As many of you know, we run a Bible school called ”School of the Crusader” in many parts of the world. One of them is located in Ethiopia. We have 12 students, crusade interns whom teach personally, but who also live out that teaching in real life. They receive 50 USD per month from PTL and evangelize 5 days a week. Then they fast on Saturday and go to church on Sunday.
Right now all twelve of them are in Shashamene, the religious center of rastafari, with a huge Muslim population. When I was in Addis Abeba two weeks ago, we agreed that their main task would be to invite the rastafari and Muslims to PTL’s crusade the first week of March.
On Saturday three of them visited a MOSQUE in order to witness and pray for the sick!!!!!! Chaos ensued and all three of them were put in jail. They were released yesterday.
I talked to our Africa director today, and we agreed that he needed to ask them to calm down and simply invite people to a “peace and healing” conference the first week of March. But they are totally committed and totally crazy. When we pray together there is no end to the tears or the prayer! They have just completed their first two exams on the content of the PTL crusade manual, so they know just what needs to be done.
It makes me so humble to get to be a leader for these young evangelists who are willing go to jail for telling people about Jesus.
