Oregon Evangelist Videotapes 240,000 Souls Saved During Pakistan Event

CNNW Staff / Teresa Neumann Reporting : Jan 17, 2006
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With support from a group of Portland, Oregon businessmen, evangelist Hamilton Filmalter -- a South African native -- and a 19-member team from River of Life Ministries returned to Pakistan for a third time to hold a crusade in the city of Lahore; population 6 million. Pastor Anwar Fazal of Eternal Life Ministries in Lahore, partnered in the crusade.

"Conservatively, 400,000 people attended over three nights, Nov. 9-11, with 240,000-plus accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior," stated Filmalter in an e-mail to supporters of his outreach. "Wonderful miracles of healing and deliverance proved to the people that Jesus is alive."

"A simple gospel message was followed by an altar call and prayer for healing and deliverance," the e-mail continued. "Tens of thousands, many of them Muslims, stood to their feet to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. People got out of wheelchairs right before our eyes, and the beaming face of a man born blind, now able to see, was an unforgettable sight ... Glory to God for this great harvest in Pakistan!"

According to the report by CNNW, the number of those saved is equivalent to almost half the size of Portland coming to faith in Christ at one event. All three nights of the event were recorded by GEO TV, a satellite TV station based in Dubai, and an edited version of the crusade was broadcast several times.