Korea Report #3
Ben Peters
Dec 5, 2007

Greetings Saints,

It's very hard to convey how much we appreciate your prayers and how good God has been to us here in Korea. We are now in Kwang Ju, South Korea. We had two meetings today after a three or four hour bus ride this morning. Brenda was asked to minister this Wednesday evening in the large church in Mokpo where we began our ministry here about ten days ago. She is now on her way home. God has greatly used her, as well as our friend and spiritual daughter, Ingela Larsson. We have been able to share some of the ministry responsibilities to lighten our load.

AMAZING TESTIMONY

After a wonderful service this evening a lady came up to speak to me through an interpreter. She was a pastor's wife and the sister-in-law of the pastor who had hosted us six years ago in Pusan, South Korea. We weren't going to Pusan this trip as the schedule was full, but this lady drove several hours to Kwang Ju when she heard we were speaking here.

She told us that we had prophesied over her six years ago and that everything we told her had come to pass. And as a result of the encouragement from the prophetic word, she had become a real evangelist and had led 1,500 souls to Christ. This is an amazing blessing to us. She also said they had sacrificed much of their finances for evangelism until they had little left, but God has been blessing and replacing what they had spent. Praise God!

HAPPY CHURCH HIGHLIGHTS

Since my last letter we had amazing meetings with awesome worship in this crowded sanctuary. The last couple of days the crowd grew to about 120 people or more. It was packed and had very low ceilings. When we ministered we were wet with perspiration. The anointing was very strong and God greatly blessed and visited the people. The worship team was one of the best ever for a small church. The young worship leader sounded a lot like Scott Brenner. Everyone showed amazing gratitude and we were greatly blessed and very well taken care of. We certainly haven't lost any weight. In every church people are so hungry for a personal word and we spent much time after meetings doing personal ministry.

SEOUL CITY CHURCH

We went from the Happy Church to the Seoul City Church, which has a large theatre-style facility. The pastor has hosted many famous American preachers in the past. We met so many awesome saints there and enjoyed the children and youth as they took part in the services. As always, we were treated to their finest restaurants every day and usually one of the deacons would pay for all the guests. I was always asked to pray a blessing on them when we blessed the food.

KOREAN HONOR STRUCTURE

Koreans have a strong "honor" structure that is unknown in the western world. Pastors are highly honored, and visitors are held in extreme honor. We tried to impart the awareness that God wants to use us all and has given each of us gifts, often using the least among us to do the greatest work. Tonight in Kwang Ju I spoke on how John the Baptist was the greatest next to Jesus because he was such a servant and allowed himself to decrease so Jesus could increase. God gave me the anointing to get the message across and I know they will apply it in their own lives.

NEW OUTFITS

One lady is a professional seamstress and made Brenda and I authentic and beautiful Korean traditional garments. They measured us when we arrived and had them completed in about eight days.

MY BOOKS IN KOREAN LANGUAGE

Thanks to Micah Park, our awesome interpreter and book translator, we now have two books in the Korean language and they sold like hotcakes in the conferences. The first church sold out 120 copies and we hope to get more to them.

NEW PREACHING AND REVIVAL ANOINTING

It's hard for me to explain how God has taken our ministry to a new level. Every message was orchestrated by God as we preached. I rarely knew much about what I would speak on until the worship time. Then I would get a couple of scriptures and thoughts. When I got up to speak a strong anointing would come and I would go in a whole new direction and share truth and revelation that had never come to me before. It is like I'm observing what God is putting together as I preach. With almost no bunny trails, the pieces of the puzzle would fit together in an amazing way. It happened again tonight and I am really blown away. Of course, when Brenda speaks God always touches hearts. She just gets better and better.

In addition, there has been a new boldness and authority when I minister at the altar to the hungry people who always want another touch from Heaven. I have been getting words of knowledge for healing as well and dozens are declaring that they have been healed in the meetings as we have them pray for one another without me touching them. Revival fire is being rekindled in me and I know that this is what I was born for. I really believe God sent us to Korea to release an apostolic proclamation to the nation of South Korea which relates to revival and the evangelism of North Korea when the doors finally swing wide open to the gospel.

All the churches have asked us to come back and now we have another invitation from Pusan as well. We have been to Kwang Ju twice before and we dearly love these people.

This is too long and it's well past midnight, so I'll sign off. Brenda should be home before too long. I'm anxious to hear about her service and tell her about the testimony I shared already with you.

God bless you all and thanks again for your prayers. We love you!!!

Ben, Brenda, family and team