Dear Supporters of my work,
Your sacrificial giving in this time of soaring costs and financial hardship, has enabled us to hold a powerful event in April, in Batumi on the Black Sea coast of Georgia in the Caucasus – where we are working together with a missionary church of Moslem converts, Adjarians who themselves all came to Christ through powerful miracles of healing or deliverance from drugs and alcohol. In a vision 18 years ago, Pastor Elguja saw Jesus, walking alone towards the Adjarian mountains and Turkey. Elguja asked, “Why are You alone? Why is no one with you?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going is wild, hard and difficult – no one wants to come with Me.” Pained that no one dared risk all to go into these closed traditional communities and bring the Gospel to them, Elguja replied, “Jesus, I'll go with You!”
From that time, he and his church have worked patiently to win the trust and friendship of their own Adjarian people group, bringing aid packages to the mountain villages, running summer camps for the kids, praying with the sick and seeing healings, so that one family tells another what their Isa, our living Jesus, has done for them.
Today you and I are part of this ministry challenge. Last year 1000 Adjarians came down from the mountains to attend our 3-day event. This year 1500 came! The large number of participants lowers the social inhibitors for people with a traditional background, who find it easier to come to such a public event along with their community.
Our conferences, 2025 & 2026, are held in a prestigious – and absolutely massive – seafront hotel. We provide food and accommodation free of charge. The participation of respected Georgian musicians and cultural representatives, even from the mountain regions themselves, significantly strengthens public trust in the local church in Batumi. Evangelical churches are often viewed with distrust, but our large-scale and well-organised events are changing this perception by showing openness, seriousness, and respect.
Elguja writes: “David Hathaway's involvement plays a catalytic role in the breakthrough. His reputation as a courageous preacher of the Gospel and a minister who sees powerful healings, together with his respected age, gives confidence and courage to many of the participants coming from a traditional Muslim context, especially to adults and older folk. David’s ministry is vital to the work of the local church to bring in the harvest at a very specific moment in God’s timing. This path of joined service shows how years of faithful sowing, building relationships, and practical ministry have led to a powerful spiritual breakthrough. We see the confirmation of God's work through the many who come forward for salvation and counselling, the many healing testimonies, and the growth of public trust. We believe that this is the beginning of a new season of fruitfulness.”
In Batumi we are working to a prophetic timeline. This has always been the case in my ministry. From Bible-smuggling into Communist East Europe in the 1960s & 70s, to a year in prison, to open evangelism in East Europe in the 1980s, to the great Conferences I held in West Germany, 1988,89,91,92, uniting East and West participants – prophesying and seeing the collapse of communism in the East, to full revival in East Europe and in the whole of the former Soviet Union countries, especially Ukraine – I have lived a prophetic timeline.
From the very first ‘EuroVision’ East/West Conference the Holy Spirit gave me a ‘Vision’ of what God could do if I had the faith to believe in a God of the impossible! That Vision has been in my heart for almost 40 years – and is not yet completed. That’s why God has called me to work in the outer parts of that Soviet Empire – and the same miracle which led to Ukraine’s freedom and revival will lead to the same freedom from Russia and revival in Central Asia! So, we, with your support, will be evangelising with over 5,000 in Kazakhstan in June, then back in Kyiv in July, before Poland in September!
This month, May, I am in Aachen, Germany, speaking in a conference, ‘Europe for Christ’, ministering to Russian-speaking pastors and leaders, many of them ethnic Germans, whose families experienced exile in the gulags of Russia! Now they live in Europe – and share my Vision of Europe won for Christ. Then the practical on the Sunday – church evangelism to the local community.
But before Europe, my ministry began with the incredible healing miracles in Britain. My first miracle in Harrogate, aged 22, was to see a dying man raised from his death bed and back attending my church in 1954! As I launched out into full-time evangelism in the UK, the healing miracles followed – cripples walking and blind eyes opened – recorded in the local newspaper! These were my early years of learning how to walk by faith! Join me in London on 19 September – a day to release the full Power of the Holy Spirit, a powerful day of impartation, worship and revival: eurovision.org.uk/release
The Holy Spirit is showing me how almost all prophecies concerning the Rapture are complete – there is a shift in the axis of world powers even as I write, and all the nations in Ezekiel 38 are at this moment lined up against Israel. But those of us who believe will be taken out first, I am convinced, BEFORE the Tribulation. The Bible says when Jesus comes back, He will return to the Mount of Olives – together with the saints – to defeat the enemy in the Valley of Jehosaphat and enter Jerusalem through the Golden Gate. I’m almost ready – are you?
My vision today is larger than it was 60 years ago, the older I get the more the vision increases in line with my understanding of God. But it also means that our financial costs increase by two factors – the bigger vision and the increase in costs worldwide. Over the years our income has remained consistently the same, but as we all know, costs have risen massively. So, I am asking you to join me in special prayer that the Lord will raise up more supporters, both in prayer and finance. Please Lord, answer our prayer.
David
This Easter, together with Philadelphia Church in Kyiv, we organised a special celebration. Hundreds of children received sweet gifts; bringing joy and comfort to those from war-affected areas: these are internally displaced children, some have lost parents, all face extremely difficult circumstances.
We face our greatest challenge ever – to raise the extra finance to support our work in Ukraine and Central Asia. Together with you, we are taking the Love of Jesus Christ to those who most desperately need Him. Thank you for praying! Thank you for giving! eurovision.org.uk/donation
Receive this blessing from 1 Corinthians 9:10, ‘Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.’
Mandy Hathaway-Whitehead