No standing room in the conference hall
A spectacle scene created by a great Crowd of people in the Square

Recorded broadcasting on 2 TV channels and live broadcasting on radio
Overwhelming repentance and gifts of Healings through the work of the Holy Spirit

<Captions> The evening view on the third day of the laity conference. The police dispatched by the Togo government counted over five hundred thousand pastors and lay members gathering in the square of Kara Palace Congress. Pastors and lay members from about 20 countries situated around 100 meters from where Pastor Seok-Jeon Yoon preached, to the other side of the fence where lighting system was set up occupied up to the street over the entrance from lack of the stadium and the stands and repented by listening to his grievous service, “Repent!” Also, a number of people got healed from illness and set free from bondage of evil spirits.

“Lord, give me the powers and the mission! Let me revive Africa and the world!”
The Conference Hall of Kara Palace Congress was full of the voices of pastors who had gathered from around 20 countries. The seminar for pastors and the conference for lay members were extensively held by Pastor Yoon in Kara in Togo. The seminar for pastors was ministered at 10am for 2 days from 16th of November to 17th, 2018 and the conference for lay members was ministered outside at 7pm for 3 days from 15thof November to 17th at the Square of Palace Congress. Many people surged into both conferences, which were an overwhelming success.

Pastors coming from about 20 countries receiving great grace
Through the work of the Holy Spirit, this conference was highly valued as the first conference to have the highest number of participants in Togo’s Christian history. The police dispatched by the government of Togo hourly counted and as a result, five hundred thousand for the laity conference and tens of thousands of people for the Pastor’s seminar participated. The conference broke the record again, although 2015 and 2016 invitation conference of Pastor Seok-Jeon Yoon had made a record-breaking number of participants. It was the first time that pastors coming from neighboring 20 countries of Africa congregated in the Pastor Conference.

The city Kara is 425km away from the capital Lomé to the north taking 7 hours by car, a great number of pastors and lay members throughout Togo congregated in large groups by renting cars or taking public transportation. Also, pastors from 20 countries in Africa assembled for the Pastor’s interdenominational seminar.

There was no room to sit from the platform and the aisles to the second floor inside the Palace Congress, where the conference was held. About a thousand pastors could not enter the seminar hall so they had to listen to the sermon through TVs and speakers in the lobby.

The servant of God, Pastor Seok-Jeon Yoon, sincerely and strongly preached a sermon in regard to 1 John 3:8 to the believers coming throughout Africa.

“African pastors! It is time to repent before Jesus through his blood, shed on the cross because God’s coming is imminent! Change yourself as God’s servant living and following the Bible from the power of the grave. Receive the forgiveness of sins, be filled with the Holy Spirit, and represent the book of Acts like the Disciples of Jesus.”

The cry of Pastor Seok-Jeon Yoon brought powerful inspiration to the African pastor’s hearts. They not only replied “Amen,” applauding God’s word, but also struggled to repent crying in the prayer time.

The host, the Assemblies of God, offered charter bus services and vans so that pastors congregated to the conference and it served the conference with prayers and praise service. The conference facilitated indoor temperatures, acoustics, electric power, guides, guidance on prayers and praising teams, who had no problems during the conference. About 100 police and military officers were dispatched by the president were helpful for the safety supplying strict security checks.

The fever of grace, leading to the conference for the laity
The laity conference went on three times for 3 days. A great number of people were crowded early in the conference place, coming throughout the city Kara and neighboring cities. A spectacle scene was created by the lay members arriving by motorcycles which is their main transportation in Togo and by buses which looked like a wave to take people to the conference, even on the tops of the buses were full of crowds of people.

Especially, in this conference the number of people gathering increased exponentially day by day. It was analyzed by the host that the recorded broadcasting and live broadcasting on radio, had a great influence across the nation, through national broadcasting stations and commercial broadcasting stations. People having the service through TV and radios came to the Square on the last day of the conference and occupied the street to listen to the sermon. Nonetheless, no accidents were made. It was because this conference was conducted under the Governor on the national level and order was maintained.

Pastor Seok-Jeon, Yoon whom God is using spread the Lord’s heart desperately toward the lay members with the Script reading, Isaiah 53:5~6. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon  him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
The time for praying in loud voices was the climax of the whole conference. A number of the lay members repented hitting the ground and lamenting, and then they shouted with joy for meeting the Lord and deeply cheered for all the problems were solved. The row of people who wanted to testify, solving many different kinds of problems and diseases, continually increased.

Those who couldn’t see forward for many years can see now. Those who couldn’t hear can hear well now. Those who couldn’t walk can walk now. Those who suffered from cancer are set free from any pain. After all, some said, “I was Muslim. But now, I believe in Jesus Christ after listening to the service from Pastor Seok-Jeon, Yoon.” Like this, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the square and testified to bring glory to God with applauding and praise. According to the host, 10 to 15 percent of all the participants were Muslim.

The Togo Conference, the city Kara, Togo and the whole of Africa area was to be expected to become a strategic point as a base for the salvation of many souls. When pastors came from 20 countries and then spread Jesus Christ, who they experienced from the seminar, the spiritual impact was more than what they expected to influence the whole of Africa.

SEP 2019 Côte d’Ivoire Conference (Main Speaker: Pastor Yoon)

Meanwhile, during the conference, pastors from Cameron, Ghana, Nigeria, and Republic of Cote d’Ivoire came to attend the conference and received grace. At the same time, they had a meeting with the department of evangelical missionary oversea conference and asked for the invitation conference of Pastor Seok-Jeon Yoon in September of 2019 in Republic of Cote d’Ivoire. It is God who held the large scale of the conference, which has been nonexistent and spread the Gospel across Africa. Give thanks, praise and glory to God who will work for the evangelization of Africa in 2019. 

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