I want to encourage you to register to receive an early invitation to participate in a highly strategic gathering of leaders October 24-28, 2016, in New York City: Movement Day Global Cities. Since 2010, New York has hosted Movement Day, a cutting-edge consultation for leaders growing collaborative city movements. Under the leadership of Dr. Mac Pier and the New York City Leadership Center, I am serving as the Coordinator of the Global Cities Leadership Community, a rapidly growing network of kingdom leaders engaged with city movements that are already existing, or emerging.
Our aim is to extend an early invitation to leaders of global city movements with motivation and capacity to bring a team of at least 5 colleagues to New York in 2016. These could be pastors, leaders of non-profits, leaders engaged in the marketplace, prayer mobilizers, church planters, etc, with a common passion to reach their cities through increased collaboration.
While inspiring and valuable, we fully realize that large international gatherings can be inspiring, but have a "short shelf life." Yes, we will have superb, relevant Bible exposition from the likes of Tim Keller, Bill Hybels and other international speakers. Select global cities will present functional models of spiritual and societal transformation. Afternoon sessions will be dedicated to a range of specific affinity tracks. There will be multiple value-added exposures in the New York area. But what I feel is most valuable will be the sustainable learning opportunities that follow-on from New York, such as regional internet meetings, city movement consultations in geographic "hubs" around the world (e.g., the 2 day City Advance consultation/learning community I designed and offered before Movement Day since 2010).
If you register below, this simply gives you the opportunity to receive an early invitation. Simply go the site below:
https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eb10gxh565121156&oseq=&c=&ch=
And check out the initial version of our site: movementday.com" href="http:// http://2016 . movementday.com">http:// http://2016 . movementday.com
Thanks for "listening" and considering participation.
Tom White
Frontline
GCLC Coordinator
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We wanted to bring to your attention the upcoming '21 Days For Global Harvest' prayer campaign and to especially request your kind support and assistance as a friend of SVM2 and a stakeholder in passing on the information and promoting this global prayer campaign among your IPC networks around the world..
Here are a few ways we suggest you could possibly do this:
1. Send out email notices or include information about the '21 Days for Global Harvest' in your regular/periodic email communications across your network.
2. If your organization runs any any publications online/digital or in printed form, you could place or embed our graphic promotionals in those publications or alternatively embed the promo in your website or blog.
3. Send us the contacts of specific people across your network that we could get in touch with directly to promote and create awareness for this prayer campaign.
Please see attachment for a graphic ad for the 21 Days For Global Harvest. More information is available on the 21 Days of Prayer website here: http://21daysofprayer.net. A promotional video is available too. I'm also ready to be of assistance in any other way you might consider more convenient for promoting this campaign and spreading the word.
As a very well connected and respected leader, we believe your help with getting the word out will not only add credibility but also to a very great extent, enhance the participation of more individuals and ministries as believers unite all over the world for 21 days of covenant praying for the nations.
For His Glory
Joel M Iyorwa
SVM2 / International Alliance Coordinator
Hajj Prayer is a 3-day effort to pray for people going on the Hajj (Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca) from 21–23 September, 2015. All the Hajj Prayer 2015 information can be found at the Praying Through the Arabian Peninsula website: http://www.pray-ap.info/hajj. There is a Hajj video and also a three-day prayer guide. The day when Muslims are on Mount Arafat, seeking forgiveness of sins is Yom Kippur, the day Jews are also seeking forgiveness of sins—their calendars are aligning to make this happen. We encourage everyone to pray for one-fifth of the world during these days.
The launch of the World Youth Prayer Assembly (UPrising- United Prayer Rising) for the nation of Malaysia went very well. About 70 Christian leaders met the first night followed by 700-800 youth the second night. They were strongly challenged by Pastor Jerome Ocampo, the WYPA convener, to embrace the vision of mobilizing the youth and children to gather in South Korea next July 2016 (26-30). I was also able to share with them.
Please continue to pray with us that the vision will increasingly catch fire around the world as all three generations, children, youth and adults, hear about it. We envision a movement of three waves, starting in South Korea and then building with mobilization and training by the youth for the youth back in their countries, followed possibly by two additional assemblies in other nations until millions of youth and children become involved around the world both in prayer and carrying out their unique life missions. You can see video and other information about the UPrising on http://www.unitedprayerrising.com Please share this vision and website with others you know, especially the kids in your lives and churches.
Report from Royal Kids and the International Children’s Intercessors Conference, Aug. 6-9
Some of us had a wonderful time in Chennai, India celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Royal Kids ministry of Father Anton Cruz and his family with hundreds of children and adults. Yesterday, we concluded on the mount of St. Thomas where he, one of the original disciples, was martyred after bringing the Gospel to India in the 1st century. Flags were given by the older generation to the younger generation as a symbol of them arising to take leadership for the future. We celebrated communion and reflected together on "Doubting Thomas" who became a great apostle of faith and challenged both the kids and the older folks to sow mustard seeds of faith with their lives that God would use to bring millions of times the impact just as real seeds do. We then handed out the seeds and they prayed first alone and then together to discern what unique life mission the Lord had for each of them.
According to a report by Yonhap News, envoys from North and South Korea have reached a deal to end some of the most recent tensions that have plagued relations between the two countries. The agreement ends "marathon talks aimed at defusing tensions on the Korean Peninsula," the South Korean news agency reported. Most recently a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire had pushed tensions between the rivals to a recent high.
CNBC.com August 24
Let’s pray for His peace between the two nations and that God will use the current tensions for good towards their eventual reunification.
North Korea
As we contemplate the situation in North Korea, we grow increasingly concerned on a number of fronts. For many months now, we have been praying for Canadian humanitarian workers, Kevin and Julia Garratt and American Peter Han being held in custody in China. We have also been praying for South Korean Pastor Jong-wook Kim and the two more South Koreans sentenced to life in prison as we reported last month. Now, we also add Canadian Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim to our prayers. Pastor Lim of the Light Presbyterian Church in Mississauga, Canada had failed to return from a humanitarian trip to North Korea in January. In March, the North Koreans confirmed that they had taken him into custody. Now, just a few days ago, they released a recorded statement from him and then on Thursday, July 30th, he was allowed to make a public appearance. It is clear that his confession has been coerced from him as has happened to so many others taken by the North Koreans. Our hope and prayer is that, having made a confession, he will be released soon.
Of course, our concern is not only for foreigners who have been taken captive by the regime but also the increasing ruthlessness demonstrated by Kim Jong Un. His reign of terror continues, surpassing either his father, Kim Jong Il, or his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, in the number of high officials that he has had executed. Currently the list contains some 70 names. It is so bad that overseas North Koreans are fearing for their lives and many are seeking asylum. At home the list of people under heightened watch grows and more stringent censorship is being put in place including banning popular songs. In the midst of all this, Kim Jong Un seeks to bolster his own personality cult. He has put his sister, Kim Yo Jong in charge of the effort. Nevertheless, there is a spirit of resistance growing steadily at all levels of society from the elite to the street vendors who are speaking up as never before. It does not help him that he is also downplaying the previous leaders, cutting back on the honor given them.
On a more positive note, it appears that the worst of the drought is past and food production is picking up while fast food stalls are fast becoming ubiquitous…
As we pray for North Korea, I would like to draw your attention to "Adopt 815", a prayer movement focused on August 15th, Korean Independence Day. Each day, a short essay and prayer topic is sent out to subscribers. I should have alerted everyone to this last month and apologize for not doing so. But it is not too late. The daily prayer concerns include a lot of valuable information about North Korea…
In His Name,
Ben Torrey
Director
The Fourth River Project, Inc.
Pray for the liberation of the foreign captives inside North Korea as well as for the liberation of the North Korean people from the oppressive tyranny of Kim Jong Un and his regime.
From: LIFE Today [mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]
“In the August 13th edition of the New York Times there was an article titled, “ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape.” It is the most disturbing piece I have ever read. We are familiar with the atrocity of rape in our nation, but here the perpetrator is hunted down. It is a crime punishable by imprisonment. Not so in Iran and Syria, where it is now perceived in ISIS circles as an act of worship! Recently, twenty-one women and young girls escaped the Islamic State and one of them, a twelve-year old girl, agreed to an interview, if her identity were hidden.
She told the reporter that just before he raped her the Islamic fighter explained to her that what he was about to do to her was not a sin. As she is not of the Muslim faith, the Quran not only gave him the right but actually encouraged him to rape her. He then gagged her and bound her hands. He prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her. She cried out, but he ignored her cries. When it was over, he knelt in prayer again.
When I read such a report I’m drawn back to Psalm 10:
‘They lurk in ambush in the villages, waiting to murder innocent people. They are always searching for helpless victims. Like lions crouched in hiding, they wait to pounce on the helpless. Like hunters they capture the helpless and drag them away in nets. Their helpless victims are crushed; they fall beneath the strength of the wicked. The wicked think, “God isn’t watching us! He has closed his eyes and won’t even see what we do!”
Break the arms of these wicked, evil people! Go after them until the last one is destroyed.The Lord is king forever and ever! The godless nations will vanish from the land. Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them. You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, so mere people can no longer terrify them. (Psalm 10:8-11, 15-18 NLT)
As a mother I am heartbroken to imagine such a barbaric act carried out on one who is basically still a child. As a Christian I am called to rise about the heartbreak and do something. I have a friend, Lisa Bevere, who is in contact with someone in this part of the world. Her contact recently told her that “the broken, abused and deeply assailed women … all they are asking for is women to pray for them.”How can we fail them? We have been placed on the planet in this hour for a reason. My friends and fellow warriors Christine Caine and Pastor Bobbie Houston have put out a call for sisters around the globe to set their alarms for noon every day and stop what they are doing — even for a few moments — and pray for our sisters in Iraq and Syria. I’m in! Will you join us?I believe that all across the world God is calling an army of His daughters to rise up and let our voices be heard. There is no place where we will be more powerful than on our knees!
UPRISING 2016
United Prayer Rising in South Korea
"We will gather. We will pray.
We will see change in our regions and our nations.
This is an UPRISING."
The youth of today is under attack! Just by simply looking around, we can already see that so many issues are keeping them from stepping into their destiny as individuals and as a generation—abortion, child trafficking, sexual violence on children, child labor, teenage suicide, etc.
The need to come together and pray as one against all the giants of this generation is stirring! The spirit of Elijah cries out, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord!” We, the church, will summon and prepare the youth of our world! We will gather a generation to seek His face, for such a time as this. We will invite them to get connected to one another and to be released into their destiny for their generation and the generations to come. We will gather them for an UPRISING!
Following the World Prayer Assembly (WPA) held in Jakarta last 2012, there was a sense of unity of expectations among the leaders of the International Prayer Council (IPC) regarding the next step: it is time for the young, emerging leaders of this generation to organize, mobilize, and pray. They all felt that a NEW WAVE of prayer and missions movements is coming and is now here—for the youth, by the youth. So, the dream to do a World YOUTH Prayer Assembly was initiated, and after much prayer and consultation, it was later on called “UPRISING (United Prayer Rising)”, and it is set to take place on July 26-30, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea.
UPRISING will call forth and engage an emerging generation, tens of thousands from every nation, to challenge and empower them to fulfill their destiny as catalysts for Christ's Kingdom. It will be a springboard for new youth movements, new youth ministries, and new prayer and missions movements. It could also possibly give birth to a new, global Jesus Movement, finding their beginnings at the UPRISING.
The collaboration developed, the unity forged, and the streams synergized will bring a connected, global generation into a focused destiny. And in light of the gathering on 2016 in Seoul, the synergy will potentially break the spirit of division in North and South Korea. A day trip to the DMZ (the border between North and South Korea) will be arranged for these youth leaders to come against the spirit of division, and re-infuse new energy for a revival in Korea.
We expect this gathering will stir the youth to seize their destinies to bring Jesus Christ to their nations.Just one, God-ordained moment in this event will change their lives forever, and our world will never be the same!
UPRISING is GLOBAL.
We are looking for ordinary people from every nation who will extraordinarily impact their world. (Acts 17:6)
UPRISING is about PRAYER.
We are gathering those who believe their prayers matter. We are calling forth ones who are willing to fight and make a sacrifice together, those who will seek the face of God to bring justice and peace among the nations. (1 Peter 4: 7-8, Joel 2:15, Joel 3:9-10, Psalm 24:6, Isaiah 2:2-4)
UPRISING is about GENERATIONS.
We are gathering the old and the young who will honor each other and bring healing between generations. We are gathering the bold and the brave who will make a stand and will set a standard for their generation. (Malachi 4:5-6, Luke 1:17, 1 Timothy 4:12, Psalm 110:3)
UPRISING is a CONVERGENCE.
As the sun rises, the UPRISING will start from the East, where voices will be one in amplifying the sound of Hope that has come and is coming. We are gathering those who are ready to witness God’s glory released to the nations. (John 17: 21, Isaiah 40:3-5, Psalm 113:3, Isaiah 60, Psalm 2, Habakkuk 2:14)
Psalm 24 says that there will be a generation who’s DNA is to seek His face. UPRISING believes that the search is over; THIS IS THE GENERATION GOD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR.
KHAAMA PRESS - Thu Aug 13 2015, 8:54 am
The Taliban carried out many deadly remarkably vicious attacks in Kabul in recent days which claimed many innocent lives. These attacks may be an apparent attempt by the Taliban leaders to portray unity, boost the morale of the cadres and to show that the jihad against government forces and their foreign backers continues despite internal chaos. The Taliban has been in turmoil since it confirmed that its leader Mullah Omar, long hidden from the public eye, was dead. The death of Mullah Omar takes away the main centre of gravity in the jihadi movement that competes with Islamic State it’s now rival. Taliban since its inception enjoyed monopoly of being only jihadist group but now it faces a tough competition from Islamic State. Many analysts believes Mullah Omar’s death poses an existential crisis for the Afghan Taliban potentially presaging a splintering of the movement as the Islamic State group gains a toehold among insurgents enthralled by its battlefield prowess. The group has suffered a string of recent defections to Islamic State, with some insurgents voicing disaffection with the current new leader Mullah Mansor which is not at all as charismatic like- Mullah Omar. So now Taliban is feeling unsecured in lack of unifying leader like Omar. So to unify the movement and cadres these deadly attacks were carried out in Afghan capital….
Now the Taliban can see a potential cost associated with the slow collapse of the Afghan government and the country. Gradualism begets disorder, a power vacuum and internal Taliban strife. In other words, the longer it takes for the Ghani government to fall, the greater the chances for Islamic State to undermine the Taliban. The Taliban want to avoid a situation in which, having won their long war against the U.S. and its Afghan regime, they have to fight another civil war against an Islamic State offshoot for control of the country. Hence new Taliban leadership wants to project themselves hard on the battlefield and negotiate with the position of strength in the peace talks. But Taliban has to rethink about this strategy as with so much civilians casualties’ Afghan government will be in intense pressure from the civil society to stop all peace talks with the group and announced a full-fledged military operation against Taliban. In that scenario equations for Taliban will change drastically.