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Thank you for praying and supporting the evangelism in Amsterdam - although the numbers attending were not as we had hoped, the power of God was present to convert and heal the sinner. The response of the people was encouraging: in each meeting approximately 50% of those present came forward to repent and be counselled. There were outstanding testimonies of conversion of the most hardened sinner, and there were many outstanding miracles of healing.

We did see an amazing miracle on the Saturday night - storm clouds were gathering over the open stadium - David was told by the stage manager as he stepped forward to speak, that the met office report was that we had only 4 minutes before heavy rain. David took authority against the rain in Jesus' Name and the miracle happened, a hole opened in the cloud above us and kept us dry! This was confirmed both by the met office satellite picture and by photos taken! There is the same anointing and power in ministry wherever we are - the difference is in the lack of understanding by local believers.

This is a first for us in secular Europe and it confirmed our concerns. While many Christians in Holland willingly gave towards the costs, they were reluctant to attend the meetings. While we encouraged them to bring in the unsaved (the principle was everyone bring one), they found it easier to send money than to bring in the lost - yet what is the Great Commission, if it is not to seek and save the lost? In hindsight the principles we have employed successfully in other crusades should have been followed by the Dutch churches. In our Western countries people are inundated with advertising material. Handing out random leaflets is not enough. We all bin those. The only effective way is to engage with secular social organisations, rent buses and bring the people! This costs a lot of money - but it works!

When we went to Ukraine in February this year, we told the pastors that we had no money to spare and they should do whatever they could afford themselves. The result was comparatively small, but when they realised the power of God, that all the unsaved repented and that miracles happened, they said: 'If only we had known we would have done more.' The believers in Holland could have done more - if only they had the faith to believe!

Praise the Lord for those who repented and were healed! It demonstrates that God works exactly the same wherever we are. The challenge is to change the attitude of Christians, to shake them out of their comfortable complacency - then get out there and compel the people to come in. It is not enough to sit in church and pray for revival - we all need to do something about it. The Bible says: 'Now is the day of salvation' (2 Corinthians 6:2, KJV) - Jesus Himself said we must work while it is still day. We don't need to wait and pray for a move of the Spirit at some point in the future, God is waiting on us.

Speaking on the first night David said: "There are many thousands of believers in Holland who know the power of God, who know the power of prayer, the power to work miracles. But there are millions of people in Holland who need Jesus, whose lives are cursed by drugs, by alcohol, by prostitution, by sin - they need to find the reality of the God who can break the curse and set them free. I want God to change, not just the thousands who attend church; I want God to change the whole nation."

David then challenged the believers in Holland: "How many unbelievers are you bringing into the Kingdom? How many have you won for Christ? God help you if you've spent all your time singing and celebrating, whilst being too 'holy' to reach out to the prostitutes and drug addicts. Jesus came to seek and save the lost."

The unbeliever needs Jesus, but too often it is the believer who hinders their access to God. Jesus told a parable in Luke 18:9-14 of the believer who goes into the church to pray. The believer spends his time looking down on the sinner, telling God how bad everyone else is, and how wonderful he is; God ignores his prayer. - Instead He listens to the prayer of the sinner! Jesus said in Matthew 23:13, 'Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.'