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Growth in Pakistan

11/18/2022

The College of Prayer continues to grow at an astounding rate throughout Pakistan. In the last 3 years more than 100 campuses have been planted across the entire nation. Our National Coordinator in Pakistan has gained significant influence and churches are being revived as prayer is spreading.

We also launched the College of Prayer in partnership with the Full Gospel Seminary in Lahore to serve their students. It was a powerful gathering with the second and third year students. We experienced times of repentance, freedom, and Spirit empowerment.

“I have been a full time pastor for 5 years, and before that I was an evangelist. The first time when I heard the message on the Upper Room that message not only changed my own life, it changed my entire church. That was the first time I felt the presence of God. When I heard that message I received the power of the Holy Spirit and went back to my church and preached the fullness of the Holy Spirit and my entire church was filled. God has changed our hearts and minds. I have enjoyed these last 3 days also. I have learned that there are people doing worship and doing preaching, but they are not actually encountering Christ because there is no prayer and fasting. For four months after first attending the College of Prayer we stayed in fasting and praying in our church. The College of Prayer has put this into our hearts. Wherever we preach these messages, the people are changed.” ~ Pakistani Pastor

Revival in Taiwan

7/1/2021

Don Young in Taiwan

Don Young has been on assignment from the Lord to help prepare the church in Taiwan for the return of Christ through the College of Prayer. There is a nationwide Revival Prayer Group (RPG) movement in Taiwan that is sweeping across families, churches, and several denominations. More than 16,000 RPG's gather to pray and receive from the Lord and minister to His presence. There is clear evidence that the spiritual atmosphere is changing and a harvest is being reaped.

Testimony: One pastor was having his RPG prayer time and in the middle of ministering to the Lord, they received a call from an 80-year-old woman. She said, "Please come now! The demons from my Buddhist idols are attacking me and I want to receive your Jesus." She has since been born again and baptized—all because of prayer and ministering to the Lord.

During the last two weeks of May, more than 100,000 Taiwanese people have heard the College of Prayer training and are understanding the importance of prayer and evangelism. The church in Taiwan is understanding that the time is short, the hour is urgent, and it is time to pray!

Global Growth Update

5/18/2021

- Over the past 38 weeks, we have pioneered ministry in 38 new nations.
- We have begun ministry in some of the most persecuted nations on earth. For security reasons, we cannot mention names.
- We have utilized Zoom to rapidly expand ministry into new nations. By the grace of Christ, we have identified a number of key leaders with whom we have already begun mentoring relationships.
- We anticipate pioneering 20 more new nations in the next 20 weeks. Keep praying.
- Revival Now Media has launched well. Our new app and new small group series are getting traction.
- New campuses are set to launch this Fall in the US.
- We are scheduled to facilitate Encountering God Weekends in several great churches.
- We are developing new partnerships in the US with some exciting new church networks and other ministries.
- We are adding a number of new pastors and leaders from across the US into mentoring groups within the Revival Prayer Institute.

Pakistan Celebrates 1 year anniversary

10/1/2020

The following report is from our National Coordinator, Rev. Zeeshan.

Blessings and greetings from all pastors and leaders living in different areas of Pakistan. We salute you for making us part of the College of Prayer. As we told you, the College of Prayer is making great changes in leaders' lifestyles and their relationship with God. Through the College of Prayer we are able to understand the Father’s love, which is now flowing to other people and churches.

We have completed the College of Prayer 1st book, Lord, Teach Us to Pray, in 20 churches. Almost 300 church members are attending the College of Prayer regularly and have finished the first year. But this is not only about completing the curriculum. This has been a life-changing experience through the fire of the Holy Spirit .

We have received many testimonies from people, who have told us:

Family relationships restored through forgiveness.
Family love started because of receiving the Father’s love.
Their prayerlessness is finished. Revival has come into families and churches.
Pastors told their churches to get revived through the College of Prayer. Some pastors told us that they were a dead church, but now they are burning under the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Many people received the Holy Spirit for the first time.
Many people have heard the voice of God for the first time.
Young girls and boys have heard the voice of God.
Pastors have been set free from adultery.
The way of prayer is changing many and understanding of God's love has changed us.

We are teaching and leading almost 60-70 different churches in the College of Prayer and are grateful for your help and support and contribution for changing our nation!

Growing Impact In India

9/27/2019

The following report is from Rev. Fred Hartley, IV, Church Relations Director for the College of Prayer International.

This last month we have launched two new College of Prayer Hub Campuses in the northeast and northwest of India. These Campuses will serve to mentor, train, and equip pastors and church leaders who will launch and lead their own Campuses in their regions.

The first training was held in the state of Gujarat. This is also home to one of the largest unreached people groups on earth, the Gujarati, numbering almost 45 million people. There were 85 pastors with us. Several came worn out from ministry. During our time together in the presence of God, we could see their burdens lift and the love of Christ filled their hearts. One pastor, who was there with his family reported on the last day that our time together saved his ministry. The power of forgiveness lesson brought freedom of bitterness he held against many people. We started high and kept going higher over our three days together.

The second training was in Bihar, which is a state in the northeast of India. This area is known for being a place of heavy persecution towards Christians. We had roughly 100 who participated in our training. Many of them told us stories of how they have endured persecution. This training started slow, many pastors traveled through the night to attend, so they were tired. We sought Christ together and breakthrough came with the lesson on Receiving the Father’s Love. There was one woman who shared that she was healed of terrible migraines. For the first day and a half she struggled, but following one of the teachings, Christ set her free and she was healed. There were many who testified to being renewed and transformed by Christ during our time together. We finished this training with a significant time of prayer asking Christ for the nations.

God is moving in India. Even despite the opposition to the gospel, Christ is building His church, a praying church. We learned from our National Director of India that there are now 18,000 Campuses of the College of Prayer, and we are now training roughly 600,000 church leaders. Each of the pastors and leaders we trained are anticipating launching their own Campuses in the next 3-6 months. To God be the glory!

Update From South Asia

3/29/2019

Jon Mitchell recently returned from a trip to Sri Lanka and Nepal. He spent time at our Hub Campuses in these nations. He writes the following report:

Thanks to so many of you who interceded for me on my recent trip back to Nepal and Sri Lanka to continue mentoring and training College of Prayer leaders in these nations. It was a great encouragement for me to see how God is using us to strengthen, grow, and unify the Church in South Asia, and it’s always a blessing to minister alongside our leaders “on the ground” there who work so hard to coordinate, lead, and minister day-in and day-out. Here are a few testimonies:

“Before attending this College of Prayer I was empty. Now after the 3 days I'm completely filled.” - Nepalese Church Leader

“Last year [March 2018] I attended the College of Prayer and the teachings and experience I had were different than any other meetings I have ever had. I went and held the College of Prayer in my church and there are many changes that have happened in the church and we could see the growth in ministry afterwards.” - Sri Lankan Church Leader

“Thirty-two years now I have been ministering but I have never heard of the secret of the Lord's Prayer Pattern, especially the 7 rooms of prayer. It was a new revelation to me. I am thinking, ‘How could I waste 32 years of ministry without knowing this?’ The time we had of destroying the strongholds of satan I felt some strongholds in my mind that were hindering me. God healed me and gave me freedom from all those strongholds. Also, I felt the importance of ministering to the presence of God. Many times we minister for the Lord and we are proud of that, but ministering to the presence of God is very important.” - Sri Lankan Pastor

Update from The Philippines

10/27/2017

Between July and October 2017, 6 new Campuses have launched in the Philippines and over 1,000 church leaders have been mentored, trained, and equipped. Our ministry there is led by Rev. Benji De Jesus. He recently sent in the following testimonies from Module participants.

“When I attended this College of Prayer and listened to the word of God, I really thank God because my prayer life is restored! In the past, I felt dryness in my prayer. There were times I ignored the work of the Holy Spirit. I cried to the Lord when I listened to the teachings of the College of Prayer. I asked God to forgive me. Thank God He is a loving Father to me.” ~ Participant at Metro Davao District Campus Module

“I thank the Lord for the [Modules] that I attended. The Lord manifested Himself in different ways to me, but what struck me, and I really struggle in this, it’s about forgiveness, especially because I was deeply hurt ... Honestly, I struggled a lot in forgiving this person especially [because] they owe me a lot of money. I said to the Lord, ‘If I forgive this person, it’s like I am throwing away the 200,000 pesos.’ ... But I choose to forgive and unload the burden in my life. If you want to really feel the manifest presence of God there is no choice but to release forgiveness. So, I thank the Lord I was able to attend this [Module]. It is also a time of refreshing, unloading all the burdens and struggles in the ministry. To tell you the truth, I was about to give up. I told myself I was only to do it up to December…but then I told the Lord, ‘If you use me, then make a way…or else take me away.’ So, I thank the Lord because of the fresh anointing through this College of Prayer.” ~ Pastor at Davoa City Campus Module

Update On India

9/26/2017

The following report is from Rev. Jon Mitchell, Executive Director for College of Prayer International.

Jon in India September 2017

Thank you for your continued prayers for our growing ministry in India. I returned in September, which was my fifth time there since we launched in India in March 2015. I had 10 flights through 5 countries, was in 8 villages and cities, and preached/taught/exhorted 18 times in 10 days at our Campuses in 3 of our key zones there. I am so encouraged by the way God is using the College of Prayer in India. We are literally impacting tens of thousands of pastors, youth leaders, women leaders, and lay leaders! Every time I go to India the testimonies become more powerful. One of our key leaders told me while I was there:

"Before the College of Prayer we were having many programs and trainings. They were equipping leaders, but very dry ... not much life. But since the College of Prayer has come it has been reviving the pastors. Many pastors had lost their prayer life. They lost their zeal for the Lord. College of Prayer has reignited their zeal. It's like the dry bones have come to life. [Leaders] are regularly saying that God has brought the College of Prayer at just the right time. More and more pastors are worshipping with joy. This was not happening before. They were like statues."

Please continue to pray as we are making plans to launch into other areas of South Asia in the next 12 months.

India Update

11/23/2016

The following report is from Rev. Jon Mitchell, Executive Director for College of Prayer International.

After thousands of miles and over 80 hours by plane and car, 14 days away, 5 different hotels, 15 times preaching/teaching to roughly 850 lay leaders and pastors, at least 4 confirmed physical healings (including partial deafness and kidney malfunction), 1 church dedicated in a village where I was the first American ever to visit, lots of emotional healings, many marriages restored and revived, significant times of repentance and forgiveness, powerful outpourings of God's love by the Holy Spirit on many wounded pastors and couples and lots and lots of spicy food, I'm home.

The testimonies continue to come in, but let me give you three:

My blood pressure was high before I came but God made a way for me to come and now my blood pressure is normal. Last year at the College of Prayer I learned to pray [personally], but now I have learned to pray with my family. Whenever I have come to these modules I have been boosted and encouraged. ~ Pastor Attendee

I was told to come here but I didn't want to. We drove all through the night. A few months back I had problems with my external family. I was very sad and broken. They were against me. But coming here I was able to forgive them and now I have real peace in my life. ~ Pastor Attendee

I received healing physically and spiritually [she was healed of kidney issues]. My daughter is also sick at home and could not come. Yesterday night I spoke with my daughter after our sessions and this morning I received a phone call and she is healed also. The servant of God [Pastor Jon] prayed for me and both I and my daughter have been healed. The kingdom of God is now in our marriage and family. We will see that our family, church, and village will be blessed by us. ~ Pastors Wife Attendee

We now have over 550 Regional and Local Church Campuses throughout India. Our conservative estimate is that somewhere between 30,000-45,000 pastors, church leaders and lay leaders are going through our curriculum. Many leaders of the ministry we are partnered with there (India Gospel League) have said this is the greatest partnership in terms of spiritual growth that they have ever had. The impact is tangible and significant. All of this growth has come in only 18 months. Thank you for your continued prayers and support.

India Update

3/18/2016

The College of Prayer continues its rapid expansion in India. Jon Mitchell, Executive Director, along with on-the-ground leaders in India, launched two new Regional Campuses in Chandigarh and Pune this month. These campuses are essentially "training the trainers." Over 200 were mentored, trained and equipped to begin launching Local Church Campuses around their areas.

Jon reported that, "On Friday we had an incredibly powerful encounter with Christ. As the morning began with high worship, you could sense a shift in the spiritual atmosphere taking place. We began singing a song with the word "Hallelujah" used. It was absolutely a song with a breaker-anointing, and it opened the door to the manifest presence of Christ. I began to weep as Christ's presence began moving around the room. I moved to my knees. People began coming forward, repenting in His presence. Wave after wave of Christ's glory came over us. I finally got up, and I told the worship leader, 'Whatever you do, don't move away from that song ... stay there.' I began to declare His presence to those gathered, as did Stephen Sundilla. I cried as I declared that Christ was walking among us. People were in tears. I began to tell them that He was there also to answer the longings of their hearts, their prayers for healing, freedom and other requests that many of them had been praying for a long time, some even years. For almost an hour we stayed in this position of Christ moving among us and people responding. The SLT really didn't need to do anything as Christ was doing it all. I kept seeing Christ moving among those gathered, touching them. Another testified later that he, too, saw Christ moving among us. A woman testified that she saw an angel in white above us throwing white flower pedals down on us. It was a powerful time of encounter, breakthrough and ministry directly from Christ Himself. Truly all I could do was just worship Him, saying 'You are worthy, You are worthy.' The train of His robe filled the temple!"

"After coming here I have learned many things. It is my first experience like this and I have been in ministry for 20 years! I am so thankful after coming here I feel I must be filled with the Holy Spirit and I must pray. I have also learned to forgive those who have sinned against me. What I will be making a priority now is prayer and what I have learned here I will go and teach." ~ Indian Pastor

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