Pastor Shocked Upon Receiving Baptism with Fire

The writer of this blog was led by the Lord to call brother John Abugieye in Nigeria (pictured left), a pastor who is one of our Doulos Training School (DTS) graduates, and is our DTS Facilitator for Nigeria, who is currently conducting an end-time evangelistic outreach there. I prayed for him over the phone on Friday evening, September 5, 2025, to receive the baptism with fire, and he received mightily! As I prayed for him, I could feel the presence of the Lord very strongly upon me. 

Afterward, brother John said that as I prayed for him, he felt the presence of the Lord, as well as a powerful tingling throughout his body like electricity, but it did not hurt. It caused him to experience five involuntary jolts, as if he was being shocked, and he felt a lightness and joy afterward -- such happiness. Glory to God!! 

Immediately following this experience, he headed off to an all-night prayer meeting that he was leading. During our 30-minute phone call, I had instructed him how to impart the holy fire to others, and asked him to start doing so that night at the prayer meeting. So at the prayer meeting, he testified to the people about how the Lord had baptized him with holy fire, and then after explaining to them the baptism with the Holy Spirit and fire from Scripture, he imparted to those who wanted to receive.

Later upon returning, he sent me the following testimony of what happened to each of the people to whom he imparted holy fire:

Brother John's Testimony

"Hello Brother Len,

These are the testimonies with evidence from our first Friday prayer. As you prayed for me and asked me to also pray with my people, here is what they shared about their experience of the baptism of holy fire:

1. Rose:

According to Rose, the moment I started praying for her, she saw a white bird. Then a shining rainbow circle appeared around her head and also around her legs. The white bird came and perched within the rainbow circle on her head, and the rainbow transformed into a single line in her palm. She noticed that the red color was thicker than the others.

She then heard a voice giving her a message for a certain pair of twins: 'Go and tell them that anyone who is ashamed of Me, I will also be ashamed of that person.' The voice also instructed her to speak to their mother.

When I asked if she felt any physical sensation, she testified that she experienced something like an electric shock twice on her head.

2. Sylvia:

Sylvia testified that as soon as I began praying for her, she saw a ball of fire descending from heaven and falling into her hands. Immediately, her hands began to burn with intense heat, like real fire. She also saw something like a star drop onto her hands.

3. Brother Damian:

This brother testified that the moment I started praying for him, he felt something like an electric shock on his shoulders. Immediately, fire sparked in his hands and then moved straight into his right leg (the leg that often pains him). He began to feel strong and intense heat in that leg — which I personally witnessed.

He further explained that he felt as though air was lifting him up, and suddenly his ears and eyes opened very clearly. He saw a pure crystal-like water shining like light, coming down from heaven and pouring over him. He felt the coolness of the water, which made him feel light and completely free.

4. Mama Elizabeth:

This elderly woman testified that she saw light descending from heaven and falling between her legs. She became afraid and stepped back. I witnessed her shifting back at that very moment.

These video clips are not bright because of poor small light we were using, but I feel I should share it anyway for you to see that truly I was baptized with fire." 

-------------- [End of brother John's testimony]-------------

Two days later on Sunday, he ministered to more people, including his wife, and he shared their testimonies. One woman felt someone touching her head and shoulders. Then she started feeling a cool sensation flowing from her head down. At that moment, she was shaking. Afterwards, she felt as if air entered her, and she became strong. Another woman felt a force lifting her. Even though she struggled to stand, she could not control it and eventually fell. She also explained that she felt heat in her hands and legs. Another woman said her whole body became heavy, as if a heavy load had been placed upon her hands. Another sister testified that she felt shocks in her body, and tears started flowing from her eyes. And I'm sure there will be many more as well.

Closing Words

Praise the Lord for these wonderful testimonies of God's love for His people, and His mighty power that He has released upon them in this great, end-time outpouring of His Spirit. Brother John's ministry is forever transformed now that he has received the baptism with holy fire. To God be all the glory!

Author's Note: If you enjoyed this post, you may also like to read Uganda End Time Evangelistic Outreach, Nigeria End Time Evangelistic Outreach, Many Revelations Concerning September 2025 Rapture, Holy Fire Baptism, and Testimonies of the Baptism with Holy Fire, which are the testimonies of myself and two of my adult children, who came to the Lord when they were little. Also see the Home page of this blog for more testimonies. You are invited to view my collection of blogs at Writing for the Master.

Do You Want to Know Him?

If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus.  Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe. 

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

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Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.  He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org. 

South Sudan End Time Evangelistic Outreach

One of our Doulos Training School (DTS) graduates, brother Henry Wakiku (pictured left), is traveling across South Sudan with a team of 24 people, preaching the gospel with an end time message. 

Here are some testimonies from the campaign with accompanying photos.

Photo Album

October 16, 2025

Dear bro Len,

Hope this email finds you well.

It was amazing [today]. We had a wonderful time at our ladies secondary school, sharing the Word of God (end time message). Many of the students repented and gave their lives to Jesus Christ, and we also prayed for the candidates. Five ladies and one gentleman were delivered from Marine spirits. Photos are in the album at the link above.

October 13, 2025

Dear bro Len,

I hope you are doing well on that side.

I want to thank God for the great move of the Holy Spirit in our outreach this week. On Friday, October 10th, one lady was delivered from Marine spirits. She was saying she is the queen of the sea, and she fought much during deliverance, but at last I had a revelation about the necklace she was wearing. I removed it from her neck, and the battle increased greatly, but she was delivered totally, and surrendered her life to Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. 

She confessed how she has been initiating people. She said when you are initiated, you are given another name from the sea apart from the normal names you have. She gave us names like Queen Anabel, Queen of the Sea, and others.

We were supposed to set off back (to Juba) on Saturday evening, but unfortunately our transportation vehicles didn't come to pick us up, and there were no means we could use from this side. And if we had managed to get transportation, it would have been very expensive. So we decided to continue with the gospel. We visited homes, and I saw many people yearning for the gospel and giving their lives to Jesus. 

On Saturday night, October 11th, I got a dream that my home in Uganda was sinking, and everything was being destroyed, including the latrine, plus lives lost. I told this to my team to enter into prayers seriously, and I also called my mum in Uganda, and told her to enter into prayers, because God revealed to me an attack.

On Sunday, October 12th, she was also in prayers and fasting with us. At around 9:00am, my daughter got attacked with severe coldness on the same Sunday we had started the fasting. She was rushed to hospital, and she was put on an IV drip. I called and prayed with her on the phone. They discharged her at around 2:00pm the same day. Then at 3:00 PM, a strong lightning struck the house, and the lights were all broken from the inside of the home to outside. One side of house got a crack, because it went deep into the ground and caused a trench. The tree next to the house was split into two and dried immediately. The house inside was all full of fire. What is amazing is that my mum and children, plus others, were inside the house, but none of them were affected. They are all alive, except that my mum felt a small pain in her left leg. 

I am still in prayers, and God is doing amazing things in my missions. I thank God, because the devil won't manage to weaken us in any way. I count it a great gain when I see people giving their lives to Jesus! 

There's one old man who gave his life to Jesus, insisting that he doesn't want to drink alcohol again, and also insisting we should reach his home. When we reached there, it was amazing. The whole family came together and some neighbors to witness the gospel. There was a big number of people in his home, others were under a shelter, and we even had others behind the house. As a result, Jesus won souls there that day. Today, if our vehicles don't come to pick us up, we are planning to reach one secondary school with the end time message, by the grace of God.

Attached are photos (see album) of when we went to that gentleman's home, and the photos of my sick daughter, who is now better, and the attack of the lightning. Let's remain cheerful in our faith in Jesus' name. More testimonies coming, as the Holy Spirit is our helper.

Your servant,

Bro Henry.

October 10, 2025

Dear bro Len, 

You are right [about the need to follow up with the people who've gotten saved through our outreach, disciple them, and plant churches], but I see this as a confirmation to what I have been praying about during my missions.

Many souls have come to Christ that are calling me always, but the distance is big. I have established already a church in western equatorial state, Yambio, and I appointed one elder there by the name Ssenyonjo, though they need much support in everything. 

There is a great need I see in establishing churches. I  have also established a church in Juba, which still has land issues, but programs are running there, and it's getting full due to the new harvest. I oversee it directly.

There is a team I have put in place (called "Rescue Team"), still under teaching and training, whose work is to follow up with our new converts on call and contact.

Am also raising five elders by the grace of God.

Surely the work is huge, a lot has to be done to save God's people from the burning fire of hell.

October 8, 2025

Through the outreaches, numbers of those accepting Jesus are increasing every day, and many are getting delivered by the grace of God. The list of the people waiting for the next baptism service is already increasing. Some people, if we see an urgent need to baptize them immediately, I move to the river and baptize them straight away. I am moving with my team in different places, door to door and in the late afternoon we go for the open air meeting, God is doing amazing things in the people's lives.

October 7, 2025

I give all the glory to God.

Today's open air meeting was fruitful, as we had a number of people give their lives to Jesus. There's also one soldier with the rank of captain, who had some charms in his body. When he heard the gospel of end times, he went, cut his body, and removed the charms from his hand. He confessed that it was given to him for protection when he is in battle at the front line. He then requested me to pray for him, so that only God becomes his Protector. I give all the glory to God.

I also conducted another baptism today morning before the open air meeting. The open air meeting will continue through Friday, and on Saturday I have a conference targeting leaders to teach about the end time message. Already the information about the conference is moving, and different leaders are calling me to inform me about their plans to attend. 

I know of some churches following a wrong doctrine. One gentleman came to me after the prayer and told me that in their church the pastor is selling an anointed card at $100 USD, so that people's lives may supposedly change, which I don't agree with. People are perishing in South Sudan, because they have not been correctly taught the truth. But I want to give God glory for my completion of my course with DTS, as my eyes are now open, and God is using me to open many people's eyes to the truth.

I do deliverance after their accepting Jesus Christ, confession and repentance. I do deliverance, and many of them get delivered from these evil spirits.

October 5, 2025

Glory be to God. They are now four who have given their lives to Jesus from a [prophetic cult] ministry.

One came out from there when she was pregnant, and on Thursday of this week, they brought her to me when she was bleeding. When I talked to her, I discovered she has never given birth to a child completely, but she has had five different miscarriages, and it always happens like that. I immediately commanded the bleeding to stop and the baby to remain in the womb until 9 months are over. In five minutes the bleeding had stopped. Yesterday she was in the church jumping and praising the Lord without any problem. I give glory to God.

There's also a family, whom we had planned to reach with the end time gospel since the week started. Yesterday we went there without information, and we found there was a military General in the same compound. I thank God I was given an opportunity to share the end time message, and I saw people raising their hands to invite Jesus Christ into their lives, including the General.

September 30, 2025

Dear bro Len,

Prayers needed, [today] as we were for our outreach, we were attacked by a group of youths, who assaulted one of our brothers. They were beating him on the head with heavy logs, and afterward left with him to a place we don't yet know until now. We later discovered that the person behind this attack is one of his family members, who is a leader in a cult prophetic ministry. They're against the gospel of the truth. They first influenced his boss and [got him] sacked from work, but his zeal for the gospel just grew. I am always with him in my missions, until yesterday when this happened. He is by the name William, a South Sudanese.

I have reported the issue to the security organs, and investigations are on going, as we put his life in the precious blood of Jesus Christ.

Continue to put us in prayers, because the gospel has to be preached, the Lord instructed me to prepare the way for his coming; and the link you shared with me Prepare the Way has really touched me so much, it was a great confirmation to what the Lord told me.

Bro Henry.

September 29, 2025

Dear bro Len,

I give God the glory, and I strongly thank God for DTS. I am going preaching to all places, hospitals, markets, prisons, streets, and many other places, as the Holy Spirit leads us. I have seen many giving their lives to Jesus and continuing to surrender to the Saviour, but there's another thing [that's] amazing. Those who hear me preaching in South Sudan and are already believers, born again, [as well as] others who are even servants of God, they wonder where I get this boldness to preach in such a country like this, speaking the truth without fear. 

There are so many false churches selling water, oil and teaching what people want to hear, but I thank God for the grace to teach the gospel of holiness, repentance and end time. I have many servants of God who have come to me, they want to know the secret, I tell them I was trained from DTS, and in the course of my study, I was filled with the Holy Spirit, [thus] I don't fear to preach the truth, 

September 27, 2025

Dear bro Len, 

The work is still going on and the numbers to be baptized are increasing, we had no bigger means of transport to take all the people, I decided that I will do it in shifts until we finish up, however evangelism is still on going. 

Attached are some of the pics for baptism, also one for one gentleman whose eye had problem but after baptism, I prayed for him to be filled by the Holy Spirit and immediately the eye opened (see photo album).

Glory be to Jesus.

September 25, 2025

Dear bro Len,

I give God the glory, today during our door-to-door evangelism within South Sudan, one gentleman by the name William, a soldier under military intelligence in South Sudan, has given his life to Jesus and his mother and brothers have all followed him. I also visited the hospital, and the sick people gave their lives to Jesus.

By the grace of God I managed to reach the site where the baptism will take place. Attached is the photo when I visited the site.

September 19, 2025

Dear brother Len,

Hope this email finds you well.

We glorify the Lord, this day Friday we shall be heading back. 

The outreach was so fruitful, we shall be doing evaluation this Saturday with my team about the harvest crusade, on Thursday one of our speakers got burnt but we thank God, it didn't stop the massive crusade from taking place.

The recorded (decisions for Christ) were 150, but we have other names, which were not recorded. I estimate the number to be 230 in total.

Yours faithfully,

Bro Henry.

September 17, 2025

Dear bro Len,

More updates about the ongoing harvest crusade in South Sudan, many souls crossing from darkness to the light, today we have celebrated through serious praise after leading a good number of people to salvation by the grace of God. Healing and deliverance still taking place.

One of the ladies who gave her life to Jesus, she came and told me she got a dream when the whole world was in darkness and there's no way of seeing the way, she said she saw a place and in that place she could only see a nail in the foot of someone, at looking at that she was able to find direction.

September 16, 2025

I saw the hand of God in today's crusade. A few people came and said we should not continue (with the crusade0, but God intervened, and the crusade went well with massive deliverance, people receiving Jesus and repentance.

Note from blog author: Brother Henry wrote me (Len) the following message regarding Isaac, one of our DTS students who has been attending the crusade meetings that he is conducting there: "When I saw him (brother Isaac), the Lord guided me to send him with other two people to do door-to-door (evangelism) in an area I know, and (for them to) go back like that...I prayed for him to be filled by the Holy Spirit. To preach the gospel in South Sudan, you must completely accept to lose your life for Christ to the cost of death.

September 15, 2025

It was amazing, I saw people accepting Jesus as their Lord and savior, people getting delivered from demonic forces. One gentleman was under serious deliverance when I was praying for him, and at once shouted after receiving his deliverance that he saw a very strong light that shone towards him from above; and after that it took a long time for him to normalize. Glory be to God! It was a strong visitation of the Holy Spirit. The numbers increased greatly compared to yesterday. Attached are some photos.

Note from blog author: One of our DTS students in South Sudan wrote to me the following comment after reading about this harvest crusade: "This is great. I managed to reach to brother Henry's harvest crusade, but it was very far and was much expensive to reach there. I really saw people giving their lives to Jesus and desperate to repent their sins after his preaching. I pray let God give me the zeal he has given to him because I see him reaching places no missionary can reach for the gospel without fear. Bro Isaac."

September 14, 2025

Forty one people gave their lives to Jesus, many delivered, one woman came with a walking stick but the Holy Spirit touched her and she was jumping praising the Lord. We are now for hospital ministry.

September 13, 2025

Dear bro Len,

I greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It was a great day. We started off with clearing the venue of our harvest crusade end time message. And also, by the grace of God, I reached out to the hospital with my team, and I saw people in terrible conditions accepting Jesus Christ. 

I came across a man who was stabbed in a neck with a knife and it's still not removed. He was in much pain but I thank God I prayed for him, and he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. He immediately showed that he is ready to meet Jesus, and many others who accepted Jesus. See photos in album above.

Bro Henry.

September 11, 2025

Dear bro Len,

From the time I arrived [back] in South Sudan, I have been moving up and down getting some staff I needed for my campaign, which will start this Saturday [September 13]. I will keep you updated for prayers. I will be moving with my team [daily] from 8:00am to 1:00pm, [at which time] we shall be visiting the hospitals and prison in different places to preach there, and from 2:00pm [onward] we shall be staging an open crusade, where I will be teaching about the end times with the message of rapture. Serious mobilization is already going on, and people are already desperately waiting for us in their regions. What has delayed us was the security clearance process, but it's now done.

I got the projector, and I also got a small, [personal] PA system. However yesterday evening, I also got information of receiving a bigger public address system at no cost, which I [had previously planned] to hire at 30 USD per day. The gentleman said that after my preaching to him about the end time gospel, [the free PA system] will be His contribution for the gospel. I give God the glory. I plan to use it only in specific locations to avoid huge transport and fuel cost, and then in other places we will be moving with the [smaller personal size] one I acquired.

Your servant,

Bro Henry.

Author's Note: If you enjoyed this post, you may also like to read Uganda End Time Evangelistic Outreach, Nigeria End Time Evangelistic Outreach. Also see the Home page of this blog for more testimonies. You are invited to view my collection of blogs at Writing for the Master.

Do You Want to Know Him?

If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus.  Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe. 

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

________________________________________________

Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.  He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org. 

A Message from our Lord by Sister Catherine

On Sunday, 9th January 2022, I received the following email from one of the students in our Doulos Training School (DTS), sister Catherine, who is in the United Kingdom. 

Testimony of Sister Catherine

"Dear brother Len and sister Jennifer.

This morning at around 6:00 AM, I had a vision of being in heaven, and our Lord showed me the setting sun. 

I met Jesus face-to-face and He said, 'As much as I would love to give more time to save souls, I cannot, because our Father the Almighty has set the sun in place and His plans in place, and they cannot be changed. Time is running out for saving souls, please tell our Church. I am always with you'

It was crystal clear, and a very vivid message and very powerful.

This message  has really got me thinking of the urgency of witnessing praying more.

I felt it is very urgent to share this message with you.

I feel such a stronger urgency to witness more and pray more for salvation of lost souls and pray for more people to join the Doulos studies and for some churches to wake up before it's too late.

Praying for you all. 

Bless you all. 

With love in Jesus our Lord. 

Sister Catherine."

[END OF TESTIMONY FROM SISTER CATHERINE].

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Closing Words

Dear friends, I have no doubt that what sister Catherine has shared actually happened to her, and that the Lord did speak to her in heaven. I know her and she would not make anything like this up. 

This message from our Lord agrees with what we have been hearing from Him through many other servants of His. Time is up. The end has come. He is coming back very very soon (Rev 22:7). There is no time to waste. The Father has determined it. As the Lord said at the end of the Revelation given to John the apostle:

"Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star." (Rev 22:12-16)

Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Come! 

May the Lord help us all to be found ready when He comes. May He help us to be found faithful and obedient to all that He has commanded us to do, including the Great Commission to go and make disciples. May He help us to be faithful in prayer, especially for souls.

Author's Note: If you enjoyed this post, you may also like to read my other post about sister Catherine called Supernatural Encounter While Striving to Draw Closer to God. You may also read Rescue Souls, Share Jesus Without Fear, A Spirit Led Strategy for Evangelism, The Night the Lord Came into My Hut.  If you are interested in learning more about our three-year discipleship training school (DTS), please see here. Also see the Home page of this blog for more testimonies. You are invited to view my collection of blogs at Writing for the Master. 

Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus. Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15). He preached that we must repent and believe. 

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

________________________________________________

Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International. He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.