“ Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.” John 4:35 NAS
On April 9th, Azusa Now took place in Los Angeles commemorating the original Azusa Street Revival of 110 years before. It was reported that nearly 100,000 gathered in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Make no mistake. This was a Holy Spirit event. Jesus, not man, was front and center.
Worship teams from Bethel Redding CA, as well as Native Americans in full Native dress led in worship. Afterwards, representatives from both Canadian and US churches came and knelt before them, repenting for the genocide committed against their forefathers and asking their forgiveness. Representatives from the Catholic Church, one who knelt before Lou Engels, the organizer of this event, kissing his feet as a sign of love and acceptance, and repentance for disunity between Catholic and Protestant.
Arthur Blesset, who has carried a cross around the world since the 1970’s, carried his cross up to the podium. He gave a charge to win the lost. To win the world to the love of Jesus. It was their turn. He cried out to that crowd. “‘I’m old! It’s your turn now! Now GO!’
Dan and I watched it together, he from his phone in Thailand, I at my computer in Pittsburgh. We messaged each other throughout the event, worshipping and praying together.
Beloved. The harvest is HERE. The harvest is NOW. This year, Firstlight has been part of a 55 man sending of evangelists to the Pulang people, an unreached people group in northern Myanmar. For the first time, there is a church planted among those people. There are 10 church planters working alongside of our host couple, Luke and Genevieve, doing the follow up.
This past month in Thailand, Dan traveled by motor bike to mountain villages of the Luwa people with our co-worker there, Pastor Nott. Over the past 2 years, Nott has planted 8 churches in those villages, and will plant 3 more this year. Dan and Pastor Nott will bring training to the leaders of all these new churches. The fields are ripe. Our friend Tony Foster brought a team from Lousiana, and saw 40 baptisms in just a few weeks!
The harvest is NOW!
~ Debbie Ecker
