I returned to a church in Yankton SD headed by pastors Butch and Barb Hladky. Our 4 day revival in a cinema was a great success, not in terms of numbers but in what the Lord did in those meetings. About 14 months later, I returned to conduct a revival in their local church and once again we were met with the Glory of God in each meeting.
People filled with joy, peace and love and with new vision, purpose and zeal. That is the primary focus of the Holy Spirit in our meetings. To bring people to another place of love for Jesus. However, there is a greater purpose in each meeting that we don't realize at the time.
Upon my return to Yankton, 5 years later, I found out that a man by the name of Steve, got powerfully touched in the Yankton, Cinema meetings five years earlier. He drove the two hours home to tell his wife whom he believed would have a hard time accepting the experience he had, as she was raised Baptist. (he was raised Catholic).
He brought her reluctantly to the next night meeting all the time expecting her negative reaction. However, within a very short time she was overcome by the joy of the Lord and spent the rest of the meeting on the floor laughing uncontrollably. The went home and at about 1am, she said she could not just go to sleep without telling someone. So they hopped in their car and went and woke up friends and family to tell them what happened.
Over the past five years, by their own testimony, they were never the same. They now pastor a church in Herric, a town of 105 population. They have about 45 people attending the meeting. We did one meeting in Herrick in freezing very windy conditions and had about 35 people present. The Lord moved greatly.
More to come including Steve and Loni's testimony and a report of the meeting in Rosebud Indian Reserve - Parmerley SD
The one meeting in Parmerley, Rosebud Indian Reserve, was an amazing meeting. People got greatly touched including a group who came in from Nebraska. People had to be helped out of the meeting. Several teenagers were amazingly touched. The photo's below give one an idea of the tone of the meeting.
Pastor George after getting up from the floor where he had spent about 45 minutes. Joy unspeakable
A lady from Nebraska, touched by the power of God, trying to stand up. She dragged herself off the floor and colapsed on the chair. She had to be helped out the church.
A Native American lady being helped out of the church.
One young man, who spent almost an hour on the floor trying to get up.
More to come.