Come into our workshop and see how »burning hearts for Jesus« are actually made. With lots of love and finesse, saw and sander, hammer and chisel, brand and color, our whole community works together ... and we are having loads of fun at the same time. Despite all of this, our greatest longing is that the fire of the Holy Spirit burns in our hearts and that Jesus is our everything.

»Do good and prolcaim the best!« This describes very well the motto of our newsletter. We are very happy to provide our latest newsletter edition of HELP-FCJG Vienna on this site. And we would rejoice if you connected and got to know us. You may visit with us in Vienna, live with us for a while and you are most welcome to do outreaches together with us.

Wishing you much peasure while reading our newsletter ... and get in touch with us!

the HELP-FCJG Vienna team

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We together with many Christians are longing for revival and reformation in Austria. We believe that God will release spiritual breakthrough and holy renewal throughout the country and we want to experience it! And we will do everything we can contribute to achieve this goal. With this profound desire in our hearts the Holy Spirit inspired us to go and visit all state capitals of Austria and by means of worship and prayer we want to establish altars of worship wherever we go. Where Jesus is lifted high, he draws people towards himself and the spiritual atmosphere is changing ... AND YOU CAN BE PART OF THIS.

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What are we inviting you to?

We will pray together and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit!
We will proclaim the reign of the kingdom of God!
We will worship Jesus publicly outside no matter the weather!
We will adore the Father wholeheartedly with thanksgiving and worship!
We will proclaim biblical truth!

Of course, we know and are fully aware that there are faithful and obedient churches and intercessors everywhere in Austria who do exactly that in their cities continuously and their service can’t be replaced. We are so grateful for the many prayers and intercessors in our nation, however, in obedience we want to follow an impression of the Holy Spirit.

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Unity

When we asked, »God, what is your plan with this?« we sensed that it's so much on Jesus' heart to give an understanding and bring comprehensive revelation of unity into the body of Christ in Austria. He loves when his people come together in one Spirit and therefore we invite everyone who wants to share or support this vision to participate.

Dates

So far we have set two dates in August and September and it would be a joy to us if you joined us in worshiping Jesus over Austria. For any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us:
Sunday, August 13 in Innsbruck @ um 2:00 PM in the Huttererpark, Franz-Greiter-Promenade
Wednesday, September 20 in Eisenstadt @ 1:00 PM at the Gloriette look-out
We would be happy if you joined us and together we'll exalt Jesus over Austria. For any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
Further worship outreaches are in process and will be announced on our event site.

We take any opportunity to celebrate and invite everyone who wants to join us. And we literally have all reason to celebrate ... even more: We are celebrating something wonder-ful and you are warmly invited:

In 2018 we are celebrating our 30th anniversary:
... 30 years of God's faithfulness, divine provision, many healings, deliverance and life-changing decisions of people to follow Jesus.
... 30 year great and fruitful relationships to the body of Christ in Austria.
... 30 years of ministry to God's glory. 
All of this and even more we want to celebrate with all friends - and therefore you are all warmly invited!

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How it all began

In 1987, Walter Heidenreich was invited by YWAM Austria to minister in an evangelistic crusade in Vienna. On the last day of the crusade, one well-known Austrian Christian leader, Johannes Fichtenbauer, called FCJG prophetically to Vienna: »Come and help us!« This call was supported by another 20 leaders and pastors of different denominations in Vienna and became at the same time a commission. This call didn't trail off unheard. Only about a year later, a team was getting ready in Lüdenscheid for the commission ahead of them and left for Vienna! They were sent from Lüdenscheid to Vienna to exalt Jesus in the city as well as throughout the nation, to advance God's kingdom and to set the captives free. To this day we are determined to fulfill this commission in all faithfulness and with dedication.

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The anniversary

We are opening our life-worship-prayer-center on Saturday, June 2, 2018 between 4:00 PM through 10:00 PM for anybody. Together with many guests of honour, friends, former rehab guests and partners who have walked and worked alongside us and still do so we are celebrating this awesome anniversary.

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Furthermore, we have invited some very special guest from Germany: Walter Heidenreich as president of HELP International and FCJG Lüdenscheid as well as the international HELP-FCJG leadership, Petra Feddersen and Birgit Janke. They will speak and minister during the anniversary. Furthermore, we are looking forward to welcoming Petra Feddersen & Friends with whom we are creating and experiencing »Tengerin Doo Worship«. This whole day is about the ONE whom we owe everything: Jesus! We are looking forward to great worship times during which we certainly want to thank God for what he is doing and for his faithfulness, but most of all for his name's sake - simply because he IS. He deserves our praise, all worship and honour. His is always worthy to be worshiped.

Please contact us and let us know if you want to come. We are looking forward to seeing you!

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Anniversary Outreaches

There is tradition and there is very good tradition: Everything we are doing today started 30 years ago because of an outreach to Vienna ... and God has created something precious and marvelous out of it. Therefore, we are doing evangelistic outreaches in Vienna and its surrounding cities and places on occasion of our 30th anniversary, and we will partner in this with YWAM as well as with local churches.

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Christians from various churches in Vienna are having ONE desire: young people shall get to know Jesus and personally encounter him! Due to that we are gathering for prayer and organize the live venue of JESUSHOUSE VIENNA. We that's friends from protestant, evangelical, charismatic, catholic, Arab and African churches, from the ERF, YWAM, Baptists and Pentecostals. For five days, JESUSHOUSE was transmitted live from Vienna. Thousands of young people watched a great quality stage show via satellite and were reached with the Gospel message. Many heard the message of the cross for the very first time in their lives.

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More precious than the snow leopard

Throught the JESUSHOUSE week were wir on the streets every afternoon to invite young people to join JESUSHOUSE and to tell them about Jesus: A young lady from WWF heard for the very first time that she is more precious to God than the Mongolian snow leopard for which she was collecting money on the street. A student was deeply moved by a prophetic word which said that God sees her. Her boyfriend had just broken up with her. She was very open to hear about Jesus. Refugees from Afghanistan and from Iran came instantly with us from their accommodation to join JESUSHOUSE and to hear more about Jesus.

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Message from a coffin

We set up a coffin in front of vocational schools and preached a message from the coffin that only Jesus gives true life. On the university campus we talked to so many students and shared about our personal relationship with Jesus. On Saturday afternoon, hundreds heard the Gospel message by means of House, a flashmob and hip hop music. People were touched and moved by God's love and were very open to receive prayer publicly.

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JESUSHOUSE Community

Young people from different churches formed a community throughout the JESUSHOUSE week. They lived together for seven days. Every morning at 6:00 AM - before going to work, to the university or to school - we gathered to worship Jesus. In the afternoons we went to the streets, to universities, to refugee camps and to the railway station to share the love of God and the Gospel with people ... and in the evenings they took their (new) friends along to JESUSHOUSE.

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What is JESUSHOUSE?

JESUSHOUSE was founded in 1998 and is a European, unique, inderdenominational event that is being run by several hundred Christian youth groups that invite young people to ponder upon the most important questions of life, about God and faith. proChrist e.V. (Kassel, Germany) is the main organizer of JESUSHOUSE. The stage program includesl ive music, interviews, clips, short messages by an evangelist and every time there is an invitation to everyone to give their lives to Jesus. This year's JESUSHOUSE event was followed via satellite by churches from Germany, Austria and Croatia.
Thank you, Walter and Irene Heidenreich! It is a privilege to know you and it was a special honor to welcome you in Vienna for a whole week. What God has done through you and your ministry worldwide as well as here in Austria is just breath-taking. Thank you that you respond uncompromisingly to what the Holy Spirit tells you to do. Thank you for sowing encouragement and love in Vienna time and time again.

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Europe

At this year’s Austrian National Day, 300 Christians from Vienna gathered to pray for the country and our government. Walter led the congregation into prayer for revival in Europe. His ministry time ended with personal blessings especially for those pastors and leaders present and who are getting ready to be carriers of revival in Austria and Europe.

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Apostolic Teaching

We invited people to attend a seminar at the IHOP Vienna (prayer house). Arne Schulz, Janina Mahrt and Irene Heidenreich led us to worship God in the freedom of the Holy Spirit and create this time together. Tengerin Doo worship (Mongolian for »Sound of Heaven«) created an atmosphere where the apostolic teaching of Walter Heidenreich fell into open hearts where it started to move and work. Everyone of the 100 participants was touched and encouraged by the power of God and his love. Two participants responded to the urging of the Holy Spirit and got baptized in our bathtub right on the spot ... And so much more happened ...

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First hand experience

»The Holy Spirit touched me so deeply. For the first time in my life I experienced what it feels like to be a child.« (Heidi, 58 years old)
»I experienced the Holy Spirit's power and laughed so hard and passionately. A deep inner joy rose up within, which I haven’t had in many years.« (Irma, 24 years old)
»At Apostolic Teaching I experienced the Father heart of God and His love for me and other people so strongly. It released me to serve others in love.« (Julia, 27 years old)
Addicted to drugs. Addicted to alcohol. Filled with rage. Hopeless. Depressed. Tired out. My career started off very early. However let's get back to the beginning: I spent the first three years of my life with my Mother and my older sister. I always felt deeply loved. My Mom however had a bipolar disorder, had alcohol and drug problems and was always around brutal and sadistic men. My sister only learned how to talk at the age of ten, therefore it sometimes felt that when my mom was in a depression, nobody would speak a single word to me for weeks ...

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Abuse - Violence - Hell on earth

I remember a lot of things and all of these stories where confirmed by my mother over the last couple of years. For example a few men threw beer bottles at my Mom and forced her to crawl through the splinters of glass while being constantly threatened and yelled at. One time someone tried to suffocate my sister and me – thank God we survived. One of her boyfriends always grabbed me by my neck and held me out of the window and threatened to drop me if I were not to do what he commanded. My mother screamed for help, but when our neighbours saw me they would just start to clap enthusiastically. Unbelievable. Mom resigned. She was unable to defend herself and us. Despite all of this I still knew she loved me with her whole heart. What a powerful woman!

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My new family and I

We were often picked up by the police or stayed there over night. One night I was brought out of the prison cell while my mom was sleeping. When she woke up her beloved son was gone and she was prohibited from any contact for 9 months. I thank God so much for giving her the strength to make it through all of this. Within a few months time I lived with several families. At one of them I was abused by two of the biological children. God however knew where I had to go, so my sister and I ended up at two different christian families. We were very lucky that her parents went to the same church as mine. My foster father was a pastor there and my foster mother quit her job in order to take care of me.

I was a lone wolf and only had one friend up to the age of 15 - Jakob, the son of my foster parents. I often quarreled with the other adopted son of my foster parents (my little brother), but at the age of 16 we settled everything and became friends and more importantly brothers.

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Drowning

In a way I was a psychopath as a kid. There were only absurd and sick things going on in my mind. Already in the first class of primary school I started talking about weird stuff and would crawl under the tables to grope girls. I always thought about sex or how to start the next fight. Or maybe I was just deeply unhappy. At night I could barely sleep due to having the same nightmare, in which I saw my Mom get shot, for years.
At the age of six I started burning thing and shooting glass bottles on the highways. When I was eleven I had my first alcohol intoxication and started to smoke. I had my first joint when I was 14. At the age of 15 I smoked weed every day. When I was 16 I drank alcohol every day. To finance this lifestlye i sold drugs for 13 years.
Chemical drugs soon started to follow. At the age of 19 I started taking Morphium and soon after that all kinds of different pills. I reached the point where I just took everything that I could get. For years I didnt even have a social insurance or my own flat. I just slept in all kind of apartments.

At the age of 21 my attitude towards life was: I won't kill myself, but will party so much that I won't reach my 30's. When I was 23, I started spitting blood and was brought to a hospital. I was diagnosed with COPD, a strong lung disease which made me have difficulty breathing. At the age of 28 I finally tried my first detoxication.

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A new chance

My foster father advised me to go to FCJG Vienna, but I first wanted to try a governmental treatment. I only wanted to quit alcohol, but wanted to keep doning drugs. I endes up dropping out of the therapy. Half a year later I finally went to HELP-FCJG straight after a clinical detoxification.

The first weeks were very difficult for me. My behavoir was especialy difficult. After one month we had a discusion whether it was sensible for me to continue living here. For almost an hour i barely talked and only thought about how „great" it would be to go back to my city and get some drugs. God gave Franz Hochschuh and Paul Maurer the necessary patience and after an hour I inally opened my heart and we decided that I would stay here.

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Breakthroughs

I was welcomed into the community as if I were a family member that was long gone and had finally returned. Thank you so much for that. What happened after that was beyond my imagination:
During a lecture by Heidi about speaking in tongues I received the ability. Oh man, that annoyed me so much. »Don't stop, „speak louder.« However, that was the essential cornerstone. This is how I experienced a lot of things here. At first they would get on my nerves or I just didnt know what to do with these things, but suddenly I realized their spiritual value and could not get enough of them. This had huge, positive impact on my life. Thanks to all of you. All of you have a special place in my heart.

Come to the Light

Last May I went to Lüdenscheid to Come to the Light where Achim and I spent four days at the Wiedenhof (Drug rehab of the FCJG in Germany). There I met a lot of people that were around the same age as I and were fully in love with Jesus. This made a strong impact on me. We went on an outreach in the city. To see the way that these people from the Wiedenhof were living their lives for Jesus broke the ice for me. The following day, I went to a workshop where I bowed down my knees and praised the Lord in front many strangers. It was very challenging to overcome myself in that moment. But from the moment I started, I felt something inside me changed. My pride was changed into something meaningful.

In the evening I was responsible for greeting visitors. A man asked me if I could pray for healing for him. I prayed right in the entrance area for him. 12 hours earlier that would have been unimaginable. This is how great the Lord is. Later on I saw a boy and knew right away that I should pray for him and so I prayed for him. I returned to my post, but at the end oft the evening a young lady told me that the boy I had been praying for gave his life to Jesus. I couldn't believe it and was filled with joy. Jesus truly set me free. Greetings to Wiedenhof, you guys are a great example, just like the people here in Vienna. I´m thankful that I got to know all of you.

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Baptism and confession - he is making everything new

Then there was the Open Heaven seminar in Vienna. It motivated me and gave me the desire to finally get baptized. The Monday after that weekend, I had a wonderful two-part dream throughout which I called people twice to give their lives to Jesus, which they did.

For the last 19 years I have been producing rap music. I started recording songs at the age of 15 and so over time I had created a colletion of about 200 songs. I had the desire to listen to my own music again, however, it all felt empty and cruel, partially even demonic, sick and perverse. I decided to let go of it and talked to Veronika the next day. I told her that I had planned to burn it all during my baptism, but she recommended me to throw it all away immediately. I struggled to destory my lifework but after an hour we set off to the next dustbin and I threw away all my CDs that I had ever made. Then I delected all of those track on my desktop. Later I made a life confession to Franz. I would have never believed that I would be able to reveal all my dark secrets to another human being. God however gave me the power to do so and set me free from all my sins.

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On the next day I got baptized by my foster father and the FCJG celebrated with me. My foster parents and my biological mother arrived in the same car. United in love with a common son. What a great honor. I am so blessed by God. It is unbelievable. And he frees me more every day. God so good to me.

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It's never too late

It's never too late for anybody. No matter how ruined or messed up your life seems to be. No matter how much you doubt yourself. No matter how terrible your sins may seem to you, nothing is impossible for God. Now I have been clean since march 2015. I do not dring or smoke cigarettes anymore. It is beautiful. I am so thankful and want to invite you to experience this holy release. There are no unsolvable problems. There are no hopeless situations. Nothing is impossible for Jesus Christ. Come to Vienna and experience what I have experienced. God loves you that he gave his only son to die on the cross for all your sins. Those whom the Lord makes free, truly are free.
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We were full of excitement and anticipation towards the outreach of the REVIVAL SCHOOL Germany to Vienna. Finally they came ... seven cars and highly motivated: The whole REVIVAL SCHOOL - 21 students, seven staff and three toddlers. Immediatly the house was vibrating with life! How wonderful when the family get together with this one mutual goal: »Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven ... as it is in Vienna!«

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The students were just ready - so ready. Prior to going on outreach to Austria they prayed and asked the Holy Spirit what he anticipated to do in those two weeks. Of course, we made plans and set a schedule, however, God then showed us very spontaneously where else he wanted us to go, where to worship, where to pray, etc. These two weeks were powerful and filled with great encounters!

The »Prater«

One thing the Holy Spirit spoke to the students, was to worship in Vienna's historical Ferris wheel - known as the »Prater«. We rented two cabines and more than 40 people went round and around while praying and singing prophetically over Vienna, blessing the city, its people and declaring God's presence and dominion!

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Leopoldsberg

»A white house above Vienna« ... another impulse. Okay, where is the house? When God says something like this, then he has a plan and who would know Vienna better than HIM? Together with the whole gang we went up to the Leopoldsberg - a lookout point over the city - and declared from there God's truths over the city. So powerful ...

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IHOP Vienna

The REVIVAL SCHOOL students also supported us during our regular discipleship training at the IHOP Vienna. Many young Vienneses came, got encouraged and equipped. Some received the baptism of the Holy Spirit! Thank you, Jesus!

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One great side effect: All these young Vienneses heard about the REVIVAL SCHOOL, for the students shared from their lives and what God has done, how he changed them ... Hearing such awesome and sometimes dramatic stories creates hunger for more and especially to experience this for yourself.

Evangelism

Besides the many worship and prayer outreaches, we also did two evangelistic outreaches taking the Good News of God's love to the people in the city. We are so grateful that through these outreaches people gave their lives to Jesus and invited him to be their Redeemer and Lord!

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It’s those divine appointments through which Christians from all over the world are connect and visit with us. We bless them and they are a blessing to us. We are seeing God’s hand and his way of connecting us and bringing us together:

Dr. Salman Hasan is from Iraq. He and is family are living in the Czech Republic. As a Christian, he experienced persecution by ISIS and knows what it means when Christians lose their lives for Jesus’ sake. He regularly travels to the Iraq, i.e. to Mossul, to encourage and teach the Christians. Furthermore, he is training Arab Christians and Europeans and connecting people of both backgrounds with one another in Europe. We are at awe how God is opening doors before us through Dr. Salman Hasan which have even more divine appointments in store.

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Oscar and Dania are missionaries in Bosnia. They originally come from Honduras and Nicaragua. We are deeply moved and impacted by their love to Jesus and their passion to give everything so that the Moslems in Bosnia will get saved. For a short period of time, God accidently connected us with them and brought them into our house. They dived into the Father love of God, recovered and had new encounters with Jesus. We have made new friends and have an open invitation to Bosnia to worship Jesus together.

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Oscar so much enjoyed visiting our carpenter’s shop. He desperately wanted to build something. As a carpenter, he loves to work with wood! While he and his wife were with us, we needed someone who would build a wooden coffin for us to be used during our evangelistic outreaches. Oscar was so excited and the result is just awesome.

HELP-FCJG Vienna's annual jumble sale is legendary. We have been doing it for over two decades by now and belongs to us like the Prater to Vienna. Everybody is most welcome, and people love to come by ... for a chat or to bargain one or the other precious treasures we are selling. We are overwhelmed and every time surpised about how quickly our yard is filling up with »used items« in only a couple of weeks and days prior to the big jumble sale. Neigbours come by and deliver their treasures which we then sell. In the 10 hours during which our jumble sale is open, approx. 2,000 people float through our center and leave us with nothing left! What a blessing, for all proceeds go straight into our ministry.

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However, the best is that in the midst of this great happening, many people have personal encounters with God. We prayed for innumerable. People were deeply touched by God's love. Those who came with pain experienced release and seven people gave their lives to Jesus. So awesome - thank you, Jesus!

So wonderful and so simple

»God broke my heart for Austria and the people of Vienna. Compelled by his love I felt an urge to pray and bless the people who came to the jumble sale. There were two teenagers in particular, 15 and 16 years old. I prayed for them and shared the Gospel message. Upon that, first the boy invited Jesus into his life and then the girl. Both were deeply moved in their hearts. So wonderful and so simple.« (Kevin)

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Outstanding

»Suddenly there was this tall man - he was outstanding. Interested and in awe he watched at how Kevin prayed for a young man. I approached him and we talked. I shared Jesus and my testimony with him, and I could pray for him. He was so open and ready and gave his life to Jesus.« (Gianni)

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Well of Healing

»We prepared a place at a well in our years; a oasis with two benches where people could take some rest, and all the time we had wonderful encounters there. Isabelle, an elderly lady from the neighbourhood, got healed of severe back pain. »I sense that you are connected to God«, she said afterwards full of gratefulness. Another elderly lady was free of stomach ache after prayer, and here knees were also better. Thank you, Jesus!« (Franz)

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We specially want to thank the Wiedenhof team that came from Germany to support and help us - by lending a hand and in the spirit. You are awesome!
We went to the Prater to share Jesus with people. While I was talking to one lady, I saw her in my mind’s eye in a kitchen cooking food. She wanted to receive prayer in order to find a new job as she was unemployed. And ... she is a cook by profession! So I prayed that she might find a good job as a cook. Suddenly she said she had to run as she was on her way to an interview in a restaurant.
An hour later she came back beaming with joy, hugged and kissed me: »I got the job and I even have a contract!« Every week we are on the squares and in the streets of Vienna sharing the Good News of Jesus who forgives, heals, delivers, helps and in whose heart we all have a place.

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