At an altitude of ninety-nine meters in northern Guyana, South America, lies the thriving village of Baramita, which is abounding with hope. The impact of a five-member evangelism team has, within two days, reported nineteen souls saved and healing miracles long before the end of their five-day mission. Visiting ministers from First Assembly of God, Wortmanville church have made this village of approximately three thousand five hundred persons, their Easter berth, recording the healing of a young man born with a defect from birth. His mother reported that the young man was born with a defective right eye. Yet, we could hear a recording of Assistant Pastor Nyvin John declaring darkness be removed from his life as he laid hands on the young man, before the video switches to the testimony that he could now see by God’s miraculous power. The move of God is rich and shows that restoration now opens more opportunities for this young man, in a season when the death and resurrection of Jesus allows us to enter into His healing balm – “by His stripes we are healed”, Isaiah 53:5.
Assistant Pastor John leads the missionary team alongside Assistant Pastors Joshua Griffith and Aubrey Jupiter and Ministers Cleveland Thom and Safoora Halley.
Assistant Pastor John reported that upon arrival on Thursday (April 17, 2025), the team engaged with the local police officers at the Police Station and prayed with them before heading into street evangelism. The first night service resulted in seventeen souls accepting the Lord, with healing and miracles evident. Good Friday ushered in a harvest of two more souls accepting the Lord and the healing of the young man’s right eye.
Minister Cleveland Thom reported gratitude for being a part of the move of God as he witnessed poverty juxtaposed with the power of God’s healing balm. Minister Thom declared in his WhatsApp report, “Baramita indeed needs Jesus, and people are experiencing the power of God.” He reported positive interactions with the people of the community, echoed by Minister Safoora in her encouragement on how villagers are opening up to the team as evidence that the Word of God is penetrating their hearts with signs and wonders following. For the first two days, she saw persons desiring more of God, and she confessed her belief that God is not done with providing restoration.
The team witnessed men and women lying by the roadside one morning after a night of imbibing, but praise God, Who has made His presence felt in the community and will continue to do so. Assistant Pastor Griffith stood out in his ‘Jesus Youth’ branded t-shirt as they walked along unpaved roads to meet villagers scattered across the vast landscape, pausing at one point to engage with a group of women producing cassava bread for physical sustenance.
This evangelical mission is befitting of the season of hope given by Jesus’s resurrection power. We recall the account in Matthew 28:7, where the women, upon discovering the empty tomb and receiving instructions from the angel to “go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead…” went.
This team, sacrificing time away from family on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, displays evidence that the leadership of the fellowship is focused on the Commission to go to all peoples with the Good News of Jesus. They are echoing Matthew 28:16-20 as Jesus appeared to His disciples on a mountain in Galilee with instructions to “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you…” We encourage every reader to go share the message of hope, shouting Jesus in the cities, from the mountain tops, and in Baramita.
Baramita is one of the largest Amerindian villages inhabited by the indigenous Carib tribe of Guyana, where mining is its economic bedrock. Be blessed as you also obey the command to share the Good News!