Thursday, October 4, 2007
The day started at 5:30AM with a call to prayer. It came in the form of a bell ringing, echoing down the mountainside of Jesus Abbey. By 6AM everyone had assembled in the chapel for an hour of corporate prayer, which consisted of selected scripture readings woven into our time of intercession.
PRAYER Attic - Jesus Abbey
In the course of the day I journeyed back to Seoul by way of a 4 hour train ride. I reconnected with Dr. Kim (LEI’s Asia Director) for an evening meal along with Senior Pastor Kun Min Lee, (Global Literacy Mission Board member) and his lovely wife.
By 8:30PM the churches evening prayer meeting had begun. We concluded by 10PM. Our time together afforded me the privilege of preaching. I was honored to be invited to share, but felt a bit bad that I cut into the congregation’s intercessory time. I was told not to worry since most of the other nights of the week; the entire time was spent in prayer. Their schedule included corporate prayer time morning, noon and night, seven days a week.
Pastor Lee oversaw the growth of a 1,300 member church from a church plant 13 years prior. The pastor attributed all the growth to the power of prayer. Not only do they pray corporately three times a day. They have seven (7) prayer rooms, each with a specific focus which are intermittently filled 24/7. The prayer rooms themes includes prayers for physical and spiritual healing, prayers for missionaries, prayers for anointing and power, etc… We have so much to learn from our Korean brothers and sisters.
By 11PM Dr. Kim and I were catching a subway ride back across Seoul. 
As my journey continued from Africa to Asia, from the languages of Kiswahili to Korean, the sweetness of the prayers flowed from a similar heart and Spirit. A spiritual geology formed in Christ followers was so evident. It was the same spiritual formation I experienced from one continent to another.
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