We went to 14 cities in 11 countries in 24 days.

We visited Holy Trinity Brompton - one of the most influential churches in the world - the originator of the Alpha course.  We met with pastor Tim Mathews who allowed us to prophesy over the church inside the sanctuary.  We believe that HTB will be used in the future with an even greater evangelistic outreach tool than Alpha.

In London, we also visited and prayed at Westminister Cathedral, Parliament, and Trafalgar Square.

Paris is an amazing and beautiful city physically, but spiritually it is very dirty.  Place de la Concorde is one of the bloodiest squares in Europe and requires much repentance and worship.  At this location, we called forth fiery evangelists to preach across the city.

In addition, we prayed at Notre Dame Cathedral and French Parliament.

Brussels was an important stop for us.  Carol Britton, an intercessor who runs the House of Prayer for All Nations, accompanied us for an entire day.  Carol is able to pray weekly inside the Parliament building with other intercessors for the nations of the European Union.  From this location, we felt we had a direct line to pray and prophesy over every member nation.

In Brussels, we were also able to pray at the Belgian Parliament, the Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudule, Grand Place, and the Brussels Vineyard Church.

The Cathedral was very interesting in that it felt like a spiritually dark place.  We found out later that it has a section dedicated to the Miracle of the Bleeding Sacrament, which in fact was an anti-Semitic  ruse to blame Jews for steeling sacramental wafers from the cathedral where the Jews were discovered when the wafers supposedly bled during their mock communion.
 

In this largest public square that is many hundreds of years old, we felt the cry of the blood of martyrs from beneath the bricks.  We felt that our prayers here bore much fruit to cleanse this location and to call Belgium to its redemptive purpose as the peacemaker of Europe.

Evangelist (and former professor) Peter Heyderhoff guided us all around Bonn. The Bonnmunster cathedral church was the most interesting place in Bonn.  Bonn was the capital of West Germany when the country was divided.  The cathedral felt alive as soon as we entered.  It turns out that there are people silently praying in the crypt (basement) 24 hours a day.  We declared that this prayer is a fountain that cleanses all the city.

Within Bonn, we also visited and prayed at the City Government building, the United Nations building, and the War History building. 

We were able to attend one night of an evangelistic conference.  This picture shows the Breakout Band leading worship - they are one of the most popular Christian groups in Germany.

We were on our own in Leipzig.  Leipzig is one of the primary cities of East Germany, and is really the location from which sprang the movement to topple the Berlin Wall.  It began with years of Monday evening prayers for peace in the church of St Nicholas.  This movement became so powerful that eventually it spread to the nearby Augustusplatz square, and then the peaceful protests and prayers caught fire across Germany.  This is certainly one of the most beautiful churches in the world - it feels like a living organism.  We were here on Palm Sunday and walked with the procession with musicians and a donkey that marched around an entire city block.  By the way, this was one of 3 churches in Leipzig where Johann Sebastian Bach led worship for many years.

In Leipzig, we also prayed at Augustusplatz and St Thomas' church. Augustusplatz still bears many of the marks of communism.  St Thomas is another of the churches where Bach led worship, but is much less pleasing spiritually than St Nicholas' - it felt like where the ruling class went to church.

We were on our own again in Prague, and it is both an elegant and dreary city at the same time.  It is also a city that preys on tourists - where Richard's wallet was picked which required much wasted time to be able to continue the trip.  However, the people at the hotel were very kind and hospitable to help us.

In this picture, on the castle grounds where the Czech government meets, it is also the site of the Prague Cathedral.  There was a feeling of the state and church vying for domination of each other.  Though there is also much active faith within the nation.

The Reichstag was the original meeting place of the Third Reich which elected Hitler to power.  To our amazement it is once again the seat of German government.  Though it is a much more righteous government, we were concerned because the spirits of domination, hatred, and fear are still in the plaza surrounding the building.  We felt that it was important for there to be much continuing prayer in this location.

We were accompanied around Berlin by Rosemarie Stresemann who co-leads the Berlin prayer network and leads the national Watchmen network.  We were able to pray at the Holocaust Memorial, the Brandenburg Gate, Humboldt University, the Berliner Dom, and Alexanderplatz.

We found this to be a very moving place.  It was hear that Rosemarie explained to us just how deeply repentance has gone among German Christians.  She explained that they have even been finding out the family secrets that have been hidden for generations, and allowing the Lord to cleanse them thoroughly.

Pastor Ari Puonti and elder Hanna Kiviniemi accompanied us around the city of Helsinki.  Finland has worked hard for freedom from both Sweden and Russia, and you can feel that desire for spiritual freedom in the capital city of Helsinki.  Here we are on the steps of the Finnish Parliament where we prayed powerful prayers and made declarations over the nation.

We also visited and prayed at Helsinki Cathedral, the Senate Square, Tempelliaukion Church (the stone church), and the Helsinki Vineyard Church.

This church was built entirely by removing blocks of stone, so it is partially in the earth.  The acoustics and decor are beautiful in this church.  It is a safe place for people of any faith or denomination to meet, and is filled with peace.

Even though this space is rented from another church, this is a powerful place of worship and freedom.  Pastor Ari has done a great job, and based on this one evening of unity and worship, a great unity has been forged among many churches to pursue God's kingdom for their city and nation.

We were guided in Warsaw by Barbara Rogowski and 4 other intercessors.  They were a dynamic team with much experience praying around their city.  Warsaw is till an elegant city though once much more so.  And though Poland is dominated by Catholicism, Pope John Paul II brought a resurgence of faith across the nation.

We were able pray at the Building of Science and History (which recalls Communist domination to the Polish people), at a Blue Skyscraper - a new office building on the site of the former Grand Synagogue, Pilsudski Square, the Presidential Palace, and at Dom Bozy church. At the church, led by Bishop Andzrej Nedzusiak, we were able to join them for a night of repentance and worship.

This is the location where in 1979, Pope John Paul II declared, "Let your Spirit descend.  Let your Spirit descend and renew the face of the Earth, the face of this land."  That's a powerful prayer!

Krakow was the only location where we were invited to stay in our hosts' home - Mark and Cathy Warwick.  They had quite a story to tell us about how they became intercessors and how they were called to Poland.

They have found they have a particular call to Krakow and to the Jews.  The Jewish ghetto of Krakow is the location where Shindler's List took place.  Beyond that, the Warwicks believe they are called to create a house of prayer at Auschwitz, the worst of the Nazi deathcamps.

We spent Easter with them and went to their church - New Covenant that meets in a hotel in the old city of Krakow.  We also were able to go and pray with them in the Jewish Ghetto Kasmierz, the Rynek old market square, St Mary's Basilica, and Wawel Castle and Cathedral.

This castle was the headquarters for Hitler's planned extermination of the Jews of Poland and central Europe.  When we came into the courtyard, I was transported in time and felt as though the ghosts of armed Nazi soldiers came out to murder me, descended from Polish Jews.  As I shared this with Darlene, Mark, and Cathy - Mark began to share how he is descended from a German bloodline.  So he a German, repented to me, a Polish Jew and I forgave him, to break the spirits of murder and victimization in this place.

We were in Budapest without a guide but enjoyed being by ourselves.  One thing that struck us was the strong sense of protection over the city - it seemed as though the saints who brought Christianity here were still looking after the city.  This was evident at Hero's Square, where St Stephen is in the middle of the statues and the angel Gabriel overlooks everything.

We also prayed at St Stephen's Cathedral and the Hungarian Parliament.

Sarajevo and the Bosnian mountains are both beautiful.  At this location we prayed that war and strife between peoples would cease and the spirits would never have a stronghold in this nation again.

We spent a day with Ana Trklja, wife of Pastor Ranko Trklja.  These two embodied for us the city of Sarajevo and the nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Ranko is a Serbian Christian and Ana was a Bosnian Muslim until she had an amazing encounter with the Lord Jesus who came to her when she tried to take her own life.  Their love story represents what God wants to happen for this war-torn land.

Ana took us to an overlook in the mountains near Sarajevo where we could see where she fought in the war.  We prayed at a memorial to Jews who were killed.  Later with Ranko she took us to the source of the Bosna River which is within the city.  She took us to the Bascarjilja square at the center of the city, the Grand Mosque, and the Bosnian Parliament.  She also took us to a home group to study scripture with friends from the Roma Sarajevo Vineyard church.

This was the only mosque we prayed at in our journey.  The Muslim people of Sarajevo were the most hospitable of all Europe.  We prayed and declared here that even the Muslims that were leaders of this mosque would have visions and experiences of Jesus and come to know him.

We were hosted in Athens by the Shalom House of Prayer, whose leader George Markakis unfortunately was out of town.  But a trio of Niko, Donna, and Nathaniel escorted us around.

Here we were at an ancient Orthodox church.  We prayed and declared that there would be a renewal thoughout Greece.  We also prayed at the Greek Parliament, Syntagma Square, and the ancient Agora.

We went to pray at the ancient marketplace - the Agora.  While we were there, we began to preach as though we were there in the days of Paul.  We actually had the experience of the spirits of the people of that day listening and receiving salvation.  As we began to sing, "Let It Rain," raindrops began to fall.

Anglican candidate for priesthood, Mary Styles, invited us to join with two home cell churches in the suburbs of Rome, to meet a unique group of Christians and explain what we were doing in Rome.  We were able to explain the principles of addressing the spirits over a city, and were able to get good input on what this group of people experience spiritually in their own city.

Over our four days in Rome, we visited a number of churches and public squares, in addition to the Italian Parliament.  We found the same thing almost every place - beautiful churches and squares - Rome is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - but spiritually dull.  We felt that one of the elements contributing to the dullness was the nearly ubiquitous Egyptian obelisks which still seem to echo the spiritual darkness of the past.

One of a number of churches from the fourth century AD in Rome, this is actually the highest ranking church in Catholicism, outranking even St Peter's.  It also is one of the few with no obelisk outside of it.  As a result this remains a powerful and holy place, a place where we could pray effectively for the Catholics of Rome and all Italy.

St Peter's is amazing and filled with beauty, but it is not especially holy.

With Mary Styles, we prayed powerful and effective prayers for the Vatican and for the worldwide Catholic church.  We prayed for widespread reformation.  We were amazed when we saw a pope resign and a new pope take on the name and mantle of Francis, the greatest reformer in Catholic history.