So, this past weekend was Impact World Tour in Dunedin! There is soooo much to share about the school assemblies, crazy running around catering to the teams, and so many cool stories, but I have to tell you, about the weather since I asked you to get involved..... it was amazing! A miricle!! Thanks for praying! We did keep the venue at Forbury Raceway Park despite the warnings and multiple problems.

We had a cold rain and harsh winds straight through 3 days prior to the first day of the event. (Actually mostly rain about 3 weeks before!) Thurs. morning in Dunedin it started to clear and it was still windy, BUT at the venue... it was perfectly calm and sunny! That night we could see the stars in the sky for the first time in a loooooooong time! (Even the southern cross, cool!) Everyone was amazed at Gods hand of protection around the place! I couldn’t stop looking up! Team Xtream was that night... breaking concrete flaming blocks with their heads (and even some afros heh-heh), blowing up hot water bottles, bending steel bars, rolling cars and all that stuff... oh, yeah and preaching the clear gospel message and even teaching on creation vs evolution! (The owner of the venue said that it was the largest crowd he’s seen in the place!)

The next day in the morning it poured again. The sound booth tent was flooded and equipment was covered. We were racing around trying to find alternative venues, but could not for the size of it. We could do the show in the rain if the equip. was already powered up, but it had to be turned off due to the horse race track. So we would decide by 4:00pm. 3:30 came and didn’t blue sky fly in overhead! Heh! It actually got hot out for a while! Warm enough to wear our new “IWT Crew” short sleeves shirts and warm enough to dry the equip. quickly to start it up! That night was the still and beautiful calm weather! Almost tropical enough for Island Breeze, the indigenous cultural night of island song and dancing. (Kayleigh loved the dancers, you can imagine!) This was an amazing production. Even better... still the stars were in the sky!!! We just kept praising God!!! You have to understand that if it rained at all during the evenings, most likely nobody would come out and all that work (years of it) would just have to be eaten. Yeah, I hear you... we are defiantly thinking indoor venues for Scotland!!!

The Last night Sat. was GX International. (The BMXers & Skaters & Bboys...) They took the stage with a bang! The crowd was cheering in amazement and listening to every breath of those stoked, totally sold out dudes and dudetts. The gospel was boldly preached in front of about 9,000 that night. (The venue has seating for 5,000 so you can imagine the crowd!) God was on the move!... and satan was not happy! The entire show was calm, but at the alter call that night, the winds kicked up out of no where after people started to come down. It started to rain. People still came up! It was packed!!! Some fights broke out, I started to get a headache(which has lingered even now) . It was soon pouring and was crazy for a while. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot... the stage, this thing is huge...began to cork screw that day too. Crazy! It was almost like a spiritual struggle manifesting in different forms. I know it sounds crazy, but I really believe it! God protected and still did great things that night!

We are just so blessed by so many people praying for us being involved and supporting this ministry! I just couldn’t get over how God held off the rains until it was over! I will have to get the numbers straight, but it was just under 1,000 people that responded to the alter call just in Dunedin over those 3 nights! It was an amazing sight seeing those people RUN to the front ready to make a change in their lives! It moved me to tears! Hearing the stories from the local links/ councelors was just amazing too! Stuff that went on the next day with their new friends, and all these people with new bibles and new questions. We expect to get some photos back soon to shoot out on this blog so check back in a couple days or so if you want some visuals. :)

I could write another 12 pages, but I guess Ill save some for the next newsletter and some for our next visit. Love you all so much! Thanks for reading!

It was all worth it! We have alot of clean up now and working on the data base and discipleship upkeep, making sure everyone is taken care of, letters, thankyous, closing down the office, and still some events to plan, like a city wide celebration and pastors prayer time.