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News from Fiji Bula Vinaka! (Big Hello!)...or Hello from Fiji! The Gliebe's left for Fiji, from Honolulu, and arrived 8 hours later. On their heels was the Burchams who left Portland (after a 2 hour delay) for L.A. and then later, on to Fiji. The rest of their trip was uneventful but very long, 29 hours straight travel time but they had some rest on the flight.
Tom
and Deborah arrived at their condo styled lodging, on Denarau Island, just
outside of the city of Nadi, at 11:30 PM. It didn't take long for God to
show up! Our porter
Around 5:30AM the Burcham's taxi arrived from the airport and they slipped immediately into the second bedroom and went to sleep.
As some of you know, we are totally relying on God to make all of connections here
in Fiji. Only our verbal invitation to attend the All Nations Christian
Fellowship Conference, (ANCF) in Suva, (capitol city) Fiji, was
offered. Nothing else
was booked in advance so we had no way of knowing how God would
orchestrate this mission trip but Tom and Deborah knew that God
had prompted them to go to Fiji and that He would be waiting. With
all of the early success since
We still do not know where God is leading us – doesn’t matter since He is on the job and opening doors before them. God is orchestrating everything before them and always will, if we let Him! Of course there is much more that could be said but it will have to wait for our next new release as we are trying to more frequently send out newsletters while in Fiji. A great and effective door has opened up to them. They believe there will be more revival in the cities of Nadi and the Latuko besides the hundreds of one-on-one ministry event they have participated. (More on those later)
Our finances
are limited as we came without all that was needed. We are trusting
God to work through His people. For information on how to send
funds go to:
Donate To
FireGate And don't forget to continually pray for us
as there is much witchcraft and darkness even in these wonderful
people of the islands.
Tom &
Deborah Gliebe
and team,
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unloaded
their luggage, requested prayer and was immediately slain
in the Spirit, twice, in the hall way. Now remember, it was
11:30PM, at night! By midnight the Gliebe's had ministered to 6
people in their room! Healings and deliverance flowed. It was like birds hurrying to eat bread...that
was during the first hour of their first day (35 Minutes) and then they went to bed.
Every where we went, thereafter,
the Spirit of God brought people up to us asking for prayer, healing
or salvation! Some just ended up in front of us and being full of
the Holy Spirit and excitement we prayed for them.
Virtually, all were touched, set free or healed! As
evangelist, we were all under an open heaven, continuously, and full
of praise to the Lord! 
arriving, we departed, on day three,
on a four hour bus ride from Nadi to Suva with great expectations of what the Holy
Spirit would open up to
us at the ANCF Conference where 20,000 were expected to attend.
On
opening day nothing was offer to the team nor on day two, which was disappointing.
We
were committed to return to Nadi if no ministry door opened but we
were pregnant with expectation! It happened when we arrived a
little late to the conference and sat in the back, behind about
3,000+ attending the day time teaching meetings in the Vodafone
Arena. It was only a few minutes and a Fijian man motioned to
follow him and he led us up half way to the front and got us chairs.
It was only a few minutes later that Pastor Jekope, that we had met
in Nadi three y
ears earlier, saw us and motioned for us to come to
the front. The very front row where room was made for all four
of us. We heard the end of a great teaching about 
That
was the turning point for the team. Immediately new connections
with leadership began to occur. Sister Esther Deborah, a head
intercessor, that had been praying for three years that Tom and
Deborah would come back to Fiji
and bring the fire of the Holy Spirit once again, spotted them when she came up to the
altar at the end of the service. She ended up on the floor (literally)
right next to Rebecca as her spirit leaped at the reunion. Deborah Esther
began opening doors to churches, even other countries, including Australia as well as
with high-ranking
officials of Fiji. 
We
stayed with Arieta in her home in Suva. She was a sister of
Save', a Fijian friend in Sacramento, California.
Our Fijian hostess invited her relatives over to her home to
have
us minister to them. She moved all of the furniture aside and
rolled out a traditional mat where all ten of us could sit “village” fashion.
Deborah and Terry had words of knowledge for many of Arieta’s family.
Terry
was led by the Spirit to pray for Una, Arieta’s older brother, who had a
back injury that he had kept secret for over 15 years. Through
a Word of Knowledge and prayer, God instantly
healed him! He was excited! Praise the Lord!
Of course, the next day,
at the appointed time, 
into
worship and praise. The worship team was right on queue and
provided a background for the Glory to come down. After
three songs miracles began to happen. Deborah had a word for
people with hip and back problems to come forward. The Fijian rush
began. Many were touched in those first minutes. At one
point the alter was jammed full of Fijians and Deborah went down
amongst them. A great number were touched and slain in the
Spirit. After a time she came back up and had another Word of
Knowledge
regarding different needs and brought a few up on the
platform. They literally crumpled in the anointing of the
Spirit much like a Kathryn Kullman meeting except faster. Then more and more
came up but the anointing increased and they went down faster and
faster 
without even being touched by her hand. She only waved! The amazing
demonstration of
the Holy Ghost was caught on video. It became the talk
of the conference and they ran out of videos to sell. It
was truly a demonstration