A missionary festival in Lesotho
The LaunchPad: Where Is Lesotho?
Did the King and Queen really invite these folks to Lesotho for a festival? They said it… what… on TV? They sent an email to invite them? Published the invitation in the paper? Picked up the phone and called them? “We want you to do a festival for our people!”Lesotho is a small nation that is surrounded by the country of South Africa. The King and Queen of Lesotho have invited Johannes Amritzer and Mission SOS to do a Festival for their people. The first Festival was held there in October of 07 and 17 new churches were planted.
This coming week, a second series of meetings will be held there. Here’s a video report of the October meetings and a reminder to pray for Johannes, Peter, and the Mission SOS team this week.
The clip shows Basotho being healed miraculously. The clip shows the visitors, the healers, through the grace of God, giving sick Basotho their sight back, their legs, their hearing. And it shows the healers insisting that the healees have now been forgiven and saved.
I do not disbelieve in miraculous healing. I have been touched by it. But I disbelieve healers, and this disbelief stems from my conviction that if there is a God, then God is not biased, and will not reveal Him/Herself to a bunch of people at the expense of another bunch of people. This goes to the root of what for me being is all about, and that is if I am and you are, then by God we are. As a result, you can’t have Knowledge and Power if I don’t, and vice-versa, because we are.
If there’s any healing that must go on, it’s not going to be through a bunch of rich visitors to a poor nation. If anything, if Christianity and religion have any meaning, then it must be the opposite, the materially poor must be able to heal the materially rich. Why would God bypass my local preacher and instil in someone I don’t know who comes from a place I don’t know the power to heal me? It’s senseless, albeit dangerous.
N.B: I wasn’t there so I can’t say if collection plates were passed around — but I’d love to know from those who were there.
I wonder if the royal couple did invite these people to Lesotho. If so, then they shouldn’t have. I doubt Basotho need more hoodwinkers at this stage, having enough on a political level as it is. What Basotho do need is the subject of another discussion, but I can stuff it into a nutshell as Work, Political Stability, Economic Vigour and Health and Hygienic Awareness. Plus a little luck from the skies in the form of regular rain.
Did the healees know that their healers have a profitable business behind their action? Who are “the unreached peoples?” And are their melanocytes rather active? (1) Is this about race? Have people with less active melanocytes been reached? (2) It doesn’t seem to be about race, as there has been at least one festival in a European country, Bulgaria. So is this about money? Why are these folks doing this? Do festivals occur in richer, “white” countries? France, England, Italy, America, Spain? If not, why not? Questions and more questions.
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I totally agree with your comments. Did they work in partnership with the Lesotho Christian Council ?( I doubt it). These so called “missionaries” who act like vultures, should stay away from Africa where the spirit of God has been working for many centuries before the arrival of foreigners, and they should read Matthew 7.21-23 and 24.23-28 !
Comment by Thabang — 21 February 2008 @ 8:35 pm
Thabang,
Thanks. Matthew Chapter 7, verse 21 says “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Verse 22 says, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?” And 23 says, “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
I doubt they worked with the Christian Council of Lesotho. Or let me say, some people I know in the council wouldn’t have allowed this to happen.
Comment by Rethabile — 21 February 2008 @ 10:54 pm
It is a shame that some missionaries,
come heal,
collect money and leave.
It is the enjoyment to many when a missionary,
comes, gives, helps, encourages, and leaves.
It is better when a disciple of Christ Jesus,
comes, gives, helps, encourages, and stays to disciple.
Leading to Salvation and healing is awesome,
but discipleship is necessary so that those who have turned
do not return to their old ways.
Comment by Bradley — 27 March 2008 @ 4:21 pm
First i would say to you, get a life… when was the last time you saw a blind get sight back or a deaf start to hear? how can youi speak against the work of The Holy Spirit?
Mission SOS and Spiritwind worked together with several local churches in Maseru. They prayed with thousands to salvation that is now in followup classes in the local churches. and hundreds got healed and free from demon spirits! aids,blindness,deaf and much much more sicknesses were documented healed.
The leader and founder of Mission SOS even had a biblestudy with the king and queen of Lesotho.
and new churches were started..
before you start judging, check for facts…
The queen of lesotho contacted spiritwind international and they
Comment by Gunnar — 9 December 2008 @ 3:47 pm