In 2024, Iris Glastonbury led a mission trip of to Italy and France. We had 9 people on the trip from 4 different nations. Our aim was to encourage our Italian friend in mission and to train Brazilians to be missionaries in Europe. We first arrived in the city of Turin, Italy where we did evangelism and made connections with a local church. There are many testimonies, an urgent trip to the toilet that ended in 2 people getting healed and one meeting Jesus, a Brazilian christian woman who got on the tram with us and heard us praying and was very excited. Some people from our team had words of knowledge for her-one of them was about depression. She said that her son was at home with depression and that she also had it, but that at the moment she was free. And then we had to change trams and she also had to change trams so she got off the tram with us to wait for the next one. In these few moments of waiting someone felt the Holy Spirit wanted to baptize her and we asked her if she had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and to our surprise she said no. So we prayed for her and right there at the train station she was baptized with the Holy Spirit and started speaking in other tongues and felt shock throughout her body. Then the tram arrived and we had to go and one of the things I heard her saying was “this is so
good. “ whilst crying and speaking in tongues.
Another story from Turin was a lady who was trapped. We had had a word of knowledge about it and suddenly this couple comes down the road screaming at each other really loudly and aggressively. When we realised that she was our treasure we all started running after them, praying hard for God to help us when we actually caught up with them. God sorted it so the traffic light changed and the angry man crossed the road and we were quickly able to talk to the woman. We got to tell her about Jesus who she said that Jesus had been persuing her. We got to ask if she was safe and prayed for her. When her Italian mafia boyfriend crossed back he was very angry but the brazilian guys loved him so well and prayed for him (even though he looked quite awkward). We got her number and have stayed in contact with her.
Then we went to France and was able to minister to a France church in the alps. They were so hungry for God that they went home and got their whole family and brought them back for prayer.
The final part of the trip was learning about Paul in Rome with Brian Britton- the place where Paul was beheaded was the most impactful place on the trip and we also got to minister in a church in Rome.