Last week we had some testimonies about the Sunday that your Team was ministering:

• One woman had continuous headaches for about nine years. After prayer, since that Sunday, she has no symptoms of headache anymore.
• Another woman had great pain on her arms for about a month, which caused her difficulty in her everyday job. The pain has gone since Sunday, and now she can work normally.
• One of our worship leaders was revived spiritually and touched greatly by a new understanding of the love of God. After the meeting, she went home, kissed the elderly woman she is taking care of (her employer) and showed great love to her. Then she started worshipping the Lord from 9:00 pm to 1:00 am.

Praise the Lord!

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 The Sri Lankans of Cyprus

Did you know that there are over 25,000 Sri Lankans who live in Cyprus? Did you know that 90% of them are women? Well, that was news to me! We had the privilege to minister in a Sri Lankan church pastored by a Greek Cypriot one Sunday

It was a special meeting indeed. We truly felt a spirit of humility over the pastor and the church. They were very desperate and hungry for the things of God. The vast majority of the church was converts for less than three years. It is a church committed to training its people and it was wonderful and pleasing to learn that some of the former converts in this church had also started churches either back in Sri Lanka or even in places like Israel!

We were a team of five who went to minister in this church. We preached a message about the love of God our Father and then we spent the next hour or more praying for all those who wanted prayer.  We saw many receive their physical healing, others were released from emotional pain and a few were delivered from demonic oppression. It was wonderful to see the Holy Spirit minister to these hungry and needy people.  It was a very blessed day indeed. 

Cyprus – loaded with history

We had the opportunity to experience some of the island. We soon realised that Cyprus is an island with acres of significant history. Every major civilization of note in that region of the world had its hands on that little, strategically located island. It is also rich in biblical and Christian significance. 

• Cyprus was the first nation that Paul and Barnabas went to on their first missionary journey. Barnabas himself was from Cyprus. 
• It was on Cyprus that the first Roman governor became a believer in Jesus. 
• Lazarus, the one that Jesus raised from the dead, is buried there. We are told by church history that after he was raised he became the Bishop of Larnaca and eventually died there. The inscription on his tomb in the crypt under the Orthodox church states, “Lazarus, four days dead. Friend of Christ.”