African Enterprise impacts the major cities of Africa for Jesus Christ through Evangelism, Reconciliation, Leadership Training and Community Development. It is a ministry carried out by Africans, for Africans and supported by a global partnership with a passion to Transform Africa by serving and equipping leaders, laypeople and the local church.
Not even a thunderstorm was able to keep AE evangelists from preaching the Gospel to the people of eMalahleni in South Africa. “The eMahahleni Evangelism Explosion opening rally had a big question mark over it when dark clouds suddenly gathered and the heavens opened,” said Greg Smerdon, AE's South Africa Team Leader. “I’ve never preached in the rain before, but had no choice because of a large number of people who stayed through the storm. And praise God, we witnessed the Lord bring 58 people to himself that day!”
Though a second rainstorm again threatened to disrupt the rally, the crowd was so hungry to hear the Good News that few departed, and fervent prayer by the local pastors seemed to exert a restraining influence on the weather. Further eagerness for hope and healing among the residents of eMalahleni was evident in all 271 of the evangelistic meetings during the week of outreach in October.
While at least 600 people committed their lives to Christ for the first time, or recommitted themselves to following Him, many came forward after hearing the Gospel preached to ask for prayer. Sunny Masilela, a supermarket employee, received instantaneous healing for a painful and stiff knee. The Foxfire youth evangelists visited a local hospital where Foxfire Michael prayed for a man with impaired hearing to regain full hearing, which he did! AE evangelist Chris Thenjwayo prayed for a woman with an extremely distended abdomen, which returned to normal size as Chris prayed.
Formerly known as Witbank, eMalahleni is a city of some 200,000 people located about 85 miles east of Johannesburg in a coal-mining region. As such, AE evangelist Bongani Dlomo preached the Good News to a group of more than a dozen mine workers, all of whom responded by giving their lives to Jesus.
