>From: "Liliana long" <siempreconfines@hotmail.com>

XIII HARVEST EVANGELISM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
MAR DEL PLATA CITY

Just as the Conference organizers were telling us from the microphones, Argentina was being converted in a world pulpit.

There were several reasons for this title:
    One of them: more than about three hundred leaders from many nations (South Africa, with a large group, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, the Usa, with a great group either. Caribean countries, Norway, England, Canada, China, and all our neighboring countries as well (Brasil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia). All these leaders, came back to their own countries as nation transformers. They were ministered, they were taught in the Conference, but they practiced and were in touch with the needy people in Argentina, working with the provinces team leaders. They have been trained while they were helping us, (we're thankful for them!!!), but right now, they can help to their own churches and countries applying all this practical teaching received in these days. As brother Ed Silvoso told them, “If you were doing things good, now you'll do it better now.”
    The other one: The core idea of “Getting into the Marketplace”, in an extensive meaning of the word, was applied in such an extensive scope, that were no areas of the so called "world without Jesus” that were not affected by the week end effort in all Argentina's provinces.(On October 25th and 26th weekend). There were also practical expressions of compromise of God's people with our social situation. Gifts were given to government and marketplace leaders. International leaders were helping us side by side, and obeying to the Great Commission as well.
    All of this happened, after converting our country in a "Prayer Sanctuary," connected by the TV antenna all along our countryside, and applying the previous model in five provinces (please, see Global Edition October's issue talking about it).

ON TUESDAY, they were all gathered in Mar Del Plata City.

PREACHERS AND MINISTRATION

We thank to international preachers who attended and helped us. But in this section, we will talk about Argentina’s lecturers, who ministered to the world from here.  On Wednesday night, Carlos Annacondia, showed a tender heart toward the lost ones. He firstly asked to the presents, who attended for the first time, an evangelical meeting and asked them to raise their hands. He preached for them, as a first instance. He took the Bethesda pool John’s passage, were “a great number of disabled people used to lie” (NIV).
    A truly “disabled one”, had visited Bethesda
s pool in Jerusalem, and heard by a tourist guide, this story. He was an Argentine's marine, in his last trip, before his retirement caused by his paralysis. He thought, hearing this history in the pool, "well, here there is power". And he took away a stone from it, came to his hotel, and passed this stone on his skin, expecting a miracle. But nothing happened.  He came back to our country, disappointed, waiting for the order for his retirement. But, one night, he listened in the loudspeakers, crossing an open air campaign, the voice of Carlos Annacondia, talking about Bethesda's pool. He heard: “Nothing from that pool can heal you...it was not the angel, not the stones...it was Jesus! And the same Jesus, was alive, powerful to heal you and save you.”
    This marine, heard and believed as well.  After a fortnight, he came up to the platform where testimonies were shared in Carlos' campaigns, and he came up....walking...! . In all the ministrations in the Macro Stadium in Mar del Plata, whoever minister was ( Cindy Jacobs, Claudio Freidzon, Carlos Annacondia as others), we always recognized the invisible Hand of God, moving in His power).

Juan Zucarelli, taught us about the impossible. The mostly unreachable marketplace, a prison, may be changed into...a six thousand believer's church ! By the power of God. He told us from the very hard beginnings, an unreachable place for him, until the incredible moment where prison authorities offered him the UNIT 25's prison's keys! Believers inmates, it was painted, arranged, and now, this UNIT IS 100% Christian.
    The authorities recognized that this believers inmates produce a save of money for the Government. It is not necessary to invest extra money in health care for injuries, casualties, or drugs ingestion,very common in every prison. There is no corruption in UNIT 25. They run Government's money in a clear way, with proved integrity. One of their pastors, was formerly one of the hardest inmates. Now he's got a congregation of one thousand and five hundred believers.

Sergio Scattaglini, taught us, in his always direct way of teaching, about holiness, a God's miracle in our life, not something achieved in our own strengths. We need passion for embracing our promises. To recover our lost territory, closing our own doors to curses, to rejection. Our task is to preach the gospel, even to our household, even those ones "hard, uneasy, for spiritual matters. Our lack of faith, puts our hearts in darkness. But, from our last battlefield place, we can stand up, and conquer!

Claudio Freidzon, taught us about long desperate situations, low valleys. God can take us from there, and put us in the highest places, by His mighty hand. And suddenly, by this change, we feel ourselves as if this “new cloth,” new situation, that begin to feel that we do not qualify in higher places! The Lord wants us to grow. But, after these desserts, we have been taught by Him, to trust in Him, and not in our own strengths. He encouraged us to trust in a new time for us.

INTERNATIONAL LEADERS

Neutza Itioka, from Brasil. She shared “Faith Declaration.”
James Davies, from the USA, gave us an edifying talk about God's leading, based upon the book of Exodus.
Cindy Jacobs, ministered us about a New Argentina, and Joseph's Generation (young people, with ministration as well).
And Harold Caballeros, in the first night meeting, spoke and encouraged us about God's dream.

MAR DEL PLATA EXPERIENCE

Pastor Omar Olier, and other ones from MDP'S Pastors Association, gave witness of the tremendous advance of the Kingdom of God there. After they humiliated themselves, and began to work together, things began to change in the city. They entered in the marketplace, in the Police Department, the Education arena, in the shops, in hospitals. They got a place in the same city Government, where the mayor offered them an office for the pastors.  This mayor attended in the Conference, for thanking the gift of a health aid container, to MDP's Pastors and Harvest Evangelism Foundation. He proclaimed,that MDP city, “IS GOD'S CITY.”

VIDEOS, DRAMAS AND TYPICAL DANCES

From almost all well known countries and cultures in the world, including tribes (from America, and Argentina as well). There was a prophetic message in all of them, and every night, we enjoyed Tupanoi's songs, from Corrientes province, Argentina.

Edgardo Silvoso -
    In several talks, he spoke from different points of view, about the power of pardon, in order to advance against any devil attack. We give him our territory, if we do not pardon someone. God's power cannot work in us.
    Edgardo taught us, from the Word of God, how not to be allergic to people. Our received blessings, should not be kept within church's walls. Based on Luke chapter ten, he spoke about how to:
        -bless, and give peace when we enter a house, or the marketplace we come in.
        -to eat and share with people.
        -to pray for needs, to ask for God's miracle when it is necessary. Extraordinary miracles, that were never performed. We can ask for them, in favor of these lost and loved people.
        -to open our mouth, and share the kingdom's gospel.
    There is a process movement, in all what we have been doing.  Since changing the spiritual climate in one place by means of Light Houses (prayer houses, until the cities conquer, and finally, nations transformation. All revivals are marketplace revivals. When God meets someone, he gives to this person, practical instructions of what to do.
    He also taught us about “Transformation at the Marketplace”, by means of seven tracks:
        -Worshippers.
        -Intercessors.
        -Pastors.
        -Businessmen.
        -Education.
        -Government.
    He shared with us how seventy points in the City were spiritually affected, while the local radio gave information about the Conference. After the Conferences in the morning held in Hotel Sheraton, in the afternoon, city transformers, each one of these mentioned “tracks”, made their task in the previously appointed place by their leaders. We could see in the afternoon, to our brothers and sisters in full activity. All the city was shaken by this Conference: taxi drivers and shop attendants, were talking about it.  Jesus was the mostly well-known person, the Lord of the city, because an obedient people in unity, learned how to obey him.

Liliana Ester Long- attendant at the Conference, reporting for the NPPN.
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>From: Marc van der Woude <joel-news@xs4all.nl>>

Former Joel News editor Branko Bjelajac reports that a first-ever prayer gathering was held in Serbia, October 20-22. He reports:

"It marked a spiritual breakthrough in the dark skies over Serbia. Thirty of us came from various churches and places. On the first night we prayed over Serbia, cried to God for all of our iniquities and brought them to the cross. Most of us washed them out with tears of repentance. It was a sweet taste that night. The next day was a day of teachings and prayer, fellowship and sharing. The third day was a continuation of prayer and a special time of silence, followed by sharing what the Lord was speaking and showing us. The participants were glad that something of this sort occurred in Serbia.

"The Lord has been pouring out his Spirit of prayer subsequently. A number of churches and Christian organisations had special days of prayer and fasting. The most noted one was on November 3, the International Ladies Day of Prayer. This very week will be filled with prayer and intercession for our nation, which is undertaking yet another election campaign for a president. The last Serbian president is on trial for war crimes in the Hague! The 2002 presidential campaigns ended up in a deadlock, creating a political crisis. The state of Serbia is without an officially elected president and, since the assassination of Zoran Djindjic this Spring, also without elected Prime Minister! Therefore a special day of prayer and fasting is scheduled for Friday, November 14. Please join us again in prayer and help us believe for peace and stability in the region and salvation of the nation.
 
"We are alerting our praying friends worldwide that the spiritual battle for the people of Serbia has began - help us, support us in prayer, fasting and intercession. Serbia belongs to Jesus, the Prince of Peace!"

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Nations Currently Most Responsive to the Gospel: http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/esweb.asp?WCI=Results&Query=235 <http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/esweb.asp?WCI=Results&amp;Query=235>
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>From: Friday Fax <FridayFax@bufton.net>

In order to provide an overview of the development of Christianity around the world, Prof. David Barrett published the World Christian Encyclopedia, a monumental work of 2,600 pages. This tome now has a digital successor: the World Christian Database, published by the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. The following are two samples of the information, which is not yet always up-to-date: (the tables must be viewed with a fixed-width font such as Courier)

The fastest-growing denominations
Nation        Denomination                      Christian group Growth % p.a. Founded
                                                                  1970-2000
Nepal         Baptist Church Council            Protestants     34.80%         1994     12,000
Nepal         Believers Church                  Independents    34.80%         1994     18,000
Bangladesh    New Covenant Church    Independents    34.08%         1995     13,000
Albania       Christ Groups                     Independents    33.35%         1992      2,000
Slovenia      Mormons                           Christian sect  31.95%         1995        200
Kirgizstan    Mormons                           Christian sect  29.17%         1993      9,000
Albania       Pentecostal                       Independents    29.15%         1991      1,000
Mongolia      Mormons                           Christian sect  29.15%         1991      2,000
Albania       Cornerstone Church                Independents    29.15%         1991      3,000
Armenia       Assembly Hall Churches            Independents    28.73%         1990        250
Benin         Eglise Pentecotiste Unie          Protestants     28.56%         1985      1,300
Britain       New Frontiers International       Independents    28.47%         1980    150,000
Bulgaria      Church of Varna                   Independents    28.36%         1988      2,000
India         Prince of Peace Church            Independents    28.26%         1970     17,500
Albania       Broadsheet Readers' Clubs         Independents    28.21%         1990      1,200
Malawi        New Life Churches                 Independents    28.21%         1990     12,000
Britain       Bridge Ministries                 Independents    28.03%         1980      1,400
Ivory Coast   Eglise Quadrangular               Protestants     27.94%         1975      4,730
Belgium       Independent Charismatic Churches     Independents    27.88%         1985     20,000
Sierra Leone  New Apostolic Church              Independents    27.88%         1960     80,000

The most new believers each year
Nation       Religion               Sub-group     Members 2000  Conversions per year
China        Christians             Independents    85,535,627  2,149,145
China        Chinese Universalists  -              365,596,838    583,999
Philippines  Christians             Independents    17,602,820    375,867
USA          Christians             Independents    78,129,874    375,826
China        Buddhists              -              107,393,511    359,778
India        Christians             Independents    30,465,609    335,795
Russia       Christians             Orthodox        75,610,000    333,143
India        Ethnic religions       -               38,522,155    293,589
Kenya        Christians             Protestants      8,809,000    285,713
India        Moslems                -              123,390,137    277,899
Ethiopia     Christians             Protestants     10,383,080    213,379
USA          Non-religious          -               25,853,288    204,770
Nigeria      Christians             Catholics       15,424,007    204,456
Kazakhstan   Moslems                -                7,865,254    189,017
India        Christians             Protestants     18,061,870    182,116
Nigeria      Christians             Protestants     15,877,860    170,359
Angola       Christians             Protestants      3,092,950    130,875
Ghana        Christians             Protestants      4,566,432    125,063
Congo-Zaire  Christians             Catholics       27,066,941    124,788
Uzbekistan   Moslems                -               18,985,944    119,073

Source: www.worldchristiandatabase.org

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>From: "ASSIST News" <assistnews@adelphia.net>
>At: <http://www.assistnews.net/>
>By Stefan J. Bos, Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

BAGHDAD, IRAQ  (ANS) -- As rockets rocked several high profile buildings, including the Oil Ministry in the Iraqi capital Baghdad Friday, Nov. 21, Evangelical relief agencies said they will stay despite ongoing violence that already saw a reduction of Red Cross and United Nations staff. (Pictured: Happy Iraqi child).

The announcement came on a day that 8 rockets fired from donkey carts hit the Ministry while soon after six other rockets slammed into the Sheraton and Palestine hotels, where many foreign journalists and diplomats used to stay.

There were reports of only a few injuries as most people did not yet visited the nearby breakfast facilities in the hotel. Coalition forces raided the Sheraton and other locations in search for the attackers and apparently carried one wounded suspect with them, television footage showed.

Separately, the U.S. military reported that another American soldier from the 4th Infantry Division had been killed in an explosion north of Baghdad on Thursday, Nov 20, but details of the incident were not immediately released, news reports said.

COMBAT ACTIVITY

But an official of the Evangelical relief organization Food for the Hungry said the recent combat activity will not stop their projects. "Food for the Hungry is known for going to the hard places. And, as long as we are assured that our staff or our partners will be safe we will continue to go to these places," said representative Tamara Dutch in an interview with Mission Network News (MNN), a Christian broadcaster.

Dutch added that working with local churches gives believers credibility, opening doors to share their faith. "We have distributed to families in both Baghdad and Mosul. (In) Baghdad Food for the Hungry and its partners have helped a little over 1,000 families (and) 1,000 families also in Mosul," the troubled northern Iraqi town.

Baptist and other organizations have also made clear they will continue with relief efforts at a time when church leaders report a hunger for both the Gospel of Christ and aid in the war town nation.
 
Donations for Food for the Hungry can be made on website: http://www.fh.org <http://www.fh.org/>   or in the U.S. call 800-2-hunger.
 
Award winning Journalist Stefan J. Bos was born on the 19th of September 1967 in a small home in downtown Amsterdam, in the Netherlands not far from the typewriter of his father, who was (and still is) a Reporter and ghostwriter. Already at a very young age Bos decided to become journalist and finally arrived in Hungary, the same country where his parents had smuggled Bibles during Communism.

Bos has traveled extensively to cover wars and revolutions throughout the region and received the Annual Press Award of Merit from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his coverage about foreign policy affairs including Hungary's relationship with NATO and the European Union. Stefan J. Bos can be reached at: bosnews@externet.hu.  
 
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>From: "ASSIST News" <assistnews@adelphia.net>

MADISON, WIS  (ANS) -- This December 20,000 college students, missionaries, and church and campus leaders will gather for Urbana 03, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's 20th Student Mission Convention. The event is held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from December 27-31, 2003.

Jim Tebbe, Director of Urbana, says, "Students in the 21st century will be the greatest missionary force the world has ever seen. Urbana helps students find their place in God's global mission.”

The theme for this convention is “Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done”. “Missionaries don’t advance God’s Kingdom; they reveal it. Urbana will shed a lot of light on God’s global mission.” says Tebbe.

Dr. John Stott, author, theologian, and missionary from the United Kingdom will open the convention with a talk on radical discipleship. Each morning students will participate in small group Bible studies and hear Bible teaching on the gospel of Luke in the general sessions. In the evening they will be challenged with talks on lordship, evangelism, cross cultural conversion, and missions. During the afternoons, delegates can choose from 300 different in-depth topical seminars and interact with missionaries from more than 325 missions agencies, graduate schools and seminaries.

“We have been delighted by the response of students registering to attend Urbana. We still have about 3,000 spaces open for delegates, ”comments Tebbe. For registration details, visit www.urbana.org/go/register <http://www.urbana.org/go/register> .  

For more information, contact:
Kathryn Bell, Associate Director for Communications
(608) 274-4823 x428 /   urbana03media@ivcf.org  

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>From: "Anne E. Beel" <aebeel@byhisgrace.com>

Victory belonged to the Lord on Nov. 29!   God worked so much through your prayers for last Saturday’s Church Planter Network Meeting that we believe His Spirit even guided many who could not find their way to the meeting place.  Yes, it was obvious the enemy was trying keep believers from arriving because many people got lost on their way to the church.  But everyone made it and  the number in attendance surpassed even our high hopes.  130 people came to the meeting!  Praise Him!  Some were children and some missionaries but 70 were Mexican church planters longing to serve, to be encouraged, and to be an encouragement to others.  The theme of the night was humbling to us missionaries.  These men and women who struggle to make ends meet working full time in secular jobs spoke of being faithful and obedient to their call to start churches.  A few of those planters who are also new believers shared the tremendous joy they have in serving the Lord.  To these new believers, it’s not even a sacrifice- it’s an act of gratitude to their Lord.  And now this army for Him has been more unified- the group even looked more like a team because everyone was given a T-shirt.

What some new works have been doing lately.   The group in Francisco Villa led by Ramon Cervantes, whose team member Agripina died several months ago after being hit by a car, continues evangelizing in their neighborhood.  This is a strong group, probably due to the adversities they’ve faced, and just this week they were going to be showing another film in the community in order to try to reach more people for Christ.  In another area of the city, Renovacion, the opposition is strong.  Rut Lopez says her group, whose team leader Julio Rodriguez died, is still focused on prayer walking and seeking the Lord’s leading to a person of peace because thus far this community wants nothing to do with Christians.  And finally, the group in Granjas Cabrera is trying a creative evangelical outreach approach.  Gina and Carlos Condado have seen so many family problems in their neighborhood that they’ve asked a skilled counselor to come and give a workshop aimed at helping families and stopping abuse.  They and the other few members of this new church have invited friends and family to this program where Carlos also takes part of the session to share from God’s Word.  This team has been encouraged because from 8 to 12 adults have been in attendance.  

Please Pray:
    Praise God for the success of the first Church Planters’ Network Meeting and continue to pray for the church planters- that they depend on the Lord for strength to stay at the task;
    Pray for the groups in Francisco Villa, Renovacion, and Granjas Cabrera to be able to spread the gospel rapidly so that these communities can be reached for Christ;
    Pray for comfort for the Boyter family as they face the imminent death of David Boyter’s sister, Trudy,  who has been suffering from brain cancer and they also ask for wisdom regarding travel plans,
    And finally we all remember this special time of year the hope we have in the greatest gift of all, our Lord Jesus- let’s be spurred on to pray for the salvation of the nations.

Merry Christmas,
The Beel, Boyter, Crino, Ignacio, and Ortega families, and Alyson Geery, Holly Hall, Jeanie Moore, Greta Nelson, Rachel Nowell, and Traci Renneker  
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9.    CANADA: FROM STRIP CLUB TO HOUSE OF RPAYER
>From: Marc van der Woude <joel-news@xs4all.nl>

Praying Christians in Eastern Canada have been asking God during the last few months to change their city from the inside out. As a result they've seen a drug house close in their area and now the local strip club shut down, to be reopened soon as a house of prayer.

Steve, the club DJ, became a Christian earlier in the year and for several months kept his job at the Strip Bar. His testimony helped bring the strip show to a close and secure the group's purchase of the building. They hope that many of the club's former clients will frequent the building again in the future, as a house of prayer and healing.  

Source: 24-7 Prayer Canada
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>From: "Liliana long" <siempreconfines@hotmail.com>

The National Pastors Retreat, under the title of "The Argentina that God Wants", was held in Cordoba province, with an assistance of more than one thousand pastors coming from all our country. We spoke on that time, about nine pillars of a "United National Transformation Project".

One : one weekly prayer altar from the pastors belonging to the same place and two, to unify in one network all these prayer groups who exist in this country.

Concerning to this item, the attendants proposed to organize regional meetings or seminars for sharing and mobilizing to other leaders, and ask to one of the  mostly Pastor's Associations, ACIERA, to promote regional meetings.

Concerning to prayer networks: 89% of the attendants, reported of any intercession network in their cities, and 60% reported that their intercession items are sent by their own congregation are being sent to any other prayer network.  Others, have their own congregation network.

The main difficulty in getting one unique intercession network, which should link all these ones previously mentioned, consists in:
    - “A different ministry vision.
    - doctrine conflicts.
    - lack of compromise with unity vision.
    - a little vision of the Kingdom of God, organization problems as well".

Three: a massive evangelization plan. From 30% of all  pastors requested,they reported that there was a kind of united evangelization plan in their own city or town.  The suggested changes, should be "pastors unity", "churches unity, with a vision stressed upon the city and not the congregation. By the other side, churches should be under coordinated evangelization programs, data processing. When the pastors were asked why they were so concentrated in their own efforts in local congregations, they answered that " tradition, pride, fear, lack of training and practice", were the main reasons for this attitude.

Let us remember the other points:
-to help maturing national leadership, to teach all the believers, providing them information from our common evangelical basis,
-to give a cultural transformation. To provoke prophetically a challenge in our midst. And finally, to gather social and aid efforts.

The final response, for all these points, was the following one:
  Regional pastors retreats were suggested, united aid campaigns, interchanging
  pulpits among different churches and pastors in the city.
  Offers from one church to another and from a group of churches to hospitals or social   welfare  institutions.
  United prayer in Pastors Associations, and common leaders retreats organized
  by a group of churches in the city".

These pastors recognized," So far, all this did not happen, because the main  difficulties were lack of pastoral unity, and lack of resources for expressing this prophetic voice. And it was needed, to get a common criterion."

Liliana E. Long-Extracted and adapted version  from an article published in El Puente's issue, November 2003
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