The Weapons of Our Warfare Seminar
in Kaub, Germany

BY TIM SULLIVAN

 

“Gottes Segen” (God Bless You!). This is my report from the beautiful land of Germany, where I had the joy of teaching my course The Weapons of our Warfare in Kaub along the river Rhine.

I left Brownsville on the afternoon of Monday, October 4, flying first to Houston, and then direct to Paris, arriving about 9 AM Paris time. There was some problem – I think the baggage handlers at the Charles DeGaulle Airport were on strike, and so my connecting flight to Heathrow was delayed by three hours. My friends Jerome Lucas, Claygone Jackson and Estefan Charles met me at the Heathrow airport, and we made a mad dash off to the train station, literally running the last few steps to get aboard on time. Two hours later, we arrived in Manchester, where I ministered to two gentlemen, who were brothers both in the faith and in the flesh. I was pleased to meet Robert and Barbara Wilkinson at this time, and they both blessed me very much during my short stay.

We were in Manchester all of two hours, and then we returned to London for an evening fellowship meeting at Jerome’s house. I taught and we made plans for my return to England (should the Lord tarry) when, from April 15 to the 23rd, I will present my class on The Weapons of our Warfare in beautiful Cornwall, in the south of England near Lands End. I understand that the accommodations will be fantastic! If you are interested in getting more information, please contact Jerome at Jerome-Lucas@breathemail.net.

The following evening, we gathered for a second fellowship meeting. This was a wonderful night of healing, ministered both by the spoken Word and the power of the Holy Spirit. Physical, spiritual and emotional wounds were healed.

Just this morning, I received a letter from London a wonderful report from that meeting. Estefan Charles wrote, “On our meeting night, we ministered to Brenda for cancer. Shortly after being ministered to, she fell ill for two weeks, then recovered to an amazing healing performed in her. The doctors scanned her to see how far the cancer had progressed, but to their amazement, there was not a trace of any cancerous cell in her body. Praise God for His healing!”

Amen! Praise God! Praise God! Praise God!

I am proud of and delighted by the work these three men of God are doing to further the Gospel message in London. Claygone is boldly testifying of his deliverance from Multiple Sclerosis, from which he was delivered under my hands by the wonderful power of God last Easter. Now he is bringing that same deliverance to others.

I arrived in Germany late Thursday night. I was a guest at the home of Seigfried and Dagmar Wegert and their three beautiful children in the town of Neuhaeusel. For the first time since I left home I was able to get a good night’s sleep – it always takes me a while to get used to the time change. I woke to the phone call of a believer whose aunt was hospitalized with a dreadful disease and desired to be ministered to. (It is almost hard to believe, but this was the fourth such case I had encountered in less than 48 hours. Thank God that He has, in His Grace, given us the weapons of the warfare with which to fight such battles).

On Friday afternoon, we drove to the beautiful village of Kaub, where the class was being presented at a chapter of the YMCA called the Haus Elsenburg. This was a fantastic location. Some had private rooms, others shared rooms. We were served three delicious meals a day, and the overseer went out of his way to make us feel welcome.

From the start of our first meeting, when the messages brought forth by inspired utterance set forth the text of the message I had prepared for that hour, the hand of God was mightily upon this class. I taught eight 50-minute-sessions a day; three in the morning, three in the afternoon, and two in the evening. It was amazing how quickly the time passed. My friend Ray Beard taught me that it has been proven that students are at their most attentive when they are taught in fifty-minute sessions. The fact that this class was presented “live” and I was able to minister the Word to the students as I was led, made this a very fruitful presentation.

I had a team of four translators to help me: Gabe Helmer from Germany, Rudi Illavsky from Austria, Beatrice Scherer from Switzerland and Meike Wetzling, who is also from Germany and was my class assistant. Jan Pudil helped as well, especially with some of the medical terms needed for teaching on healing. Beatrice worked for weeks before class began, translating my teaching notes and preparing manuscripts for the translators. She checked the King James Version translation against the Luther translation we used as our primary text in the class. Because of her great help, we were prepared ahead of time to explain any differences in the texts. This of course made it much simpler for my translators.

Having my friend Rudi Illavsky there to help made a big difference for me. His own special ministry in music was very instrumental (pardon the pun) in the success of this class. He led the worship and praise portion of each meeting, leading the congregation in lovely German hymns (and some in English as well) before each session.

We returned to the same church that had welcomed us in April for the water baptism service. This was about a ninety-minute drive, but well worth it, for this was one of the most wonderful baptisms I had ever taken part in.

On the final Saturday evening of the class, we had a special evening session where we turned down the lights, sang songs and heard sharings from the students and workers.

I had nine students, six from Germany and three from Switzerland. Each was a mighty blessing, making their own special contribution to this class. They each took giant steps forward in their ministries during this course, and I look forward to working with them in service to the Lord.

 

 

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From the January 2000 edition of the Vine & Branches