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Indian evangelist raises the dead
Harry Gomes was an unlikely candidate to become a Christian evangelist. He grew up in a poor village in rural India where there were no believers in Jesus. His Hindu mother believed she would receive salvation if she wrote the name of the Hindu god Rama 10 million times. After she filled dozens of notebooks with the god's name, she killed herself. Harry became an atheist after his mother's suicide. Depression and hopelessness hung like a cloud over his crude home when he was a young man. After he obtained a college degree in business he began to suffer from leukederma, an unsightly skin disease. Because of the pain and humiliation caused by his condition he often considered killing himself.
Then Jesus literally walked into his life. Harry had a vision of Christ and was miraculously converted. He was later filled with the Holy Spirit, and Jesus appeared to him again - this time to commission him to reach India's millions. Since 1993, when Harry sold everything he owned to purchase some property for a ministry center in the city of Coimbatore, he has sponsored 187 crusades in eight different Indian states. So far, 11.5 million people - mostly Hindus - have made decisions for Christ in his meetings.
"People still say that India is only 3 percent Christian," Harry says, laughing loudly. "Actually the number is probably more like 11 percent. They are using old figures." In India, where old traditions die slowly, Hindu extremists are trying to hide the growth of Christianity in the world's second most populous nation. But reports indicate that large numbers of Indians, particularly the Dalits, or 'untouchables' of the lowest caste, are converting to Jesus. Today in the village where Harry grew up, there are now five churches - and 90 percent of the 1,500 residents have become believers in Jesus. All this growth has occurred in less than 15 years.
Harry is a vivid example of how India is changing - and his unusual ministry demonstrates how New Testament-style miracles are shaking a nation. He has seen tens of thousands of people healed of chronic illnesses. And five people have been resurrected after distraught family members brought their dead bodies to his meetings. One of the incidents has been captured on videotape. "I make sure people know that I am not the healer," says Harry. On promotional fliers that are distributed to thousands of homes before his crusades, he tells people to expect Jesus to touch them. He does not typically lay hands on anyone. The miracles take place while he is kneeling on the stage.
Source: J. Lee Grady, Charisma
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