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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

Lord, Give us Asia Pacific

10/5/2015

"Freely you have received, freely give" is one of the greatest kingdom principles. Jesus taught this principle to His disciples when He sent them out (Matthew 10:8), and He is teaching it to our College of Prayer family all over the world.

I just returned from an undisclosed nation where we have been invited by underground church leaders to mentor, train and equip 80 million Christ-followers using the curriculum of the College of Prayer. Yes, you read that number right! Our Pioneer Team Director, Don Young, along with Donny Mui and I, taught and ministered to four large groups of house-church pastors. In the next two months, these pastors will plant more than 200 local church campuses of the College of Prayer. Ministering in one of the largest persecuted church nations on earth is leading us to strategically invest in pastors who are committed to our vision and to our strategy for developing praying churches. Due to the complexities of ministering in persecuted nations, we cannot develop traditional campuses as we do elsewhere. We are "freely giving" what we have received over 18 years of ministry, teaching them to do the same with their local congregations. To God be the glory!

I want to invite you to partner with us today. We are asking God for 200 new Monthly Partners before the end of the year whose prayers and financial resources will bless and facilitate these new local church campuses. For a commitment of only $25 a month, you can partner with a new campus of the College of Prayer in persecuted areas. Your partnership will help ensure that we can provide our curriculum to these churches as well as provide ongoing mentoring/training for these pastors who are committed to becoming "houses of prayer for all nations" (Is. 56:7).

Won't you partner with us today? Now is the time. Click here to give online or call us at (770) 829-0122.

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Lord, Give us asia

6/1/2015

We work with tremendous leaders and we've been asking God for Asia. This year, influential church leaders in two of the largest populated nations on earth have asked us to bring the College of Prayer to serve them.

INDIA: It was a year ago we began asking God for this nation. In March we joined Samuel Stephens and his network of 76,000 churches and began mentoring, training and equipping their leaders. He wants all of his churches to be involved with the College of Prayer. We have already planted two campuses and another one launches this month. They have plans to plant 300 more campuses in the next 5 years.

UNDISCLOSED: One of the largest networks of underground believers has invited the College of Prayer to serve them. Leaders of this network told us that 30 years ago the church in their area was growing rapidly because "they were a praying church." It was their primary agenda. Then, they lost focus on prayer and began to give more attention to education, theology and doctrine. They replaced prayer and fervency for God with head knowledge. While they don't want to abandon good theology and doctrine, they desperately want to get back to a lifestyle of prayer. Leaders of this network asked us in April "Would you train our leaders to pray again?" That's our honor!

We can't do this without you. Would you partner with us? For only $25 a month, you can partner with us to mentor, train and equip leaders in these developing areas. Many of these Christian leaders face significant persecution for their faith.

It's time to advance Christ's Kingdom in these strategic locations while the doors are open. Due to persecution in these areas, our opportunity might be short. Now is the time! Will you step up and partner with us? In August and September we will be training more leaders throughout India and undisclosed areas of Asia. We need your help. Your partnership supports the translation and printing of our materials in local dialects and also provides scholarships for pastors to attend the College of Prayer in their region.

Your prayers are opening doors in ways never before seen. Please keep interceding for our ministry, specifically in Asia.

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New Partnership in india

3/31/2015

India College of Prayer

Jon Mitchell and Don Young with Indian church leaders.

In March we launched our ministry in India in partnership with the India Gospel League (IGL) and their National Association of Interdependent Churches (NAIC), which is a network of over 75,000 churches around India and Sri Lanka.

We want to say thank you to all of those who have been praying and giving towards this initiative. Jon Mitchell (Executive Director) and Don Young (Pioneer Director) led the way, and 8 days were spent mentoring, training and equipping almost 300 Church leaders in two strategic areas of India. Time was spent in each location modeling a module and then leading them through the Advanced Leadership Training (ALT). It was extremely evident that God was at work throughout the 8 days of ministry. These pastors were so eager to take the Examination of Excellence to be officially certified to plant College of Prayer campuses that they were ripping exams out of our leaders hands! To wrap up both the training both locations, we had them commit to and sign the Upper Room Manifesto. Again, they were so eager to align themselves with the College of Prayer movement that they were fighting over the pens!

When asked about the significance of this partnership, Jon Mitchell said, "I have to say, IGL is one of the best run and well organized ministries I have ever seen. They communicate efficiently and effectively with their network and invest heavily in their spiritual formation, of which we are now officially part of. They have 7 Zone Coordinators which ultimately oversee thousands of church planters, and two directors over that area of their ministry. They have committed to us one of their directors and one of their Zone Coordinators. In other words, they have given us two of their best to oversee the College of Prayer in India because that's how highly they value this partnership and this movement. To me, that says everything. They are men of God who have been highly impacted by our ministry and we need to support them well."

Because of IGL's well run network, the College of Prayer will advance rapidly there. We expect 40 new campuses in the next 8-12 months, and then growth will accelerate even faster. We believe this requires a new dynamic of intercession and giving on all of our parts. When asked about this, Mitchell said, "India is still a third-world country. They have very little, but what they have, they are willing to invest. We need to be prepared to do our part also. I know we will. God has given the vision, and He will meet with provision. I'm not concerned about raising funds, I'm concerned about raising our level of faith!"

God is using this movement of the College of Prayer in some of the most significant ways on earth. People are being revived. Lives are being changed. Families are being restored. Churches are becoming Houses of Prayer for all nations. We are reaching a lost world through a revived church!

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