God’s powerful work in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - What a great harvest! Praise King Jesus!

 A woman touched by my radio broadcast

I want to share a brief story from Bulawayo. Jimo (pictured) told me that during a mobile rally, a woman asked him to have the radio preacher meet her. She recognized me from a broadcast where I mentioned praying for my 19-year-old son, Daniel. My message moved her, and she wanted to pray with me. This shows how outreach through radio, social media, or street ministry can impact people in unexpected ways. BTW, I have Jimo’s story on video which is in the e-newsletter. 

Statistics

I will share the statistics I received from the leadership of Global Network of Evangelists and Bulawayo. Every number represents a person:  Thank you for praying and serving with us in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. With your help, we completed the Bulawayo mission (which started in April 2024) and saw the Gospel proclaimed across schools, neighborhoods, businesses, prisons, and churches. “This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.” (Ps. 118:23) Thank you for playing a vital role in this campaign.

In the final run-up we faced tribal tensions, a last-minute venue change, student ministry permissions pulled the day before, and prison access for foreign teammates withdrawn. By God’s grace—and the persistence of our Zimbabwe colleagues—we still ministered in two prisons (one with multiple sub-divisions).

Here are the final results we have collated, that include all training and proclamation phases and encompass the totality of the project from start to date. 

 Bulawayo results (training + outreach since April 2024)

• In-person reach: 76,566

• First-time salvations: 7,421

• Recommitments: 1,809

• Volunteers mobilized (incl. team): 1,100+

• Believers trained: 4,562

• Churches served: 964

• Advance Groups: 1,038 launched. Continued follow-up in Bulawayo as decision makers are discipled.

I want to THANK all who were involved in making this great Good News opportunity to happen and everyone I had the chance to collaborate with: All the churches of Bulawayo, the pastors, government officials, and business leaders. Set up and clean up teams, all the teams for the festival, street outreaches, schools, business leaders, prison outreaches and all the other opportunities. Photos and video: Daniel Simon, Jessica Miller, and Denver Sumption.  The band Cypres, Jimo,  KuBamba, Vuyo Brown, Vocal Ex, Meet Luminous, SoulBox, Al Johnson (with soccer skills), Chagy, BMX team, and the children’s outreach team. Speakers/Preachers of the gospel who I had the opportunity to share the main stage with: Bob Lenz, Jose Zayas, and Reid Saunders. Global Network of Evangelists leadership: Desmond Henry, Edd Mungai, Heather Zimny, Bryce Kwant, Karen Kandia. And the many others I have perhaps failed to name. THANK YOU to our DONORS from Proclaim Good News!