Dear Friends,

Greetings. I owe you a report from the Prayer Initiative for North Korea. I came home from Asia with some sickness for several days and so am now just getting back to you. It was a magnificent initiative, one of the best organized and most powerful ones I have been part of. We certainly felt your prayers of support. The Korean organizers did such a great job, and it is always so invigorating to pray Korean style with everyone crying out to the Lord at the same time, a great ocean wave of fervent intercession! There were about 300 participants, with both North and South Koreans and about 10% who were from other nations. The first day focused on repentance, the next on intercession, and the final day on restoration and blessing.

We also made an excursion to the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), a few kilometers of land between the North and South that are technically still at war with only a cease-fire in place. There, in a little church building built on land where many thousands died during the North Korean invasion in 1950, we had our final service of worship, prayer and declaration of His blessings over these two divided nations.

Many had the same sense, inspired on Isaiah 40 and other Scripture passages, that there will be a new super highway connecting the North and South in a reunified nation after the DMZ barbwire fences are torn down, and that a move towards reunification was already in process. The Korean organizers are working on a fuller report along with a brief video which I will send to you when it is completed. Please continue to pray for the intercessors to be encouraged and to persevere and for the governments of both nations and the surrounding countries to be willing to work together to bring about a new, united Korea.