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This comes from Gospel for Asia's website

07/05/2006: Unseen Evangelist Preaches Powerful Message

In the state of Chhattisgarh, India, Abhay was preparing to conduct open-air meetings at a three-day event held last month in a rural village. But some of the villagers and their leaders came to stop him.

"If anyone attends these meetings," one leader told the Gospel for Asia missionary and his team, "they will be fined 1,000 rupees" (about US$22, the equivalent of two weeks' wages).

Fearing this repercussion, the villagers who were gathering to hear the message returned to their homes. But another village leader, a Christian, proposed a compromise.

"If the villagers are not allowed to come together for the meetings," he stated, "they should at least be able to hear the message through a loudspeaker."

The other leaders agreed to this condition, so Abhay tied a loudspeaker to a tall tree in the center of the village and turned up the volume.

Although none of the villagers ventured out to the meeting, more than 200 people from neighboring villages gathered in an open space near the center of the settlement. And from inside their homes, the people of the village heard Abhay's message clearly from the loudspeaker.

After the three days of preaching, as Abhay was heading home, a man from the village approached him and embraced him joyfully.

"I listened to your messages every day, and they changed my life!" the man exclaimed. "I was going through a lot of problems and did not have any peace in my mind. When I heard the Word of God, peace and joy filled my heart. I surrendered my life to the care of God and received Jesus Christ as my Savior."

Abhay was excited and encouraged. He praised God for allowing His Word to be heard by the people, even if they could not see his face.

Abhay requests prayer that the whole village would come to know the Lord.