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Celebration for the Nations 2026 July 29th to the 4th of August
An international worship intercession for a new move of God's Holy Spirit in and from Wales to the nations.
Co-operating with churches and missions in Wales, Korea, and many other parts of the world.
"Gather the people together, so that I may give them water" Then Israel sang this song:
"Spring up, O well!" (Numbers 21:16-17).
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Celebration for the Nations 2007
'The glory of God is seen through a human life fully lived', so said a man called Irenaeus. He was part of the early church, uncontaminated with religion, but filled with the wonder of a relationship with his Creator. Irenaeus and his followers greatly influenced the early Celtic Church.
The Welsh Revival of 1904 gave a taste of what full life is. Society was transformed. One woman reportedly thanked the Lord for turning beer into furniture! For the first time since she'd been married, her husband had not drunk his wages, and they were able to buy chairs. Families were re-united, hearts and bodies healed, courtrooms were empty, and policemen formed choirs because there were so few criminals to catch. People sang out of sheer joy of life. They had found heaven was touching earth.
The transformation in the land could not be kept a secret. The curious and the hungry came from all over Europe, and even from Asia and America to discover what was happening. They took the life back with them. Christians in other lands heard how the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, had come to Wales, and filled people with joy and purpose, and they prayed for the same to happen where they were. Parts of Northern India, (Mizoram and the Khasi Hills) where there were Welsh Missionaries, was set ablaze. Thousands met God personally, resulting in dramatic improvements in education, healthcare etc. The fire spread in Korea, then into China and Japan. It spread through France and Germany, into Scandinavia and other parts of Europe, and across into the then Soviet Union. It joined the blaze of Asuza Street in America, and caught in South America and Southern Africa. Wales blessed the nations.
In the centenary of the Welsh Revival, 2004, I walked into Zion Chapel, a beautiful building that could hold up to 1000 people, in the middle of Llanelli. As I entered, my spirit could hear singing in Welsh. As I listened I heard other languages added, until there was a beautiful medley of tongues.
Shortly after that I had a vision. I saw the most amazing, light filled water. The nearest way I could describe the colour would be sapphire. I tried to touch it but something blocked my hand. When I looked around me I realised that there were many others from different nations all trying to reach the water. Then I heard the Lord say, 'It is impossible from your side, but if you sing, the water will breakout and come to you'.
I felt clearly that we need to gather people from the nations that have been touched by the Welsh Revival back to Wales, to sing together to the Lord.
It would take too long to recount how we have come across people in Asia, America, Europe and Africa whom the Lord has prepared in unique ways to be part of this Celebration. Numbers are not important. However what is important is that those who come, believe that heaven can again touch earth, and that there is something still to be completed in the purposes of God for the Welsh Revival.
Just ten years after the Revival the First World War broke out, nations that had been transformed by the Holy Spirit found themselves killing each other. The same thing happened in Asia between Korea and Japan. The flow of God's purposes were forced underground.
The life source is still there, waiting for those who will 'sing' a song of love and faith again. Wales, the land of song, will sing for rugby, but maybe has lost her song for her Creator. Yet it is not far from her.
Last time Wales gave the people of the East a song to sing, perhaps this time the people from the East will teach us to sing a new song of life in all its fullness.
The Celebration for the Nations will be part of us all finding our song again.
Read more at www.cftn.org.uk
Celebration for the Nations 2026 July 29th to the 4th of August
