Tuesday, 02 June 2009
This Saturday a group of us will be on the Normandy Beaches on the 65th anniversary of the D-Day Landings that ushered in the liberation of Europe and the end of WWII. Having been refused permission for the Mainstage, we are going to pray with some of our French friends and ask God to establish a 'bridgehead' for us there on the sands where the Marines came ashore all those years ago. It will be a very important moment for me personally ahead of our first event in Europe, a three day tour of Brussels in a couple of weeks time. We are also at the start of UK summer programme with Simon Thomas running an event in his home church with the Mobilestage and several other keys dates approaching fast.
Last weekend the Mainstage was the youth stage at the BigChurchDayOut in West Sussex where 15,000 people gathered in the sunshine. I was on the main festival stage speaking to the vast crowd for a few minutes at the start of the event. I found myself asking God for crowds of that size who were not Christians coming to Miracle Street events across the UK and Europe in the coming months and years. I believe it will happen.
We are about to buy the new tractor unit for the Mainstage with the money that was so faithfully given to us having had a loan unit for last weekend's event. Thank you again for those who sowed into this soil for us. Budgets remain huge and very ambitious but miraculously on target, please continue to give if and when you can, it will be money well spent on reaching men and women and boys and girls for the Kingdom of Heaven. Thanks you all for sticking with me and the team! Steve Lee