In a world that is growing increasingly image-driven, where ministries are drawn to platforms with reach and recognition, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills continues to go in the opposite direction. While others seek out crowds that are already gathered, he builds stages in places where no one is watching. He chooses fields that are barren, towns that are poor, and villages no one posts about. It is in these unknown places that his heart burns the brightest.
The gospel is not only for capital cities and packed auditoriums. It is for the forgotten. It is for the overlooked. It is for the ones that no camera crew would follow. Bishop Dag knows this deeply, and he acts on it. His crusades are often in places that others pass by, and yet those very locations become ground zero for salvation, healing, and transformation.
He teaches that every soul matters. Not just the ones in global hubs. But the farmer in the bush. The child in a rural town. The widow in a small forgotten community. And for that one soul, it is worth setting up the stage. Worth organizing a crusade. Worth the cost, the travel, the labor, and the tears.
Going Where Others Won’t Go
The willingness to go where others won’t is not a strategy—it is a burden. Bishop Dag has walked through muddy paths, slept in unfamiliar places, and preached in areas with no promise of recognition. Yet he continues. Because love sends you. Love doesn’t ask how many people are watching. Love just asks if someone still needs to hear.
He trains his teams with the same heart. The Healing Jesus Campaign does not chase headlines. It chases souls. Many of the crusades are held in areas where people have never seen a large Christian event before. And for many of them, it is their first time hearing the message of Jesus.
It would be easier to stay in places of comfort, but the call of God compels him. And he moves, not because of invitation, but because of assignment. Because the Lord still sends His servants into the highways and byways, commanding them to compel the people to come in.
The Value of One Soul
One of the driving forces behind these crusades is Bishop Dag’s understanding of the value of a single soul. He teaches that if even one person is saved, heaven rejoices. And if heaven rejoices, we must be willing to do whatever it takes to bring that one person home.
This is why he does not measure success by crowd size or event photos. He measures it by transformation. By repentance. By lives touched. By souls added to the kingdom. In these unknown places, where no one expected a move of God, revival breaks out.
He continues to go, because he knows that the gospel still works—even where no one is looking.
A Servant Who Follows the Spirit
Bishop Dag is not led by trends. He is led by the Spirit. And sometimes, the Spirit leads him to places that are off the map. But those places, though unknown on earth, are deeply known by heaven. And God meets him there.
He obeys. He preaches. He lays hands. He weeps. He sings. He stays until the souls are gathered, until the seeds are planted, and until a church can be left behind. Then he moves on—to the next unknown place, trusting that God will do it again.
Through his life and ministry, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills teaches us that the gospel belongs everywhere. That souls are worth the journey. And that sometimes, the most powerful moves of God happen on stages the world never sees.