January 2024 Update
My Team
Hello Everyone! I am so excited to update you on all the amazing things God is doing here in Europe! I wanted to start off by thanking every one of you who has generously donated and made it possible for me to be here. I am so thankful for all of your support and your interest in how God is moving!
My team and I are made up of fifteen people. This includes a few who jumped on as media staff and even musicians! We have a full band on our team which makes our events so fun! We have traveled from six different nations to form our entire team. These countries include the USA, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Austria, and England. We have traveled to three countries so far and have three more on our list.
We started our journey in Paris, France with all of our Europe teams! Everyone flew from their home nations and met up for a pre-brief before heading out on separate tours. Our time in Paris was so much fun getting to spend time with everyone, evangelize, and be at the first stop of all the Europe teams.
Paris
We all helped the Western Europe team at their first event and it was so much fun. Something that really stuck out for me was the worship. I got emotional while I watched everyone worship because it made the world so small. Although I was almost 5,000 miles away from home, there were still so many people who loved Jesus. Realizing that there are so many Christians around the world filled my heart. We get so caught up in how many people don’t know God, although so important and that’s what we are called to, it’s relieving to see how many people there are that do love God.
Carry The Love
After our time in Paris, my team headed to our first stop in Stockholm, Sweden! There is so much I could say about this stop. The hosts were amazing; the city was amazing, and the event exceeded all expectations because of the presence of God in that place.
Next, we headed to Uppsala, Sweden. Then headed to Jønkøping, and now we are in Aarhus, Denmark! While here in Denmark, we will be in Aarhus and next Copenhagen. The unique thing about this is that we are actually the first to host a ‘Carry The Love’ event in Denmark! We hosted our first ‘Carry The Love’ event on Jan. 28 in the second largest music venue/bar in the city! We packed this place with over 300 people and we saw 24 salvations! God showed up in crazy ways and it’s such an honor to partner with him here in Denmark.
A Few Stats
Here are a few stats about this tour so far as of Jan. 28. We have gathered a total of 1,271 people, have seen 86 salvations, and 9 full healings! God has been showing up again and again at every one of these events and it blows my mind every time! We also are working with some of the greatest people who are incredible mobilizers in their city. They have such a heart for their nation, and are filled with the Holy Spirit. We have been so blessed by each of these hosts!
For those unfamiliar, I wanted to tell you about what a ‘Carry The Love’ event looks like. We have hosted four official events and although they have all looked different, the simple structure is the same. We start by having a time of prayer and intercession about an hour before the event, after a team of us has been evangelizing. This is a great time for our entire team to come together, along with the hosting team, and connect before the event begins. Once we have welcomed everybody, we start worship! Our band is so talented and I am so thankful for each of them. We worship and our host will hop on the stage to welcome everybody and introduce the speaker. We then will have one of our tour leaders give a message/preach.
Sharing The Gospel
The messages are gospel messages and messages about the great commission, as the goal of our tour is to activate Christians into reaching their own cities. After the message, there is time for ministry. During this time, we have altar calls for first time salvations, rededications, and people who want to be more active and their faith.
We have a full prayer team that stands by the stage for people to come up and receive prayer, as well as people who pray over everyone who comes up for any of the altar calls. We will also call out from the stage anything we heard during intercession regarding healings, freedom, or other things God wants to do.
Once the ministry time comes to an end, we do ‘the shoe thing’. This is basically just a symbolic time where we commission everybody to share the gospel. Everyone lifts their shoes above their head and declares that they will go unto the earth and share the gospel. Finally, we go into a crazy praise party and just thank God for everything that has happened that night. We dance, sing, and just give God all the glory.
We head to Copenhagen tomorrow, so there will be so many more things to update in the coming weeks. I am excited about what God is doing here and will continue to do throughout Europe.
What’s Next?
As I’ve been on tour, God has begun speaking about my next steps after the tour. I have been praying about it and getting clarity, while also trying to remain present where I am on tour. I believe God has called me into another year of full-time missions, but this time as staff with Circuit Riders!!! Yay! I am so excited about this next step with God. I haven’t been able to take steps toward staffing yet because we are still in the middle of tour, but I’m a few weeks I will be applying and taking action.
Staffing with YWAM and Circuit Riders is similar to being a student, financially. If you would begin praying about becoming a monthly supporter for me in this next season, that would be amazing! Thank you all so much again for all the support and prayers! I appreciate and am thankful for each and every one of you. So thank you, thank you, thank you!
Love,
Gwyneth 🙂
