JESUS HEALING THE MULTITUDES
Greetings in the Name of Jesus!
I have just returned from awesome miracle meetings in Holland and India. The miracles were as stunning as ever, and the crowds of hungry, seeking people were larger than at any other time in our ministry.
LARGEST CROWDS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR MINISTRY!
The biggest and most stunning physical miracle during this two-week trip happened in India. Two people were carrying a 15-year-old boy. He had been crippled since birth. I even felt that his leg muscles were "tight" (Muscular atrophy) because he had never used them before. For more than five minutes I poured out my heart to God for him. Then he slowly stared moving his legs. After that he tried to stand. I held him so that he wouldn't fall. Later I was only holding his hand. And finally he started walking all by himself! At first slowly, but later much stronger. He had also been deaf and dumb, but now he could hear and speak. On the final night he demonstrated his healing by walking up and down the platform, and could still hear perfectly! He had to learn how to speak for the first time, and was already articulating sounds and simple words!
One lady was bound by witchcraft. We had her cut off all the witchcraft fetishes off of her body, and she felt like a weight was lifted from her. On this picture you can see her being ministered to.
Notice the desperation in her eyes. He still sets the captives free!
I just fell on my knees and wept and prayed with "strong crying and tears" when I had a look at our video of this crusade. This little boy had pain in his deaf ear and puss running out all the time. I couldn't hold back my tears when I saw his tears, and his little voice breaking while he told us how all his suffering had ended. His pain was gone, and he could hear even as much as a whisper!
More than 100,000 people came during the four days combined, and 40,000 to 50,000 people gathered on the final night in India. Some people even ventured to say that the crowd was much larger, maybe 200,000 people.
THE WONDER WORKING ANOINTING
MULTITUDES SAVED
More than 50,000 people indicated their decision to serve Jesus Christ as their ONLY GOD, by raising their hands. 17,000 decision cards were counted being given to as many as our small band of volunteers could handle. (A decision card is a card we give to the people who make a decision for Christ. They fill it in and give us their name and address, so that the local pastors can follow them up.) By yesterday we have received 3,063 of these cards back, and the local pastors and ministries will be following them up. This picture was taken from the back of the crowd during the altar call. Notice the platform in the middle.
PASTORS' CONFERENCE
We made a special effort to minister to the local pastors. We fed them five meals, and ministered to them for two days. I taught them the principles of financial victory, and about the power of their relationship with the Holy Spirit and the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. My friend, Pastor Tim Dukes of Ocean City MD from I just poured ourselves into 300 pastors and their wives. Heidi will be doing a women's conference in the future.
THE ORPHANAGE
My friend Chris Boda acted as my crusade and pastors' conference director. He has an orphanage that we blessed financially after our previous crusade. We did the same again this time. Our focus was not the orphanage, but we blessed them with several hundred dollars–as a tangible expression of God's love for the fatherless. I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your prayers and financial support. It has been the sacrificial giving of God's people that has made Heidi and my trips to Africa, India, England, Quebec and Holland possible during these last two years. At the same time we are still laboring for the much needed spiritual awakening that HAS TO COME to the USA. I am now working on more crusades in the USA, Africa, Asia and South America. This last crusade in India wound up costing nearly $20,000.00, including the Pastors' conference and ministry to the orphans. We are still $800.00 short of paying the last bills for this crusade. Please pray with us that we will pay this soon, and be strong financially getting ready for the next international crusades.
In Christ,
Joel and Heidi Hitchcock