Amazing things continue to happen here in Finland as I am traveling far and wide across the country holding seminars, teachings and preaching the Word.  People everywhere are being deeply stirred by the cutting Word that is going forth under deep anointing.  It is wonderful.  In many places, I simply feel that I would just like to TABERNACLE for months.  I was just in a large Lutheran cathedral that seats 1400 people.  It was built over 250 years ago.  People seemed to come from everywhere for the meetings and we praised and worshipped the likes of which have never been experienced in that cathedral.  Everyone was deeply touched and melted.  The hunger here for a visitation of the Lord is always deeply refreshing.  We are currently searching for Bible College premises to prepare the ground for an INTERNATIONAL BIBLE COLLEGE that will open in 2006.  The vision for Finland is enormous and involves all of Europe.  A great wave of the love and the power of the Lord will flow from Finland into Europe to bring an awakening and outpouring that has never before been experienced in this part of the world that is fast becoming the BEAST NATION OF REVELATION.  God will visit Europe and find Himself a bride from the arrogant corrupt and atheistic Europeans who have stood against and resisted Him for so long.  After His visitation, Europe will be without excuse at the appearance of THE Antichrist.

CONTINUED TESTIMONY FROM MALAWI

You remember the accident we had in Malawi earlier this year when God gloriously saved a man from certain death when he was hit by our Land cruiser in a storm?  I had the delightful opportunity recently to interview this man, named Mphatso.  His story is an impressive testimony of the great power and mercy of our Almighty God.

Mphatso Shuma Tembo was born in the year 1982.  Just a few months before he was born his father died leaving him to be raised by his mother alone.  His mom was a Moslem and sent her child to an Islamic school where he would receive a secular education and also the principles of the Islamic religion.  When he was eight his mother died and Mphatso was thrown to the mercies of his scoundrel older brother.  The brother made his living as a mechanic but wasted all his money on women and liquor.  Eventually he ended up drinking away the finances that were needed to fund the future studies of his younger brother.  Following the example of his brother  Mphatso drifted into a wrong kind of crowd and was soon living as reckless a life as his elder brother.  When Mphatso was sixteen one of his friends suggested that they should start stealing and they excitedly took action to “earn” an extra few bucks.  For a couple of poor kids the loot of 5000 Kwacha (US$100) was a stunning treasure, but soon enough it had vanished down their throats in alcohol.  Alcohol and their riotous life demanded more and more money.  One theft followed another and the crimes grew as did the young men in their arrogance.  After growing tired of petty thieving this ill-behaved bunch of six stole a car and obtained an illegal gun and started to commit more serious crimes that were more financially profitable.  Threatening with a weapon they assaulted bars and clubs and took money and valuables.  The money was utterly wasted by boozing and partying.  This was the life of Mphatso Shuma Tembo just before the accident and God’s Divine Intervention in his life in January of this year.

That January day was the very day when the leader of the gang gave Mphatso orders to buy some extra bullets for their gun.  After he had accomplished this task he headed back to their lodgings drunk and stopped to rest.  He was under a bush beside the road when a strange man awoke him and asked him to push his car that had run out of gasoline.  Mphatso agreed and just as he began pushing the car out into the road with the newly acquired bullets in the pocket of his trousers, he was suddenly hit from behind by the Kalibu land cruiser.  Mphatso flew into the air, landed on the hood of the land cruiser and slipped into the drainage ditch that was flowing deep in water from the storm.  The land cruiser had hit the vehicle in front so hard that it had been pushed about 20 meters.  Mphatso had been pinned between both vehicles.

As you may recall Mphatso survived this devastating crash with a few scratches and some serious bruising.  Not a single bone in his body was broken.  Pastor Paisley and Pastor Michael hurried him to the hospital. Mphatso says that he himself is not completely clear about what exactly happened to him whilst he was unconscious. “All I knew when I woke up was that I was a changed man.  Nobody had had the chance of telling me about Jesus or the Christian faith.  In the accident he was the Holy Spirit that really hit me! I knew that my life was instantly changed:  Before I was a Moslem and a criminal: Now I was a Christian!” he explains enthusiastically. "How Jesus visited me I just do not know but He certainly did in those moments of unconsciousness.  Pastor Michael challenged me when I came out of consciousness but already God had done a work in me.  Pastor Paisley was  in the hospital to assist the nurses examine Mphatso when three bullets fell from his pocket on to the floor. The three days following the accident Mphatso was in the hospital being examined and supervised by the doctors.  During that time several workers and pastors from Kalibu came to visit and encourage him. From them he quickly learned more of this newly acquired faith that had been totally supernaturally revealed to him whilst in the state of unconsciousness.  The month after the accident he spent mostly lying in bed resting and making assessment of his life. Alcohol had lost its taste and he knew in his heart that his friends just weren’t his friends anymore. He had not mentioned to them a word about his faith but the gang of ex-friends soon took notice that Mphatso was no more the irresponsible criminal that they knew. “He has become a ‘born-again’,” they declared trying to explain the radical change in their ex-accomplice in crime. Little over a month after the “fortunate” accident pastor Paisley Mavutula offered Mphatso a job in the Kalibu workshop in Blantyre.  This not only gave a secure livelihood for the young man but also opened a door for him to hear the Word of God and mature as a Christian.

Now, over half a year after the crash the plainly evident hunger for God is simply oozing out of him.  In the words of Mphatso himself:  “I know from what I am saved.  Before I might have had 20 000 Kwacha in my pocket, but still I was as lost as a man can be.  Now I maybe don’t always have so much money or so many things but I am happy and rich in God! God is far better than my old evil life!”

From his old criminal gang of six, two are now in prison.  The whereabouts of the other gang members Mphatso doesn’t know simply because after the accident he has never kept contact with them.  “They are also aware that I am a changed man and they stay away from me,” he declares. Mphatso has found a new purpose and meaning to his life.  He dreams of a future serving the Lord in the ministry of the Kingdom of God:  “I just want to know God and His Word more deeply so that I might work for Him.”

In the bus in which Mphatso was returning home after being released from the hospital, he heard two strangers talking about the amazing accident that recently taken place.  “From the details of the crash I realized that they were talking about me.  One passenger in the bus told the other that a land cruiser had hit a boy in the back and that the young man was dead.  I knew they were referring to me.  Filled with gratitude, I thanked and praised God.  Laughing joyously, I told them:  ‘Gentlemen, that young man is I but I am alive! I am alive!"

The other amazing fact of the accident is that the vehicle that was hit clearly disappeared before our very eyes and nothing has been heard since.                

2005 US ITINERARY AND CONTAINERS FOR MALAWI

 We are already beginning to work on the 2005 itinerary for Pastor Howard.  If you are interested in having him come and speak at your church or group please contact the Kansas City office as soon as possible.  Email address and phone number on the front of this newsletter.

Please also note that we are wanting to put together a container of stationery for the school in Malawi.  If anyone has connections with a major supplier such as Office Max/Staples/Sams Club/ Wal Mart and can approach them for charitable contributions then please advise us and I will send a package which you can present to them.  We also need furnishings and kitchen appliances, china and tableware for the cottages for staff.

We need 2,000 stackable chairs for the school hall and this will fill two 40’ containers.  It costs $10,000 to ship a container so we would prefer it if items were new or in very good condition and if they are donated by some company then so much the better.  Many companies will donate as it is a tax rebate for them.