2008 German Leader’s Conference Report (September 4-6, 2008)

“These are the last words of David: ‘The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man exalted by the Most High, the man anointed by the God of Jacob, Israel’s singer of songs.’” (2Sa 23:1)

We thank God for blessing 2008 German Leader’s Conference which was held from September 4-6, 2008 in Titisee. This time UBF Freiburg hosted this conference. A total of 88 attended including 5 precious guests from the U.S. (Msn. Prof. Paul and Msn. Sarah Hong, Sh. Jim and Sh. Sue Paul from Toledo and Msn. Dr. Joseph Ahn from Chicago.)

Our prayer topic for this conference was to learn how to double our ministry until 2041 and to build a vessel of prayer for the preparation of upcoming 2009 European Summer Bible Conference.

The opening message about Mk 6:37: “You give them something to eat!” was given by Msn. Noah You from UBF Freiburg. The message taught us clearly that there is never a “sheep problem” and rebuked our lack of compassion. We were encouraged to learn and grow in Jesus’ compassion and challenge campus mission instead of making excuses for our fruitless mission life.

After that Sh. Stefan Elsholz shared a mission report about the 2008 International Purdue Summer Bible Conference based on John 3:16. We gave thanks to God for hearing our 3000+ united prayers and blessing Purdue Conference abundantly with the love of God and especially for giving 500 attendants a clear decision to devote their lives for world mission.

Prof. Paul Hong from UBF Toledo delivered the first lecture based on 2Sa 23:1: “God blessed David and his mighty men.” After that we had a Q&A session. His message encouraged us to walk with God to the end, to grow to humble leaders and to raise mighty men and women for the purpose of God.

Sh. Rainer Schauwienold from UBF Heidelberg delivered a message about 1Co 4:1.2: “A faithful servant of Christ”. His message encouraged us to follow Apostle Paul’s example and to grow to faithful servants of Christ by studying and sharing God’s word faithfully and by participating in the remaining sufferings of Christ.

Dr. Joseph Ahn from UBF Chicago gave us a special lecture about 1:1 ministry. We learned that 1:1 is God’s strategy for world salvation. Through this lecture and many personal experiences Dr. Joseph shared with us we learned about the power of 1:1. Doubling our ministry seems impossible. But it’s absolutely possible through 1:1. Like a ship only moves if every crew member is doing his job, we can double our ministry only if everyone is participating in the work of God actively engaging in 1:1 ministry.

We had four seminar talks about how Germany could evolve to a leading nation in Europe and in the whole world after WW2 (Msn. Stephanus Park, UBF Bonn), about Nelson Mandela (Dr. Jeremia Kim, UBF Berlin), and about doubling God’s work (Msn. James Kim, UBF Karlsruhe and Msn. David Cho, UBF Frankfurt)

Sh. Walter Nett from Cologne UBF delivered the second lecture based on 2Ki 2:9: “Elisha’s desire”. We learned that we can serve God in our generation when we ask for God’s spirit and when we are willing to take responsibility.

Sh. Peter Schweitzer’s (UBF Bonn) closing message based on Mk 13:10 encouraged us to preach the gospel to all nations.

We thank God for using Msn. David and Msn. Maria Hong so preciously for campus mission in Germany, particularly in Cologne. In the end of September they will move to Stuttgart and pioneer the University of Stuttgart. Their pioneering key verse is Acts 1:8. They pray for deep bible study and Sunday messages, for doubling 1:1 ministry until 2010 and for good co-working with UBF Germany and Europe. We heard their life testimonies and blessed them with our prayer.

Msn. Samuel Kim who was chapter director in UBF Dresden will join the Richmond ministry as a short term missionary for 2-3 years. He prays to co-work with the families of Sh. Chris Kelly and Msn. Mark Yoo, to raise 1 shepherd and master English.

Msn. Peter Chang gave us clear prayer topics as follows:

1. prepare 2009 European Summer Bible Conference with 1000+ united prayers, for 1000 attendants
2. doubling God’s ministry until 2010 through 1:1 ministry
3. pioneering 45 European countries, and 1,700 universities in Europe
4. 100,000 missionaries until 2041
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