Images of Hong Kong

Ladies market in Mongkok- note the classic HK facemask




Yay HK yum cha!









Mid level escalators...covering half a mountain with so many cool lanes coming off it.





Our delicious nepalese dinner spot. End of only day of sightseeing.

Repenting

Khalafie was a high level leader in Ywam, he was in PNG with Tom Hallas and Dean Sherman, and one of the pioneers of frontier mission in the Asia-Pacific. Decades ago he fell into sin quite spectacularly and walked away from the Christian faith. Today he publicly repented. The other leaders gathered around him and forgave him...it was like a family welcoming back a stray member.

Reminiscing in YWAM

Dean Sherman remembering the days in the 70's when Ywam was just starting in Goulburn, Australia. He wanted to get a team to Papua New Guinea. A young Tom Hallas was the first application in. Later the trip had to be cancelled due to 10 of the 12 dropping out. When Dean tried to call Tom he was told Tom had already quit his job and bought the flight. So when Dean finally told Tom the trip was off, Tom said 'God's told me to go, so if you don't mind I will go anyway.' So basically he got a one hour Ywam orientation at the airport and lived in PNG for several years. Today he's the Asia Pacific director and the guy who developed the 'Father heart of God' teaching which is taught worldwide. He's had 40 years in Ywam.





So they honoured him pacific style



And also gave love gifts tongan style- by oiling him up and then sticking money to him.

Mark Anderson on humility

1974 Dr Ralph Winter presents paper on unreached people at the Lausanne conference. 1975 Bill Bright & Loren Cunningham get the idea of spheres of influence...which missiologists are now recognising as the integrated approach to missions. Thomas Wang in the 1990's called people to unreached people missions with the Ad2000. Now the latest burst in mission is likely to be tracked in history as call2all.
Mark Anderson, Call2All Leader:



He's been crying this morning because of his awareness of the work ahead.
Matt 5, beatitudes. People on stage were torn as they looked at the crowd this week. On one hand, the chinese were fervent and had sacrificed so much (sold land & fridges) to get there, and they arrived at 5am to pray and stayed all day...on the other side were westerners who were more concerned with networking and breakfast, even if it was good & for ministry. Mark sees that within himself, and now he can't stand it. Now he cries when he meets people from a broken background. He's also grieving over the arrogance of America. He's calling us to an intentional humbling. He's sensing the grace of God for a broken heart.
YWAM is entering a higher profile stage and so we need to spiritually prepare. As we build it's like Zerrubabals plumbline- ours is to be the beatitudes.
I have the feeling he thinks persecution is coming. Mark ends on saying God is looking for the meek & humble, so he is too.

Ywam Asia Pacific Morning

Loren & Darlene Cunningham




Darlene's uncle clare had been a missionary in China, so she has childhood memories of praying for China, so she's excited to see the beginnings of the fulfillment of those prayers.
Loren says world leadership is shifting to Asia, and so is mission leadership.
In the bible leaders called people to them specifically, like Elijah with Elisha and Jesus with disciples. Thats cause they imparted their spirit, not just knowledge.
Like England was the catalyst for american multiplication of missionaries, so in this century Koreans are the catalyst for Chinese missions.
In 1961 he challenged the Africans to be missionaries, but another missionary came to him and said that he couldn't do that- africans were natives, they (white people) were missos. Loren said the Africans had the same bible he did.
Loren had two calls- all nations and mobilising youth.
Ywam has always been pictured as a wave, but a prophetess from Columbia drew two waves, one coming out of the original ywam wave that was higher. It has to do with Ywammers who are specifically called to the 7 spheres- family, church, education, media, entertainment, executive, judicary & legislative govt., economy
17 major missions are on the leadership of Call2All, but they asked Mark Anderson who runs a major Ywam ministry to lead them. He turned them down 3 times, on the 4th time he was going to refuse again but prayed and had a 3-4hour visitation from God who basically said Ywam had better be imvolved.
85% of the world missionaries come under these 17 mission networks. They asked Ywam to offer training, but we are not ready to train business, hollywood etc. We are behind except for the Koreans who have developed Ywam training for businessmen. Basically Loren realised from Call2All that Ywam has to run to catch up.
Darlene again, romans 12 - we need radical faith & obedience. We are having our minds transformed, and we are rethinking what we see as a missionary as YWAM moves into the secular spheres of influence. But we will know what God's will is if we obey & are transformed.
Respect the gifts of God in each other, live in unity. We often end up in front of Kings & Prime Ministers and we have grown a lot and gotten more organised, but we need to keep sober judgement.
Btw, the latest american idol is a YWAMmer.

Celebrate!

The chinese prayer running across the map of the world.




























I think she's korean








Praise time afterwards..I danced Jewish style in a ring with several Mongolian women, they had no idea but were enthusiastic.
And more prayer...i enjoyed seeing chinese pray for white people, its rare to see because its often white missionaries over Asians.













This is two Vietnamese pastors and a German.

Commitments in mission

The 2000+ organisations here have collectively commited to establishing 118000 houses of 24/7 prayer, each unengaged people group has had several groups choose to adopt them. They are aiming for 2 million churchplants and 1 billion new christians.
If even half of these are followed through by 2020 every unengaged (no missionaries among them) mega-ethnicity will have people working among them to share the gospel.
Hilariously people who were unfortunate enough to book into the same hotels as conference attendees have had the gospel shared with them...one couple who had come on a romantic getaway, came to Christ, were invited to the night meetings, were last seen praying over the world map on thailand where the wife is from and now they've flown already to Thailand to share with their family.
I saw one of the chinese pastors with his bible out sharing with one of the waitresses at this convention centre...Ahh, what happens when you collect this many evangelists in one place.
When I first saw the goals that this conference had committed to, I must admit I was a little sceptical...but then I thought about the huge populations of India & China and how they are now sending missionariea and planting churches. When you look at the church of Acts and how rapidly the gospel spread from just a few with the Diaspora of the Jews, it doesn't seem so unlikely...because they were up against much worse odds.