United Kingdom [Scotland]

October 21-November20, 2011

If you have never been to Scotland, you must really try to go. It is full of beautiful people, history, landscape and… sheep (that last bit was a joke;-)

We started out in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire and the surrounding areas (Alloa, Dollar, Alva, Clackmannan) then went to the lovely coastal town, Oban. From Oban we ventured to Kirkudbright, Castle Douglas, Fenwick, Dalkeith and our finale was in Penicuik.

Many things happened that we had not planned for, such as being published in five Scottish national newspapers! The publicity was not positive and because of it many of our schools (we still had plenty of nursing homes to minister at:-)) and main venue for our last week were cancelled, but alas that did not stop us. We persevered. We prayed and united together as one body to do what we were called to do- love the lost, speak truth, hope, LIFE. Despite the seemingly dreary circumstances everything pulled together for an amazing last week of tour. Things began to fall into place effortlessly as fervent prayers were being answered left and right.

There have been so many testimonies of how God has revealed himself to those who not only attended the shows, but who we also met in town, nursing homes and even the gym!

It always amazes me that there is never enough room (or time) to share about the amazing things that God has done on each tour. Below are a few short testimonies from our team and some of the local church members. May your heart be encouraged and your love for Jesus be strengthened!

Blessings,
the IB crew.

(p.s. don’t forget to keep scrolling to read the testimonies

– “A father who had changed his life around and been sober for 12 years had been praying for the salvation of his daughter. He brought her to one of the shows and during the altar call she went forward to accept God’s unconditional love and forgiveness.” -Male, Penicuik

– A husband had been praying for 12 years for his wife’s salvation. He was a volunteer usher (steward) during the show but invited her to come and watch with a friend. Near the end, when the opportunity was given to acknowledge a desire to know Jesus the man looked to where his wife was sitting but could not find her. Immediately he looked towards the exit. She was not there either. Then he looked towards the front of the stage…..and there she was. 12years of unrelenting prayer had finally been answered in one night.
After this story was shared, by the husband at a celebration service, one of our team members went up to talk to the man and his wife. Turns out the wife had first seen us perform at one of the nursing homes where we shared the gospel of Jesus…. – Male, Penicuik

– “People I never thought would respond did! Seeds have been planted and I’m so excited and grateful that you guys came to my town. We really needed this. In my school there’s drugs, alcohol abuse and kids sleeping around at age 12. I just want them to know that there is more to God than just singing hymns and sitting in a pew…God is REAL and he’s exciting!! I’m excited to see how the spiritual seeds planted will grow in the next 5 years.” from a conversation with a high school student who is also apart of the follow up for new believers in her town. – Female, Oban

– One night while talking to my host family, the daughter was sharing about how she’s had migraines since she was little. They were so normal for her to have but she figured God had a purpose for it. Upon moving to Oban two years ago the headaches had increased. I asked her if I could pray for her and she said yes.
As I was praying the Lord gave me a picture of a hook going in and out of her, as I showed her where I saw it she said she could feel it. God then had me prophecy Zachariah 4:10 over the family. The girl was completely healed of her migraines! The whole family was so encouraged and even more excited to see how God would use them and also move through us during our week in Oban. -Female, Oban

– Our host in Tillicoultry invited her grand-daughter to one of our shows. The grand-daughter used to be involved in church a lot when she was a younger but when she started high school things changed-new friends, new scene, and no one to really go to church with. On the night of our show, when they gave the altar call, she went forward and rededicated her life to Jesus, along with two of her friends that were with her. At the following show more of her friends surrendered their lives to Jesus, so now she has friends to fellowship and go to church with – Female, Tillicoultry

– It was the night of our last show in Clackmannanshire and I was asked to share my testimony on forgiveness. I was praying about it and knew I was meant to share, but didn’t know exactly how I was going to share my story. So the night of the show I was praying during our worship time, and God started to give me little words here and there but still never gave me the whole outline. So I just continued to worship and just felt Gods presence. It was my turn to go up and I just told Him, ok Lord be my words because besides the few words you gave me I have no idea how this is going to look. Went out started off with Aloha and my goodness, God just took it from there. He totally was feeding me the lines and I felt as if I was a spectator watching myself speak. So after the show ended I went out to see if God wanted me to pray for anyone in particular. A teenage girl after a while came up to me and started asking questions about the tour and our group. She said she had to go but I felt like there was something there. I asked if there’s something she wanted me to pray for her and she began to explain that she had caught a case and it’s been hard. She started crying, and I hugged her and asked what kind of case? She shared that she had been sexually molested and doesn’t think she could find it in her heart to forgive him for what he did. She was weeping so I just held her and began to pray whatever God gave me the words for. After I told her that forgiveness is for our freedom, it’s not right what he did but we need to let go so we can move forward and be free. Also, that God will be with her every step of the way, she’s not alone. There was such a glow about her after and I just know God did and is doing so much inside of her heart and spirit. Amen! It’s amazing what happens when we just say, “God have your way!”

– Our team was invited to minister at a church service on Sunday. Before the service God had given a few of us a picture of fire and healing waters. During the church service we were able to pray for the town and for the unity amongst all the churches involved with Impact World Tour, then we had a time to share what we felt the Lord had put on our hearts. Turned out that God had given three people in the church the same picture three and ten years ago! So the Pastor opened up the floor for anyone to come up who wanted prayer for healing. One of the people we prayed for had scoliosis in his lower back. After praying, prophesying and declaring healing over his body, we challenged him to do something he hadn’t been able to do with his bad back. Right there, before us and the entire congregation, he bent over and touched his toes for the first time without any pain. Praise God!! – Female, Alloa

– Although I have been in missions for the past 25+ years many of my family members do not believe in Jesus. My niece who I haven’t seen for more than a decade came to one of our events and gave her life to Jesus! – Female, Alloa

– After the shows the team normally goes out into the crowd to pray and talk with people. I was really excited and expectant to talk to some new Christians and pray for them; however, by the time I came from backstage most people had someone talking/praying for them already. I was happy that all the new Christians had people talking to them, but sad that there was no one left for me to pray for. Then I saw some friends I had met from the local church so I went and started chatting to them….we talked about normal things and prayed for healing over one of them, I didn’t think much of our conversation until I got an email from the other girl thanking me for helping her to have a more positive outlook on life. Despite my own “plans” not coming to pass, someone was still blessed! Yay Jesus – Female, Tillicoultry

//These are only a few of the recorded testimonies from our time in Scotland. Many people came to the events so naturally we weren’t able to hear them all. Glory to God that there are more than we even know. He is faithful!!