I was born in 1956 in a village in northern Greece, in the biblical Macedonia. When my mother was pregnant, my Grandmother has cursed her because of a small thing and wished that the child will be stillborn. I was not stillborn, but a few months later I was languishing. My parents took me to a spiritual healer "who has thrown the pendulum," and said that I will live. This had also put me under a curse. As a child I was twice nearly trampled to death by a horse. When I look back, I see how the enemy already at that time was trying to kill me, but the Lord had a plan for my life.
As a child I had many questions, I liked to retreat to thinking about God and the world. But I had nobody who could show me the way and so I lived like everybody else. I do not know whether I had dreamed it or whether it was my wish to one day marry a prince, to fill a car with money to distribute to the poor and tell them: take it, that is from God for you! So in my live, already in my childhood there was something about God, without me being aware of it. I thought, if one day I am getting married, then I would like to marry JESUS, at least on him you can depend on.
It is interesting that all these wishes have come true, of course, after much suffering. Today, I don’t bring gold to the people, but the word of GOD and I may, by the grace of GOD be the bride of Jesus.
The political situation in Greece but also the quarrels with the relatives have awakened in me already as a child the desire to go one day abroad; to Canada or Australia. Switzerland did not exist at that time for me, but God had a different plan for me.
So I arrived in 1975 after marrying Half-Swiss in Switzerland, I was 19 ½ years old, still a child in a way, without a clue about life. There were troubles with the mother-in-law and we were divorced after 10 years of marriage.
During those ten years I have never been to church, only 10 minutes for the baptism of my son because my husband and my mother-in-law had no interest in such things.
But I have watched neighbors who were different from the others. I tell you it is worthwhile to have the courage to look different than the others! I was so impressed! If the neighbors would have been modern, I would have not been interested at all. So I was taken to the crusade to Zurich by Luis Palau in 1985. I went to the front but could not yet understand what the lady told me, it was like a veil was covering my eyes. But a year later, my eyes were opened, so never give somebody up!
I have decided to join the community of the Salvation Army. At that time Kurt Wenger was the manager in Wädenswil. I was hardly born again when I went with 2 old sisters from restaurant to restaurant to sing and talk about Jesus. The People were impressed by my faith, although I did not know much. But the enthusiasm, the first love always impresses people. Very quickly, I have assumed the visiting service and visited the faithful believers and also the unbelievers in the old people’s home in Wädenswil, where I read from the bible for the old people, singing to them: "God is love ..., I prayed with them, etc. I grew fast in faith. If you do service, you make leaps of faith, while others remain and circle around themselves and complain. I was allowed to preach twice: The first time about the tenth and the second time about the faith. When I first went to the pulpit to preach, I felt the mantle of GOD coming upon me. At that time I didn’t know anything about the anointing etc. Right from the beginning I had many visions until I asked the Lord, to give me dreams, because otherwise I would not have the chance to sleep much. I was a single mother and on top of it I worked at a bank. Since then I have more dreams.
After I have stayed for two and half years with the Salvation Army, the LORD lead me further. I came into contact with the ZOE community a faith movement. I began to read the books by Kenneth Hagin Sr., and was also 3 weeks as a visitor in his community in America. Through his books and my stay there, I have learned more then I would have in 30 years in an ordinary community. So if you have the impression you get too little knowledge in your community, you need not to go away, because most community are at the same level but read books of healing evangelists, such as K. Hagin Sr., John G. Lake, Wigglesworth, etc, you shall be blessed. But it is important that you practice what you read, otherwise it remains dead knowledge.
After 2 ½ years back in the ZOE, where I met my husband, the time was ripe to move on. The Lord has given me 5 years to learn, then the time of consumption was over, even though I had served all along. Then a new service began.
The Lord has led me, from 1992 to the end of 1998, to look into several municipalities, mostly for a few months to see in which state they were in and to pray and talk with the leaders. It was mostly about repentance, but the communities were not willing to repent. The last congregation was in Lucerne, it was forbidden to pray aloud. But after I was there for a few months, I went on a Sunday on my knees and called out to the Lord. They had stopped me, but a nurse came up front and said, while this sister has been praying, I saw Jesus how he stood next to one after the other and knocked; some have opened and immediately shut again. The community did not respond, the opposite - they had received the holy communion without responding. This was the last town where the Lord used me in this manner.
In May 1992 the Lord moved us from Wädenswil to Cham in the Canton Zug to pray until the end of 1998 for the Central-Switzerland and to evangelize there. Already in the first week, the Lord showed me in a dream the state of the country and the community.
There we met with rejection, but I think our work was not in vain. When the Lord told me in a dream early in 1998 that we have to go to Winterthur, I was not thrilled at all. Firstly, the area of Zug is beautiful, secondly, I thought Winterthur has everything. I did not know Winterthur but I heard a few things and I would have preferred to go somewhere else. In January 1999 the Lord gave me a dream about Switzerland, but also dreams about Winterthur followed, which you can read in the section about dreams.
In spring 1999 were 40 days of praying and fasting. So I went to the prayer times and was shocked by the satiety among Christians here, about the nice but so indifferent prayers. Here in Winterthur I remembered the saying again: Not everything that glitters is gold. I saw it also clearly here, a beautiful gospel is being preached everywhere, grace, love, heaven...!!! I am now 8 years here, but I can not remember a sermon about hell. When I began to warn about the judgments of God they were refusing me as negative, law abiding etc. Now that the judgments of God are clearly here on the whole world, one has the courage to say something. But no one so far had the courage to humbly say: Catherine you were right. Is not it sad that we talk about humility and are so proud that we talk about faith and beg for money, we talk about love and cast out brethrens when they just tell us one wrong word. I want to live love and not preach.
Many leaders have received in the last 14 years letters from me or e-mails and have been warned about mercy and judgment and to preach about heaven and hell. Some have accepted it, many did not, only the Lord knows!
In Zug I started with prayers and marches and here in Winterthur I have continued it. In addition to the district capitals, I was also allowed to do in Winterthur, Biel, and in Rikon, where the Tibetan monastery is, 7 days prayer marches. In the past 3 years, the Lord let me to many nations where I also do 7 days praying marches and bring the Gospel to the people. There is something increasing in my life. It is the grace of God, but also the result of many prayers, fasting, and obedience. It says: who is faithful in little will also be used for greater things and so I know that I shall see the glory of God.
The Lord has made out of a timid, shy woman; this is His work. I would like to be able to say like Paul at the end of my life: I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Amen
I would like to thank the Lord for my husband and my son, who have always supported me and were willing to pay the price. We have invested in the last 20 years, our time, energy and money for the kingdom of God. My son did not have as many toys and nice things like other children. He had to do without so that we could, with the little that we had, serve the Lord. But the Lord will repay him and use him mightily.
We do not live for ourselves but for Jesus. The Lord is a rewarder, blessed be the name of the Lord.
I have seen much and experienced so much with the Lord. But it is clear that we are only just in the beginning. The Lord gave me for years again and again the word: "I have removed you from the pasture behind the sheep, that thou shalt be prince over my people" (1 Chron. 17.7).
The Lord is always looking for individuals to take them aside, grinding and preparing them for certain tasks: people who do not compromise! We know ourselves in the will of God and that gives us the strength to go on despite all opposition.
Fear not, beloved of God! Be comforted, be comforted.
Amen
