Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Latvia, Riga and Rezekne

Left Norway for Riga on the 28th of June, and came back on the 13th of July. It was an amazing trip where God showed up in many ways. We were a team of 6, 2 from Northern Ireland (Dan and Gill), 2 from UK (Jason who lives in Northern Ireland and his brother Steve), Agia our Latvian translator and myself.
The first couple of days we stayed in Riga, enjoyed being tourist b4 we started the meetings. We had one meeting Sunday morning, one Monday evening and one Tuesday evening. People got saved, healed and refreshed in the Lord. Jason put us on the frontline, asked us to prophecy over people in the congregation….it was a lot of fun and a bit scary – thank you Jason for doing that. We needed that, and we all grew in the Lord.
We took a 3 hour train ride to Rezekne, where we stayed for one week, loving on the children in that ministry. The children come to stay at the house, when their parents have difficulties having them at home. The girls there liked having us there, we played with them – had water balloon fights…..
The team also attended a conference. 4 people from Finland spoke the first couple of days, b4 Jason shared the next couple of days. The people got refreshed here as well, and received a touch from the Lord.
Some days we spent hours in soaking, which was so refreshing and renewing. God showed up in that prayer room – awesome.
While there, 2 other teams came to join us. Some of them came from a Presbyterian church, so a lot of the worship, soaking and ministry time was foreign to them. One of the evenings after the teaching (which was on prophecy) we had a prophecy time, the group was split in two, and we should prophecy over each other. Everybody stayed!!, All got something for the person they prophesied over – God is faithful. The boat got rocked, the Presbyterians got excited and want more of what God has for them.
This trip has done so much for me, where God has yet again showed His faithfulness and stirred the pot using people to put me on the frontline…… Thank you guys!!