Greetings to Hope Leaders
I would like to send my regards to Hope Europe, Pastor PK, Pastor Marcus and I would like to say thank you for the effort that you made: you have done a very good job I would like to say thank you for Hope America as well for Pastor Chai, Pastor JR and all the pastors there as well....
All the pastors in South America, I would like to send greetings. To Hope Africa, I have a heart burden for you guys. One day I will visit you as well but I send our team to visit you more often. I would like to say my greetings to Hope Asia: Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia Singapore, pastor Ben, and pastor Jeff. Also Hope Oceania, I really appreciate what Dr Wilson is doing for the kingdom as well, I would like say thank you for what you have done in the movement, in the Kingdom of God. Keep going, keep moving forward.
Pastor PN Video Message
Reaching the nations for Christ
We have a focus over the next few years on Africa. We want to saturate the whole continent with church planters. We want to highlight West Asian nations such as Kazakhstan and the other -stan countries as well.
Also, in South Asia, we would like to bring the gospel there. Also we want to highlight some of the small countries in the Pacific islands that Oceania has taken responsibility over them. So please join forces together, please cooperate and pray for direction so that we can saturate the whole world with church planting. I appreciate that you going to release your people going to be there, to be a big blessing, to be a church planter. Thank you for what you have done in the Kingdom of God.
Ministry in Orlanda, Florida
In January, I went to Orlando, Florida for a Great Commission conference. It is for pastors and leaders all over the world and also for Americans.
The topic was “Great Commission” and the thing I was so impressed with was that all the pastors and leaders have a consensus, have a conviction that the Great Commission will be fulfilled in our lifetimes. There is a belief in this Great Commission and they believe together that the Great Commission will God’s agenda, will be God’s momentum nowadays. So let’s believe, let’s move forward to fulfil the Great Commission together.
Together for the Great Commission
I would like to encourage pastors and leaders in the Hope family that we serve the Lord together and we want to fulfil the Great Commission.
We are so far away from the pastors that are so behind, with some of them having never experienced church planting. But we have planted churches already so it will be a great time to move forward and put the highlight and the focus on international church planting and I will hope that we can get it done soon.
Ministry in Hope Los Angeles
I had preached at Hope Los Angeles on the topic of Faith. That weekend was the first week that they have got a Thai service. From now on, Hope Los Angeles' morning service will be run in English and the afternoon service is in Thai.
This year the number of members has increased more. There are a lot of new comers. This can be the sign of the growth in the church. At present, they have got around 100 people which can show that the church has been growing, comparing to last year that they have got only 50 to 60 people.
Joining a conference with GPN (Global Pastoral Network)
The conference was held by GPN on the topic of Great Commission in Orlando, Florida. It was the conference of pastors of USA including pastors from Africa, and Asia. There were 600 participants in the conference. This conference was held at North Land Church in Orlando with the capacity of 3,000 seats. There were many well-known speakers such as Dr. Loren Cunningham, Mike Bickle, and Dr. Steve Douglass.
- Dr. Loren Cunningham is the founder of YWAM.
- Dr. Steve Douglass is the president of Campus Crusade.
- Ps Jack Hayford,
- Ps Joel Hunter who is the senior pastor of Northland community Church,
- Ps Luis & Kevin Palau who is the famous evangelist, and other speakers.
In this conference, members were greatly inspired to have a heart burden on the Great Commission, Evangelism, and Church Planting in the world level that it can be reached 238 countries, 4,000 zones.
There was one activity that impressed me. There was a huge world map laid on the floor. Everyone in the room stood around it and prayed for the countries in the map. We also walked across the map just like Joshua was to dominate the Land of Canaan.
While walking across the map, we prayed as well. We walked with a heart burden slowly and prayed for those countries to be touched by God.
We walked from the West to the East and from the North to the South. I was surprised very much that they were willing to pay much cost to make people have a heart burden on world mission.
Besides these, there were many interesting and excellent workshops. We could see that no matter how different the level of faith we have, we still have the same burden and are united. And we would like to see that God’s Great Commission will be fulfilled.
I also believe that the Great Commission will be accomplished in our life time.
May God bless you.
Pastor PN Srithawong
President of HGI
