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Our recent missionary venture to these two countries yielded
spectacular results, miracles abounding, hearts open, the
word
trumpeted as never before. Over sixty saved, nearly fifty filled with the Spirit throughout our
three week trip in May/June. At the Saturday ladies meeting at Victoire Centre Cretien in Nice,
over sixty ladies attended from 18 different countries. One lady in the healing line had four of
her fingers bent back and her pinky finger frozen and separated from the others for three years.
The power of God came on her and the hand was instantly healed before our eyes. Praise Him! She ran
back to her seat screaming. It was just the prelude to the AriseFrance meetings we will hold there
in October, where over 200 are expected to come from as far away as Canada and Germany. These
numbers may not seem spectacular, but in a country like France with the lowest percentage of
evangelical Christians in Europe (.8%), and with over 30% atheist, it is great to see the gospel
making headway.
In Brussels, Belgium, a sixteen year old girl attempted to
commit suicide the last afternoon of our three day conference there. She heard the parents of pop
star Katy Perry (yes, that's us) were ministering at her Mom's church that night, and it was enough
to pique her curiosity. She was talked out of killing herself and came to the service. We prayed
for her for rededication and deliverance and she hung her head and cried through the prayer and got
set free..
Angels watching over us: Getting onto a French train can be a
feat in itself. Thank God for you and others who pray for us, we felt it. As we arrived at Gare De
Lyon, one of the four busiest train stations in Paris, we were approached by a very friendly
porter. This, we figured, had to be God sending an angel in disguise, since Paris porters can be
notoriously rude and unhelpful. But this one acted as if it was his mission in life to serve us. He
graciously showed us how to retrieve our train tickets after the machine refused to spit them out
("M Hudson" was only "Hudson" or the machine would not print.), and we only had twenty minutes to
spare. Our son David who came along to film the meetings (18 of them in 28 days) needed his Eurail
pass stamped or he could not get on the train: all three of our tickets needed "composting" or
stamped in another machine before they were valid; then this porter from Heaven took us to the
right train, onto the right car, 16 cabs down from the engine car, and loaded all six pieces of our
luggage on as well. He was worth every penny of a 20 euro tip!
The last two days we spent together as a family since our daughter Katy was doing a concert in
Paris. The day of the concert the Lord gave me 2 Chron 5:14 "So that the priests could not stand to
minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house…" I thought that was odd
since Katy is not currently acting like a priest, but we call her a disciple taught of the Lord and
great is her peace, no matter what is happening in the natural. Right before her performance she
asked me to step out in the hallway and pray for her, the Lord had me to pray the He would get the
glory and the glory would fill the house. Later as Katy sang, she turned to her audience and told
them how thankful and grateful she was for the great success she has experienced this past year.
Then she turned her back to the audience and wept for almost five minutes. It was a very touching
moment, and the Lord was all over her. Keith was offstage weeping in intercession as he watched
her. It is the goodness of God that brings people to repentance. That's what brought you to the
Lord, that is what drew me. And that is what it will take to draw this generation to Him. Thank you
for your prayers and offerings, you are a vital part of what the Lord is doing on the earth today.
Pray His promises into reality and preach the gospel of the kingdom, because He is definitely
coming very soon.
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