Korea/Taiwan Report
Ben Peters
Dec 10, 2007

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Greetings Friends,

WELCOME TO NEW ASIAN FRIENDS.

We have met so many wonderful people on this trip. A few of them who speak English are now on our mailing list as well. We welcome you all. If you wish to unsubscribe, please feel free to do so.

KWANG JU, KOREA

We had a wonderful send-off from Korea with our final two days in Kwang Ju. In our last letter I told of the lady who travelled several hours with a sprained or broken ankle to tell us how our ministry had impacted her six years ago. She had evangelized 1500 people since then as a result of the word we had given her and she had all the names and phone numbers in her little notebook. The day after my letter she shared her testimony with the conference. In addition to the evangelism testimony, she shared that her ankle had been healed that day when she had prayer in the meetings.

Our time in Korea had been incredibly fruitful and the people there are incredibly amazing. Their hospitality is tough to beat and they are so hungry they eat up every word before it gets out of your mouth. We were invited back to each church and two other groups as well. We will probably return to Korea many times. Two of our books are now published in Korean and others may follow as God leads.

TAIWAN

We arrived in Taipai, Taiwan on Friday. It was our first day in almost two weeks without a meeting. The next day made up for it. We had our first meeting at 7 A M and then two very special appointments throughout the day with key leaders in Taiwan.

Saturday evening we had back to back meetings with two diverse groups. The first was the Pearl Church, composed of mostly college age and young adult folk, who all spoke English. Many were being introduced to the prophetic for the first time, but they opened up to the love of Jesus. God gave me a strong word of introduction to prophetic ministry.

The second meeting that evening was in a large home with mostly older folk who were also very hungry to hear what we had to teach. Many only understood Mandarin, so we used interpreters for preaching and prophesying. It was also a very fruitful night and we ministered to about thirty-five people.

The Taiwanese Chinese are also wonderful people and have captured our hearts as well. The climate is more sub-tropical here and although it's their winter, I never need a jacket. The culture and food is quite different than Korea but we are enjoying it very much.

On Sunday we took the bullet train (about 235 kph - 155 mph) south to another city I'm not sure how to spell. Anyway, it was a church of about 100 - larger than average in Taiwan, where only 1% of the people are believers in Jesus. It was mostly a seeker sensitive church (Willow Creek Association) but they were open to what we were given to do there. God again anointed our speaking and we prophesied for another three hours or so after the meeting. It made a full day with two 90 minute train rides and several hours of ministry.

Today (Monday) we ministered to small groups at our hotel for all of the afternoon. We ministered to about ten or twelve doctoral students in the leading university of Taiwan. They have a powerful destiny and had some wonderful encounters with God. Tonight Brenda is with the others after a wonderful Taiwanese meal, walking through the old fashioned market place, while I asked to come to the hotel room to write this newsletter and answer emails, etc.

We want to thank all of you who pray for us. Please keep praying. Tomorrow is our last full day in Asia. We fly on Wednesday to Tokyo and then direct to Chicago. We will leave the warm summery weather and land in snow-clad Chicago to below freezing temperatures. We are tired but very thankful for this trip and all that God has done.

Thanks to all who support us with finances. Our missions projects, conferences, and internship programs all continue and grow because of generous Christians. We can't thank you enough.

A relative pointed out to me this weekend that there was no link to our website on our newsletters and people who want more information about our ministry may not know how to get there. In the future we will try to always put the website address at the top of the newsletters.

God bless you all,

Ben, Brenda, family and team