GAM has Become the Head of 6000 Churches
Many years ago two different prophets prophesied over David, part of which, is that he will become a pastor of pastors, a teacher of teachers and a mentor to many, many leaders. These prophecies are now being fulfilled. On January 26th GAM has become the umbrella for TPA (Tanzanian Pastors Association) to which belong, most (89%) of the evangelical churches in Tanzania. This is a huge responsibility and we as GAM need a lot of prayer. As David is now the spiritual leader and mentor of nearly 6000 pastors, he will have to teach much more and produce teaching material for the equipment of the saints as well as mentoring. We will also run many more pastor conferences in the future in addition to the crusades. David has called for a national day of Fasting & Prayer in all these churches in Tanzania on March 5th. This event will be announced and broadcasted to millions of people by the tv and radio. When many churches of a whole country pray, then this surely will have a huge impact in the country -Tanzania. The government (Tobora region), will be there too and the tv and radio for broadcasting the event to the country as David will preach and pray for the country on air.
Also, the ministry of GAM overall is becoming much broader. We not only emphasize evangelism and discipleship, but also teaching, providing teaching material and building up the body of Christ. Planting and structuring churches as well as mentoring pastors and leaders is also an essential aspect. One of the tools we use for that is our four GAM Bible Colleges that we run. (We will be even busier in the time ahead.) Where we can, we endeavour to help practically too, supporting widows and orphans in particular.
Reaching a People Group who has Never Heard of Jesus
By the grace of God, He has opened a door for us as GAM to reach out to the ‘Hadzabe’ Tribe’ in Tanzania. This is a forest nomadic tribe which lives near to Lake Eyasi, but they move through the forests of the Kidero mountains hunting with bow and arrow.
This people group has never ever heard of the name Jesus Christ. We as GAM have visited the tribe with a government official, who was our translator on December 23rd 2022. We talked with them, ate with them (which is a huge challenge), sat with them etc. They realised that we really love them and opened their hearts to us. We invited them to come to live with us for four days over Christmas. In the past they rejected every invite to civilisation. The chief of the tribe sent four representatives on that visit. That was their very first time in civilisation.
Entering a car for the first time, walking up the stairs or trying on clothes, things we take for granted, were so unusual for them. They never wash their hands nor their bodies and refused to do so while they were with us. The main reason for this, is because they are scared, water will make them sick as life is harsh for them and when they are cold and get wet from rain, they get sick. Secondly, they believe it would spoil their skin. We took them to church and built a relationship with them.
By the amazing grace of God, the tribe has now accepted David and Dr Robert Jackson Ng’agara (GAM Africa director) as their spiritual leaders. This is such a huge privilege, because this gives us the platform to share the gospel with them.
However, there are challenges and obstacles we will have to overcome to carry out this mission.
They are often on the move, as their life for survival is very hard. There is no written language and 50% of their language is clicking the tongue, which makes it even more of a challenge to overcome the language barrier.Therefore it makes it more difficult to effectively present the gospel to them. We are thinking of producing audio teachings in their language, to give them a biblical foundation of the gospel and then gathering them to teach them in crusade meetings about our Saviour Jesus Christ. If the Lord burdens you for this people group then please support us in any way you can.
Tract: – ‘What is to come’
We tried to find a tract which is relevant for the time we are living in but somehow weren’t successful. David’s mentor then suggested to David to write his own tract which he did. If you are in the UK or an English-speaking country and you would like some then please get in touch.
Extreme Drought in East Africa
People are dying for lack of water and food. Recently a pastor died. Many animals are dying too, for the same reason. The challenge is huge at the moment. Last summer we have started the project of digging a water well which costs just under £12,000.- / CHF 13,000.- The good news is we have dug the well successfully and found water for which we praise God so much!! Please pray that we can finish the project by buying and installing the water pump and irrigation system which is still an outstanding amount of £3,325.- / CHF 3,700.- to complete. Once this project is finished, we have achieved a very important milestone as we will be able to produce food.
Testimonies
Testimony from the Uganda crusade for your encouragement and for the glory of God ONLY (written by the Ugandan pastors)
Testimony – Paralysed Man Walks Again
They brought a parallelised man called Jimmy on the third day of the crusade. Both of his legs and arms were lame. He couldn’t walk nor stand on his own. When the man of God conducted the deliverance part at the end of the crusade, he addressed every demonic oppression and ancestral spirit tormenting people. He cast them out powerfully in the name of Jesus. Immediately that man started to scream with a loud voice and nobody could stop him screaming. We quickly layed hands on him and prayed. He now can stand and walk. His legs are still a bit weak and wobbly but gaining more and more strength. He also can hold his own cup of water to drink. The mother and sister and the family are very happy for what has happened on the crusade ground. Glory be to God! AMEN!
Testimony – The Divine Way
A 16 years old girl Sarah came walking 36km to the crusade ground. This is an orphan girl without parents. She lived with her grandmother, but two weeks ago her grandmother told her to leave home because she can no longer look after her anymore. So this lady Sarah went onto the streets of Kabermido town to fight with life. When she heard our road adverts for the crusade in the area, she followed us. She heard the man of God preaching, came forward to the altar call and gave her life to God. Then during the deliverance prayer, the man of God pointed out her exact condition of her, she immediately broke down and wept (by then the screen was not functioning anymore, it was dark and the man of God continued the deliverance by WhatsApp on loudspeaker). Then Sarah saw in a vision the man of God coming towards her with a sword of fire. She was screaming at the top of her voice saying: I see the man of God coming towards me with a sword of fire. The power of God came over her and she fell to the ground. After she was prayed for, she was delivered from peptic ulcer and chronic headache. She is now very peaceful and stable. As she has nowhere to go, we decided to adopt her into our family. It’s beautiful to see how she is totally changed and worshipping God.
Testimony – Witchdoctor Wants to Swap Team
One witch doctor has sent his agent to us today into our meeting saying that they will soon join our God because it seems ours is stronger than theirs. The agent told us that they tried on their highest level of witchcraft to stop and block the crusade but all in vain. It was not possible to stop it. They regretted it so much in the end because they wasted a lot of their resources to disturb us unsuccessfully.
Big Youth Crusade – Uganda
David preached to a very big crowd of 1,974 at the conference in Uganda. The Holy Spirit did a very deep and touching work! They reported that ‘David’s message penetrated us directly into the core of our hearts.’ We are greatly rejoicing that; 65 souls came to CHRIST. Glory to His awesome name! What comes next excites my heart even more:
After that crusade meeting, all went out to evangelise into the market place, including those who just got saved, where they could preach the gospel publicly and one-to-one. Some businesses even stopped for a while to listen to the preaching. Nearly 2000 people who were fired up from the crusade meeting made a huge impact on the street and another 53 people came to CHRIST right there in the market place. All 118 souls are followed up.We are teaching them our courses and feed them into different churches local to them. (Some people travel far to these crusades.) God is just awesome and deserves ALL the glory! And thank you too, to be a part of this work through prayer. The impact was so big that the local and the central government as well as all the pastors in the area requested if David can run this Youth Crusade for 3 days next time, instead of 1 day. Please continue to pray for the open doors to stay open.
Uganda Crusade – Dokoloa
We had a great crusade in Uganda with a lot of hurdles to overcome as usual. We praise God that 124 people came to the Lord over the three days. What was outstanding special is that 23 got saved through our radio preaching leading up to the crusade! I cannot recall that ever happening. These 23 people did attend the crusade afterwards. We had up to 1,345 people attending.
