BENNY HINN, Pastor

Pastor Benny Hinn had been invited to the 'Living Word' congregation in Bergen (today Credokirken), but as the event approached, he wanted as many congregations as possible to support it. I was the head of the pastoral network, and when this was brought up there, several of the pastors had already heard that Benny Hinn had been accepted into the 'warmth' again and that his congregation was now part of the Assemblies of God in the USA. It was therefore agreed that this would be a 'joint action'.

The orders from Benny Hinn's team were very specific both in terms of the layout of the hall and that there would be four interpreters to choose from. I was one of the four, but I was to interpret Ronn Haus (his warm-up preacher). Benny was in a caravan behind the stage and watched the start of the meeting before he came on stage just before he was to speak. He sat down on the chair and turned to me and said "You are going to interpret for me tonight!" - there was no time or place to discuss this - so it was like this . . . everything was broadcast on the network with the title: "This is your day ..."

To this day I wonder why it happened like this - God alone knows. It was a big burden afterwards, and probably the reason why we were not given three extra years in Bergen as we requested in the next appointment-change in our territory. But God also used this for a lot of good!