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G L O B A L U P D A
T E -
01/21/2000
Connecting Those Who Facilitate Pastors’ Prayer Gatherings
...So That One Day
...We Will Live On A Prayed For Planet!
I N T H I S U P D A T E
...and for our prayers:
*CHINA: 40 MILLION IN 2 MONTHS?
*GLOBAL EVANGELICAL NETWORK
*INDIA: A CHURCH FOR EVERY PERSON
*6,000 AT WORLD CONGRESS
*HELLO CANTERBURY, KENT, ENGLAND...
*PARSEE PEOPLE: 40 DAY PRAYER & FAST
*UK: ELIZABETH MIGHT BE A METHODIST...
*TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA: “WORD FOR THE WEEK”
*ZIMBABWE: A CHURCH PLANTING MOVEMENT
*SOUTH AFRICA: UNITED PRAYER
*GERMANY: 400,000 ON THEIR KNEES
*BIHAR, INDONESIA: PRAYER
INITIATIVE
*CHINA: 40 MILLION IN 2 MONTHS?
>From: friday_fax@ibm.net
A number of house church movements in China have declared
a ‘missionary
month’:
from December 1, 1999 until January 31, 2000, many Chinese
Christians have
the aim of winning three others for Christ. Every house
church leader is
expected to win at least 5 people for Christ in the same
period. Because the
event is not being run separately from the churches,
observers believe that
it is reasonable to expect 40 million people to be won for
Christ over the
change of the millennium. Chinese Christians have called
on Christians in
other nations to pray with them in their aim.
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*GLOBAL EVANGELICAL NETWORK
>From: friday_fax@ibm.net
Global Evangelical Netzwerk formed: Great Commission Global
Round Table!
The leaders of three international Evangelical movements
have decided to
form a global Evangelical network, according to a WEF
press release on
November 10, 1999. The ‘global round table’ was formed
following meetings
between representatives of the World Evangelical
Fellowship (WEF), the
Lausanne Movement and the “AD2000 and Beyond” movement in
Norway and Dallas,
USA. The aim of the Global Round Table, which is open to
other networks and
movements, is to encourage missionary and evangelistic
processes, listening
to God’s voice, serving other Christians and assisting
them in cooperating
according to their strengths. The coordinators for the
next two years are
Bertil Ekstrom (Brazil), Chairman; Iman Santoso
(Indonesia), Vice Chairman;
John Robb (USA),
International Coordinator. Other members are Ramez Atallah
(LCWE, Egpyt),
Ross Campbell (AD2000, New Zealand), Met Castillo (WEF-Asia
Missions
Commission, Philippines), Paul Cedar (LCWE, USA), Robyn
Claydon (LCWE,
Australia), Tormod
Engelsviken (LCWE, Norway), Reuben Ezemadu (AD2000,
Nigeria), Wolfgang
Fernandez (DAWN, Venezuela), Peter Holzmann (AD2000, USA),
Judy Mbugua
(AD2000, Kenya), Patrick McDonald (Viva Network, UK),
Evgeniy Naydenov (Hope
for Balkans, Bulgaria), Brian O’Connell (Interdev, USA),
Cindy Perry (Himalayan AD2000, Nepal), K. Rajendran (India Missions
Association, India), David Ruiz (COMIBAM, Guatemala), Gerry Seale (Evangelical
Association of the Caribbean, Barbados), und Bill Taylor (WEF-Missions
Commission, USA).
Source and Info: John Robb, International Coordinator,
Great Commission
Global
Roundtable, 800 W. Chestnut, Monrovia, CA 91016 USA. Tel: (+1)
626 301 7713
Fax:
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*INDIA: A CHURCH FOR EVERY PERSON IN PUNJAB >From: friday_fax@ibm.net India: a church within walking
distance of every person in Punjab!
In Punjab state in Northern India, church planting is
progressing rapidly
due to the strategic cooperation of local Christians. In
1998, 220 of 490
PIN-codes (Postal/Zip Code areas) were without any known
Christian church;
today, that has fallen to only 100. The movement’s
coordinators (name and
address withheld for security reasons) expect that church
planting
initiatives will exist in every PIN-code area within three
months. 68 new
house churches were started in Punjab during September
1999 alone. The aim
is to have a Christian church within walking distance of
every person in
Punjab in the foreseeable future.
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*6,000 AT WORLD CONGRESS
From: “Crosswalk.com”
<editor@crosswalk.com>
Subject: ReligionToday
News Summary for Monday, January 10, 2000
The World Baptist Association elected a new president.
Korean Baptist Billy Jang Hwan Kim was chosen to lead the group during the 18th
Baptist World Congress in Melbourne last week. A search committee chose the
conservative pastor and broadcaster, who was later ratified by the BWA’s
governing body, the general council, Ecumenical News International said.
...More than 6,000 Baptists attended the World Congress,
held every five years, which concluded Jan. 9, ENI said. Evangelism was a main
topic. Leaders agreed that outreach is central to the faith, but diverged on
tactics for seeking converts. Randy Singer of the Southern Baptist Convention’s
North American Mission Board told delegates about opposition to an evangelism campaign
in Chicago. Baptists must continue to reach out, “even if it’s politically
incorrect and even if other don’t want us to,” he said.
...Baptists comprise the world’s largest Protestant
denomination, figures show. There are 43 million Baptists worldwide, compared with
33 million nine years ago, Tony Cupit, an Australian pastor who directs
evangelism activities for the Baptist World Alliance, said. The Baptist
community worldwide numbers 100 million, including children who have not been
baptized, he told ENI.
--->NPPNote: Anyone interested in coming to Chicago
(Illinois, USA) for one great day of witnessing (July 8,
2000)
can contact: www.chicago2000.net
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*HELLO CANTERBURY, KENT, ENGLAND...
>From: “Praise” <praise@cconnect.net>
Dear Pastor Phil,
Thank you for the great job you are doing. We pastor a small
independent church in New Bern, NC and are thrilled to
hear the reports of
the moving of the Holy Spirit all over the world in these
last days.
We do have a request...our 19 year old niece has just
arrived in
Canterbury, Kent, England as an exchange student for the
Spring/Summer
semester. She is a
dynamic, talented Christian young lady; very unassuming
and humble. She
wants to find a group of Christians to fellowship with
during the next 6 months.
Do you know of such a group close to the
Canterbury Christ Church University? She would have to walk or have someone
provide transportation.
Please let us know if you have any information that
would help her.
God bless you.
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*PARSEE PEOPLE: 40 DAY PRAYER & FAST
>From: Dr Nikhil Siony MD <DrNikhilSionyMD@evestamail.com>
By God’s grace, and thanks to your prayers, we are
distinctly seeing victories for the Parsee people. The Adversary has intensified his assault on our Brother. Please partner with us in hitting back at
the Enemy by launching the largest prayer movement for the Parsee people ever. Please promote our 40-Day Prayer and Fast
for our Parsee people.
1. Pray God
burden Evangelical leaders and networkers to resolutely
promote our March-April 2000, “Forty Day Prayer and Fast for the Parsee
People,” and
publicize our Baruch Ha Shem Parsee ministry for field
workers. The
40-Day prayer is on our site <www.unreached.org>
2. Grant our
Parsee missionary Divine strategies and plans, Divine wisdom, Divine
connections, ministry fund-raisers, life-long ministry partners, prayer partners, and favor with
authorities. It is clear he needs more
prayer partners and faithful ministry partners.
3. Speedy
completion of the Parsee language Bible translation.
4. Urgently
provide us with 250,000 Jesus videos (PAL format, English) and the same number
of Study Bibles to give our unsaved Parsee people, during their “holy days” in
March-April. Unless God brings these
our way, we cannot expect leaders to take us seriously in our request for these
materials.
5. Regular and
consistent indigenous assemblies of Parsee Believers,
for prayer, worship and Word study. Draw unsaved Parsees to these for a
witness.
6. Send teams of
sound intercessors to the Udwada Parsee pagan shrine this summer for prayer
walks and servant-ministry.
7. Open doors for
our Parsee Brother to share about Parsees, in seminary chapels and classes.
8. Make our
Brother a light, drawing long-term ministry friends, intercessors, and partners
to him.
9. Salvation,
physical healing, strength, help, and Godly Evangelical companions and
comforters for his parents. His parents
are older, live in South Asia, and have been having serious health problems.
10. Redemption of
everything that the Adversary has stolen from our Brother.
May Peace and grace be multiplied to you. Thank you for your kindness
and friendship. Your servant in Jesus,
Rev. Nikhil Siony, MD, MBBS, Member of the Advisory Board
Baruch Ha Shem International, Inc. / www.unreached.org
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*UK: ELIZABETH MIGHT BE A METHODIST...
From: “Rev.
Mark J. Lawrence” <mark@lawrencenet.freeserve.co.uk>
Every
blessing in Jesus for 2000 and may those false Y2K prophets repent for worrying
the People of God unnecessarily!
Further
to my brother Martin Swan’s e-mail re. the Glory Departing I’ve
shared
with him and sense I should share with you and your readers the
following:-
I
came across the following quote from John Wesley the other day which
I
think adds more fuel the fire of repentance. He wrote it back in 1786,
“I do not fear that the people called Methodists will ever
cease to exist
either in Europe or America. I only fear that they shall
exist as a dead
sect, having the form of religion but not the power
thereof, and that undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast to the
doctrine, discipline, and the spirit with which they first set out.”
May God have mercy on the old girl of Methodism and all
so-called
established denominations). I was struck in a prophetic
sense when reading
the Gospel of Luke about Elizabeth - John the Baptist’s
mother. Though
Zechariah doubted, the Lord brought it to pass. And I love
those words of
Gabriel to Mary,
“Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in
her old age, and
she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For
nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:36-37 NIV)
Brothers and sisters, do you sense what the Spirit is
saying? Elizabeth
represents British Methodism (and all so-called
established denominations!
Bear with me!) Do you get it - ‘she who was said to be
barren’ - well that’s
where we’ve been as a denominations for some decades; i.e.
>From the ‘30’s;
But look what it said previously - Elizabeth ...is going
to have a child.’
i.e. The one who was barren is going to bring forth life!
I believe that this old girl of Methodism (and the
other so-called
established denominations) who have been barren are going
to bring forth
spiritual children. Brothers and sisters - are you ready
for revival?!
Please test the spirits and let me know what you
think. My spirit
witnesses to this and I’m believing God! Amen! Have a
blessed, fruitful and
obedient 2000!
In Jesus, dressed and ready for battle,
Your brother in the faith, Mark
Rev. Mark J. Lawrence, Minister - Ventnor Section
East Wight Methodist Circuit
http://www.lawrencenet.freeserve.co.uk
--->NPPNote: Mark welcomes replies as you “test” the
application he has
made. Whatever your response, let’s all take a moment to
pray for a
denomination close to our heart, that a Holy Spirit
revival will come to its
churches and pastors.
_________________________________________>>>
*TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA: “WORD FOR THE WEEK”
>From: IFC-submit@gospelcom.net
“Word for the Week,” a devotional and encouragement weekly
e-mail from
Tasmania, Australia, reaches subscribers in 76 countries, with
wide
acceptance particularly in Central and South America,
Malaysia, Singapore,
the Philippines and Japan. The messages, authored by Ron Clarke, a retired
Baptist pastor, are frequently used in church bulletins
and parish
magazines and along with its companion, “Life Issues
Studies,” provide
teaching material for home study groups in many countries.
(Also check out
“Kid’s World,” an email page for kids to enjoy!)
Word for the Week: http://www.pastornet.net.au/word4week
Subscribe by email: ron@pastornet.net.au
Kid’s World: http://www.pastornet.net.au/kidswld/index.html
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*ZIMBABWE: A CHURCH PLANTING MOVEMENT >From: “Crosswalk.com”
<editor@crosswalk.com> Christians
anywhere in the Binga district of Zimbabwe can walk to church. “I doubt there
is anyone who must walk more than three miles,” church planter Simon Mloko told
a recent Discipling a Whole Nation conference. Mloko and other church planters
have started more than 400 congregations there in the past several years. About
8,000 new churches have been started across the nation. Most people in the
district travel by foot.
_________________________________________>>>
*SOUTH AFRICA: UNITED PRAYER
>From: bennie@mweb.co.za
NUPSA stand for Network for United Prayer in South
Africa. We have a four
fold focus: to mobilise prayer, to coordinate prayer actions,
to equip
intercessors and to supply intercessors countrywide with
relevant prayer
information.
Presently 2200 people receive our daily prayer guide via
e-mail and we are
also sending out 20 000 prayer letters bi-monthly. The prayer letter is
called Jericho Walls and we have an Afrikaans and English
version going out.Within the NUPSA network we have several strong prayer
groupings and organisations working together.
One of them is Herald Ministry (headed up by Gerda Leithgöb) that focus
first and foremost on teach (especially spiritual warfare and spiritual
mapping). They also have a monthly
prayer fax and e-mail, with a mailing list of close to 2000 addresses (on fax
and e-mail).
To subscribe yourself to English Jericho Walls on e-mail
send an empty
message without a subject to: jericho-walls-subscribe@associate.com
Presently we have +2000 congregations that is involved in
one way or
another. With
national and international prayer events, we have a network
that can mobilise up to 500 000 plus intercessors
countrywide.
This year will be a year specifically focused on building
the network. The
bottomline for us is to get local churches to function as
houses of prayer
for the nation and the nations. We are developing regional networks within
our nation and we have about 15 regions that already
function as regional
prayer networks.
Mid-1999 the first National 24 Hour Prayer Watch for the
nation was
established in Pretoria (the capitol of South Africa) and in
December a
world prayer prayer centre was established in Durban. A third 24 Hour
Prayer Watch will open in June 2000 in Cape Town. Later in this year a 24
Hour Prayer Watch will also start in Johannesburg.
Just in the last two months I had a dosen calls from all
over the country
that want to start 24 Hour Prayer Watches, 24 Hour Prayer
Rooms or 24 Hour
Prayer Chains.
NUPSA links with the World Prayer Centre in Colorado and
several other internasional prayer fellowships.
This is in short what we do. I have added the prayer topics for the the
next couple of days in Jericho Walls just for you
interest. Hopefully we
will start a fully internasional version of Jericho Walls
(which will be
called Jericho Walls International) within the next two of
three months. It
will eventually be available in about ten different
languages like German,
Japannese, Spanish, French, etc.
Eph.3:20, Bennie Mostert (Managing Director: NUPSA)
_________________________________________>>>
*GERMANY: 400,000 ON THEIR KNEES
>From: “Crosswalk.com” <editor@crosswalk.com>
A political scandal has German Christians on their knees. Participants in the annual Week of Prayer
last week prayed for the political crisis wracking the Christian Democratic
Union political party, the German Evangelical Alliance said. Officials have
been accused of financial improprieties, including accepting airline trips paid
for by a West German bank. ...More than
400,000 Germans in 1,250 locations prayed for their leaders to re-discover
Christian values and acknowledge their responsibility before God. Prayers
concentrated on spiritual awakening in Europe and peace in the Balkans and in
Chechenya. ...The event, sponsored by
the German Evangelical Alliance, has been held for more than 150 years. A “prayer
festival” with 400 Christians from 20 nations was held in the Bavarian capital,
and in Frankfurt 1,200 Christians marched through the city praying. In Mainz, Catholic bishop Franziskus
Eisenbach joined in the largely evangelical Protestant event.
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*BIHAR, INDONESIA: PRAYER INITIATIVE
From: “John
Robb” <"john_robb"@wvi.org>
Dear
Friends, here is an update from Tom Victor who is facilitating the
Bihar
Prayer Initiative. Please also keep the volatile Indonesian situation
with
its possibility of continuing violence in your prayers. John
The prayer initiative is going well in Bihar. We have had an overwhelming
sense of God’s peace.
Thank you so much for mobilizing the prayer army.
Please continue to pray for the following:
·
1. Pray for the
strategy coordinators as they are being trained and are
preparing their plans to reach the major unreached people
groups of Bihar.
·
2. Workers are
currently experiencing persecution from radical religious
fanatics. Pray
that they would have great strength and peace in the face of
the persecution.
·
3. Pray for the
leaders as they continue to give leadership to the plans
and strategies to reach Bihar.
God is up to something very special here in Bihar. I will give you a full
update in a few days when I am back in the US.
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