Athens November 2025

"Instead of shame and dishonour, you will enjoy a double share of honour. You will possess a double portion of prosperity in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours." - Isaiah 61:7 (NLT)

Between 1-7 November, Tristan and Sharon visited pastors who lead a Farsi-speaking church in Athens. The mission was to help train these wonderful pastors in the healing ministry so that they could be greater equipped to minister to the people who come through their church and the people who they disciple online in their home country.

We arrived on Saturday and immediately went out for dinner with a Middle-Eastern pastor who was on a Flame conference two years earlier. He had only recently arrived in Greece, and it was important to sit down and hear his story. We met with him again later in the week and had further catch-up and a brief time of ministry where he opened up his heart. He shared his huge appreciation for Flame's ministry and is hungry for more. On Sunday, after a morning of administration and intercession, we visited our hosts church and it was a great blessing to meet the people who we were to later on minister to throughout the week.

On Monday we began our training sessions, and this carried on through the week until Friday night when we then left for the airport. These days were busy, but so wonderful. In the mornings we spent between 2-3 hours with our hosts, and were also joined by one of our host's brothers and his wife for the first three days. These morning sessions were brilliant. Much of it was spent sitting on the floor, sharing out many Flame teaching notes, and then discussing the teachings. This was almost one-to-one training and we found it to be incredibly effective and very rewarding.

After our morning sessions we went out for lunch, enjoying much Greek Cuisine and culture. Promptly, we always headed back to our host's house for an afternoon Prayer Ministry Appointment (PMA) with a member of their church. These PMA's were set up by our hosts so that we could minister to several members of their church throughout the week. The purpose of these PMA's was more than that though, as we used these times of prayer ministry to further train our hosts in the ministry and then use them as helpful springboards to further equip them in the morning sessions! These afternoon PMA's lasted between 2-3 hours, giving us a little gap to then return in the early evening to our hosts house to join them for dinner and then minister to another person in the evening. Like the afternoon PMA's, these evening PMA's were about 3 hours long. Throughout the week we ministered to 9 people in total in these PMA's and what God did was amazing!

8 of the 9 people we ministered to were Farsi-speaking believers and we were overwhelmed at how God was opening deep wounds in these people and ministering His healing. 

• One lady couldn't forgive herself for a mistake she had made in her home country which caused her to flee to Greece about 10 years ago. Her husband remains in her home country, and this pain had caused her much bitterness in her heart. She was even more bitter and at pain as it seemed that every door that she asked God to open for her family, remained shut. She was in very difficult circumstances. We saw this but recognised the shame deep down that held her back from forgiving. Through the word of God, the Lord brought her out of her shame, into His restorative power for her, she forgave herself and was set free from so much bitterness. Her countenance had changed! About two days later, she testified that the Lord had opened a door for her family!
• One elderly man wanted us to pray for his children and his grandchildren. When asked to pray for him, he kept on declining; his heart seemed pretty closed. After a couple of hours of talking, prompting and some prayer, we felt the prayer time was coming to a close. Just then, he "emptied his heart" to us, sharing a deep hidden pain, and said that he felt the presence of God was so strong, he had to confess his sin and pain! The Lord then did some deep healing in him, and the PMA continued!
• Another lady was deeply crushed in spirit, largely under the oppressive ways of her past religion. We asked the Lord Jesus to cut her free from old covenants and their powers and to abide in the Lord's covenant and she received much freedom as she began to understand the truth of God's ways and love, for women and for men!

These are just some testimonies of what the Lord did, but there was much more that we don't have space to share. Finally, on Friday, we asked our hosts to lead the final two PMA's so that they could put into practice what we had shared with them in the morning sessions and seen what we had done in the afternoon and evening PMA's. This was the cherry on top! It was amazing to see the husband and wife minister in the power and leading of the Holy Spirit to two more members of their church, and we are so excited that they have Flame's teaching notes and a heart for this ministry. We believe we will continue to strengthen them in their ministry and we continue to follow the Lord's guidance as we do that.

Thank you to all of you who prayed for this mission. I hope these testimonies prove that the work done was not done in man's power, but in the power and presence of God in answer to many people's prayers! We praise God for all He has done through all of us who prayed, gave, and were a part of this mission!