies in preparation for baptism.
“God is not done with London yet,” said Lomacang, 3ABN’s director of world evangelism, who led the main evangelistic meeting at the Croydon church. “Seeds have been planted, and the wave of evangelism must not cease.”
The evangelistic meetings were well-attended at most of the 11 sites, although the crowds were sparser on several nights, said Osei, who visited all of the sites. He said the lower turnout might have been the result of some people deciding to watch from home after learning that the meetings were livestreamed online.
Local churches organised a series of health expos to reach out to their communities before the meetings began. Now church members are seeking to nurture and disciple those who were baptized and those who asked for Bible studies.
“Each church is engaging in follow-up to help consolidate those who have been recently baptized and to work with those who requested Bible studies,” Osei said. “Already baptismal dates have been set in some churches.”
Churches participating in the evangelistic series joined together for the evening programme, after holding their own baptisms in the morning. After a health seminar with Dr Ngwaba, the programme concluded with a Q&A session with all the 3ABN speakers, followed by a concert which featured several renowned artists including musical evangelist, Neville Peter.
“We were hearing the experiences of the pastors from the nine different sites and the testimonies that came out today were really inspiring. I’m hoping that this is something we can really build on for the future because some kind of momentum has been created here,” said Antonio Belgrave, SEC Strategic Planner.
Meanwhile Dr Osei stated that following the success of the 3ABN/SEC outreach programme, Conference directors would be setting aside time to evaluate the entire programme, identifying areas of strength and weakness that would be used to inform future decisions.
For more information on the OneLife series, visit the website (1life.org.uk), or watch the evening reports. For more stories of changed lives from the programme see the full Adventist Review article. [tedNEWS]
tedNEWS Staff: Victor Hulbert, director; Esti Pujic, editor
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