André’s UK Trip – October 2007
Submitted by Graham Unsworth

Scotland
André and I met at Glasgow airport on the Saturday. It was good to see him again after two months and we were quickly into the old banter. Laughter is a strong feature of our friendship which we both enjoy. We laugh at each other mainly. It keeps your feet on the ground.Saturday was really a day of rest and preparation. I took André to the hotel and got some rest back at the flat I was loaned agreeing to meet up to watch the rugby. After dinner we moved into the TV area and were the only two people cheering England on. It was great to enjoy the win.

Sunday we spent all day at the Kilsyth Community Church. It has a long history in the area, founded 160 years ago. Kilsyth has a unique Christian heritage having known three revivals. God has done powerful things in this town. It was a coal mining area with all of the lifestyle that comes with hard work in such an industry.

Pastor Mark Fleming and Aileen his wife lead the church and are assisted by Ian and Val Paget. God’s hand is on His leaders in this church. They have already endured much and seen great changes against much opposition. I am sure that will continue.

The services at KCC differ from morning and evening. The morning service has time limits and is more traditional. A presentation was shared concerning the spiritual state of children and what they are going through. It touched many hearts and many faces were wet with tears. André used this as a link into his ministry. He shared about the need to have keys for the kingdom. You have to listen to an apostle differently, we need to tune to a different frequency and it can be difficult to adjust but I know from reactions after the meeting that many received.

The evening service was more relaxed. Mark introduced André as an apostle and stressed the need to hear his with apostolic perspective. It was a good introduction which paved the way for things to be said. There was much laughter and a great flow in the Spirit. I love the worship band in this church, the sound is Scottish and unique and has a real sense of God in it. André spoke on ‘Lord, what do you want me to do?’ from Acts 9 and Saul’s Damascus road encounter with Jesus. How do we hear God? It was powerful and spoke into many. Last time we were in Scotland André played a blues song, many wanted to hear him again. In fact I imagine he could do a whole concert. He played a couple of blues numbers that had the congregation on the feet entering in. At the end Pastor Mark commented that church should be like God’s big living room, we should be able to relax and enjoy ourselves, he said that tonight that had happened.

At the end of the service I felt led to offer prayer for people and Prophet Barbara and I ministered allowing André to go and watch the Boks. God did many things and we felt privileged to see lives touched by the power of God.

It was good to meet after the service with Ian and Val and after speaking to them about their intention to go to Harvester in Cape Town we agreed that an invite for Nola to come to minister to the worship team would be good so we hope that will happen early next year.

Monday morning we left early for a meeting in England over lunch.

Meeting in Yorkshire
Three years ago I was reunited with old friends, Philip and Ruth Tate. I met them at my daughter’s wedding in 2004 after a gap of 18 years. Philip was converted when I was pastor of Sowerby Bridge Elim Pentecostal Church and I married them. They are faithful and true friends. They are part of our prayer support and we have been sharing a great deal with them about the Apostolic Reformation.

In May this year I attended the Trumpet Call event at the NEC. I had agreed to meet Ruth and Phil who were also bringing their new pastor and his wife. Duncan and Beverly Curry. During the service I felt a prophetic word for Duncan and Beverly and was able to minister to them with one of my other prophetic friends Tony. The words shared were of significance to them and this created an open door for future contact.

When Ruth heard we were having a meeting in Birmingham she booked places at the Conference for the four of them. I spoke to Duncan and we agreed that André and I should meet them for lunch on our way back from Scotland. It was a precious couple of hours. Duncan had been nervous about asking André to speak at his church, understandably, since the people had been through so much in the past few years. As we chatted it became obvious that God was in the conversation and just before we left Duncan hugged André and told him he would like him to come to speak next time he was in the UK! God is remarkable.

We drove back from West Yorkshire to Birmingham. I took André through Sowerby Bridge and showed him the beauty of this Pennine town that won my heart thirty-two years ago.

Back home my family were happy to be reunited with André. Jenny has been squealing all week that, ‘André is coming’. When she saw him she bounced across the living room to give him a special Jenny hug.

Tuesday in Birmingham
I had wanted to gather leaders together to hear André for some time but it never seemed to come together but this time it had worked out. Barry Killick, senior pastor of Birmingham Christian Centre had agreed to act as host and gave me the freedom to invite those I felt should come.

We first had lunch with Stewart Dance who was also hosting the evening conference then made our way to BCC’s large modern building in the centre of town. As well as Stewart, André, Barry and myself, there was Donald Campbell, team leader of a local Baptist church, Tim Watson from Beeches Evangelical and two Ethiopian ministers who I have got to know in the past few months. André shared his heart for reformation in the church and answered questions as they came. I felt God had brought these people together, all leaders of good churches yet desperately looking for answers. At the end Barry asked for prayer which led to a beautiful time of sharing in ministry. I am sure that many things were done in that couple of hours.

The evening meeting was held in a conference centre in another part of the city. Stewart led the worship and André spoke about the kindness of God. There was a lot of humour with Jenny leading the laughter. As always in the midst of the laughter there were a lot of serious points made. I am sure many heard and some didn’t but that is fine. Jesus said,’ let those who have ears to hear’. Not everyone has ears to hear. An apostolic frequency is not the same as any other gift and you need to listen in a different way. I felt able to release the people to minister to each other and I am sure much was done during those few minutes. Some personal words were given at the end and several shared of their desire for new things.

Some final thoughts
I saw and learnt a lot from these days. I felt after the two previous visits something was different this time. God had been preparing. We met with two men who admitted that they were apostles but not found it possible to share that. We saw people delivered, others challenged. I know that some won’t have received a thing but that is fine. When you know you have been sent you don’t look for outward signs all the time you seek to do what you see the Father doing.

Both André and I believe its time for an Apostolic Conference so we will move forward with that. The Bible School will be open soon. At long last Nola will be coming to the UK next year and making her impact as a Prophetic Psalmist. The invites that came to minister in Yorkshire and Ethiopia will be prayed about and acted on. Things are chang