DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
By Donnie Swaggart
The Church is alive and well in Kinshasa.
Just recently I traveled to the city of Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to conduct a Pastor’s conference. I must admit that in going, I thought that there would be two or three hundred Pastors in attendance. For the first Service I was picked up at the hotel along with Roy and Beulah Chacon, who had accompanied me. We drove into the heart of Kinshasa, which is a city of about six million people.
As we were driving, I began to hear a faint noise in the distance. I thought it was perhaps a generator or something electrical. Then we stopped and we got out of the car and I realized the sound I had been hearing was not what I thought it was. As I walked in the Church, I was greeted with the sight of over four thousand Ministers and workers praying and seeking the Lord. As I walked down the aisle, the hair on the back of my neck felt like it was standing up. You could sense and feel the Power and Presence of the Lord.
I was ushered up to the platform and to my seat; however, I couldn’t stay seated. As tears began to flow down my cheeks I began to walk back and forth on the platform with my hands uplifted, praising the Lord and thanking Him for His Presence. I remembered thinking “Lord, they don’t need me, this Preacher from America, the Truth is, we (the Church in America) need them. We need them to show us how to pray and worship the Lord.”
As my eyes scanned across the audience, some were standing, some were kneeling, and some were even laying flat on the concrete floor, crying out to the Lord. This is what we need in America! This is what we need in our Churches! I was greatly humbled when Pastor Sikatenda Neema Jaques stood to introduce me before I preached. He said, “Though you don’t know us, we know you and your father, the Ministry of Jimmy Swaggart on T.V. here in the Congo fanned the flames of Pentecost. Everything we know about preaching and Pentecost we learned from Brother Swaggart.” He then said, “Your father is our father in the Lord. We love him and we honor him.”
As I stood there looking out at this vast congregation, I couldn’t help but rejoice over the impact that this Ministry has had around the world; an impact that you could not imagine.
As you read this I want you to grasp the significance and the importance of your help and support of the Work of God through this Ministry. Your prayers and support are more important than you could ever know. Actually, you will not understand how important until you get to Heaven.
You have been chosen by the Lord to be a part of a Ministry that has literally touched this world for Christ. Your prayers and support are just as important as the support the Apostle Paul received from those in his day. As Paul was given the meaning of the New Covenant, we have been given the task of bringing back to the Church what the New Covenant is all about . . . Christ and Him Crucified.
I’m going to do something in this article that I have never done before, and that is to ask you for a special offering for this work. There is much to be done, and it can be done with your help. I want you to understand the worth and the significance of the Work of the Lord. There is nothing greater or more important than what the Lord has called us to do. As well, I want you to understand your worth and significance to God’s Work also. As we are called, so too are you called.
