European Monthly Report April 2021
Undaunted by not being able to have a physical camp this year we had a very upli ing Spring video conference in Hungary ins- Medway, UK tead. Of course, nothing can give the same as the real thing but we certainly had a very good and upli ing me, thanks to the team effort of all who par cipated. Saints were gathered at the hall in Budapest for the morning ses- sions, from where the broadcast was sent, while all our local saints were in their homes for the evening sessions. Fellowships had gatherings at their respec ve halls to watch proceedings together, wherever possible. Con nued on page 4
Also in this report: Exci ng news from our brothers and sisters in Suriname, including recent bap sms and their camp held in April.
Top : Dave Parker (US), Spring conference Middle : Ps Colin Tan (Singapore), Spring conference Far le : Fellowship between the mee ngs in Hungary Le : Suriname camp
Ps Paul Nobel
Server News, Newsle er Crew: Meg, Louisa, Ne y, Looking ahead: April 2021 Heleen and local contributors. There are two summer camps planned. Planning to come? Send an email. All the recordings from the Editor: Hungarian spring ‘camp’ Holland, July 31—Aug 07. Pastor Pieter Visser Contact: [email protected] can be found at: Kromhout 95 England, Aug 14—21. 3311RE Dordrecht h ps://youtube.com/c/ Contact: [email protected] The Netherlands Fel%C3%A9led%C3% A9siK%C3%B6z%C3%B6ss% Telephone: +31 78 6146173 Mobile: +31 (0)6 22 808 977 Czech Kids Camp, 22-25 July C3%A9g E-mail: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Have fun. Website: www.revivalfellowship.nl Ps Pieter Visser Please note: as always, you need approval from your local pastor/leader.
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Editorial: Advantage
2Co 2:11 Lest Satan should get an With the ending as prophesied in Joel 2 But have renounced the hidden things advantage of us: for we are not ignorant 2:20 and repeated by Peter in Acts 2:19. of dishonesty, not walking in cra iness, of his devices . nor handling the word of God decei ully; It all started in Gen 3 where but by manifesta on of the truth Satan succeeded in causing a commending ourselves to every man’s division between God and conscience in the sight of God. Adam and Eve. In Gen 4 we read of the A while ago we were presented with a division between two brothers, camp banner from Bali. Cain and Abel. On that there were some pictures of a Lion and an Eagle with a subtext, saying: The whole of the Old “If you become fearless, life becomes Testament is full of wars which limitless”. mostly have their roots in Lets expand this further to: “When family divisions. Even today, you forgive, life becomes limitless”. these ancient divisions s ll cause wars and strife. So, lets… It’s an accepted rule when we need to Heb 12:12 Wherefore li up the fight… and win ba les, that we need to All throughout history we can recognise hands which hang down, and the “know our enemy”. the “Divide and Conquer” tac cs used by So, what are these “devices” we should power hungry people. Never has this feeble knees; not be ignorant of? been more current than in these last 13 And make straight paths for your couple of years. And… it seems to feet… The previous verse tells us… escalate almost daily. 14 Follow peace with all 2Co 2:10 To men… whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if Ps Piet Visser I forgave any thing, to whom I Heard from the pla orm: forgave it, for • We know it all: just be believers your sakes ‘I dont trust you... • Hospitality is a powerful weapon forgave I it in the • You don’t know what shall prosper, don’t person of Christ; analyse • A tude is most important So, the ul mate weapon we have against • Make your goal: the needs of someone This gives us a clue how we could lose the all of this is forgiveness . else advantage we were given when we • Being able to explain is power received the Holy Spirit. Now, lets look at the context Paul wrote • How do you stay merry? By being If we stop forgiving we lose this these verses in. apprecia ve • Don’t correct in anger advantage and give it to Satan. In the first le er to the Corinthians the • Jesus hasn’t stopped forgiving us, neither Apostle set down some fairly strong has he stopped teaching us The apostle writes: “We are not ignorant correc ons. • Giving is an investment in your future of his devices ” We can see that this did upset some in • Get up, step up and do! • the Corinthian Church. Look fear in the eyes and stand it down • Your past is not your future In the Greek: Devices = Wiles and (2Cor 2:1-5) • We need to safeguard unity inten ons. • Don’t just think about natural food, But Paul con nues: consider our spiritual diet, to have a So again, what are these devices? 2Co 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this healthy eternal life • We follow and prefer God as our #1, Simply put, se ng people against each ministry, as we have received mercy, we nothing else is more important other, crea ng divisions, escala ng faint not; • Believe in Jesus, act in Jesus inevitably to wars and destruc on.
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Revival across Europe and the UK Bap sms in April: 1 in Czech Republic, 4 in Hungary, 4 in the Netherlands, 7 in the UK
Esleeter, Ro erdam Frieda, Ro erdam Blanka, Czech Republic Donna, Wakefield Andrew, Wakefield
Lee, Poole Ian, Poole Lewis, Poole Hannah, West London
Laszlo, Hungary Jerry, Almere
Eva, Hungary Jozsef, Hungary Jozsef, Hungary
Indonesia cyclone
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A recent storm caused devasta on in Kupang, Indonesia, where we have a fellowship. Pastor René shared a pre- senta on of the damage and how the saints there are rebuilding.
Photos: (1) Damage to the house of brother Herry and his family (2) Brother Herry and other saints busy with repairs (3) Damage to local neighbourhood (4) The mee ng (one to two days a er the cyclone). Brother Herry witnesses of how God protected him and his family in the cyclone. Even though his house was not fully rebuilt yet, he was there rejoicing with the saints. What a contrast to the chaos and sadness and no solu- (4) on in the world.
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Spring Conference
Con nued from front page... Both during the morning and evening sessions on Saturday, On Saturday and Monday, we did something a bit different we ran workshops as part of the program, where several for us where we held an interna onal session in the mor- pastors/leaders were nominated to be facilitators for the ning, followed by a second session in the evenings of these workshops in this session. Saints were then put into smaller days. groups which allowed them to par cipate in the discussions. The theme for the Saturday session is the “power of our The theme for Saturday 3rd was “the power of our tes mo- tes mony” and therefore we asked each member of the ny” with a special Revival on the air today feature, ran by group to recall the tes mony which had the greatest effect Ben Campbell where we heard from brother Jed Pillon on them and explain why. The evening session saw six diffe- where we heard of his divine healing from a heart a ack rent groups with different discussion topics led by a pastor. and a stroke. These brought out great discussions and the saints were all For Monday 5th the theme was“the word going out” with a upli ed. Q&A with Ps. Jock and Helen incorporated into the session. It was a privilege to hear so much experience of revival in Over the weekendMariama, there were France bap sms in various places just 30 minutes, and a great inspira on for all who took which took part in the conference, making it a wonderful part, both from Carrickalinga Easter camp and to all who long weekend to glorify the Lord. Thank you to all who par - were logged into the event via Zoom. cipated and praise the Lord. Revival Fellowship Hungary
Brother Ma hew, Hungary
Monthly report - Suriname
The month of April has started well for us. Due to the easing of the COVID-19 measures, it was possible for us to hold a camp in the 1st week of April. The theme of the camp was 'sowing abundantly and reaping abundantly'. We have had a very construc ve me together in which we not only learned a lot from the talks and the workshops, but also learned a lot from each other due to personal one on one fellowship. What also made our camp special is that a er our camp the Covid-19 situa- on deteriorated and the government immediately took ac on. We believe that Our Father gave us the opportunity to have a camp. Praise the Lord. A er our camp is so great to see that everyone who has a ended was built up and is focused on Revival.
To share a short tes monial. Our sister Aspacia prayed that people would be born again on her birthday. It resulted that 2 people had received the Holy Spirit and were bap zed. In total, nine people were bap- zed in the month of April, eight received the Holy Spirit. Even so we have to deal with a weekday curfew and a weekend lockdown. We are forced to organize online mee ngs. However we have taken advantage of the possibili es that are available. Long live the mobile bap smal pool :). Even though we are on a different con nent, we really experience the benefit of your prayers. Brother Guillaume, Suriname
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The Revival Fellowship in:
Almere, NL Czech Republic Now, we can again have mee ngs in the Tes mony from Pavla hall and she can’t wait to come and be a Dear brethren, I would like share Part 2 of part of our family of God. Thank you all our new neighbours' tes mony. In Part 1, for your prayers for our new sister, in the February report, they started Blanka. I can’t wait for her to share this coming to our house for Zoom mee ngs tes mony with all of you soon. while we were s ll in lockdown. So, the story con nues… A few weeks ago, the lady, Blanka, said she definitely wants to get bap sed, but when the lockdown is over and we can all New brother Jerry, Almere meet at the hall as a fellowship. Of course, I told her she can be bap sed An elderly man, Jerry (pictured above), before that, as nobody knew when the got born again this month. Brethren lockdown would end. She decided to get visited him in Amsterdam as he was bap sed the following Friday because she physically not able to come to the wanted to share that moment with her mee ng. Praise the Lord that he listened close family. But, 4 days later, a big to be able to be right with God! tumour was found in her brain and she It was lovely to take part in the needed to see the doctors that Friday Blanka & Pavla’s sons a end the bap sm Hungarian online camp at the beginning (the bap sm day). A few minutes later, of this month. Hearing diverse talks and she asked if she could get bap sed today, tes monies, was very upli ing. so we called brethren and her family, and We had a Q&A evening with Kahoot, 2 hours later she was si ng in the which was a lot of fun and very bap sm tank! She didn’t receive the Holy educa ve, we learned a lot about the Spirit at that moment but she was word of God. extremely happy. We shared items and tes monies with The same day, I put out a interna onal our brethren in Suriname at a special link prayer request and told her that people evening. around whole world are praying for her. Sister Achnetha had a wonderful healing. She was so surprised and amazed about One evening she had a painful upper leg, the unity and love. Then a week later, I it became very hard. First, she thought saw the most powerful and strong Dordrecht that it was thrombosis from which she infilling of the Holy Spirit ever! She was We really enjoyed the Spring conven on had been healed before, so she asked crying and shaking and laughing at the together with saints from all around the Maarten, her husband to pray by laying same me. She said, “If they told me any world at the beginning of this month. We hands upon her. She was healed and the bad news now about the tumour, I won’t saw a detailed presenta on on the Ark of next day it was like nothing happened. mind because I’m with God now!” Noah. One interes ng aspect was that Sister Marscha moved from Amsterdam The following week, before the the ark only had one door, no steering to Almere so that she can be closer to the opera on, our Fellowship held a prayer wheel and only one window in the roof, fellowship. Unbelievably she got a and fast for her and believed in a miracle. not on the sides of the boat. So the completely fresh and brand new start The first miracle was that she was people could only look up. The same financial way that got sorted out a er absolutely calm and without fear, as counts for us. There´s only one door to that issue with the government which we she’s normally is very stressed and God: through Jesus Christ who is the shared in previous months. God always worried - it was obvious that God was door. We need to let God have control of provides what we need so that would be taking care of it. Secondly, the doctors the steering wheel. And we only need to able to do His work! The moving was a could unexpectedly take out the whole look in one direc on: up to God. Our team-building event, young and old tumour (previously, they said it was too sister Cecilia shared in her tes mony that par cipated, one mind one spirit! big and dangerous to do so). And thirdly, she didn’t need any painkillers a er surgery, which is always a necessity. So, even though the tumour didn’t disappear, God was always there. Moving house, Almere Fellowship, Almere
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The Revival Fellowship in:
Presenta on at a coffie morning in Dordrecht
she had started feeling homesick. She very li le informa on about what to do A lady who watched on Zoom and prayed about it and the Lord provided next or what to expect, just an realized she was not saved was bap zed the way to visit her family in Guatemala appointment in 10 days me. In the in March and received in April. this month. A er she came back she mean me the saints prayed. When he Then a young man came who was shared a tes mony about her dog of went to his appointment, the fracture had addicted to drugs and was a drug dealer. seventeen years old being very sick and already stabilised and he could take the He was witnessed to and came to a vomi ng. She laid hands on the dog and brace off. A er a few sessions of physio, mee ng where he was born again of he stopped vomi ng. A great tes mony the doctor said our brother was a very water and the spirit. He immediately for her family. Our sister Petra (van de ’rare’ person : he did not have any pain or changed and when his old clients came to Kemp) was taken into hospital with complica ons from the fracture, even him to buy more drugs from him he severe kidney failure due to drug though the elbow is a difficult joint to instead gave the word of God. Two poisoning. She was in cri cal condi on treat, and he didn’t need to come to any people then came to the Lord and were for 48 hours. The Lord saved her life and more physio appointments. Glory to God. filled with the holy spirit and bap zed by protected her. While recovering in full immersion. hospital, she spoke about the Lord Brethren prayed for a young man in with a lady in her room who was hospital who the doctors considered keen to know more about it. When brain dead and expected to soon pass brother Bert visited Petra in hospital away. They were to turn off the life he also spoke with this lady Chamila. support machine but a er some prayer, She received the Spirit that evening he woke up from the coma and did not and was overjoyed. Bert went on a suffer physically or mentally. The doctor follow up and spoke to her boyfriend said it was a miracle. Rudy. He was pricked in his heart and Spring conference, Hungary A er a prayer and fast on "teamwork" a also received the Holy Spirit. He got few brethren got together to organize bap zed the next mee ng. We keep support for a sister's mother who was them in our prayers. We are grateful to Hungary sick in hospital. Within one week she was serve a miracle-working God who saves The month started with a bap sm of a out of the hospital. Where there is love and gives life more abundantly. lady who was witnessed to by someone there is a miracle also became the slogan who used to come but now does not. The of the group. France new sister was seeking the Lord and was We are con nuing with our zoom bible pointed in our direc on and a er talking studies 3 evenings per week. During one to brethren got spirit-filled and bap zed. Liverpool study a sister shared a tes mony about She is suffering from cancer but is content Hi from Liverpool, how the Lord helped her at work: she in the Lord and is happily walking every This month Ka e received the Holy Spirit, had only just started a new job when the day. speaking in tongues. Praise the Lord! company was audited and she had to Mini Finney came to his first fellowship provide a report that she didn’t have the knowledge or experience to write. She prayed, and le it to the Lord. In the end it turned out she was the only person who did not have to write a report - it was a big relief and answer to prayer! A brother fractured his elbow and was sent home from the A&E with Liverpool bible stall & clean up day
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The Revival Fellowship in:
Ro erdam items & tes monies evening
event—a working clean up day and Bible all three were from the outreaches. full of wonderful stories and prophecies shop outside the hall. Hungary held a conference at the start of and there are new things to discover all We have held a few Bible stalls in the month and it was wonderful to be a the me. It certainly never gets boring to different areas in Liverpool and spoken to part of it. read our bible, even when we have read many people about the Lord. A few Our Saturday ac vi es included a ques on the same thing many mes before. people have been looking into the word & answer presenta on; music & items and At the end of the month, we heard a talk of God which is great and we have had evening of tes monies, two of the about «The joy of the Lord.» God has set many visitors who are listening at the tes monies were from brethren from us free from this world, he has given us a moment. Suriname. Marie has now an established new life and if we don’t understand that fellowship a er prayer and has also been he has set us free indeed, we will always Poole healed from back pain, a toothache and be in cap vity. He wants us to have a Well April has certainly been a busy protec on when her car wheel flew off strong, close rela onship with him and month for us, mee ngs, outreach, the car and she could bring the car safely save our souls. We do not have to work fellowship with lots of visitors and three to a stop. Aspacia heard the gospel in the off things on our list to please God but do bap sms too! The month started with Netherlands and has since moved to everything whole heartedly and willingly. the Hungary Conven on which was very Suriname. Aspacia spoke to one of her God bless enjoyable and at the Sunday mee ng we clients who subsequently was born again had three visitors. One of them, called of water & spirit and miraculously was West London Lee, is a cousin of Mark Hardy from Perth healed of hearing voices. Gree ngs from West London! who has been witnessing to him for four This month, Hannah, a work colleague of years. Lee finally came to a mee ng and Switzerland & Germany a brother came to a few mee ngs before brought two friends - Ian and Lewis - with Hello brothers and sisters being bap sed and receiving the Holy him. They were all bap sed and received At the beginning of the month we had the Spirit. We also had visitors mostly from the Holy Spirit! Following an outreach in privilege to join in the spring conference personal witnessing. a local town, we also had three visitors to which was a wonderful and upli ing me We had an evening of items and the mee ng who had received a leaflet. as we heard some amazing tes monies tes monies where we heard of what God Two of them have con nued to a end and learn lots of new things from the has done for our brethren recently: mee ngs, and are praying to receive the word of God. It's always great to hear new . A young sister in high school witnessed Holy Spirit. Another lady from Poland has tes monies of brothers and sisters we to a boy who was rude and not nice to also a ended a mee ng. Looking to see have never met before. her: he is now quieter! more exci ng mes ahead! During the Later in the month, we had a Q&A night . A sister with MS had a relapse and month, Pastor Jimmy gave a very with our sisters in Germany. The bible is praised the Lord that for the first me interes ng presenta on on The she relapsed, she needed no Third World War which was well help from the medical world: a ended by saints from different prayers gave the victory! fellowships across the UK. There . A sister moving on to a new was a day out at Chapman’s Pool job was worried her current which is a picturesque bay on the small team had found no one Dorset coast. The day was to replace her. She prayed incredibly windy but great fishing, about it at a Wednesday fossiling and fellowship was mee ng and the next day at enjoyed by all - there was even work, someone to replace her some exhaus ng hill climbing had been found and with the involved as well. All in all, a very same name! busy and enjoyable month. Praise . A sister witnessed to and God! offered prayers to a lady who was very sad and burdened Ro erdam due to life’s circumstances. West London This month we had three bap sms, When she saw her again a
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The Revival Fellowship in:
Sister Dorothy, Yorkshire
West London West London few days later, she was smiling and remarried with s ll more problems. pastor from The Revival Centres who had tes fied that her burden had been li ed! When I was in my 50’s my sister and I come from Australia to preach the gospel . A sister asked for prayer for her mum started visi ng various churches – Church in Yorkshire, we started going to who had swollen feet: she was healed! of England and Bap st – hoping to find mee ngs and had the gospel explained What a great God we have. some meaning to life. We eventually properly and so we were bap sed and visited a Pentecostal church which was spoke in tongues as the sign of receiving Yorkshire well supported and where just a few the Holy Spirit, just as the Bible says. I Sister Dorothy Crane’s tes mony people were said to have been bap sed then became happy and content, my life I have always lived in Wakefield and and received the Holy Ghost and spoke in changed. I now fellowship in the Revival started married life with a nice bungalow new language given them by God, and as Fellowship and I have had 30 years of and had two daughters – life was good; a result were always happy. However, as living in peace with the promise of but when the girls were 16 and 10 much as we tried, we never found everlas ng life when I die. everything went wrong and I found anything there. myself divorced and a few years later A er some me we were introduced to a
Tes monies
My wife Zsuzsa came to the Lord I heard the gospel from a friend of in March 2001 in Adelaide while mine in 2010. visi ng her sister there. She came I was very afraid of dying as I didn’t back to Switzerland and preached know what would happen to me the gospel to me. a erwards. I had to go to religious Our marriage was very bad for educa on from me to me and seven years; we were always argu- always believed what they were tell- ing and figh ng. We saw no solu- ing me in the church was the truth, on for our marriage, and we but when I asked them what would even lived separated for one year. happen to me a er I died, I didn’t We came together a er one year and shortly we were at the receive any answer. same spot again. Arguing and figh ng. This was terrible for our My friend whom I have known all my two children too. life told me that I can receive the Now I saw my wife so happy, and I’ve asked myself what really Holy Spirit and will speak in tongues happened to her. Zsuzsa told me every detail and she always and also that I need to be bap sed if I want to be saved. A few opened the bible and showed me scriptures. days later I received the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking A er a while, three brethren from the Dutch assembly visited in tongues. It was a very joyful moment as I knew straight away, us at a weekend. As well then, all ques ons were answered that everything I was told about the bible was the truth. Two directly from the scriptures. God convinced me and I knew ex- months later I was bap sed by full immersion and my walk with actly that the me has come, to decide, to say yes or no to God. the Lord started. Praise the Lord I said yes, and I received the Holy Spirit, spoke Praise the Lord, he has always been with me ever since and it is a out in tongues and I was bap zed by immersion in my own privilege to pray in the Spirit, knowing that God always hears my bath. This was on the 2 nd of June in 2001. prayers and answers them. From then on, our marriage was instantly restored a er seven Soon a er I was bap sed, I suffered quite strong persecu on from terrible years. I was instantly healed of Alcohol addic on, of my mother who was against me being in the fellowship. The Lord smoking and migraines. God also healed me a er prayer from always made a way for me to be at the mee ngs or at camps and Depression, a herniated disk, and a broken toe. he always gave me a joyful heart as I knew that I was doing the I praise the Lord for being His child! right thing by following the Lord. Stephan, Switzerland Yasmine, Switzerland
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