Revival Fellowship Monthly Report, November 2010 Newsletter Crew: Karen, Louisa, Netty, Heleen and local contributors

Editor: Pastor Pieter Visser 2e St Janshof 16, 3011 SG Rotterdam, The Telephone: + 31 10 4141856 Mobile: 06 22 808 977 E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: www.revivalfellowship.nl

Coming events:

Winter Camp, in Fri 24 Dec 2010 —Sat 1 Jan 2011 Jugendbildungstätte Wasserkuppe Wasserkuppe 10 36129 Gersfeld-Wasserkuppe New Hall, West London Revival Fellowship Enquiries: Paul van Wijnen E-mail: [email protected]

Winter Camp, in the UK Sat 25 Dec 2010 —Sat 1 Jan 2011

Lancaster, NW England Enquiries: Pastor Steve Murphy E-mail: [email protected]

Spring Camp, in Wed 20 —Sun 24 April 2011 Enquiries: Ps Chris Kaye E-mail: [email protected]

Euro Convention, Rotterdam,

The Netherlands Thu 2—Sun 5 May 2011 2e Sint Janshof 16, 3011 SG Rotterdam Enquiries: Ps Pieter Visser E-mail: New Hall, [email protected] North London Revival Fellowship Summer Camp, in Germany Sat 31 July —Sat 7 August 2011 Jugendbildingstatte Wasserkuppe Wasserkuppe 10 36129 Gersfeld-Wasserkuppe Download server news. No username and/or password yet? Enquiries: Paul van Wijnen Mail me at: For the Pastors and leaders there is lots of E-mail: [email protected] material shared by other pastors and [email protected] leaders in the map: Pastors and Have fun, leaders\Teaching materials Summer Camp, in the UK Mon 22 — Sun 28 August 2011(Changed!) Login here, fill in username and password Piet Visser Bath, UK (close to Bristol). and click on the folders to open them up to Enquiries: Pastor Steve Murphy the next levels. Email: (You might have to give permission to open [email protected] pop-ups.)

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Editorial: Permanence

I believe the state of permanence is a already been through. Child abuse, important point of the Gospel. positive factor for Revival. maltreatment and violence are rife. If we can see through the eyes of Jesus The dictionary says for permanence: and the other great Bible examples, we ‘the condition or quality of being Just recently we have had a good influx of will see it as a privilege to be a positive permanent; perpetual or continued people who are around 20 years old. force in this quality of permanence. existence’. Many have gone through more terrible The impact of giving confidence to others We see here that permanence is not only things than us oldies in a whole lifetime. through our actions is greater than we can a condition but also a quality. Praise the Lord for Acts 3:19 Repent ye possibly therefore, and be converted, that your sins imagine. Thinking back to 1990, when Netty and I may be blotted out, when the times of All of this will came to Holland, I remember a refreshing shall come from the presence create a conversation with one of the saints. of the Lord. permanence in At the time we just got going, had our first our fellowship camp (all 9 of us) and the question was This is where we can and should help. which will make asked what our personal plans were and This is where permanence counts for a lot. it easier for new when we would go back to . people to In August of that year we had a visit from Now, looking from a financial point, it commit Pastor John and Janet and all of us seems a foolish thing indeed to go deeply themselves as attended the UK camp. into debt for a place which is only used a well. During that camp, Pastor John also asked few times a week for a few hours. Mark 9:50 Salt me the same question. Sometimes you can find a place with dual [is] good: but if the salt have lost his Just to put you further in the picture, we use, meetings and living space and you saltness, wherewith will ye season it? came initially with a return plane ticket in can partly offset the financial burden by Have salt in yourselves, and have peace our possession and the idea ‘let’s go for a having rent coming in from a live-in one with another. year and see what happens’. ‘caretaker’ (couple?). During that first year it became clear that Have fun, Piet Visser the fact that we had a return ticket, lived in Apart from helping financially, these a hired apartment and had our meetings in people can also have a great impact on that same apartment, created a reluctance this quality of permanence. by people we witnessed to, to commit themselves to what we were trying to There is however a strong commitment Heard from the platform achieve. needed from these people because they I discovered a fear that we would leave at seem to be always needed by someone to Jesus didn’t teach rules but principles. the end of the year and leave them to fend do something. If we want to remain standing, it is for themselves. important that our foundation is strong It was only after we decided ‘this is the So, what is it that moves people to give up and correct. place we will stay for the rest of our lives’, their (private) life and become totally When we are born again, we don’t only that revival really got going. committed to this cause? realise what God can do for us, but There were two reasons for this. For a start, they themselves will be what we can do for God. The people already in the fellowship unaware of any ‘sacrifice’. The more we bring God into our lives, gained confidence and people For them it is totally normal to ‘give up’ the more we will see Him working in contemplating becoming part of us found their own life and become a servant to our lives. their decision easier. their (potential) brothers and sisters. They are also, often without being aware We shouldn’t forget that in the world As most fellowships, we started with of this, a great source of confidence for we had no hope! meetings in our house/apartment, moved others. Teach our children to put their hope in to a bigger house, grew there to about 50 God. and moved our Sunday meetings to a So, many people follow in the ‘footsteps’ What we have received freely from hired school location. of the great Bible examples, Jesus himself God, we should give freely to others. It was in 1995, when we got our own hall, being the greatest. When we get the chance to speak, we that the permanence of our fellowship should not be afraid to speak. became obvious and the Revival The apostle Paul writes: Are we willing to do everything God blossomed more and more. Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another’s asks of us? burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. To give our life to God is enjoyment. As seen in this report, we have now Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things, If someone has never lied to you; you secured halls in North and West London. how that so labouring ye ought to support can trust them. God has never lied to This will have a considerable impact on the weak, and to remember the words of us! Revival, all other things being equal. the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more When you worry you are not happy, so blessed to give than to receive. stop worrying, trust and be happy. In the present world, there is very little In Christ we don’t have to blindly try to security and permanence. Summing up: hit the mark but can go about our walk, So, there are perhaps different levels of focused and hitting the mark precisely Just recently we have had a good influx of commitment in a practical way, but the every time. people who are around 20 year old. underlying principle is always the same. When you talk to these new folks it is If we see giving up our personal life as a totally amazing to find out what they have sacrifice we have missed the most

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Revival Across Europe, baptisms

Suzanne, Rotterdam NL Elio, Rotterdam NL Sharda, Rotterdam NL Omaya, Rotterdam NL

Ruben, Dordrecht NL Petra, Dordrecht NL Cornelia, Almere NL Jessica, Almere NL

Morris, Almere NL Cherno, Dordrecht NL Mala, Suriname Akisi, West London, UK

Baptism, Baptism, Czech Republic Baptism, Czech Republic

The Netherlands, thirteen people were born again.

Czech Republic, three people were born again.

Hungary, one person was born again.

UK, North West, one person was born again.

UK, West London, one person was born again.

Suriname, one person was born again.

Isaac, UK North West Ghana, ten people were baptised when Pastor Ron and (Liverpool) brother Jan Pieter were there. Zoltán , Hungary

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The Revival Fellowship in:

Dordrecht, NL baptised after receiving the Holy Spirit. Cees Czech Republic We had an eventful month with plenty of and Ineke are still in the Dutch Antilles and November was a great month. Three activities taking place. This included a prayer Cheryl has joined them as she is visiting baptisms! The first man was Karel, who and fast weekend and a Saturday night family there. It is a great opportunity to speak heard the gospel last month during a Czech fellowship, where three young brothers gave to people she knows there for the glory of Camp outreach. He attended two meetings short talks. God. Keep them all in your prayers please. and then got baptised at a Saturday activity. He received the Holy Spirit at the following Haimy told the story of Gideon whose army Short Talks: Wednesday night meeting. He's very happy of 300 defeated the Midianites. In faith, Angelo shared a great parable of a work and is praying for new work which will allow Gideon departed for battle with so little. It colleague going to a pet shop. While there, him to attend more meetings. Then a was a true victory for God. Trust in the Lord Angelo was admiring the piranhas (not your Slovakian couple heard the gospel during a with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine everyday pet fish) when the shopkeeper regular Saturday outreach. The girl had own understanding. Prov 3:5. threw a goldfish in the tank, nothing prayed the night before for God to show her Ron spoke of the importance to give thanks happened and the goldfish just swam around the way! She saw us handing out pamphlets to God for all that He does in our lives, which happily. All of a sudden the piranhas and hunted us down. They talked with us is often more than we realise. And let the attacked and there was no more gold fish. about God for about five hours in the hall, peace of God rule in your hearts, to the He compared it to us. If we go into the world returned for the Saturday activity and got which also ye are called in one body: and be it may all seem to be okay, but then without baptised. ye thankful. Col 3:15. warning, we can be totally destroyed and our Our activities this month included a It is good to set time apart to thank God for walk with God is over. So don’t venture out Wednesday night presentation by Dan about all He does. into strange waters, stay close to the Lord Modern Israel and Bible Prophecy, a Jamie spoke about how we should grow and and His work, thus avoiding missing out on Saturday Dinner Night (featuring all male go forward. When difficulties arise do we do eternal life. chefs!) and a Prayer and Fast with talks by things our own way (stop) or do we look to Frank spoke about keeping ourselves Lada, Tomas and Pastor Olda. We had God (go forward)? separate from this world as our testimony another 3 visitors at the meetings this month. No man, having put his hand to the plough, speaks volumes. A colleague of Frank’s and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of attended a meeting in Dordrecht and said God. Lk 9:62. that all we did was quote the bible. Frank We are faced with thought this was great, proving again how challenges, but important it is to stick to God’s word and live always remain a it. good testimony. Marten spoke about how we can truly walk We ended our by faith. His wife Cindy, was diagnosed with month with a high blood pressure plus some other Also sister Helena was healed of a fast- complications during her pregnancy (see beating heart which she had had for three testimony below). They prayed and trusted months. in God and not in anyone else. Without God’s help she and the baby may not have Hungary survived. We began the month of November with a prayer and fast weekend. Almere, NL Topics We are happy to tell you that the word of dinner night with an such as God is spreading in this part of the world as African theme. During the need well. Two of the people who were born again the night we enjoyed to change this month came after a big outreach on the items and a short through 13th of November. We thank the brothers and presentation from Jan-Pieter about his using the sisters from Dordrecht and Rotterdam for recent trip to Ghana. power of their support that day, which had a great the Holy Rotterdam, NL result! There is nothing better than seeing Spirit, how We had a good month in Rotterdam, starting people being saved. we can with short talks. We also had a presentation We had nice activities on the Saturday nights build for the kingdom of heaven, how to walk on ‘How great is including short talks from Maarten, Sven and in the spirit, how God is righteous and how to God?’, a prayer Jaap, presentations, and a dinner night. become righteous and become like Him and, and fast and One family attended the dinner night with the finally, how we need to finish the job that ended the theme ‘All over the World’. God has given us to do with all our lives. month with a They really enjoyed all We then held a healing night where brethren Mexican dinner the international food, gave testimonies of amazing miracles that night. At the testimonies and items. had happened in their lives. With medical prayer and fast The mother and son documents we were shown how brethren we had a were baptised the next had been suffering from all sort of problems, baptism and it Sunday in Rotterdam and through prayer, faith and the power of Dimphna & Gerda at the was really an as that is where they God they had been healed. Mexican dinner night edifying time to live. have the three The final weekend we held an ‘invite your Dutch assemblies coming together seeking neighbour’ weekend where many guests the Lord in prayer and thankfulness. went to brethren's houses and heard about The dinner night was a great success with the works of the Lord. visitors and one lady, Suzanne, was The month of November has been a busy time. We went outreaching in the vicinity of the hall and spoke to the local people about the Lord. We followed this particular outreach with some food together and then

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The Revival Fellowship in: had a Testimony Evening with the saints in prayed for in his own home and was Saturday night and Sunday meeting. It was via Skype. We heard about baptised the following day at the Wednesday good for the saints to get together. It is testimonies of Healing, Protection and meeting in Liverpool. Another highlight from always positive to have joint activities with Deliverance. One sister spoke about how the month was our Combined Prayer & Fast brothers and sisters from other fellowships she had arthritis in her hand, she with the Yorkshire assembly. Our theme was as it is a great opportunity for new ones to experienced a lot of pain and couldn't move ‘Signs, Wonders & Miracles’. We always say see the great work they have come into it; she just trusted and believed that God this, but again, it proved to be the best and for established saints to consolidate would not leave her this way and she was Prayer & Fast ever. Until the next one that is! the unity with all. healed. We heard of how the Lord delivered Plus, Denis came up for a few days in The mercies of the Lord are many and all a brother of alcohol addiction. It was a preparation of his and his family’s imminent praise is due him. fantastic time of encouragement and faith move to Liverpool. The Lord provided him a UK, North London building. job, and a place to stay is in progress. We November has been 'Hall Month'. There The following weekend we had an evening of are all very much looking forward to having has been lots of work going on and many Prayer & Psalms. We each chose a Psalm to them come and support the work here in the plumbers, builders and electricians coming read aloud to one another and then share North West. Whilst he was here, he also ran and going. The Saints have been enjoying what we got from it. In particular this a little meeting in Dudley in Birmingham, great fellowship as they clean, mend, put reminded us to just praise and thank God for which is brand new territory for the shelves up, replace glass, move carpet all He has done and continues to do. fellowship. We expect good things to come tiles and scrub chairs. The Lord has been Towards the end of the month we also had a from that too. Overall, it’s good stuff. truly providing and blessing us with lots of Prayer & Fast, connected via the net, with UK, West London free donations too. We said a final farewell Medway. Richmond (now West London Revival to our old school hall the 5th of December During this Prayer & Fast we put the needs Fellowship) has had a very busy and exciting and look forward to our first Sunday of a little 8 years old autistic boy called month. After a year of negotiations, waiting, meeting at our new hall and first real home Johnston to the Lord. The next day, Sunday, praying and more praying, we finally on the 12th. It has really come home to us we came together at the meeting and there obtained the keys to our new hall. how important it is for us to be a real was a visible difference in Johnston's We have been holding our meetings and presence in a local area. We are very behaviour! It's really amazing and we know other fellowship activities at a school in excited at the prospect of putting the the Lord will perform a mighty miracle here. Richmond for the past seven years. We Revival Fellowship and, more importantly, God Bless and safe travels during these experienced revival and saw the fellowship the Truth, on the map in Wealdstone. It is snow filled times! established there, however, it was time to not the most upmarket surroundings, but as move on for one reason or another. Nehemiah might have said we can do a job We had great joy spreading the word of God Our new hall is in a nearby suburb called clearing away the rubbish and rebuilding this month. A man walked in from the street Hounslow which is a very busy area with a and enjoying a revival, so that people may who had been witnessed to shortly after our great variety of cultures; the majority of our say that ' this work was wrought of God'. hall opening in June. He stayed for both revival originates from this area. The hall is UK, Medway Sunday meetings and enjoyed the truth and right at the end of the High Street, has easy This month began with a fellowship fancy the company of saints. We’ll keep you access and provides for all our needs and th dress get together to mark Lauren’s 18 posted. more. It needs some work, though nothing birthday – we had many visitors from Then we had a prayer and fast weekend major and we should move there in the Stanmore, Richmond and the North West connected with the Dutch assembly via the month of January. It is a great blessing from net. the Lord and we expect great revival to At the end of the month Solomon, Elfi and come. Viola from the Dutch assembly visited us. It We also had a baptism, a Fijian lady called was a nice week of fellowship and Akisi. After attending a couple of meetings, outreaching together and everyone had a Akisi finally decided to get baptised by full great time. Sister Margret, the mother of immersion and received the Holy Spirit with Aba, came as well during this time. Thanks the evidence of speaking in tongues at a all for coming and sharing in the things of the Wednesday night meeting. She was very Aileen, Gijs & Lord. excited and we hope to see her hold on to Julius in Medway That’s all for now. Greetings to you all from her new found hope. Assemblies all keen to the Swiss saints and many of you….see you show up as their at Wasserkuppe! The Murphy’s favourite characters.

The following weekend we had the UK, North West pleasure of the company of Ps Bert, Greetings to you from the North West. It has Klaasje, Aileen, Julius & Gijs – there was been another good month this month and it Open House at Carol’s and we had a great started off well with the baptism of Isaac. He evening of fellowship, testimonies and is from Liberia and has an amazing story to food! We spent an evening at the Hall tell. He even has a connection with the Mini convention in Richmond watching a talk given by Ps Paul Noble and assembly in Holland. It’s amazing how things (now West London Revival Fellowship) finally this weekend we shared a fantastic happen at times. After hearing the gospel day with the Irish Saints via Skype for the faithfully preached at a Thursday night The annual November European pastors/ Prayer & Fast. We’re very much looking outreach, he took a leaflet and decided to leaders and wives meeting was hosted in forward to the winter camps which are just ‘check us out’. He went to see his brother Richmond. It was a very busy weekend, around the corner now – so until then… and showed him our leaflet and then they packed with great fellowship. On the Friday bye for now! looked up our website. It was then that his evening, we had a catch up fellowship meal brother realised that he knew someone (but at a beautiful setting in Hampton Court. On UK, Yorkshire we don’t know who) in the Holland assembly the Saturday evening, we had a mini God is doing some great things in our part and assured Isaac we were OK. All that and convention with talks from pastors with some of the work. Geoff, a work colleague, he lives just five minutes from the hall too! items and testimonies. was working in a water reservoir where Needless to say, Isaac received the Holy Brothers and sisters from Poole (Yorkshire), deer come to drink and was bitten on the Ghost, speaking in tongues, when being Medway and Stanmore came down for the leg by a tick-like insect. The bite soon

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The Revival Fellowship in: became a large red mark and was very including family During the six days we spent with them, we painful. Within a few days his whole leg members and a Navy had three meetings and a lot of discussions, became infected. Doctors gave him corporal. The sister-in- mainly with the leader Samuel to explain the antibiotics, but that did not work, they then law of Hortence, Mala, is scriptures. The bible was opened many tried injecting him with cortisone – no born again. times and Samuel could see for himself what effect. Lastly he was put on steroids, which We have found a place the scriptures say about these things. were having serious side effects, and not in a shopping centre After the Sunday meeting, six people that working either. He told me all this on a where we are able to had already been baptised by Marten, Friday, I told him what we believe and outreach regularly. received the Holy Spirit and six others were offered to pray at the meeting. By the Initially we were not baptised and received the Spirit. On given permission to Tuesday we baptised two young men, Eric Monday he was completely healed and Suriname admits that it was a miracle. outreach there but when and Jonathan, whom we had spoken to on Pastor Bob Hutton, pulled a muscle in his we explained that the the previous Saturday. Both of them right leg about a month ago and was in a lot word of God must not be stopped from going received the Holy Spirit after baptism. of pain. The 40 minute drive to the combined out we received permission from the security In Accra, on the way back, we were fortunate prayer and fast in Manchester, two weeks and may even outreach inside the mall. to be able to stay in the house of a colleague ago, was absolute agony. He did not actually Since arriving we have had three more of mine and were looked after by his wife pray for it at the meeting but on the way people being born again and another three Beckley, who was visiting from Holland for a home he realised that it was completely received the Holy Spirit. number of months. We met several of her healed. We ask you to pray for us so that the word of friends and spoke to them about the Lord. In God can go out to where it is needed. Accra we had two more baptisms, including Regards from all the saints in Yorkshire. Beckley. She has since returned to Holland Ghana Suriname and is now fellowshipping with us in the Pastor Ron and I visited Ghana for ten days After arriving in Suriname, it became Dordrecht assembly. this month as we wanted to follow-up a immediately clear that our priority had to be Jan-Pieter creating structure in the meetings. church group that was visited by Viola, We now hold complete meetings as is Marten and Cindy from Holland, about half a described in 1Cor 14. year ago. This was in Kumasi, a city of We have had visitors at the meetings about two million inhabitants.

Testimonies

I was born again four years ago through baptism and receiving the through receiving the Holy Spirit. I realised that I had never given Holy Spirit. I was raised in Indonesia in a very religious family. It God a fair chance. I went to a meeting where I was baptised by full was expected of me that I would go to church every week, even immersion and received the Holy Spirit with the biblical evidence of though I didn’t want to. The only reason I went was because I didn’t speaking in tongues. My life completely changed at that moment as want to disappoint my parents. I wore a lot of masks during my life I had received power from God to change. for different situations, but was never myself. I had a good family, I have been healed when half of my face became paralyzed. I have did well at school, had plenty of friends, but still felt an emptiness married a very nice brother and recently we were blessed with a within. I decided to travel to Holland with a friend. Eight months after lovely son, Mark. arriving, I heard the gospel. We planned a trip to Ghana but because I was pregnant at the time, After going to a different church I was unable to have all the recommended vaccinations. God that morning, I went to a protected me and during the two weeks we were there I wasn’t meeting. I felt envious of the bitten by mosquitoes at all, whereas when we visited , I people as they were so happy. I was constantly bitten. After our trip I was also protected. was initially too proud to accept Mark was born more than 2 months prematurely, at 31 weeks, 5 that I had to be born again days. Afterwards, the doctors told me that I had suffered from the straight away, but after praying, most serious form of pre-eclampsia, which only occurs in 1% of I received the Holy Spirit, pregnancies. Women with this condition usually give birth 3 months speaking in tongues and was too early with a bad result most of the time as a baby can only live then baptised. It was the best from 28 weeks onwards. At 26 weeks into my pregnancy, I became decision I ever made. I have ill and had to go to hospital. It turned been healed from severe out that my blood pressure was way endometriosis. The doctor had too high and that Mark suffered from told me that I would be unable growth retardation. The next day the to have children, but now my whole situation had completely husband and I are blessed with changed. More than 5 weeks later, a son and a daughter. Being married in the Lord is a blessing as it is Mark was born which, looking back, good to overcome things together and encourage one another. I am was very special. When he was so happy to be in the Lord and learn more every day. born we soon found out that he was Ester, The Netherlands doing very well and now that he is home, we enjoy this miracle of God My testimony began 10 years ago when I was born again. Before greatly. this, I had no idea of how to serve God correctly. When I was a I am very thankful that God is baby, my parents had me christened in the Catholic church, a place always there for us, for showing us we only went to for religious holidays. I could see that this wasn’t what is good, for the unity we have backed by the bible and began to find religion hypocritical. When I worldwide and for eternal life when heard the gospel, it was the first time that someone showed me in Jesus returns. the bible that I could receive a personal experience with God Cindy, The Netherlands

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