Zambia, South Africa, Argentina, and Uruguay Pastors' Conferences Updates

THE GLORY COMES DOWN

"Our nation will never be the same." "Our pastor came back home on fire."

The reports and e-mails are still pouring in from pastors and numerous others who attended Pastors David and Gary Wilkerson's ministers conferences in Zambia, South Africa, Argentina and Uruguay. One bishop went home and hugged his two children for the first time after hearing Pastor Gary preach on family. "That's the purpose of the conferences," says Pastor David, to exhort pastors to renew their passion for Christ and let the Holy Spirit revive thousands who are on the verge of quitting. In 45 days on the road in March and April, they ministered to about 20,000 leaders, including many poor pastors who were bused in to the meetings.

Zambia and South Africa

During the Zambia conferences, Pastor Dave recounts that the glory of the Lord came down like he had never seen before — sending pastors to their knees, pouring out their hearts in repentance. Many tears flowed in South Africa from the 2,000 church leaders gathered at the Kwasizabantu Mission and 1,000 in Durban, who came in a spirit of unity from across denominations and as far away as Australia. In Cape Town the Lord chose a soccer stadium in a poor section to fulfill Pastor David's wish to have a mixed race altar call, which he wasn't allowed to do 35 years earlier. Through their impassioned messages on purity and prayer, God so touched the pastors that they knew Cape Town would never be the same.

Argentina and Uruguay

Currently, Argentina and Uruguay are gripped by 20 percent unemployment rates and widespread poverty, yet there was a desperate hunger for the Lord. Church leaders in Montevideo, Uruguay, pleaded for five services a day, and some pastors walked for miles to get to the conferences. The Lord was faithful to meet and renew them to go on with God. One pastors conference in Montevideo was "invaded" by several thousand young people, so Pastor Dave set aside his sermon. Instead he prayed for the Holy Spirit to prove His word, and about 2,000 young people came forward to accept Jesus as their only way out of despair.