PERU IS ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE A TASTE OF THE KOREAN REVIVAL
Dr. Lee Jae-Rock and a team from Seoul will conduct a “Miracle Healing Festival” in downtown Lima from December 2-4

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

LIMA, PERU  (ANS) -- Peru's incredibly rich and compelling archaeological heritage and its great natural beauty--remarkable even in a continent renowned for its exotic vistas--draw tens of thousands of visitors each year.

Soon, a group of Korean Christians will visit the seat of several Andean civilizations most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533, to bring a taste of the extraordinary Korean revival that has been sweeping South Korea in recent times. (Pictured: Korean dancers who will perform in Lima).

The team will be led by Dr. Lee Jae-Rock, senior pastor of the 80,000-member Manmin Joong-Ang Church in Seoul, South Korea – its main church -- and they will hold a “Miracle Healing Crusade” at Lima’s massive downtown Campo de Marte Park, which can accommodate more than 500,000 people in the open air.

Joining Dr. Lee will be the Manmin worship musical team and dancers who have been learning worship choruses in Spanish and will perform each night before Dr. Lee’s sermons. (Pictured: Flag of Peru).

He will pray for the sick and before each service, a medical table will be set up for people who were sick to go and be diagnosed by Korean and Peruvian doctors and nurses and then after being prayed for, if they believed they are healed, they will return back so that the medics can check out whether the healing had taken place from a medical perspective.

Johnny Kim, who director of Manmin World Mission, who has just spent a week traveling throughout Peru with a Korean dance team to publicize the event, said during a stop-off at Los Angeles International Airport, “The Peruvian people are so excited now because of the great expectation of the blessings and manifestation of the Power of God. I have been there for the past week and I met lots of church leaders there and political leaders and communication leaders of the mass media in Peru and all of them agree that it is going to be a great blessing for the whole of Peru because they have been experiencing many difficulties there including the lack of development in parts of country. (Pictured: Dr. Lee preaching during previous crusade in Germany).

“They are expecting so much because of this crusade as only by the Word and Power of God can change their mindset and can change the whole country.”

Kim said that already the secular TV channels of Pan Americana TV (Channel 5), and Global TV (Channel 13), have been airing spots about the festival and also a 30 minute program about Dr. Lee’s previous crusades in different parts of the world.

“Channel 13 will broadcast live the whole event each night from 7-10 PM and right after it is over, Channel 5 will broadcast editing parts in a one-hour program,” he said. “Also, there will be three satellite channels transmitting the whole program to the world and we will have lots of Christian communicators around the world who will distribute these signals after downloading it from the satellites through their networks. They include TKV in St. Petersburg, which covers Russia and the Russian-speaking countries in Europe, and also, RTV Amistad in Barcelona, Spain who will translate the preaching into Spanish and cover Spanish-speaking countries through their own network.

“The representative of TBN in Latin America will also broadcast live the whole event to Latin America, North America and even Europe, as well as Christian TV networks in Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica.”

Kim added that Manmin TV will also web cast each night the services in English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese French and Russian.

“I would ask people around the world to pray for God’s blessing on the meetings and that the people of Peru will be great blessed by what happens over those few nights in Lima,” he said, who added that the next crusade is being scheduled for Beijing, China, next May and then in November, there will be a similar crusade in Cairo, Egypt.

Lima, which has about 8 million residents, is a historic city that was founded in 1535 by Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro. Peru has a total population of about 28 million.