Seventh batch students graduate from Hosanna Bible Training Centre Since we established Hosanna Bible Training Centre (HBTC) in 2009, we have seen around 300 students graduate from the training program and about 95% of them are simultaneously handling their full time ministry and their own business. The latest graduation was held on 11th December, 2012 in HCM church Hall. Altogether, 200 participants were present in the ceremony. The students and the participants were encouraged by the Word of God by Mr. Lazrus Thulung, Pastor of “Jyoti Great Commission Church”, Co-ordinator of “Serve Life Himalayan” and a renowned Christian writer of…
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By Håkan Gabrielsson Since the ministry to save women and girls from the sex-trade started three years ago, hundreds of people have received the Lord and new churches have started in the area. Why? Almost all spoke of the love they have seen in the Christians and therefore wanted to know God. Men have started to work and the women have stopped selling themselves for sex. In the village where we began the ministry, sixty percent of the women have stopped with the prostitution. Prostitute, maoist, pastor Mina Badi, one of the women we interviewed has six sisters and they were all forced into prostitution but several…
The following is a testimony from Bishop Khunan Basumatary from Bodo Evangelical Lutheran Diocese in Assam about the impact the revival & healing conferences, and training program had on their denomination. Leadership: The 100 young people and church leaders who took the I-IV Module Bible Course are firm in their faith carrying out the ministry in the congregational as well as personal evangelism work. They exercise healing power and those who received the anointing of the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues practice very strongly in the church. We praise God for the accepting of the truth of healing and the…
A Hindu (a father with his wife and their only son 8 years old) testified: “We could never expect that this our only son will be alright. We applied all kinds of medicines from doctor after doctor, physician after physician. We went also to many sorcerers, tantra mantras and mediums of natural treatment, etc, but not even a little good result we got. So we lost our heart and hope completely. But when we decided to come here in this conference some people said, “don’t go there, that conference is only for the Christians. The Christians worship foreign God “Jesus”….
New hope for girls In February 2009 Håkan was deeply troubled and moved when he together with Pastor Raju Sundas from Nepal visited two villages in the West of Nepal where the marginalized people group of ‘Badi’ live. They are dhalits, untouchables and are born into a life worse than any of us can imagine, with extreme poverty, without education, health-care and social status. The majority of the girls and women, mothers and daughters, are forced to sell their bodies at a young age to earn a living. We truly felt that this is part of something God has called us to…
In August 1994 while conducting a seminar in the captial city Yangon (Rangoon) in Burma, God spoke to Håkan through an open vision about a coming revival and restoration of the Bride of Christ in that country. Subsequently, after additional seminars for christian leaders, a Bible Training Center was started 1996 together with Full Gospel Assembly in the heart of Yangon. In partnership with Pastor Dam Suan Mung and Full Gospel Assembly (FGA) in Yangon, Full Gospel Bible Training Centre (FGBTC) was inaugurated in September 1996. More than 2000 graduates since the inception has had a compounding effect which is now clearly seen…
India has been in the ministry focus for over 20 years. During these years we have had ministry in the states of Assam, Odisha, Megalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West-Bengal and Bihar. Church planting Through ongoing financial support of church planters, many churches have been planted in the states of Odisha, West-Bengal, Bihar and Assam. The headquarters and ministry center in India is situated in Sundergarh district, Odisha. Our ministry partners have planted and oversee well over 250 churches in India. A children’s home, an english medium school, a feeding and tutoring program for poor children together with an income generating farm…