The video is a summary of a sermon given at a conference by George Brewer. He spoke about the importance of the lordship of Christ and called people to repent and make Him their Lord. He also emphasized the missionary call and encouraged those who felt led to the mission field. The video mentions that many people responded to the message and stood up to commit to going to the ends of the earth.

I'd like to spend the first few minutes of this session especially remembering those who are gathered at the funeral in Sweden right at this very moment. If we were in Sweden instead of being here in England probably most of us would be at the funeral of our brother Ingemar Emker who was killed in a road accident the day after Christmas. And I thought it would be good if we could pray for the funeral. Dale Roton especially has gone together with a number of others to be with Irma, to represent OM and also possibly to be able to witness and share, especially Dale to the many people who will be there including of course people who would not know the Lord Jesus Christ associates involved with Ingemar and his position with the Swedish government. But let's first of all read this scripture verse 51 of 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Behold I show you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptible must put on incorruptible and this mortal must put on immortality so when this corruptible shall put on incorruptible and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall it be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory the sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ therefore my beloved brethren be ye steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord before we just have a time of silence and meditation and then prayer I thought I would just say a few words about Ingemar as I know some of you are new and may have not met him or even known much about him Ingemar was one of the Swedish young men who came into O.M. in the very early days in the mid 60s and was challenged to join those who were headed out to India and I have memories of Ingemar especially down in South India though he and I were not together very much at that time I know that later on he was also involved in the Middle East in fact I need to do a little bit of homework because one may have even come before the other he as many young people left O.M. and went back to Sweden for further education and the contact for quite a few years was at a minimum mainly a letter now and then though I found out later of course that he was regularly praying for the ministry of Operation Mobilization after finishing his studies he got involved in the Swedish diplomatic service he was married to a woman he met around that time and had some very difficult assignments especially in Africa where I'm sure perhaps only eternity will tell how much the Lord used him in different ways it seemed a long time that we had not seen each other but about four or five years ago when I was actually ministering in what turned out to be his church in Gothenburg Ingemar was there in the audience and at that time his wife had left him and he was in a very crisis period in his Christian walk so we spent some time together praying and sharing during the few days that I was ministering there in Gothenburg about that time he was being assigned in a job connected with the United Nations in New York City so I think the next time there may have been one intervening time that I saw him was in fact in New York City the Lord had put him in a very unique place there another time when I was ministering in Florida Ingemar very much wanted to share with me meanwhile he was getting more involved with O.M. again when he had time free visited the ships and had met the dynamic woman's leader of the ship ministry Irma Svensson Ingemar wanted to share with me so he flew to Florida my parents especially remember him and we walked for quite a long time along the beach there in Florida sharing about the future he was feeling more and more that he should leave at least for a year, maybe longer a Swedish government service and come into O.M. I think previous to this time and even during this long conversation said I always felt that he was in such a strategic place that perhaps he should stay in that but there was the ongoing conviction that the Lord was perhaps leading him back into O.M. in fact there was talk and thought at that time I remember I didn't know anything about his possible relationship with Irma I had challenged him to perhaps come on to the international coordinating team if he did feel strongly he should come on O.M. and help us in the task of government relations especially in India he had already made an effort to get me back into India and had been used in a number of ways even on a part-time basis in helping O.M. through various contacts and visits the next thing I especially remember was I was in Canada and I got this very late phone call from New York City and I think Ingemar had just gone with David Hicks to see Kramer versus Kramer not an easy picture for someone to see in his particular situation I don't remember all the details but I think through his fellowship with David Hicks he got the courage to share with me that there was a woman on his mind in those days named Irma Svensson which came as a bit of a surprise to me and immediately caused me to think that perhaps he shouldn't join I.C.T. but he better think in terms of joining the ship ministry since I didn't see or envisage my recruiting Irma into the international coordinating team by way of marriage and this is what worked out I don't have all the details I'm actually working to put details together we don't expect things like this to happen we're not like the major newspapers that have all the famous people all written up the moment they die they just push a few buttons and it goes out on the headlines and we these things catch us by surprise a very young man and of course we don't have the details put together but God drew them together in a beautiful way there was a lot of prayer a lot of discussion and it really seemed to be very much from God they ended up settling in Mosbach Germany the Holy Spirit used Ingimar in a number of ways during his time on OM but especially his insight and understanding of both finance and law and management helped us especially in the ship ministry to see that we were in trouble it was maybe two or three years ago that the British board of directors also began to pick up more of the vibrations of our financial situation and traveled to Mosbach to sit down with the leaders of the ship ministry to see what the real picture was and during that very very historic visit to Mosbach it was Ingimar Emker who had the charts and the graphs and the information through a lot of research a lot of time on the ship a lot of time in the CAO that really showed us that the ship ministry was deeply in debt and was a great at that time drain on all the resources of operation mobilization somewhere during that period he became a great friend of Y. Leong and I know that as Y. Leong is there at the funeral today this is a very very heavy experience for him it was through that that there was a united agreement that we were in trouble if you can't get agreement that you're even in trouble it's difficult to do much about it because you get so many different voices being pulled in different directions and I can always remember him not to take a few minutes I've been away almost all the time for the last three weeks to find a photo I took of him at that special meeting I believe when he was pointing out some of his information to us I can't take time to go into greater detail but Ingemar continued to work a great deal on the whole area of financial management budgeting computerization and helped to work more than most people will ever know it was about just a couple of months maybe not even that before Ingemar was killed that he and Irma decided to go back at least again temporarily into Swedish government service and he was working in that responsibility when he was killed though in fact just weeks before and I still haven't been able to put it all together he was in charge of the Dulles lineup to Sweden maybe he was doing both at the same time he was very good at doing more than two things at one time this of course accident took place not far from his home Irma and Ingemar were traveling to her parents house the day after Christmas Irma's parents lived very close to the OM headquarters in Smålandsteiner in Sweden but somehow on a hill they hit some ice that couldn't be seen the car went out of control turned over down a small embankment he was crushed and killed instantly Irma was conscious during this whole ordeal I've talked quite at length with her on the phone and I think we especially want to pray that the Lord will help her in terms of her mind because this kind of incident can replay in your mind again and again every night it's so vivid it's not like watching an accident on television some of you find even that difficult you're there you see everything she said to me on the phone that she knew the moment the car sort of rested upside down in place that Ingemar was dead it's always a hard experience to say the least without going on any further I think it would be good since this is a prayer meeting and a prayer emphasis day if we could just now pray for Irma pray for the funeral which is either taking place right now or will be very soon don't know the exact timing of it Notje Meijer very good friend of Irma is there Steve Hart Dale Roton Hans and Ruth Strohm many, many Swedish friends Irma shared with me on the telephone she was really hoping that God would speak to many of these government people there's been quite a lot of publicity in the press about it and we want the Lord to be exalted it's interesting that just a few weeks ago I agreed again to take a series of meetings this Easter in that same church so let's pray for that church there in Gothenburg I unfortunately when I was in Gothenburg missed Ingemar he was very busy just had a very brief time with Irma so I haven't seen Ingemar since the September conference let's go to prayer right now for the funeral the family Ingemar's father is not alive but his mother is alive and Ingemar of course is very, very close to his mother so let's especially pray for her okay let's pray different people lead out perhaps Birgitta you could just start us off I know you'd love to be there at this time but if you could just start us off and after Birgitta prays let's just have a few minutes of silence as we remember the Lord remember this situation silently and then some other people can pray all of us should be committed to is the ministry to our graduates sometimes called by that controversial title XOMer some 37,000 of them though a larger part of our effort in our ministry to XOMers is generally to the few thousand who have been with us for at least a year perhaps you may never have heard her name but among those of us who were in the work here in Europe in the beginning the name Pauline Edwards is almost like a household term because she represents one of the women young woman who is so committed such a vision went to Italy in 1963 she was quite well known for tennis and so there were some articles about her in the press in this country I was always a little nervous about those articles because I've always felt sometimes that publicity to young Christians doesn't always help them in their spiritual pilgrimage and the first team that went to India which was the end of 1963 there was no plan to have any women go at that time we were just learning about India we had had some negative reports from India concerning bringing women with us on our overland teams traveling from Great Britain but Pauline was determined to go and she went to India her mother was greatly opposed to this her mother was a society woman in some ways not a Christian but Pauline went to India and it was it was a rough time it was the first team out she was the only woman there was one other woman sort of part time and it really didn't work out too well I remember Pauline traveling back from India overland with my wife and I I guess in 64 and it seemed that some bitterness had come in through a broken romance out there some other things and it wasn't long after her getting back that she got away from the Lord the amazing thing about this woman is that during her time in India she received an inheritance from her grandfather in the States though she's British and she gave this entire inheritance to O.M. it was somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand pounds 80, 90 thousand dollars would be the equivalent today of receiving a gift of a quarter of a million dollars or more and it had that kind of impact on O.M.'s unbelievable financial situation at that time because we had this mass of overdue bills it wasn't just the recent crowd that got into this from the summer campaign of 1963 when the literature distribution was very high but not as high as some of us had speculated and there were left over books that gift when it was given I think her mother made a vow that she would get her daughter back and get her to resent the day she had ever given that it was a very heavy situation Pauline a few years after coming back though she was always friendly with my wife and I asked to be even taken off the O.M. mailing list and wanted nothing whatsoever to do with us I unfortunately lost her address she moved and only this Christmas after 10 or 15 years have we heard from Pauline her family business has gone bankrupt her mother has died her father has died many things have gone wrong and she is at the end of the road financially and in desperation with massive overdue bills and income tax people writing to her she followed the Manchester office whether we could help her financially I might just say that all during this period we never ceased to pray for this woman and weep I talked to her on the phone a few days ago before when I was passing through from God's World Congress to the weekend of a do-loss she was very friendly she is not insisting that we give her money in fact she talked in somewhat spiritual terms even saying that her grandmother may die sometime in the states and there may come another inheritance and that she would be happy to pay us back any money that we could help her out with right now she needs a couple of thousand pounds she's hurt her back she has a boyfriend who also I think he's a singer and he's got some difficulties as well she's just living in one little room in some kind of place up in northern England I'd like to give thanks to the Lord for this re-contact with Pauline I have always felt that she was his child wandering in the wilderness John Hyness may be seeing her soon I hope to see her as soon as I can arrange a visit and we of course are going to try and help her out financially so without taking more time let this be representative of many many XOMers perhaps only a 5% maybe 10 or spiritually not doing very well people who have been with us longer term I don't think I could make a statement about people who have only been with us for a summer especially when they come as such young Christians but what an amazing story really quite overwhelming to me in some ways let's pray for Pauline and for wisdom in our relationship with her and really believe as we have all these years that she will come completely back to the Lord I don't know if I mentioned but she has a slipped disc in her back which is keeping her from working really full time I don't know if that's the whole picture she's a nurse but let's pray also for her physical situation so let's have several people pray and let this be a reminder the important ministry we have here especially ICT but also STL to a smaller degree in reaching out to ex-OMers all over the world not because they're ex-OMers but because they're people we reach out to plenty of people who have nothing to do with OM whatsoever that's more difficult to measure it's more vague except when you get specific names but we feel an extra commitment to people who have come with us and yet in their Christian life ran into difficulty and maybe just one lesson we could learn from this it's the most foolish thing even though it is a very difficult thing to allow a broken romance to bring and keep damaged emotion or bitterness in your own life broken romance is as normal in this world as almost any phenomena you can think of you're not a special case because you've been hurt or tilted two of the son and the daughter of two of the greatest leaders in this nation I wouldn't dare give their name Christian leaders the wedding day the son of the leader didn't show up at the wedding they're all standing with all these jellible celebrities I tell you big names I don't think I'll pass them around it's too it's too hot a story and yet as far as I know both the daughter and the young man who didn't show up were doubt they did end up marrying other people but even among Christians we don't like these things it's what life I'm afraid is made of and what a sad thing if any of us or any who are hearing this tape have a root of bitterness or some hurt that you're not willing to let really go under the blood memories you can't you can't blot out but you can let the blood of Christ and forgiveness and an understanding of God's providence and the kind of rejoicing that comes when we really believe that God is God whatever hurt we have gone through whatever rejection we have felt whatever misunderstanding has led to that rejection because we know a root of bitterness can open the door for many many other difficult things in one's life or let's pray for O.M. graduates for Pauline and for others perhaps some cases silently in our own hearts people that are on our minds who are away from the Lord at this time let's pray to their own printing press and I'll ask Mark to pass this out only take one if you will display it because I'm not sure if there's enough for everyone and if you're just going to look at it you've got already so many calendars on your wall you can't even see the wall any longer you can just take a look and pass it on as you know when I left here around mid December I had the area leaders meeting and then went immediately from there to the Log House in St. Lucia I had the most exciting air trip ever some of you probably heard about it by rumor but the captain opened the cockpit for visitors and when I went up to visit he said why don't you sit here and put me in the captain's seat next to the co-pilot and I stayed there for about 40 minutes as the plane was on autopilot and I was chatting with the co-pilot especially about the ship ministry making comparisons fuel consumption time across the Atlantic slight differences 8 hours for a jumbo jet to go to the West Indies we landed in Barbados before going off to St. Lucia and it took Log House about 8 days I was welcomed by Frank Fortunato and David Greenlee David was leaving the next day so it was good to see him and I had 7 very very challenging days there on the Log House immediately thrust into a pastor's conference and I'd like us to pray specifically for the ministry the ship will have among pastors and Christian leaders there in the West Indies you know we can think these places are evangelized and it is true in comparison to Turkey and Iraq and many other countries we're involved in the West Indies has had a lot of the gospel but there is an enormous need for leaders and for leadership training most of these pastors have secular jobs just to survive many of them have not had the formal training that we would consider essential to be a pastor of a church also they feel bombarded by extremism cults the Mormons since they had this change of attitude toward black people have invaded these islands and are really on the move the Mormon Church I don't know if you believe in praying against things wouldn't say it's my major method of prayer but certainly we need to pray enormous amount of drunkenness in these islands rum seems to be the number one staple of the economy I can't take a lot of time because I want to go to prayer but let's pray for the Christian leaders I spent most of my time talking to individuals about 60 of them and it was a great challenge to me especially to meet people who were only in some cases recruited a year ago I think of one brother who the summer I was at Keswick which was the summer before last he came to the Keswick convention only a couple of weeks old in Jesus he was an Australian wandering around the world incredible background some dear elderly lady here in England led him to Christ he came to Keswick and he was one of those who stood at the missionary meeting to respond to the call for world missions and he's been on the ship Lagos now for over a year having gotten from Keswick in July through our September conference and out onto the ship he has many on the Lagos and very keen in evangelism and it was great to see them out on the streets in action they have a joint rotation ministry program in which people are free despite all the work in the engine room and the deck they are freeing their people for two weeks to launch out on ministry teams and I flew over to Martinique French speaking believe it or not department of France located in the West Indies it was just like flying into Paris in fact the airport has the same tune they play this tune before they make announcements so you know an announcement is coming it's the same tune they play in Orly unless they changed it or shipped it out to the West Indies we had quite an exciting rally there on the Saturday night on the Sunday morning about 800 were in the church meeting they are really excited about the visit of Lagos to Martinique in a few months time we are trying to get books from France right now to Martinique and Guadeloupe because there is a lot of possibilities there of course they use French money the same money they use in Paris about 300 stood up to make Christ Lord of their life in that Sunday morning service when I sensed a lot of freedom and had an excellent interpreter we could pray for those who made decisions as we also distributed a lot of magazine books in fact CLC had the book display because we don't have books there yet they showed up on the Saturday night with a very meager display so we were mainly dependent on magazine books I brought a whole suitcase with me from the ship because I knew we were going to be mobbed so we put a one franc price on them and we were still mobbed really people just flocked into this corner where we had these magazine books we had them that time and both of them all all went like a big bag of coins as I had to catch a flight back right after that meeting so pray for Guadalupe pray for Martinique they're coming up in a few months time the ship is in Barbados right now that is really the hub of the English speaking West Indies and pray especially for the ministry to pastors and Christian leaders of course many other ministries going on in the streets great crowds coming to the book exhibition many of them getting Christian books powerful Christian books and it's just overall a very exciting program a lot of other needs on the Logos right now they're short staffed especially right now again in the engine room the alterations they're making which will eventually give an auditorium down in that tween deck if you know anything about Logos that will take over two hundred people but they're just going very slowly because of the finance but also because of the manpower the generator is running but they're having some problems here in this part of the world she ran very well kept cool water is at 32 degrees there in fact instead of jogging I went swimming every morning in the open real hardship but this water is causing the new generator overheat so they have to run it on a very low load at this present time let's pray as they're wrestling with that I think they're going to get it resolved praise the lord also those four missing pallets of books which I think we were involved in here they were eventually found in Granada so I think they're going to get those back and that was a real answer to prayer you maybe didn't know about it but a lot of money was tied up in those books it was very very encouraging to just see Frank stepping into this job as Alan Adams has now gone to Dulas I flew back on the airplane that Manfred Schaller flew in on pray for Manfred as he takes up associate director of the Lagos let's continue to pray for finance let's pray for some people from the January conference to go there more than that let's pray for the right West Indians there are a number of West Indians who want to join they could prove also to be very strategic when Dulas goes to Africa because we don't want to go to Africa looking like we came out of a bleach factory and we believe God wants to raise up some others different nations and backgrounds for that push into Africa whether that ever works out I don't know because nobody will be allowed to come without financial breakthrough that means the church in the West Indies has to rally and do something but in talking to quite a few pastors they want that they feel now is the hour for their church which compared to many other countries is relatively strong to send out missionaries especially French speaking from Martinique and Guadeloupe after all those islands don't have a very big population and when we share with them things like Bihar and UP the statistics just leave them in a maze ok let's pray for the Let's break up in groups some people may want to go some people are coming I'm counting it all as just one big session but during this group prayer it's easy for people to come and go just four little groups of four or five without breaking the chairs in half now we can be praying about I think most of you know that from almost the very beginning OM one of the main emphasis has been the Muslim world in fact when we came to Europe our burden was the Muslim world and the communist world we weren't even planning to work to any great degree in western Europe there were always other burdens and other visions perhaps in the seventies by the very nature of the size of the task India and the ships got a lion's share of our effort though in fact if we actually study it we'll discover that every year western Europe has had the biggest share of the OM effort because of the very fact of the summer campaign the sheer number of people that are working in western Europe and we a few years ago decided to somehow in the eighties we've got to increase that Muslim emphasis and quite a few of you have heard a tape I gave recently on that there were some that felt we should put a lot of money into advertising in the past year and into various forms of communication there were others that felt that we should not budget too much money for that but trust God to work through existing communication of course constantly looking for new ways to communicate but without necessarily spending a small fortune another burden we had was to work through the existing church and build on existing relationships and I think this little issue of the last day's newsletter represents a major breakthrough in our effort to try to make the Muslim world known to God's people as I shared with you before about 300,000 people get this newsletter and somehow I didn't even know about this they've taken a lot of material off some of my tapes and they have featured in this issue the Muslim world as on the cover a look into the Muslim world the great rock of Islam if you turn I don't know how many copies of this are around find some very good articles that will attract people who are not necessarily interested in the Muslim world when they turn the page operation mobilization meeting the challenge of Islam again we're thrilled when publicity goes out about the Muslim world in general and that's often happened but if we're going to get some recruits somehow OM needs to get included once in a while with the address so they know where to write to this gives a summary of what OM is statistics way out as usual then this whole next page is all about what is Islam I'm taking various quotations from some tape where I've been speaking about Islam and then there's a separate article about Muslim I think it's a testimony only got this haven't had time to read it and then there's a big push here what can you do and it talks about praying adopting a country mailing out literature sharing the gospel with Muslim friends and then five go there are many opportunities to personally put your hand to the plow some are outreach teams in Europe among immigrant Muslims one and two year evangelism teams to the Middle East and Indian subcontinent tent making teams which are usually which use individual qualifications and skills to gain long term entrance into Muslim countries and they are closed to traditional missionaries outreach programs information on how to join one of these outreach programs just write to the address below operation mobilization box 148 Midland Park New Jersey application deadline 1985 summer campaign is April 15th OIM also has many different materials including books maps prayer guides information on mailing scriptures to Muslim countries these will help you to reach out effectively to the Muslim world so be sure to let them know what you would like them to send you of course you may also know that in OIM we have a funny little policy which I originated that we don't like to make a lot of use of pictures especially of schnozzle nowhere but of course we can't control last days ministry and much to my display or dismay they have a picture of me that they took at this corner something when I was preaching in my jean suit makes me look about 15 years younger it says guaranteed radical two messages from George Brewer hold on to your seats folks these teachings contain some of the most challenging truths you may have ever heard in a long long time George Brewer's love and zeal for Christ overflow in his messages world missions and Satan's fiery darts and following through on your commitments you've probably never heard anyone share quite the way George does and we could practically shouldn't have read that actually we can practically guarantee that in writing I guess they send you 20 free books if you don't like this both tapes are available to you on audio and video cassette and whether you can afford this is the key thing at whatever you can afford to order use this coupon there's a coupon on page 36 for the videotape and if you want a copy of No Turning Back there's a coupon on page 39 I think we ought to take a few minutes just to cry out to God this issue has just gone out I got one response already on postcard of course most response will all go into New Jersey no British address it's quite interesting that for the first time there'll be a massive mailing of this into Britain because of the memorial concert I don't know how many but anybody who subscribes out of 21,000 are going to receive one issue free now I don't know whether it's this issue that others will receive other issues if they sign up but let's pray that God will use this because we have seldom had in a major magazine that really goes to young people such a chunk of communication if that's the N word for 1985 and let's pray for the ministry of these two videocassettes to offer you know what people are charging to rent videocassettes or to buy they are offering those for whatever people can send that's a big step on their part and let's really cry out to God for the response and let's pray for the New Jersey office because I can tell you our offices at present are being inundated with letters just our office here just my own personal mail has tripled in the past two weeks of just general letters now this is linked with the increase of communication in connection with various ministries but we really need to cry out to the Lord for the New Jersey office it's all they have at Urbana 800 people have asked for more info on OM I believe it was 800 and they have to process all that it's just an overwhelming task for offices that are short secretaries and short people to answer all the letters David Hicks immediately sent out a memo so that when people write in we can supply some things that they're offering so let's go to prayer right now and just cry out to the Lord let's thank the Lord for this breakthrough it's not something that we sort of manipulated or pushed it came as a complete surprise to me especially the focus on Islam so of course the very fact that we're continually preaching about this all over the world sooner or later I guess this kind of thing will happen as far as I can see there's no security problem with this article which is one of the reasons we have to be careful about publicity about our own Muslim world as far as I can see there's no names things that might there's no specific addresses of Muslim countries or anything like that it really seems to be a well done I need to examine it more carefully but let's thank the Lord for this pray for last days the melody for their own ministry just really water this with our own tears of compassion for definite recruits not just for O.M. but for every group that's pushing for and toward the Muslim world at present several people some of you Muslim world addicts this is your chance to leap right out of your chair and lead us in prayer and Urbana Urbana the big one what was it seventeen eighteen thousand people it's quite a great open door for David Hicks in fact I believe he led in prayer at one of the main meetings where Billy Graham was speaking he had a seminar there I think on literature as I mentioned some eight hundred have inquired for more information about O.M. we know that there's a lot involved in following up on this let's thank the Lord for that great gathering Lindsey Brown was also there and had a few references to Operation Mobilization which sometimes can help people to pray about the possibility of linking with us and then God's World Congress of course much smaller but really the first Congress of that type in this country a united effort of many different groups and societies about a little less than a thousand came there were certainly more than a thousand in the evening meetings where I share at the end some were very encouraged in the night of prayer you know I think this is a great struggle and sadness within O.M. is that sometimes after a few months joining O.M. people lose their zest for the extended prayer time whereas other people who've never been to a prayer meeting like that when they go through it it's the greatest thing that I've ever been into the leader of Campus Crusade for Christ Great Britain shared in a panel that up until just recently he didn't have a prayer life he openly shared that God was really speaking through this brother from Africa on the subject of prayer brother Ken and then two of us three of us together led a night of prayer really supposedly they said O.M. style but I hope it's God's style and that leader of Campus Crusade for Christ came to me later because they're planning a huge effort worldwide satellite link up effort next year I'm speaking at the German section in Berlin and supposedly for ten minutes we'll be speaking all over the world on some satellite link up I'm a little sometimes skeptical about these things but Fritz Schuller managed to book me into this one but this brother from Campus Crusade shared that they were planning next year New Year's Day or was it the day before New Year's New Year's Eve Day to just let the people go home and he has now changed his mind this is what he told me he may change it back he can pray about that to have an extended time of prayer next New Year's Eve at this big event which will take place simultaneously in different countries and God really spoke to a lot of people about how an extended prayer meeting can take place and be interesting and breaking into small groups and really crying out and seeing definite answers so we thank the Lord for God's will Congress on the final evening when I shared they gave me literally unlimited time to speak even more than O.M. generally give me so I was very encouraged by that and gave really two distinct messages one was reality the other was geography and two distinct invitations I haven't done this much before first of all dealing with the Lordship of Christ calling people to repent make him loyal several hundred responded to that then have him sit down and then talk about the missionary call keep these two things separate now one fourth of the people there already sensed that God was leading them to the mission field so we also did that little survey so it wouldn't be so confusing because sometimes people stand who are already planning to go to the mission field it makes a cloudy picture of what actually has happened in that weekend or during that conference so when we gave the final invitation for commitment to go begin to move toward the ends of the earth by faith I guess about 150 people many of them received counseling and that was encouraging a similar thing happened in Operation World of the Netherlands I was only there for 2-3 days because I had to get back to God's World Congress but I heard from Case that when the direct book of lists how are you doing is that the title? That's the first time I think I've got the author of the title and my own title together in my head but when he gave an invitation there I think about 70 or 80 responded Brother Andrew stayed for the entire conference including the prayer times he's a very busy man to say the least and Case was really impressed with his ministry he had the Bible readings in the morning so thank the Lord for these events the latest one was January 5th Operation World Toronto close to 1000 were there I only just picked up brief feedback that it did seem to go very very well and they were encouraged by the response these all represent a lot of work many many answers to prayer I think we ought to just take a time now to thank God for all he's done also the Christmas Crusade in Mexico again I only have brief feedback but it went quite well just was looking at a note from Jack Rendall who was encouraged by the church cooperation by what happened there we'll in the night of prayer soon give Lord willing some more details so much happening Christmas camp over Malaysia various Christmas campaigns small things big things so let's thank the Lord for these different events and pray for all these people I know in my own meetings just since I last stood before you I've seen you know I guess 1500 to 2000 people stand to their feet or come forward to make some kind of commitment I feel I've been on the tail of a tornado glad that a lot of people are praying also of course thousands of books have gone out what were the sales for God's World Congress anybody know 8000 that is really amazing yeah the giving there was also quite quite quite amazing quite encouraging well that's a lot to thank the Lord for and I know a lot of those books went out you know sometimes you see somebody go down the gangway and notice after you look carefully that it's a cookbook you don't always you know get overwhelmed but then you look at his other hand and he's got a free copy of John Stock's Basic Christianity you come back out of the depression but most of the most of the books distributed of course at God's World Congress are powerful books that are going to have a real ministry and that is a great testimony okay let's praise and pray one after another especially some of you that have not prayed yet oh I love to hear the voices of the shy quiet those who just they just always esteem others better than themselves and let others pray but if some of you who don't pray much could lean in prayer it would be a great encouragement to the choleric cholerics among us the last place two last places I've just been able to visit the Dulau's this past weekend as we had a united meeting of the British and German board of directors all day on Saturday a very encouraging time I don't know how many of you have ever heard the testimony of brother Hansler how I've known him all these years and never heard his testimony I don't know but he shared it at this board meeting as a young German soldier who didn't know Jesus Christ one of the first things he had to do he was given a rifle and assigned to a firing squad and he was sent out a bunch of people were brought in the back of a truck put in front of them he was told you either shoot them or you'll be killed and as a young man he cried out to God that somehow it could be delivered to this terrible thing he didn't believe in killing and in God's mercy in preparing this young man for salvation conversion a leading officer came and he said put down your gun you're not going to shoot anybody you're going to dig he gave him a shovel and he was responsible to dig holes to bury the flesh that comes off when they apparently shoot in that particular way it was a very moving testimony here we were British a few of us Americans Germans totally united together to accomplish God's purposes and people there representing nations that not so many years ago were completely at one another's throats it was a reminder of the vision that God gave me when I was in 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