Pastors' conference
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ABBA Pastors’ Conference 2016
Pass Through the Doors
(Satipo Conference Picture)
Pastors from all over Peru gathered
together at the ABBA Pastors’
Conferences to obtain training and
direction for the youth rallies that will
happen this upcoming July and August.
Statistics
Over 75% of the world’s population lives
in areas with severe religious restrictions
-Pew Research Center
Each Month:
• 322 Christians are killed for their
faith
• 214 churches and Christian properties
are destroyed
• 772 forms of violence (beatings,
abductions, rapes, arrests and forced
marriages) are committed against
Christians
-OpenDoors USA
More Christians have been martyred in
the 20th and 21st century than during the
previous 19 combined.
-Christian Today
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A World in Need of Christ’s Warriors
“Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones.
Raise a banner for the nations.”
-Isaiah 62:10-
The world that we live in today is becoming increasingly
hostile towards God and His children. Many countries have
not only passed laws and legislation targeting Christians,
but are socially oppressing Christians.
As pastors from all across Peru gather for the annual ABBA
Pastors’ Conferences, in six different regions, there is one
vital question for them: Are we building up the youth to go
out into the world for Christ? Our God wants us to raise up
mighty men and women of God in Peru. Ever since 2010,
through the Abba Peru Youth conferences and ABBA pastors’
conference, thousands of young people and pastors have been
ignited with the fire of the Holy Spirit to go to the utmost
parts of the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
To put things into perspective:
• Iraq, ranked 2nd on Open Door’s 2016 World Watch
List, only has less than a thousand Christians left, and
they are on the verge of extinction from the region due
to the rise of Islamic extremism.
(2016 will mark the first time in over 2,000 years that the
there will be no church service in Mogul, Iraq.)
• Somalia (7th) has less than 200 Christians, who do
not get put into jail or labor camps, but are rushed
to public beheading on the mere suspicion of being
Christians.
• India (17th) had over 30 incidences of violence against
Christians in the first six weeks of 2016 alone.
• Malaysia (30th) sends their Christians into re-education
centers where they are tortured, brainwashed and
beaten until they renounce their Christian faith.
This year’s theme was “Go through the door” according
to Isaiah 62:10. Pastors and leaders were introduced to the
nations and people who have been persecuted beyond our
comprehension because of the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Hundreds of thousands of Christians are being persecuted
for their faith in Jesus Christ. Not only is it limited to
governmental and social oppression, but Christians are being
imprisoned, beaten and even publicly killed or beheaded. It is
a harsh time to be a Christian.
Many of the pastors and youth made a firm commitment to
follow the Holy Spirit and go where the message of hope and
life in Jesus Christ is needed.
“As I listened to the teachings I was moved and convicted by
God the Holy Spirit that I, myself, have to renew my vision
and my commitment to keep serving Him with all my heart
and to align myself to what He is doing in the hearts of young
people of Peru to expand his kingdom on this earth,” writes
one of our staff volunteering for Abba Peru conferences.
Peru will become a great missionary-sending country one day
and we thank you for your continuous partnership and prayer
with this ministry. It is now a time for Christians all across the
world to stand up for God. To God be the glory!
Back in the 16th century, Spain sent conquistadors into
Peru and conquered it. Now in 2016, HHK WMC seeks
to raise and train Peruvian missionaries that will go back
into Spain, and the rest of the world, to conquer them in
the name of God’s Kingdom. As the youth conferences
start in July, HHK WMC will convey and make known the
suffering of fellow Christians to the young adults of Peru.
The purpose of this is to reveal the need for Christians to
once again become warriors of Christ.
There are hundreds of thousands of Christians across
the world suffering, millions more that have never heard
of and need the word of God in their lives. Pray for our
brothers and sisters all over the world who are crying and
in pain for their faith in God, pray for those who do not
know Christ to have an intimate and real encounter with
the Living God and pray for the people who are seeking
to destroy Christians to meet God and repent from their
ways. Our efforts are meaningless without the great power
of prayer.
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-Somalia
-India
-Malaysia
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