Prayer Works 12

ZIMBABWE - CHRISTIAN LEADER HEALED

Shortly before a strategy meeting of 100 Christian leaders from 9 nations in Zimbabwe in early summer 1998, Xolisani Dlamini, the main organizer, was brutally attacked by three men. After stabbing him with knives, hitting him on the head with a rock and stealing the money for the conference, they stripped him naked and left him to die. Hours later, Xolisani somehow managed to drag himself to his car, which his attackers had been unable to start, and drove home. "I have no idea how I managed it. Angels must have helped me!" he says. Eight days after the attack, Xolisani was sitting on the podium in the conference, covered with bandages and plaster. He was due to have another operation that day, but the doctors cancelled at the last moment after suddenly deciding that it was unnecessary. "One doctor said 'Something is happening which we don't understand'. That's a miracle."

6,000 new churches in the last 6 years

According to Xolisani's detailed research, significantly more than 6,000 churches have been planted in Zimbabwe over the last 6 years as part of a strategic plan named 'Target 2000', in which various churches and denominations aim to plant 10,000 churches between 1992 and 2000. The church-planting has added 2.24 million new converts to the evangelical churches, which is almost 20 percent of Zimbabwe's population. At the conference, Xolisani said "The devil is not at all pleased by the Christians' strategy. It is destroying his kingdom. He doesn't just sit around with his hands folded in his lap, watching people fill countries with churches. I can very well understand that Satan wanted to kill me. But he simply does not understand that I am now even more determined to continue, to do even more. I would happily give my life for the project of 'making disciples of Zimbabwe'.

http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1998/dawn9835.html#Zimbabwe