As we go to print with this edition of IPC Connections, we are hearing encouraging news of a commitment by Kim Jong Un to close his nuclear test site in May.  This was announced following meetings with the South Korean President Moon Jae-in. North Korea will be ‘pursuing economic growth and peace.’

The leaders of North and South Korea committed themselves to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and pledged to bring a formal end to the Korean War, 65 years after hostilities ceased.

More here: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/27/asia/korean-summit-intl/index.html

God is answering our prayers for the two Koreas!

Join us in thanking God for this remarkable and encouraging breakthrough.  Let’s be in prayer for the details of the working out of the treaty (The Panmunjom Declaration) that they will be successfully negotiated and followed through with positive, confirmed actions.

Evangelicals for Peace has issued this continuing call to pray, that we have modified slightly for inclusion here.

“At 12pm on Fridays, wherever we are, we will all stop and pray for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Will you join us to pray for peace? 

We ask you to mobilize your communities and networks to join us in prayer. You will find attached a short overview of the history, current situation on the Korean peninsula along with prayer directives, all prepared by a brother on the Korean Peninsula. 

We ask Christians everywhere to join us in prayer for: 

• Permanent peaceon the Korean Peninsula; the avoidance of military conflict; and the emergence of conditions on the Korean Peninsula that allow for flourishing relationships between each individual and 1) God; 2) others; 3) oneself; and 4) all of creation.
• A just and peaceful resolution to current tensions, including wisdomfor our political, diplomatic and military leaders as they work across differences toward a goal of peace, security andfreedom; wisdom among leadersfrom North Korea, South Korea and China that will allow God’s people on the peninsula and in the US might live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness; and for God’s kingdom to come on the Korean peninsula and His will be done there as it is in heaven
• Mercy from God over the Korean Peninsula
• Blessing on the efforts of citizenswho seek to bridge the vast differences between North and South Korea and other nations, especially the USA.
• The American church to demonstrate empathytoward the people of the Korean Peninsula, praying in a spirit of friendship, noting the image of God in every human being.

Will you now urge your communities and networks to join together on Fridays at 12 pm, wherever you are, to pray for Peace on the Korean Peninsula? 

There is now a Pray Fridays at 12 landing page on the call's website.

Let people know you prayed #forjustpeace.

https://www.evangelicalsforpeace.org/pray-fridays-at-12

Continued prayer needed for the United Nations and other globalist actors to overcome their destructive abortionist agenda

In a recent article, “The Truth About UNICEF”. The author pointed out that UNICEF has evolved “from a life affirming, child saving and Nobel peace prize-winning foundation to a contraceptive-distributing, abortion-performing and sterilization-providing partner of some of the world’s most notorious “family planning” organizations.”https://www.all.org/the-truth-about-unicef/

The article documents this progression, tracing its roots from Darwinian social theory of survival of the fittest; a scarcity mindset fueling population control by decreasing world population drastically in order to “conserve resources”. This decrease can happen naturally (disease, hunger, war) or be “helped along” by organizations promoting and funding contraception, abortion, sterilization, even genocide on a global scale.

The theory of social Darwinism has been accepted as scientific fact. It has been used by eugenicists as a rationale to both create “designer babies”, and to eliminate “undesirables”- whether they be unwanted pre-born babies, the mentally or physically handicapped, people of the ‘’wrong” color, nationality, race, gender, religion etc.

Darwin, and those following him, including Margaret Sanger (eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood), were instrumental in fueling Hitler’s destruction of millions. But the same eugenics, under the pervasive meme of “empowering women, saving the environment by drastically reducing human population in strategic areas, continues to kill, steal and destroy God’s most precious treasure-human life- today, with seemingly endless funding and global reach via the mechanism of foundations, exempt from oversight or restraint. And some of the most powerful individuals/foundations are right here.

PRAYER POINTS:

1. EXPOSE: the lie behind population control that “there are not enough resources.” Lord, You are not a god of finite resources, but the God of infinite supply. We break from this accepted ideology and look to You as our Source.

2. EXPOSE: where we as the Church (in our individual lives and as the Body) are tied to Mammon (god of wealth, possessions), and are partnering with and depending on unrighteous, ungodly ways, systems, organizations or individuals in the name of funding Your kingdom work.UNTETHER: From the strong personalities and corporations. May there be no “partaking with them..but (may we) walk as children of light…” (Eph.5:5-13)
   
   
3. EXPOSE: Racist, eugenicist thinking behind the facades of George Soros and Warren Buffett’smany foundations seeking to advance this globalist agenda to radically reduce the population of the world and to bring it under the control of elitists like themselves.

4. AWAKEN: Your Church. May she be alert, take ownership, and seek the Lord together for unified direction and strategy from heaven. May She get a PASSION about counteracting this evil before it morphs and grows even larger.

5. RAISE: up armies of LOCAL intercessors, who are not afraid to raise their voices- to You, to the powers of darkness, and to theircity and culture. Raise a company of people with a voice of spiritual authority who are able to forcefully articulate Yourdesires.

7. SHIFT: the foundations of the United Nations and othereugenicist, abortionist organizations, and their spiritual“foundations” to reflect Your foundations of righteousness andJustice.

8. SHIFT: the laws that protect their ability of globalist elites to amass fortunes via theirtax-exempt status and lack of transparency and oversight.CUT OFF: their funding and cut ties between these foundations and the Church.

10. REMOVE: the spirit of blindness regarding the danger of increasing globalism and its accompanying totalitarianism over our nations.

(From a concerned prayer leader who has been researching and praying about the issue of globalism with others)

DEPLOYING THE POWER OF PRAYER TOWARDS THE UNFINISED TASK

MANI is the acronym for Africa’s mission organization called the Movement of African National Initiatives. The body was birthed in the year 2000 after the expiration of AD 2000 and Beyond Movement. The expiration of the Movement and the winding down of its structure, created a vacuum in the mission space, which Christians from African nations decided to fill, by setting up a mission body called MANI. Therefore, MANI was the African response to the necessity of mobilizing the Church to reach the remaining unengaged and Unreached People Groups in Africa.

STATISTICS
Today, there are about 981 Unengaged and Unreached People Groups (UPGs) in Africa alone. According to Joshua Project, the statistics of the UPGs in Africa reads thus:

Population - 1,163,884,000
Number of countries - 58
Number of People Groups - 3,712
Population in Unreached People Groups - 329,848,000
People Groups Unreached - 981 (26.4%)

Most of the UPGs are in regions that are either hostile to the gospel or very difficult to access. This constitutes a great challenge to the Church in Africa. As long as the Unreached People Groups remain unevangelized, the Church cannot claim to have accomplished its task of evangelizing the continent, let alone the world. This means that engaging and evangelizing the remaining Unreached People Groups is one major task before the entire Church in Africa.

AFRICA’S UNREACHED PEOPLES IN EUROPE 
There is also the challenge of the Unreached Peoples of Africa in Diaspora.

“According to an estimate by The Migration Policy Institute, seven to eight million African irregular migrants now live and work in Europe. Jason Mandryk, from Operation World, indicated that in 2000 A.D. France had 6.4 million foreign-born immigrants (3.4% of all immigrants), mainly of North African and Black African origins; while Spain had 4.7 million of such (2.5% of all immigrants) of Latin America and North and West Africa origins. 

Helen Trauner,¹ quoting Julien Conde and P. Diagne,² stated that “until the 1980s, four-fifths of sub-Saharan immigrants in France were originating from Senegal, Mauritania, and Mali, predominantly from the Senegal River Valley” (within the 10/40 Window, where there are significant numbers of UPGs and there is the dominant Islamic religious block) and that “more than ninety percent of Malian immigrants in France originate from the rural areas of the Kayes Region in the western part of Mali.” 

She continued that the female immigrants who were her main focus of the research, like their male counterparts, originated “from the Senegal River Valley (Mali, Mauritania, Senegal) as well as from the Gulf of Guinea and from Equatorial Africa” (all of them locations of most of the African UPGs). These West African female immigrants in France provided their compatriots an African “imagined community where they meet, communicate in their mother tongue, and have access to an important infrastructure (e.g., to mosques, Islamic schools, markets, etc.).”According to Reuben Ezemadu, the Continental Co-ordinator of MANI, “This phenomenon made it possible for the African immigrants from the homogenous and closely-knit people groups of West Africa not to be assimilated by the French culture, thereby maintaining their people group uniqueness, even in such distant lands of Europe and despite many years of their sojourn there.”

THE PERSECUTION INDEX
Aside from the challenge of the UPGs both home and abroad, there is the issue of the persecuted Church in Africa. According to the Guardian, “Out of 50 countries listed by Open Doors, the six where most Christians were killed for directly faith-related reasons were in sub-Saharan Africa: Nigeria, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Cameroon.” The same source states that “More than 2 million people, many of them Christians, have been forced to leave their homes in northern Nigeria, where the Islamist terror group Boko Haram is waging a campaign. Open Doors also reported violence against Christian farmers by Hausa-Fulani tribesmen, conservatively estimating more than 1,500 religiously motivated killings. Both Boko Haram and Hausa-Fulani “are carrying out religious cleansing, aiming to eradicate Christianity”

DEPLOYING THE PRAYER RESOURCE
Great amount of resources (men, prayer, financial, technology, human capital development, Strategic planning and thinking, etc) are needed to complete the task of reaching the UPGs of Africa and those in the diaspora. But these resources, not matter how vital and many, would be ineffective without the deployment of the power of strategic prayer. Only the power of unceasing prayer can change the spiritual equation and scenario among African Unreached Peoples. Prayer is the most tested and most potent resource needed by the Church to effectively accomplish its task. It is the groundbreaker that paves the way for any meaningful missionary work to take place. 

PRAYER AND MISSION GATHERING
It is against this backdrop of the UPGs and the growing persecution of the Church in Africa, that the Strategic Prayer Network of MANI is calling together prayer leaders, Intercessors, missionaries, and mission strategists to a four days consultation and time of prayer from the 6^th to the 10^th of November in Nairobi, Kenya, aimed at facilitating the unfinished task. The prayer that can move the work of missions forward in Africa must be unceasing, persistent and strategic.

AUSTEN UKACHI

CO-ORDINATOR, STRATEGIC PRAYER NETWORK, MANI

http://maniafrica.com/mani-an-overview/

We bring you Calvary greetings in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) having considered the current state of the nation is organizing a ONE YEAR of PRAYER PROJECT.

The Year of Prayer is scheduled to launch on May 1st 2018 until April 30th 2019.

It will involve all Pentecostal denominations, Para-Church Prayer Ministries, Women and Christian Youth Ministries and Fellowships under PFN and University Campus Fellowships across Nigeria.

We would like to invite our diasporas, international partners and supporters in prayer to join us.

A rolling monthly prayer guide has been prepared, and is available from our website here: http://www.pray4nigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=317&Itemid=290

Please help us to get the message out.  We so value your joining in prayer and intercession with us at this crucial and challenging time for our nation. 

We pray for restoration of the glory of the Lord, His Church and our land in line with Scriptures, (Joel 2:17).

May the Lord strengthen and give you grace.

Yours in Him

Pastor Austen Ukachi | Rev. (Mrs.) Mercy Ezekiel

For the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria

http://www.pray4nigeria.org/  |  http://www.pfn.org.ng/

1. To Alleviate suffering of those affected by wars and religious persecution in the Bible lands.
2. Pray that the world will mobilize, and stand with the Christians of the region, to strengthen their presence, and help them remain firm.
3. Pray over displaced Syrians and for the CHURCH on the front lines of violence and refugees fleeing from violence. Pray for courage and boldness in preaching Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
4. For the safety and refreshment for the NGOs' leaders, as they log many miles and witness much trauma in their ministries.
5. People of 75 years age and younger, all they have experienced during their lives, in the Bible lands wars, wars, and wars.
6. Please pray for God -fearing negotiators to negotiate between countries in conflict, to avoid wars, unnecessary death, destruction, and displacement of innocent people.

Under Christ's care, and grace,

www.wamcares.org

Two important national elections needing God's turnaround:

Please remember Malaysia (9 May) and TimurLeste (12 May) elections in your prayers.

TimurLeste needs a major breakthrough. It has such great opportunity to be a major blessing for the SE Asia region.

1. Pray that the Lord will grant a fair and just election.
2. For upright leaders whose hearts have the fear of God and care for the nation to form the government. That corrupted leaders will not be elected and will not surface again.
3. That Malaysia's 'Coat of Arms design' will not be supported by the two tigers which are called "rampant" tigers, but may the new design be the Lion of Judah!
   
4. Pray that the spirit of these tigers will be bound and destroyed by the Blood of the Lamb.
5. For peace in the nation without any violence after the results of the election are out.
6. That churches in these two countries continue to have freedom to preach the gospel and be His salt and light.

(From a concerned Malaysian prayer leader)

90,000 Christians were murdered for their faith around the world this year (2016), according to a study from The Center for the Study of Global Christianity.

Amy Kellogg reported on "Special Report" tonight that the CSGC puts the number of Christians martyred in the last decade at 900,000, which amounts to one being killed every six minutes.

She explained that their definition for a martyr is anyone who lost their life prematurely as a result of human hostility, while they were upholding Christianity.

"This makes Christians the most persecuted religious group in the world," Kellogg said.

She reported that of the Christians who lost their lives in 2016, 70 percent were killed in tribal fights in Africa.

The remaining 30 percent of Christians lost their lives in acts of terrorism, destruction of Christian villages and government persecution worldwide.

"The Center for the Study of Global Christianity says that highlighting the number of martyrs actually gives some dignity to those who have died, and it also keeps up the pressure on those who have the power to do something about the situation to actually act," Kellogg reported.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/12/study-christianity-persecuted-around-world-90k-martyred-2016

Please continue to uphold our brothers and sisters in Christ living in hostile areas of the world that the Lord will embolden and protect them as they bear witness to their Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and other neighbors and friends that may be resistant and retaliatory. May the blood of the martyrs indeed become the seed of the Church to sprout, blossom and grow even in the most inhospitable and challenging areas of the world!

24:14 Coalition: A network of organizations, networks and churches which are all committed to the 24:14vision of praying and working together to start kingdom movement engagements in every unreached people group with urgency by 2025.

To this end, we, the 24:14 Prayer Task Force are seeking to develop a 24/7 canopy of prayer that will pray into this vision ofseeingeveryUPGengagedwitha teamfocusedonseeingamovementofmultiplyingchurchesanddisciples.We would like to see 31 organizations, prayer networks from existing movements, networks and churches commit to cover in prayer one day per month every month.

To get more information or to join the 24:14 1Partner1Day Initiative then please email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Let us know the day of the month that you can commit to as an organization and how many hours in that day you are committing to pray and fast.

Please let us know the name and email of the prayer coordinator
Our thanks on behalf of the 24:14 Prayer Task Force. Resources to be offered:

• A monthly prayer guide of informed prayer points that are specific, measurable, and Bible-based. 

• Regular praise reports in order to encourage groups as they pray. 

• Monthly or bi-monthly communication with a member of the 24:14 Prayer Task Force. This will be for the 
purpose of encouraging, informing, identifying gaps and challenges, etc. 


More: 2414now.net

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE, BROAD ST, BIRMINGHAM, B1 2EA

Do you want to see God move in your community and in our nation?

A move of God is always preceded by prayer, unity and praise.  We need to see change in our nations.

It is time to turn to Jesus. It is time for His Kingdom to Come, and His will to be done.

Join thousands of Christians as we pray, worship and make strong declarations for God’s Kingdom to come in our families, churches and communities.  It is time to pray for an unprecedented turning to God in our nation.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

This is the eleventh Trumpet Call we've held in Birmingham and YOU ARE INVITED!

The Trumpet Call will be a day where we will spend time in worship (led by local worship leaders) and prayer (led by the Prayer Connections England Network) as we stand together and declare that 'It's Time to Turn' for our nation.

MAIN SPEAKERS:

RT Kendall

RT Kendall is a renowned bible scholar and author of many books including 'Whatever happened to the Gospel?', 'The Presence of God', 'Worshipping God' and 'Prepare your heart for the Midnight Cry'.  He was the Senior Pastor at Westminster Chapel, London until 2002 and now travels the world speaking and teaching.  You can see him currently on TBN UK in his show 'Word and Spirit'.

Malcolm Duncan

Malcolm Duncan is the Senior minister at Dundonald Elim, N.Ireland, a broadcaster, passionate communicator, a writer and actively engaged in a number of areas of advocacy. He serves on the boards and advisory groups of a number of churches, charities and businesses and is very involved in a number of advocacy campaigns.

Tickets and more info: http://www.worldprayer.org.uk/events-calendar/prayer-gatherings/trumpet-call-2018

30 April – 3 May 2018

For the sixth year in a row, Australia is calling the nations of the world to join with them to pray and fast for four days for the United States of America, from 30 April – 3 May 2018.

May 3 is America’s National Day of Prayer. The theme is “Pray for America - UNITY” Ephesians 4:3.   

http://www.nationaldayofprayer.org

April 30 is America’s National Day of Repentance.  http://www.dayofrepentance1.org

Promo YouTube Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B5nFcDBMOA

Facebook Video:https://www.facebook.com/CanberraDeclaration/videos/2081577435200931/UzpfSTM1MTc4OTk3NDg5NjY1MDoxNjg5NDAyMjExMTM1NDEz/

Commissioner James Condon, a member of the National Day of Prayer & Fasting team, said, “God has done remarkable things in America since we began to pray and fast, but God can do greater things yet! We in Australia believe it is our turn to stand in the gap for the nation of America and pray for revival and transformation for the USA through prayer and fasting according to 2 Chronicles 7:14. Whilst America has a new administration, the need for a new National Awakening has never been more apparent.

Commissioner Condon from Salvation Army continued, “We in Australia are grateful for the protection that America gave Australia and the nations of the free world during World War II. The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought by USA in 1942, was the turning point in the Second World War for Australia. America continues to be a blessing to the world. Even to this day the USA is the largest contributor of foreign aid among all the countries of the world.  Thank God for America!”

President Reagan renewed the call for a National Day of Prayer in 1982 and said, “National prayer is deeply rooted in our American heritage… The first National Day of Prayer was proclaimed in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress. As thousands gathered in prayer in places of worship and encampments throughout the new land, the dispersed colonists found a new spirit of UNITY and resolve in this remarkable expression of public faith.”

Sue Tinworth, a member of the National Day of Prayer and Fasting team, talking about the history of prayer in the USA said, “President Abraham Lincoln, on 30 April 1863 called for a Day of ‘Humiliation, Prayer and Fasting’ at a time of great national crisis by Governmental decree which said, “We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God… It behooves us then, to humble ourselves… to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness”. Unfortunately, today America is again in a dangerous predicament because it has forgotten God.  Sadly the situation in Australia is very similar. We in our nation have forgotten God and we are in danger of paying the price for our sin.” 

Ps Warwick Marsh, also from the National Day of Prayer and Fasting team said, “We are thankful for America’s strong Christian heritage, but this will not save America, only the blood of Christ can.

America and Australia need revival and reformation, as does the whole world. We all need more of God. We invite you and the nations of the world to join with us in four days of prayer and fasting for the USA.”

More:National Day of Prayer & Fasting. www.nationaldayofprayer.org.au

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/nationaldayofprayerandfasting