Sunday, 22 March 2009
Over the last few months I have personally visited many cities on the European Mainland and have been continually impacted by the need for the re-evangelisation of this vast spiritual wasteland. Europe was the cradle of world mission but it is now the forgotten harvest field. I’m responding to this awesome challenge by committing the resources of Miracle Street to this harvest field in a few weeks time.
Several years ago the Lord spoke to me through the story of Operation PLUTO (Pipeline Under The Ocean) in World War Two. It was a dangerously audacious but highly successful plan to sink a 100 mile long flexible petrol pipe under the English Channel to fuel the Allied effort to liberate Europe in 1944. The two ships that laid the pipeline in one night were named after Bishop Latimer and Bishop Ridley who burnt at the stake in Oxford in 1555. As they died for their faith in Christ, Latimer shouted over to Ridley “Today by God’s grace we will light a candle in England that will never be extinguished!” This graphic picture has become the prophetic mandate for us to raise the funds we need to pump into Mainland Europe for a mighty push forward for the Gospel with our giant portable Mainstage blazing a trail from city to city.
I feel like I am staring in the face of the greatest opportunity of my ministry, bigger than all the others put together, to take Miracle Street to the cities of Europe to hold monthly evangelistic festivals. In the last three months we have received invitations to Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Vienna. As I write this we are in conversations about France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Sweden and Eastern Europe. In all of these locations we have the potential to reach many thousands of people for Christ. Sometimes I have wondered whether insanity was taking hold of me to even attempt this but the wind of God on my back is impossible to ignore. It will take Miracle Street to another level without doubt but the costs are huge in comparison to the journey so far.
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