David Hogan / TOS Conference / Leipzig, Germany

How Blessed? Real Blessed!
How blessed can you be when the Holy Spirit shows up at a conference and blesses you and everyone else, the answer would be incredibly blessed.

As I mentioned in an early posting, I am on the road for the few weeks. My first stop was a conference in Leipzig. The TOS Conference was just two days long but intense. There was about five hundred in attendance which is a nice crowd by German standards.

David Hogan, his wife, son Jody and his wife came and ministered to all of us. It is always nice to hear preaching in my own mother tongue. Each session during the day and evenings went long but no one cared. Everyone stayed well after the end of each meeting to fellowship. Everyone came to hear about the dynamic miracles God has been doing in the southern part of Mexico among the indigenous people there. The miracles David told us about were almost hard to believe except when you understand the power and love of God that we all can access through the Blood Covenant.

My first impression of the Believers in Leipzig is the Body of Christ is alive, well and growing. The people are hungry for God and truly see Him as the answer to many of their problems. Especially the problems the government can not fix.

With the Wall Down...
This was my first time to travel to the old East Germany. We can all remember that day in October, 1989 when the Wall came down.

You can see redevelopment taking place everywhere. But despite the huge amount of money being poured into the east by the German government, you can still see much more will need to be invested. Unemployment in the east has dropped from 25% to 19%. It is still not as prosperous as the old West Germany.

I traveled from Leipzig to Berlin by train to catch a cheap flight to Geneva, Switzerland. From Leipzig to Berlin, the countryside showed the remains of the communist influence. Again in Berlin the mix of new and old was obvious. As the German capital, Berlin was alive with activity. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to see anything beyond my train ride to the airport, maybe it will happen next time.

Depending on my Internet access, I'll try to post again later about ministering yesterday in church at Geneva.

Blessings,
Lawrence