TJCII ASIA PART II
 

I am writing to you this month to continue with the second part of my recent Asia trip.  You have already heard of my time in Hong Kong, China, and Tokyo, Japan.  Both were very special.  The next leg of our trip was Singapore, a long six and a half hour flight from Japan. The good news was that our coordinator in Singapore, George Annadorai, connected us to really key leaders.  One may be the most important leader in the charismatic restoration stream in Singapore, who leads both a very large Church and a significant stream of churches.  He was not part of my meetings in 2017 where we also met a very good contingent of leaders.  George also connected us to a former Singapore Supreme Court Justice who owns a hotel where we are planning a private 'by invitation only' convocation. He is a leader of many Christian businessmen. The judge was amazingly prophetic, and knew this was of the Lord and was fulfilling his strong prophetic sense of what was to happen. In Singapore we also met a key leader in the Lutheran Church who was very touched and will probably become committed to us.

In Korea we also had meetings with key people in charismatic restoration church streams and also key people in traditional streams.  Jeong Lee is our key coordinator in Israel for Revive Israel and Tikkun Global and gave himself to help TJCII set up meetings.  Contact with Presbyterians is important since they are the main bulk of the Korean Church.  One Presbyterian Church sponsored a meeting for Brian Cox and I to teach, and this was very well received.  Brian and I do a one-two punch in teaching and are a model for the One New Man: an historic Church Anglican pastor who was involved for many years in the renewal of the Spirit in the Anglican Church worldwide; and a Messianic Jewish leader. The following day I was invited to address leaders during the day and a general meeting in the evening at another Presbyterian Church.  The pastor has been baptized in the Spirit and is very prophetic.  This Church was sponsoring a three day conference in support of Israel and teaching on Jewish roots.  To my amazement, others I knew from Israel were there.  When they found out that I was coming for TJCII, they invited. me to teach.  At the evening meeting, the dean of one of the key Presbyterian seminaries came to hear me teach.  We had previously connected in 2012 and 2017.  The final day we had a meeting with a key Anglican bishop who is going to help us with other bishops in Asia.  This was through the help of Ben Torrey whom I met in Israel. Ben Torrey is the great grandson of R. A. Torrey who was the right arm to D. L. Moody.  He is a bishop in the ancient Middle Eastern Church, Assyrian, etc. Ben Torrey’s father was Ruben Archer Torrey III, who was the Anglican Bishop in Korea.  All the Torreys, four generations, carry on their great grandfather’s passion, values and commitments.  I really was quite in awe that I was at a Japanese style buffet in Korea with the an Anglican bishop and Ben Torrey.  Ben was the leader of Jesus Abbey after his father, a Korean communal expression of faith widely respected by all streams in Korea.  The Torreys are a bridge to many streams in the churches. Brian who is an Anglican priest of many years is such a key partner in all this.  His preaching and diplomatic skills are a wonderful help. He is an original member of the TJCII Leadership Council, now for over 23 years.

Just one note on the Anglicans.  Sometimes we in the restoration charismatic streams don’t see the importance of the historic churches.  The Anglicans will be a key in the TJCII efforts.  They have 17 million charismatic Anglicans in Nigeria, 7 million in Kenya, and many millions in East Asia.  There are 70 million.  The liberal unbelieving Anglicans in England and America do not represent this great historic Church.  In 2021 we will be in Kenya for key meetings that will be held in the Cathedral of the Anglican bishop of Nairobi.
 

TIKKUN AMERICA ANNUAL “RESTORE” LEADERSHIP AND FAMILY CONFERENCE
 

Every year I have the privilege of participating in our annual leadership and family conference. The time begins with the Tikkun American Board meeting for a couple of days for mutual friendship, accountability and prayer, and then to discuss strategy and congregational issues as well as financial accountability disclosure.  It always amazes me to hear how much these men move together in such unity and love for one another; this makes for a strong team.

One of the highlights from this year’s leadership portion of the conference was the installation of our son Ben as an associate apostle.  Of course, we as parents could not be more proud as he has shown himself to be such a godly servant of this network for over ten years.  We also had the privilege of installing five new young men with their wives as congregational leaders.  This speaks of a healthy growing network where there is generational movement!  We praise God for the humility and willingness of the older generation to step aside to allow the next generation to come up and spread their wings!

Another blessing is that we have four other congregations that are entering into courtship with Tikkun America this year, in that these congregations are interested in seeking to join our network.  Most of our growth comes through others finding out about us through reading about us, attending our conferences and discovering that they have the same heart values.  We do very little to promote or to recruit people.

We were challenged this year by the theme of “breakthrough.”  There was a special speaker, Robby Dawkins, who provoked us to be courageous in our witness.  He said not to pray that we would be safe but that we would be dangerous.  He has gone into Muslim countries and has faced militants with guns pointed in his face but has escaped unharmed.  He has experienced many breakthroughs in power evangelism

The American efforts are supported by the Tikkun America network.  However, all the overseas travel, and all of the ministry in Israel is supported by your giving.  We are so blessed by you ongoing partnership with us in furthering God's kingdom through this ministry.