JAMA New Awakening Conference originally started with college students and professionals as its core constituents. Although the first conference in 1996 in Colorado focused on this group, over the years the conference became more and more youth and family centered. As result, college and professionals have lost interested in the NA conference; they do not feel attracted to primarily youth events. While the change is understandable--JAMA felt that we must reach the people younger, and college age was already too late--the loss was real.
Thus, I proposed the idea of having separate, small conferences during the interim years: JAMAcollege, and JAMAprofessional. As the names stand, one will focus on college students and another post-college professionals.
During the summer of 2010, we plan to launch the first national JAMAprofessional conference hopefully in NYC (if not affordable, in NJ), and I am looking for core organizers. The conference will have three core messages: 1. Ownership (Dr. John C. Kim's message) 2. Prayer: repentance and intercession for the nation, 3. Leadership: that Christians must go into leadership in various arenas of life--government/law, entertainment, education, finance, etc.
Besides receiving message from key speakers, the conference will build relationships among Christian professionals. The participants will be able to connect with other Christians by their fields. We intend to group them in several key areas and develop network and relationships which we encourage them to develop throughout the year until the following year's conference.
I AM LOOKING FOR LAY ORGANIZERS. The conference must be by the professionals, for the professionals and of the professionals. I will provide guidance, but the conference must be organized by lay professionals. I am looking for key organizers from several churches from NY/NJ area: event planners, logistics people, graphic designers, etc. If you can help, please contact me at dannyhan@joychurch.com.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Dow Passes 10,000
That was the news from last week. Murmur of economic recovery is everywhere. Everyday more hopeful news come out. Is the trouble over?
Not according to Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, the trouble we are in now is because of our sin: sin of corporate corruption, sin of violence, sin of sexual immorality, sins that fill and overflow in our land. The trouble we are in is God's judgment upon our nation for turning away from God.
And even with the recession, followed by 9/11, our nation has NOT repented. We have tried to cope with the problems, minimize its effective by propping up businesses, but WE HAVE NOT REPENTED. Sins still fill our nation. Immoralities have not decreased. We have not repented. Then, our trouble is not over.
God said through Prophet Amos (chapter 4) that He sent disasters after disasters to Israel to bring Israel to repentance, but "still you would not return to me." Therefore, at the end the nation would be destroyed and no more. Even after disaster after disaster, our nation also has not repented from our wicked ways and turned to the Lord. Thus, disasters will continue.
More troublesome is the relaxed attitude of Christians. Even Christians do not realize that the trouble is from the hands of the Lord. We have eased ourselves into the diminished life, (Human beings can adjust so easily!) instead of waking up spiritually to pray for our nation. We pray no more.
It is time to awake and pray for our nation. We must pray that our people would repent from our sins, turn from our wicked ways and to God in humility. We must pray for repentance movement to sweep through our nations, that people would voluntarily kneel on the streets of NY and repent before God to forgive our sins and heal our land.
This is a call for Christians to wake ourselves up from our spiritual slumbers and pray for our nation. We must intercede for our nation. Every Christian must pray, pray everyday, fast and pray, and pray for our nation that it would recover and be reestablished in the Lord. (Check http://www.weprayforamerica.com).
Not according to Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, the trouble we are in now is because of our sin: sin of corporate corruption, sin of violence, sin of sexual immorality, sins that fill and overflow in our land. The trouble we are in is God's judgment upon our nation for turning away from God.
And even with the recession, followed by 9/11, our nation has NOT repented. We have tried to cope with the problems, minimize its effective by propping up businesses, but WE HAVE NOT REPENTED. Sins still fill our nation. Immoralities have not decreased. We have not repented. Then, our trouble is not over.
God said through Prophet Amos (chapter 4) that He sent disasters after disasters to Israel to bring Israel to repentance, but "still you would not return to me." Therefore, at the end the nation would be destroyed and no more. Even after disaster after disaster, our nation also has not repented from our wicked ways and turned to the Lord. Thus, disasters will continue.
More troublesome is the relaxed attitude of Christians. Even Christians do not realize that the trouble is from the hands of the Lord. We have eased ourselves into the diminished life, (Human beings can adjust so easily!) instead of waking up spiritually to pray for our nation. We pray no more.
It is time to awake and pray for our nation. We must pray that our people would repent from our sins, turn from our wicked ways and to God in humility. We must pray for repentance movement to sweep through our nations, that people would voluntarily kneel on the streets of NY and repent before God to forgive our sins and heal our land.
This is a call for Christians to wake ourselves up from our spiritual slumbers and pray for our nation. We must intercede for our nation. Every Christian must pray, pray everyday, fast and pray, and pray for our nation that it would recover and be reestablished in the Lord. (Check http://www.weprayforamerica.com).
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