Prayer Movement Fuels Mongolian Church Growth
Christian World News reports on the recent results of prayer in Mongolia.
bq.. CWNews.org – The Mongolian church is young but growing fast since the fall of communism 14 years ago, according to a new report by The Sentinel Group. An explosion of people who have become Christians has pushed the number from 20,000 last year to 35,000 this year.
Landlocked between China and Siberia, the semi-desert nation of Mongolia is slightly smaller than Alaska, and is predominately Tibetan Buddhist. Situated on the Tuul River and surrounded by the foothills of the Khangai mountain range, the capital, Ulan Bator (“Red Hero”) prospered on the tea route between Russia and China.
In the 13th century Mongols under Genghis Khan conquered a huge Eurasian empire, but eventually retreated to the steppes and came under China’s rule. In 1921 Mongolia won its independence with the help of the Soviet Union. A communist regime which took over in 1924 was rejected in 1996, and doors began to open for the Gospel.
There is a “passion for God beyond what I see in the North American Church,” said Alistair Petrie of Partnership Ministries in Abbotsford, B. C., Canada, who recently visited Mongolia. Petrie was on a team that led a national prayer initiative in Ulan Bator, Mongolia from March 19-24, 2004. The late winter weather was frigid, but the atmosphere fervent as 200 leaders from 115 churches around Mongolia met together for united prayer.
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