Husband-and-wife evangelists Daniel and Tanya Chand are seeing moves of God across the UK and abroad, reaching thousands every year for Jesus.
The pair, who have featured on God TV, Revelation TV and TBN UK, run tent revival meetings where healings are regularly reported and, last year, they held Ethiopian crusades reaching more than 50,000 people.
They have formed a relationship with the Ethiopian Evangelical Council which works closely with the country’s prime minister, opening the way for permits for their outreaches across the nation.
“For a UK-based ministry that began from street evangelism, this is a phenomenal accomplishment and we are very grateful for our staff, team and those who support our ministry,” said Daniel.
But it was not always this way for Tanya who attempted suicide aged just 13 before being taken in by Christian foster parents who helped her to find faith in Jesus.
Tanya told New Life: “I am overwhelmed by God’s grace. I have done nothing to deserve the life I have now and that’s really the beauty of God. My dad left before I was born and I grew up with a lot of rejection and feeling very resented by my mother.
“I came to the conclusion my mother didn’t really care and if I wasn’t around nobody would notice. Just after my 13th birthday I decided to take an overdose and took over 100 pills.
“Reports show my mum put me in the shower to clean me up and put me to sleep, but I actually fell into a coma.”
Tanya’s mum rang the NHS the next day and the operator sent for an ambulance, which arrived with four police cars given the severity of Tanya’s case.
Tanya said: “Paramedics tried to revive me but there was no response. Upon arrival at hospital I was airlifted to a central London intensive care unit and put on a life-support machine.
“I was lifeless in a coma and they were looking at turning the machines off. That’s really where God stepped in.”
While Tanya battled for her life, social services found a foster home for her with Ian and Dennise Christensen, who are pastors at Wembley’s New Life Christian Centre.
Dennise said: “Social services asked if we would take this girl who was on a life-support machine. We pray about every referral and I wasn’t going to take on a girl because I’d had a bad experience, but we prayed and I just felt that we should take her.”
Remarkably, Tanya made a full recovery and remembers taking up Ian and Dennise’s invitation to church.
She said: “I visited a few times and at an altar call I said, ‘God, if you’re real, I want you to reveal yourself.’ It was like I was given an entirely new life. I was washed clean of my past, I had a new family, new home and literally new life in Jesus.”
The Tanya and Daniel are senior leaders of Pragma Church in Milton Keynes.
From New Life Newspaper issue 339
