| By Tobias Sturesson,
on 31-01-2008 16:46
|
Pastor Sunday, Pastor of the largest church in Europe has teamed up
with Dr James O. Davies for a new thrust to help turn around the
American church to become effecting in reformating the society.
Delegates came in from all States and from 50 different Nations to
be a part of this historic first conference of the 2nd Billion
Movem ent. The goal of the 2nd Billion movement is to see one billion
people move from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of light.
Many of the world's greatest Pastors and ministries have teamed
together to make this goal a reality. Many of these pastors were also
speaking at the conference.
I will just mention some highlights from few of the great men of God who were ministering at the conference.
Ron Luce, leader of the youth movement "Teen Mania" holds large crusades for ten thousands of youth around the United States. Ron
talked about the battle cry, that among the generation growing up in
the US today, called the Millenium generation, only 4% are christians.
He challenged everyone to take on the challenge of doubling their youth
groups. www.battlecry.com
Dr Wes Stafford, leader of Compassion International. Compassion
International ministers to children especially in the third world. They
see over 50.000 kids getting saved every month through their ministry.
Wes preached a really powerful message about how much Jesus loved and
cared for children and how we wanted to protect them. We challenged all
the pastors to put their into reaching children. 85% of christians, got
saved before the age of 14. www.compassion.com
Pastor Ed Young, pastors Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas
with over 40.000 members. He also preached about the importance of
focusing on children to be able to build a successful and growing
church. www.second.org
Pastor John Ed Mathison, Pastors a large Methodist church called
Frazer Memorial with over 10.000 members. Pastor Ed is training his
members to become ministers and to impact the society and he said that
90% of his church is in fulltime ministry!
Pastor Sunday Adelaja, Pastor of God Embassy in Kiev Ukrain and one
of the Co-chairs of the conference gave a powerful appeal to the
American church to start focusing on bringing change to the society
instead of just focusing on building large churches. He had a big team
of people from his churches in Ukraine who testified how they went from
being drug addicts to become reformators of the society in different
areas. In the group were people like the most famous DJ in Ukraine,
2007 Miss Ukraine, politicians, succesfull business men, overseers over
hundreds of churches etc. Pastor Sunday also released his new book
called Church Shift, published by Charisma, that will be a tool in
shifting the church in America. www.pastorsunday.com
Markus Lamb, Founder of Daystar Television network shared his
testimony of how good took him and his wife from insignificance to
leading a television network that is the second largest Christian
network in the world and that airs in every country of the world. His
message was filled of faith and power and the whole evening service was
aired on Daystar. www.daystar.com
Dr Kenneth Ulmer, who Pastors a mega church in Inglewood, California
preached the last sermon of the conference. He talked about that the
real goal as a pastor is to create disciples of Jesus Christ who take
the Kingdom of God into the world. Bishop Ulmer said that God had
revealed to him that even though he pastors a great mega church he has
not been so succesful in training disciples. He told everyone how
important it was for the church of America to grab hold of the Kingdom
message and learn from the minstry of Pastor Sunday how a church really
can become effective in the society. The presence of God was tangible
in the building and pastors all around the building fell to the ground,
crying out to God, sensing the importance of the message they had just
received. www.faithfulcentral.com |