Jesus Festival

What an exciting weekend Debrecen had! Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings seven Debrecen churches organized an evangelistic outreach that was held in the main square downtown in front of the Big Church. The crowds increased every night until there were several hundred. The most wonderful part was the many who came forward for salvation! Praise the Lord!
The combined worship teams of the churches provided wonderful music that could be heard up and down the square. Lots of people walking by and people waiting for the trams could hear the music and the gospel. Saturday's forecast was for rain in the evening. Everyone had been praying for good weather for the meetings and when the dark clouds started gathering, we prayed and trusted God. The rain held off, and we heard later that the rest of Hungary experienced strong thunderstorms and hailstorms. Only Debrecen was spared the bad weather!
Also Saturday evening, there was some sort of mix-up in the scheduling of the events in the main square. A radio station had a stage set up opposite the Jesus Festival stage, with both groups scheduled to begin at 5 pm. The organizers of the two groups met and agreed that the evangelistic meetings would last from 5 until 6:30 and then the radio station could have the square. There was only a little disturbance of our meetings when the radio station people started testing their microphones, but otherwise the situation benefited the Gospel. People who came to see the radio station's program heard the Gospel while they were waiting! The service had to be rushed just a little, but we finished in time. Right at 6:30, the other group began their program with their music.
Sunday morning the presence of God was powerful also at the Shalom Open Bible Church here in Debrecen where several more came forward for salvation and others were healed and filled with the Holy Spirit. What a great weekend! We are so excited that INSTE is available now in Hungarian to train these new believers.