Ann L. Ott

In His Presence Ministries

PO Box 842203

Houston, TX  77284

Web: www.annott.org

 

                                                Nigeria

 

I was so blessed by God to be able to travel to Nigeria to speak at the Global PrayerQuake Conference for January, 2008. This conference is put on by Ministers Prayer Network (International) annually. This conference is attended by people from all over the world!  It was an amazing time of experiencing God's presence, hearing wonderful Christian leaders and seeing God move in amazing ways. I believe this trip was the next step in God’s plan for my ministry.

 

I was packing to go to Nigeria when my husband fell from a ladder and hurt his leg. I left on the trip with my husband on his back in bed and barely able to walk. It was difficult time for him. It was hard for me to leave him. My daughter was able to come over on the weekends to bring him food and things he needed.

 

I traveled by air for about 24 hours with two layovers to reach Port Harcourt and my hosts, Rev. Mosy and Gloria Mosy Madugba. Many of us ministers were greeted warmly at their home before we went to our hotels.

 

I was taken to a radio station Sunday morning where I was interviewed during a Christian minister’s radio show. I told the radio audience about my ministry and my upcoming sessions at the prayer conference.

 

 

I felt very strange hearing someone tell me later that day they heard me speak on the radio.

 

Each of the visiting ministers was assigned to speak at local churches during the Sunday morning services. I was blessed to speak at a local Church of God called the Tabernacle of God’s Glory.

 

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I met some wonderful pastors, leaders and a great spirit-filled congregation. We experienced God’s presence and saw God work through healings. I am continuing to communicate by phone with the church pastors. I hope to see them again in April when I plan to return to Nigeria.

 

I spoke at two workshop sessions of the prayer conference which saw its highest attendance ever. The night meetings were open to the public and had an attendance of about 20,000. The civic center was full to overflowing.

 

Session one….  At the first session I spoke on “Biblical Dream Interpretation”. The people in Africa are very interested in dream interpretation. At the end of the session, they had many questions and did not want the session to end. I had to be escorted away from the session because of the press of people. Several Pastors who heard me speak have invited me to return to Nigeria in April to preach crusades and pastor conferences.

 

 

Session two…. In the second session I spoke on “Changing Your World through the Power of Your Words”. I spoke about many amazing discoveries by science that confirms that everything was created and shaped by sound. These scientific findings build faith for the Christians that they can change their world with their words. My two sessions were recorded on videos and I should be getting copies in April when I return to Nigeria.

 

This conference was a wonderful time of feeling God’s presence and hearing His church pray in great power! The woman protocol officer who had escorted me around Port Harcourt and I cried when I left to return to Houston. I had come to feel so much like Nigeria was home!

 

I traveled home from Nigeria a few days early due to my husband’s injured leg. He has almost completed the healing today, Praise God.

 

                                                          India

 

The trip to India in February, 2008 was a step to another level in God’s plan for my ministry. I was blessed to lead a team into India. I took Elaine Grier with me who is an anointed worship leader. Elaine was a professional singer before she became a Christian. Originally the team was to include two ministers from Nigeria. VISA problems prevented them from joining the team in India. An evangelist from India was invited to join the ministry team to replace the two missing ministers from Nigeria. God picked just the right minister to join our team.

 

Elaine and I traveled for over 24 hours by air to reach Mumbai, India where our host met us. We drove for about four hours by van to Vyara, India where we would have our meetings. We checked into our nice hotel to rest before our meetings would begin. We really needed it!

 

Crusade Meetings…  Our first service was held on Thursday night with an attendance of about 20,000. The crusade went on for three nights and grew to 40,000 in attendance. The crusade was a combination of healing service and evangelistic messages with anointed singing by Elaine Grier.

 

 

Elaine was singing in English which most of the people did not understand but the anointing of the Holy Spirit moved the crowd immensely.  We prayed for many to receive healings and many to receive salvations! We saw many repent and rededicate their lives to God. Even pastors repented of unforgiveness.

 

 

We saw miracles of healing, salvations, rededications and repentance. People were willing to sit outside the crusade grounds in the dark just so that they could come to the meetings. What an amazing time!

 

Most of the crusade and pastor and leader conference sessions were recorded on video. You can experience the wonderful meetings through the videos. These can be purchased through my ministry through my web site separately or for the entire mission trip.

 

Pastor and Leader Conference… In the daytime we held pastor and leader conference meetings under a tent to equip the Christian leadership. We had at least 1,000 initially and it grew to over 2,000 on Sunday morning.

 

 

The evangelist and I were required to speak twice each day due to the absence of the two ministers from Nigeria. I had to fully rely on God to provide the energy and the words to speak. Elaine Grier sang many anointed vocals and led anointed worship that invited the presence of the Holy Spirit. Many of the people could not understand the words of many of her songs but people could sense the power of the Holy Spirit anointing her songs.

 

We saw God intervene in response to our prayers and send a breeze when the weather was very hot and still. We experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit in a great way.

 

Church and Orphanage Outreach… After we completed the crusades, we did outreaches to an orphanage and at a church.

 

 

At the orphanage we had a church service that had about 150 people. We saw four adult men commit their lives to God. Two of these men were over 60 years old. We saw about 25 people rededicate their lives to God and about 15 people healed.  These numbers were amazing since there were only about 150 people in the meeting. An amazing evidence of God’s presence was that in the worship time at the end of the service we heard the voices that were singing that were much higher than human voices. We believe these were angel voices. Ministers have reported these spiritual phenomena in meetings and we believe we experienced this in our meeting.

 

We had two anointed services at a small church just outside Vyara. The largest attended service was about 600 people. God blessed us with salvations and rededications of approximately 150 people in the two services. We saw many healings. The anointing was powerful on the services as I talked about heaven. At the end of the second service, the church rose and sang in the spirit. The sound was so loud and powerful it drowned out Elaine singing on a microphone and loud speakers.

 

 

Elaine and I traveled back home to Houston for over 26 hours and almost got snowed in at the New Jersey airport where we were to get a connecting flight to Houston. Over a thousand flights were cancelled in the New York area with a major snow storm. God blessed us with getting our flight out to Houston even though we waited for over two hours on the runway! We felt God with us through the entire trip.

 

Upcoming trip to Nigeria

 

I will be leading a mission team to Nigeria in April and May to do crusades (nights) and leader conferences (mornings). The crusades and conferences will last from April 21 through May 4th. A minister from South Africa and I will be the main speakers. The meetings will be held in six different locations. Please pray if God wants you to join this mission team. Contact me for additional information at

a-ott@sbcglobal.net or 281-463-7784 or through www.annott.org. The approximate individual cost of the trip will be $ 2,000. Consider covering this mission trip in prayer. Pray about whether you should support the costs of the mission trip through a donation to the address on this trip report or through the website. Please pray that God’s presence will be with the team on the trip to Nigeria and that the Holy Spirit will move mightily!

 

Yours in Christ!

 

Ann L. Ott