26-27 October. Georgia is at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, to the west is the Black Sea, to the north is Russia, to the south are Turkey and Armenia, to the southeast Azerbaijan. Hundreds of pastors and leaders from Georgia and the surrounding countries attended this conference, including 130 who had travelled the hard way by road from Armenia.
I am certain that God, who began the good work [in Georgia], will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. (Philippians 1:6, NLT)
David writes:
“Georgia is where God worked a powerful miracle during my great 3 day evangelistic mission 9 years ago which, the pastors told me, had changed the whole character of the nation. Georgia had battled its way through three post-communist wars - and evangelicals were nothing but an insignificant group with zero influence in the nation. No one believed that evangelicals could take the sports arena, fill it for three days with unbelievers, and that the Gospel would be preached with signs and miracles following - but that is what happened, by God’s Power. Even on the first day, the event was shown that same night on the major TV news channels, with interviews of many who were healed! More than 25,000 attended the crusade, and 45,000 visited the websites carrying the news of the event. On the second day, the President of Georgia issued a decree that the evangelical churches were to be allowed equal rights with the Orthodox Church, and since that day, members of the ruling and opposition parties in government have established and maintain good relationships with the evangelical churches. We even learned that, seeing the impact of the simple preaching of the Gospel, some Orthodox priests changed their preaching, in order also to win souls for Christ. Never before had the Gospel been preached from the stadium, and never since, as it was in those action-packed three days.
“After the event in 2010, the organising pastors told me, ‘We were afraid that the doors would close against us, that your arrival would cause us trouble, but spiritually it has been one of the greatest miracles. Nothing in recent European history has touched a government and a nation as this evangelism has!’
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1, NKJV)
“As I preached the Power of the Gospel, the God of miracles and the sacrifice of a life devoted to the Gospel during this conference, those seasoned Pastors and Leaders openly wept. Now we plan to renew our co-operation with the churches in Georgia, and a strong strategy is already emerging for the next Mission, using the miracle of Georgia as a stepping stone to reach Armenia and the neighbouring Moslem countries.”
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. (Romans 1:16, NKJV)
Highlight video of Georgia 2010 crusade