"Reunification is approaching. We need a "strategy for reunification,' and a "strategy after reunification.' Our sincere prayers for peaceful reunification will open the door for reunification between North and South Korea. The reunification of one people is not in the hands of political leaders, but those of God. God hears the cries of our brothers in North Korea and will save them."
Congregants of various churches in the Seattle region raised their hands in prayer for peaceful reunification in the Korean peninsula. A prayer meeting that took place on May 1 at United Presbyterian Church of Seattle brought together church-goers of Seattle in one place to pray fervently for reunification in Korea and the re-establishment of churches in North Korea.
Speaking from Esther 4:14, Rev. Peter I. Sohn, the international director of Until the Day Mission, said, "The churches in Korea -- which should be the main agent of prayer for reunification between the North and South -- are asleep and immersed in vanity and conceit."
"Churches in Korea must wake up and take to heart the serious human rights violations that are occurring against the North Korean people, and repent and pray," Sohn emphasized.
"The completion of reunification in the Korean peninsula is not just political or physical reunification, but the re-establishment of churches in North Korea and revival happening once again," Sohn continued, and encouraged Christians to pray for a reunification "without war, without the shedding of precious blood," and that through reunification, "Korea would rise as a nation of a priesthood in which youth and young adults from both North and South Korea would participate in mission together."
This prayer meeting in Seattle comes as part of a series of prayer gatherings that will take place in various states, the first which took place in Denver in April. Another will take place on May 15 in Oregon, and in July, two prayer meetings will take place in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.
This article has been translated. For the original in Korean, visit kr.christianitydaily.com.
