'A GREAT EXPLOSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN KARACHI'
Some 15,000 Pakistani’s attend a unique Korean healing crusade in Pakistan’s largest city on September 17-18
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries 
KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- “A great explosion of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ” has just taken place in the Pakistani city of Karachi, says one of the organizers, Johnny Kim, the director of Manmin TV in Seoul, Korea, in a message to ANS. (Pictured: Crowd at Kararchi crusade).
He said, “Some 15,000 people gathered together at Catholic Institute Ground in downtown Karachi during the evenings of September 17-18 to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and to experience the power of the living God from Pastor Mikyeong Lee from 100,000-member Manmin Joong-Ang Church, Seoul, Korea.” (Pictured: Pastor Mikyeong Lee (left) with Johnny Kim interpreting in English and a local Urdu interpreter).
Kim went on to say, “Pastor Lee is the daughter of Rev. Dr. Jae-Rock Lee, the senior pastor of the Seoul church, and she was following in the footsteps of her father who conducted a great healing crusade in Lahore in 2000 which shook the whole land of Pakistan with the manifestation of God's power.”
Kim, in his report to ANS, said that Rev. Dr. Samson Jacob, the chairman of preparation committee of "2005 Karachi Handkerchief Crusade" said, "We have been longing to invite Rev. Dr. Jae-Rock Lee again to Pakistan and have prepared with a long time in prayer but now we are happy to have Pastor Mikyeong Lee, on behalf of Dr. Lee, here in Karachi. God has done marvelous works for the souls through her. So many people repented their unbelief and experienced the power of the Holy Spirit. The blind received sight again, the deaf came to hear, the cancers were healed and the paralytics came to walk throwing away their crutches. We give all glory to God Trinity!"
Kim said, “People continually came to the venue even after 8 P.M. while the local choir praised God Almighty with their own musical instrument on the special stage for this event.”
H.E. Rauf Siddiqui, the Minister of Home and Coordination of Government of Sind Province, came to the venue to congratulate the event and to encourage the crowd, mostly Christians but also many Muslims, right before the message saying, "The diseases comes to man as a punishment and we need to repent. If you are sick, you may go and see a medical doctor, he will give you some medicine. You may be healed or not be with the medicine. But when we pray to God with faith, he listens to us and heals."
The talented Crystal Singers, one of the praise missions of Manmin Joong-Ang Church, performed praises to God with singing in the Urdu language and dances in the local style with Pakistani dresses together with some Korean dances with local songs. (Pictured: The Crystal Singers).
The congregation was excited and responded enthusiastically when they sang especially, "Hallelujah Tarip Karenge! (Praise God!)"
Pastor Mikyeong Lee preached about "The LORD who heals you!" and "The power of the Holy Spirit" based on the messages of her father. She emphasized the effort to obey God's words in everyday life which she said, “Leads us to experience the power of the living God.” She added, “Only if we please him by faith in Jesus Christ through obeying God's word in everyday life, he would protect us from diseases and bless us both physically and spiritually."
“After the message, Pastor Lee prayed for the sick people with the handkerchief on which Dr. Lee had prayed just as written in Acts 19:11-12,” said Johnny Kim. “God did extraordinary miracles through the handkerchief prayer by Pastor Lee. So many people were healed and experienced the power of the Holy Spirit and testified what they experienced.
“For instance, a 7-year-old boy whose feet had been bent from the birth and not been able to stand up alone or walk, after receiving the prayer, came to walk by himself crying out, ‘Hallelujah!’ (Pictured: 7-year-old boy walking).
“An old man threw away his crutches and walked with joy and cancers were healed and God did manifest the power of the Holy Spirit in an explosive manner.
“Both Christians and Muslims were healed and testified in the name of Jesus Christ.
“Most importantly, the congregations came to have stronger faith in Jesus Christ and determined to obey God's word after experiencing the great manifestation of God's power themselves.”
Dr. Shakil Pervaiz from Islamabad, the capital city, testified that he saw a vision, while he was praying for "the handkerchief crusade", that God perform great miracles with the power of the Holy Spirit through the preacher.
Rev. Mushtaq Gulab, the interpreter from English to Urdu, who serves as the pastor of Manmin in Kashmir area and also serve as the Group Development Coordinator of Amnesty International (Pakistan) said, "I was blessed so much through the handkerchief crusade. I experienced myself the power of the Holy Spirit. Physically I couldn't make a loud voice when I interpreted but God Almighty strengthened me so that I might interpret energetically to the end."
Local authority supported the meeting with sending the police to escort the preacher, Pastor Mikyeong Lee, from the hotel to the venue and to protect the congregation from any possible violence or accident.
Johnny Kim concluded by saying, “We give all glory to God Almighty who planned this handkerchief meeting and did great works through the power of the Holy Spirit to lead the souls to Christ Jesus!”
On September 16, a pastor’s seminar was held on the subject of "The secret of church growth" based on Acts 2:42-47. Speakers used the example of Manmin church and about 700 pastors and church leaders attended.
Karachi is a city in southern Pakistan, and is the capital of Sind Province, on the Arabian Sea, at the northwestern edge of the Indus River delta. The hub of a sprawling metropolitan area, Karachi is the nation's largest city and its chief transportation, financial, commercial, and manufacturing center. Most of the international trade of Pakistan and landlocked Afghanistan pass through the city's busy modern port, centered on the island of Kiamari.