South Korea August 2011
Report on the revival conference held in South Korea
From the 31st of July until 5th August, 2011, Mattheus and Rebekah van der Steen, accompanied by the TRIN campaign leaders, took part in a revival conference in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea.South Korea is situated in East Asia and has a population of 50 million people. Roughly 30% of the population are Christians. The largest Christian Church in South Korea is the Yoido Full Gospel Church which was founded and is now leaded by Paul Yonggi Cho. It is situated in Seoul and has 800,000 members. There are also many other smaller churches and Christian ministries active in Seoul.
Mattheus was invited to be the main speaker at the conference, which was called the End Time Revival Conference, by Pastor David Kim of Jesus Ministries International (JMI). JMI has a real heart to see God bring revival and transformation and, apart from holding large evangelistic campaigns both nationally as well as internationally, David Kim also runs various training schools, including a School for Revivalists! Praise and worship during the conference was led by Roy Fields and his team from the U.S.A. Roy is a highly anointed worship leader and several years ago he was involved in a ministry that experienced a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit. He has a deep desire to see the Fire of God spread wherever he goes.An average of 200 people attended the conference every day and the Holy Spirit worked powerfully, touching and changing many lives. People were encouraged, filled with the Fire of God, and many testified that they had received inner healing.
During the conference God also opened many doors for both Mattheus as well as TRIN to work together with other ministries. One particularly special meeting was with a pastor they managed to contact via a friend in Seoul. He is a warm, Spirit filled man with great integrity. He shared his vision with them for North Korea and it touched them deeply. He was also very happy that they had met and is going to be researching the best way to have Mattheus' first book, Dare to Dream, translated into the Korean language.
