It was Spring 1999. With a few missionaries, I travelled to Northwest Scotland, on a tour of the Isles of Lewis, Harris, North Uist and Skye.
On this long journey, preaching from church to church, we stopped in the village of Barvas.
It was in the church building of this Scottish village on December 7, 1949, after the preaching of evangelist Duncan Campbell, that the fire of revival was lit. The Hebrides revival is one of the most remarkable of the 20th century.
I won’t forget visiting an elderly couple who experienced this powerful move of the Spirit. 50 years later, their faces were still so bright.
Many attribute this divine move to two elderly Barvas residents: Peggy, 84, blind, and her sister Christine, 82, whose back was bent with arthritis.
It was while reading the book ‘Sounds from Heaven’ (which I keep preciously in my library) that I really discovered the impact of this movement of repentance.
In 1936, years before the revival, a young woman, Mary Anne Smith MacLeod , the niece of these old ladies, had sailed for New York. Years later, she received a Bible in the mail from her two aunts.
Mary Anne married. She named her son Donald, to whom she gave the precious Bible. Donald became the 45th and 47th President of the United States.
On January 20, at his inauguration, Donald J. Trump took the oath of office next to two Bibles: one that belonged to Abraham Lincoln, and the other from Barvas, birthplace of one of the most powerful revivals in history.
Timothée and Yukki Paton
PS: You’ll like this article: https://ctntp.uk/other-insights/the-intercessors-of-the-hebrides-revival/