INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF PRAYER FOR N.KOREA

(Note from Jon Dee)  I don’t believe there is a more brutal government on earth towards Christians than the North Korean goverment.  This is a welcome proclamation from the South Korean Church.  Let join in with them and by faith we will see God move in that land and that the government will improve or be changed.
 
On the centenary day of the Pyongyang Great Revival, the South Korean Church proclaimed an international Year of Prayer for North Korea in 2007. The announcement was made at the Seoul Olympic Gymnastic Stadium before an audience of 15,000.
 
The proclamation states ‘As we mark this centenary day of the outbreak of the 1907 Pyongyang Great Revival, we desire to see love, freedom and peace restored in Korea. We thus proclaim 2007 as a Year of Prayer for North Korea and call the global Church and Christians worldwide to join the South Korean Church in actively praying for North Korea this year.’
 
The proclamation was made by Rev. Choi Hee Boum, the Executive Secretary of the Christian Council of Korea, the representative Christian alliance of South Korea, and co-signed by the body’s President, Rev. Park Jong Soon. The announcement came in the culmination of a week of meetings at the Olympic Stadium leading up to the revival centenary date.
 
A new website address was launched during the week as a vehicle for prayer for North Korea. The inter-agency site at www.pfnk.org carries information and resources to inform and equip Christians everywhere to pray for North Korea and its people.
 
The proclamation concludes with the words: ‘We hereby call on denominations and ministries around the world to promote the ’2007 Year of Prayer for North Korea’. We urge for intercession to be rallied for 2007 to be the year in which the walls of darkness fall in North Korea, crosses are restored in every corner of the land and a historical tide of repentance and revival breaks out and brings peace to Korea and beyond.’
 
The appeal for prayer reflects the grave concern that exists over the situation in North Korea in both spiritual and physical terms.
 
“The persecuted Chinese House church stands firmly together with the suffering brothers and sisters in North Korea today,” Said Rev. Bob Fu, President of China Aid ” We pray the day of true religious freedom in both countries will come soon.”
 
For more information on North Korea, please visit www.pfnk.org
 
Proclamation of ’2007 Year of Prayer for North Korea’
 
We give God all the honour and praise that the Great Revival which broke out on 14th January 1907 in Pyongyang was the greatest demonstration of God’s powerful plan of salvation for the Korean Peninsula.
 
As we mark this centenary day of the outbreak of the 1907 Pyongyang Great Revival, we desire to see love, freedom and peace restored in Korea. We thus proclaim 2007 as a Year of Prayer for North Korea and call the global Church and Christians worldwide to join the South Korean Church in actively praying for North Korea this year.
 
A hundred years ago God started the flames of repentance and revival in Pyongyang Jang Dae Hyun Church, but His work did not stop there. As the miracles of the revival spread from Pyongyang across the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang became known throughout the worldwide Church as ‘The Jerusalem of the East’.
 
We are aware, however, that in this day North Korea is in a time of deep suffering; that her people face great hardship and that many have died as a result. We mourn with those who mourn and are deeply concerned for the welfare of the North Korean people.
 
In light of the current situation, we call on all churches and Christians around the world to pray urgently for North Korea during 2007. We urge for fervent prayer for an end to the deprivations and sufferings, and for the day to come when the love of God and the blessing of salvation breaks out once again throughout the nation and touches the lives of the people of North Korea.
 
Furthermore, the South Korean Church lays before God the pain caused by the division of Korea and proclaims the week of 25th June, the anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, as the ‘Global Week of Prayer for North Korea’.
 
We hereby call on denominations and ministries around the world to promote the ’2007 Year of Prayer for North Korea’. We urge for intercession to be rallied for 2007 to be the year in which walls of darkness fall in North Korea, crosses are restored in every corner of the land and a historical tide of repentance and revival breaks out and brings peace to Korea and beyond.
 
The centenary day of the outbreak of the 1907 Pyongyang Great Revival
 
14 January 2007
 
President   Rev. Park Jong Soon
 
Executive Secretary   Rev. Choi Hee Boum
 

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