Lee Younger-hoon, senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, speaks throughout a press convention for an upcoming Church Development Worldwide (CGI) Convention to be held in Seoul from Oct. 23 to Oct. 26 on the Plaza Resort Seoul, Thursday. Courtesy of Yoido Full Gospel Church
By Baek Byung-yeul
World church leaders will collect in Seoul this month to challenge a robust message calling for a swift finish to wars all over the world, together with the wars within the Center East and the Ukraine-Russia warfare, Lee Younger-hoon, senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, stated Thursday.
“On the final day of the Church Development Worldwide (CGI) Convention, a large-scale prayer assembly can be held. Church leaders from all over the world will collect to challenge a strong message that the wars in Ukraine and Israel have to be stopped as quickly as attainable. The prayer may also embody points on the Korean Peninsula,” the senior pastor stated throughout a press convention in Seoul.
The CGI will maintain its thirtieth convention in Seoul from Oct. 23 to 26. About 12,000 believers from 79 nations worldwide are anticipated to attend, in accordance with the organizing committee.
On the occasion’s final day, Oct. 26, church leaders will collect at Yonsei College Amphitheater for a big prayer meeting.
“The wars in Israel and Ukraine are the best considerations for folks worldwide, and with stories of large-scale North Korean troops being dispatched to Russia and Israel increasing its offensive, we need to strongly convey the message that wars should cease presently,” Lee stated.
The senior pastor shared that the prayer may also embody content material about therapeutic varied conflicts and selling reconciliation in present Korean society.
“Korean society has one way or the other turn into a society of conflicts. The prayer will embody content material associated to therapeutic conflicts, reconciliation and unity,” Lee stated.
On the prayer, Lee, David Sumrall, a pastor of the Cathedral of Reward within the Philippines; Rev. Francois Forchle of the Worldwide Evangelistic Centre Proof, and William Wilson, a pastor of the Pentecostal World Fellowship, are scheduled to evangelise.
Established in 1976, the CGI is a world group based by Cho Yong-gi, founder and senior pastor of the Yoido Full Gospel Church. In its early days, the CGI was an occasion that shared the expansion story of Yoido Full Gospel Church, which had achieved unprecedented revival. The CGI has since reworked right into a gathering of non secular leaders guiding the world’s church buildings.
“The CGI Convention can be a sensible occasion that contributes to the expansion of many church buildings consistent with this development,” Lee stated.
