Cross Community Church, Elyria, OH
:
Several years ago Loraine
and I met Evangelists Rudi and Sharon Swanepoel, fellow South Africans, by Divine
direction. I say that because it extremely unusual. My wife got their
telephone number from some SA friends on her trip home to the USA and we phoned Rudi and
Sharon while traveling down south for revival meetings.
It has been seven years of a great
friendship and little did we know that one day they would be pastoring the Cross Community
church in OH and we would be invited to hold revival meetings.
So it was with great anticipation that we
traveled to Elyria directly after the meetings in Nashville TN to hold some of the best
meetings we have had. It is not always easy to rate meetings as each one is special
in it's own right and because God always has a purpose in sending us to each church.
The thing that stood out so greatly was the
wide spectrum of people the Lord touched. From little children to teenagers to young
adults to middle aged and seniors, God was no respecter of persons. It was
wonderful to see the children receive a touch from God and each night we witnessed great
outpourings of the Holy Spirit. It was so good to see the contrast as the Senior
Citizens yielded to the move of the Spirit.
We had a large group from the Lutheran
Hearing Impaired church in Cleveland OH attend nightly and it was exciting to see the Holy
Spirit bless them Some were not even saved, but God reached down and blessed them
greatly and many yielded to the Spirit of God.
God is definitely up to something big in
Ohio and we will be returning to this church in the near future.
Keep an eye on the schedule page for return
announcements.
Evangelists Gil & Loraine Howard-Browne
|