8.19.03 Arrival into Sofia, Bulgaria
8.20.03 Reunion in Lom. Bulgaria
8.21.03 Arrival into Kazanluk, Bulgaria
8.22.03 Kazanluk Bar-B-Que
8.23.03 Day in Nesseber
8.24.03 Dobritch Turkish Muslim Gypsies
8.25.03 Varna Turkish Muslim Gypsies
8.26.03 New Life Church Sofia, Bulgaria
8.27.03 Arrival in Istanbul, Turkey
8.28.03 Fresh Bread for Istanbul

 

MIRACLES!!! MIRACLES!! MIRACLES!!!

Last night we went to a Gypsy neighborhood in Dobritch and pretty much birthed a church! It is a Turkish Muslim community and a pastor from the Global Celebration network is just beginning a church there so it is very small and does not yet have a building. We were pretty much showed up not having any idea what to expect due to this being our first experience with a Turkish Muslim community. We thought we were just going to be feeling things out - - but WHOA! Did God have bigger and better plans!

Our big bus pulled into town and we proceeded to exit and form a parade through the town walking just a few blocks radius. Mitko of Dobritch's church had a truck with sound equipment all set up in an abandoned lot for our parade to end at so worship and ministering could begin.

All in all I think we were only there for 2 hours - but HOLY SMOKES did God lamblast the place - (ha! lamb-blast)Blind eyes opened! Cataracts (sp?) fell off of several eyes. The lame walked! Wheelchairs were disposed of! Stomachs sick with worms and parasites were healed! Knees left and right were healed all over the place. There were a dozen reports of people being set free from involvment with magic and divination and tormenting spirits over both persons and homes! It was totally and completely WILD!!!

Whats funny is over the course of the last 48 hours several of the group memebers started experencing this light headed dizzy floating stoned-like feeling. I myself felt it and kept trying to shake my head into focus and normalcy. I would ask myslef - am I hungry? no. thirsty? no. Is my blood sugar out of whack or something?....nooo... I am extremely dizzy - yet i am not nauseous and even though i feel like i am inside some huge plastic bubble and walking a foot off of the ground - i feel good - and i really like it! I finally confided in one of our other group memebers and they sent me over to pastor Robert Lavalla saying that he was saying that he felt the same exact way. When i spoke with him it turned out there were a whole bunch of us experiencing the same feelings and as each of us thought we might be sick or something at first we didnt realize what was going on. The more we talked about it the more we learned everyone had been feeling this amazing 'high' of some sort. It was at this point that we arrived at this Turkish Muslim community and we sort of said "okay God! Whatever you're up to. Do whatever it is you plan on doing - we'll just ride the wave!" Who knew?

Before the altar call and laying on of hands, while we were all just a huge group worshiping and there was a conga line going through the crowd as the Kazanlak pastors paraded through with their NEW WINE banner. We all got so completely drunk on the new wine, at one point myself and Pastor John Story let out huge shouts to the Lord. I was so trashed I could barely see my hand in front of my face - but my husband, who was watching us, trying to protect me in case i fell down, said that as we shouted to the Lord the crowd was getting knocked over 20 - 30 people deep. They all got hit with the Spirit and fell backwards onto eachother just from the force of the Lord as we shouted!!! HAHAHA!!!

Alcoholics came to us for deliverances, OH! and the mute began speaking! In English- I mean that they were speaking for the first time and repeating their English ministers as they tested to see if they could speak after the praying.

Oh and Pastor Ron from the U.K WAS SPEAKING IN TURKISH TO THE PEOPLE!!! He did not know Turkish going into the group yet as he was filled with the Spirit he began supernaturally ministering to the people in their mother tongue!! WHOAAAAAAAA!!!!

Sandy Patrick reported that she first layed hands on and hugged one woman who was just overcome with the love of the Lord and stuck around her. When a translator came by and explained that we were a Christian group she got upset, because she was Muslim I suppose and ran off. Later she came back again for healing, and after she was healed started bringing her friend to Sandy for prayer. Sandy could hardly make it on the bus so many were pulling at her for prayer and the Lord was healing each one of them!

Winnie told me that at one point the crowd passed along this 6 or 7 year old girl to her. She was just skin and bones and was completely limp like a dead fish. Winnie held her light little body in her arms and said the girl was just like a little rag doll. As the worship continued around them after a while the girl started to hold her head up. Then she sat up in Winnie's arms and soon she was smiling and bouncing and eventually Winnie had to put her down so she could jump and sing as she held Winnie's hand. Winnie said she has no idea what was originally wrong with the girl, but she watched the transformation take place in her arms.

Tonite we will be ministering to our last Gypsy community on this trip - agree with us in prayer for even MORE OF THE LORD AND HIS GLORY HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

 
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