Prayer is needed in Missions
"Kenyan pastor Thomas Muthee and his wife, Margaret, saw the notorious Nairobi suburb of Kiambu as a ministry graveyard. Searching for solutions to Kiambu's violence and the barriers to Christian outreach, in 1988 the Muthees began praying and doing research on the cause of the spiritual oppression. Finally, Thomas Muthee says, they discovered the source of Kiambu's oppression -the spirit of witchcraft. The locus was said to be a diviner named Mama Jane.
Muthee held an evangelistic crusade, and 200 people made public Christian commitments. Soon the church they formed, called the Prayer Cave, sponsored 24-hour prayer for Kiambu from its grocery store basement location. Mama Jane fought back but eventually left town, defeated. Muthee says that "the demonic influence -the principality over Kiambu -was broken. " Since then, the church has grown to 5,000 members, 400 of whom meet daily for 6 a.m. prayer sessions. The crime rate in Kiambu is down and the economy and population are growing."
(Stan Guthrie, Missions in The Third Millennium, pg 74. 2000, paternoster Press, )
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