Twenty people showed-up at Zion, and another 4 joined us at Portage Place. Six of the people were first timers.
Our team of 4 attempted to engage wifirst-timersifferent people but none of them were open to prayer. I had left the team for a few moments, and when I returned they were praying with Rose, who we pray with almost every week. While with Rose, Helen, a First Nations lady from Steinbach, that some of us know, joined us and asked for prayer. About that time David, another weekly regular, showed-up in the mall. I spent some time chatting with him and gave him some coupons that I had for some of the food kiosks.
While I was with David, my team engaged and sat down with a middle-aged Christian man, and that resulted in them being involved in a long talk with him. While they were occupied I recognized a man who calls himself, Elvis of the North, who is also a Shaman who sometimes wears a talisman. Gabriel, his real name, was mostly sober, but was limping. I asked him what happened to his leg, and he said he had hurt his knee. I asked if he wanted prayer, and to my surprise he agreed, because in the past he has refused prayer, and he has even harassed us at times when he has been drunk and wearing his talisman. He said the pain was a 7. After I prayed he said it felt a lot better, and the pain was about a 4. I was about to pray again, when suddenly several of his friends sat down with us, and he turned his back to me. I think he didn’t want his friends to know that he, a Shaman, was getting prayer from a Christian. His friends were very high on something, and weren’t making any sense. One of them was Allan, a First Nations man I had prayed for a few months ago. At that time he had a pronounced limp, and a cane. After I had prayed he said he was healed and didn’t need his cane anymore. Today he had no cane, but a slight limp. I asked him if he remembered me, and where his cane was. He said someone stole it. I then asked him about his limp, but he didn’t want to talk about it. After trying to engage with them with no success I decided to move-on. It was close to nine and other teams were starting to gather in Center Court to debrief.
Gaylene told us about an experience she just had. She went to visit a shop owner who is an acquaintance. The shop owner introduced her to a friend named Rashid. Gaylene said don’t tell me, but you are Rashid, a Muslim, from Nigeria. The man was surprised and said to her, I have just prayed that God would send me somebody to teach me the truth about Him, and you showed-up. Gaylene then shared the Gospel with him. He didn’t accept Jesus right on the spot, but he is moving in that direction.
Lorraine said her team had a very quiet night, except for a man in the bus shelter they prayed for who had an arm he couldn’t move, and after prayer he could lift it shoulder high.
Last weekend, Zion Church had a 100 year celebration, that included a 3 day conference. On Saturday, October 29th, in the afternoon over 50 people in twelve teams went to different parts of Winnipeg while over 100 people stayed at the conference Center and prayed. Teams went to Portage Place, Polo Park, St. Vital Mall, Grace Hospital, Main Street, and Portage Avenue. One of the teams ministered on a bus. Winnipeg has a free bus service that travels a short circuit in the downtown area, and the team engaged and prayed for the people riding the bus. Turns-out the bus driver was a Christian. He said he had never heard the voice of God, so the team prayed for him, and God spoke to him almost immediately. He was very excited. When all the teams came back to the conference there were many reports of healing’s and some salvations.