Below are two personal reflections about the Vilnius, Lithuania Crusade. - Please visit the 'Media' section to view photograph and movie galleries.

Joan Henson - who was herself healed of terminal cancer in 2005 after receiving a 'gift of faith' through David's preaching - attended the Vilnius evangelism.

Awesome!!! Is the first word that comes to mind. 'For such a time as this' also resounds in my spirit, both for me personally and for Lithuania and even beyond for Europe. Many Pastors and people I talked with, said the same thing, "We have been waiting for this! - And NOW it is happening, it is the beginning and we are part of it".

After the main service  people rushed to get to the 'Prayer Room'. The Ministry team spent many hours with people who, after hearing the Word in the main auditorium were anxious and eager to see what they had heard become reality in their lives and those of their families and friends. - They came in faith to receive; they just needed encouragement and a personal touch to see their faith released for the healing they were asking God for.

A considerable number were suffering from mental and psychological problems. Every one of them, including several children, who were brought by their parents, received release and healing, and went away changed - full of thankfulness and joy. Several people came back to the next session to testify of their healing. A large number also came with heart conditions, back pain and spinal problems. It was touching to listen to the concerns of some for neighbours, friends and family.

I learnt that prayer does not have to be complicated or lengthy. I found there was little need to go into the detail of the problem - just enough to have an understanding.

I end as I began - awesome - what I have seen and experienced of God's power and love in Vilnius has changed me. I am not the same as I was when I set out from Heathrow. - I thank God for that!

Michael Wieteska, Pastor of The Church of the Living Saviour in Geneva wrote this report in response to our Vilnius Crusade...

The sight of the gospel of power being preached to a packed stadium of ten thousand people each night, by Evangelist David Hathaway, in Vilnius, Lithuania (now part of the E.U.) was awesome. As thousands came forward each night for prayers of repentance, they were ministered to by carefully prepared teams of local ministers and counselors, and channeled into ongoing Alpha courses. Before that, the various worship groups had prepared the way with praise and worship of a high order. But of course, with a David Hathaway Crusade it did not end there. After that came the prayers for the sick, with many streaming forward to give testimony to how God had touched their bodies.

And if all that were not enough, when everybody has been ministered to, or were continuing to be ministered to in the prayer rooms by a dedicated prayer team, where healings continued to occur, and the Holy Spirit was being poured out on people, each night a groups of top singers continued to the later hours, with thousands staying on to enjoy what was doubtlessly the greatest all round gospel event Continental Europe has ever witnessed.

On Friday night the emphasis was on youth; Saturday night saw vibrant modern gospel to suit the taste, with a star performer backed by a truly great choir group, while on the final night the rock-gospel opera, performed by leading Lithuanian opera singers, was so powerful you did not need to understand Lithuanian to be moved to tears. It was a though we were in a top London or New York theatre, so great were the sets, so stupendous the lighting, so polished the presentation. Oh yes, and let us not forget the hundreds of orphans that The Hathaway team had bussed in on Sunday afternoon, for their own little Disneyland!

This crusade has set a groundbreaking new level of overall ministry: I have never witnessed anything like it. The team David put together to prepare it also deserve special commendation for this truly outstanding and seamless crusade - and I and my wife Tess were highly privileged to be a very small part of it. If any Evangelistic organization in the world deserves support for its work in Russia and Europe, in terms effectiveness and of “bangs per buck”, it is surely the Eurovision Crusade team of David Hathaway!