African Leadership

Dear friends, in the mission of our Lord,

I greet you with the declaration that we live eternal lives, in the name of the Lord of all missions. We are here today because of your prayers my friends. I thank you from deep within, for your love and prayers.

Looking back at the ministries, there is nothing that is not by grace. Seeing that the Lord is using this deficient servant, I think… the Lord is in a hurry! I sought Africa with the confession ‘Here I am, Lord,’ when the Lord searched for harvesters in time of harvest. Seeing that the Lord has used a person like me for 13 years, there’s only thanks… and grace. Furthermore, it’s thankfully all due to your prayer support and love.

Last week, I made a visit to the countryside, to Transkei. It is about 800 miles away from Cape Town, where this servant reside. It takes about 12 hours to drive. It’s an area where we have raised pastors and ministers and built five churches. This time, along with a short-term team, we visited the village of Sixandi.

A witchdoctor in village of Sixandi had heard of the gospel and and built a church in the place of her house. However in 2002, the church built by the witchdoctor Nomilisi, as an answer to God’s calling, had to close down because there was no leader to take on after her death. For the last two years in frustration, I prayed for Sixandi every time we had evangelism and pastor training activities in Transkei. Lord! Shine your light of salvation upon Sixandi. Have mercy on those who are bound to the acestors’ ghosts. In prayer and dreams for evangelism, we have bought a horse for pastor James, at the church in Qebe, a town beside Sixandi. We sent two short-term teams this year for evangelism. This servant evangelized there, and met Nomilisi’s daughter. She was now living as a mature Christian of faith; she confessed that she was living by the faith although she did not have a church to serve. Furthermore, there were several people who had decided to accept Christ and were telling their testimonies and worshipping every night… The last night of our stay, I gave a sermon. I encouraged them to build a kingdom of God that is centered upon love, and to share food and clothing in spite of the poverty. I proclaimed the word that there is blessing in sharing, that there is blessing on those who are giving and not merely receiving. We shared, prayed and encouraged each other to turn the town to one that is full of love. Lord! May Sicandi practice true sharing. Reveal Your image; build Your kingdom, centered upon loving neighbors, and help them become united in love. Let them learn the beauty in uniting with God, and experience Your kingdom, and expand.

Please pray with us:

1. Two weeks ago, we started to construct Children’s churches in a region known as SST  in Khayelitsha, with the goal being 10 children’s churches. Four have already been setup and six more will be up and running in the next two weeks. We are in the process of looking for teachers as well. Please pray that people will see God at work and that this region will be changed through Sunday school. May the newly committed teachers know the Lord more, treasure the word, and love the children.
2. May the needs for the growth of children’s church be met in ways of the Lord; May there be fulfillment in the need of snacks, teachers’ training, camp expenses, and children’s church building constructions.
3. May our family (Kyung-Hwan: Han-Dong University, Mi-Jung: Grade 11) follow the Lord more wholly and take after Him more…

For the kingdom,
Missionary Young Ohm and Young-Ae Yoo

Dear loved partners in prayer,

I love you. I thank you earnestly for having participated in the spiritual war for Africa with your prayer.

For the last two times, you have heard of the spirit of Satan oppressing Africa. Today, I would like to share about another force of Satan that is keeping Africa from the word.

Satan has planted fear deep in the hearts of African people. Disguised as ancestral ghosts, Satan has planted fear in their hearts and bound them to these ancestral ghosts. It has taught the people that they become ancestral ghosts when they die, and that if they did not worship the ghosts that this will bring problems and hardships into their lives. It makes people use witch doctors to call the ancestors and give and take messages from them. One of the reasons why funerals are becoming larger with increasing attendance is that people do not want to anger the ghosts from the recent death and bring harm to their households. The ancestral ghosts are easily angered and cause more harm than blessing the families. Thus, they are taught that they need to treat the ancestral ghosts right, and listen to the witch doctors who call the ancestral ghosts.

Whether it is after a car accident, a husband’s affair, losing a job, being sick etc, the witch doctors points to objects of criticism and offers solution like sacrificing a lamb or cattle, making charms, or performing exorcism. Traditionally, the men are circumcised when they turn 18 years old. This is a ritual dedicated to the ancestral ghosts. A ritual calling the ancestral ghosts is required whenever an animal is killed. As they are told that the ghosts live amongst the animals, this is also a reason why women stay far away. Whoever fears these ghosts greatly, becomes spiritless and weak, or end living as they have been told.

The most quickly growing church in Africa is Zion church. As a cultic religious group that worships both Jesus and ancestral ghosts, it is growing rapidly and totals 60% of the whole population of people attending church. It is because the culture of worshipping the ancestors’ ghosts is deeply rooted in them, that the root of their faith cannot reach as far deep even after they have accepted Christ in their lives. The black people’s government discusses with the witch doctors whenever they make a decision.

Our faith is worshipping Jesus only—relying on and worshipping God only. God hates mixing principles. If there is anything that can be seen in the bible that God really hates the most, it is worshipping other gods.

Africa is not a problematic continent. It is not a symbol of poverty. Satan has covered people’s eyes, disguised its identity as ancestor’s ghost, planted fear in their hearts, and made them slaves of ancestor’s ghosts. Please pray against Satan.

Every night at 10 o’clock, I ask you to pray together with us, and command Satan, who is oppressing Africa, to leave for good. If you pray at 10pm from all over the world, then the prayer against Satan will not cease for 24 hours, and Africa will be a land of hopes, the kingdom of God.
Please pray as follows:

1. Dirty and filthy spirit! Satan, who has covered up the eyes of African people and left them in their selfish living! Let your hands be bound forever in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth! We command you to leave forever from Africa, in the name of Christ of Nazareth!
2. Dirty and filthy Satan! Satan, who is covering the eyes of African people from seeing the future and made the people slaves of the past! In the name of Jesus Christ, we command you to leave Africa for good!
3. Dirty and filthy spirit, who are disguised as their ancestor’s ghost, and made the people spiritless and weak, we command you to leave in the name of Jesus Christ! Leave Africa for good! We tie you down with eternal chains, in the name of Christ, and you will let go of African people… God! May your kingdom come in the land of Africa…

Through prayers for Africa at 10 pm all over the world, Africa will become a new land and new sky through commands against Satan in the name of Jesus Christ.

For the kingdom,
Missionary Young Ohm

My eternal brother, my eternal sister

I hope you are well!  I’m so sorry I have not written for so long!  Time has gone so quickly!  I am so thankful for you and for the abundant life that we have in Christ!

A few updates:
Thank you for your prayers for the patient who had very advanced lung cancer last year. She passed away.  She was very tired of fighting and I believe in the end, she let go.  However, before she died she repented of her sins and asked Christ to be her Lord.  I know we will see her again one day and I am just praying for her daughter to also know Him and His peace.

I recently attended the Northwest Naturopathic Physicians Conference in Seattle, Washington and was greatly inspired by all the amazing doctors that I met from every kind of background.  I pray that every day I may be a better instrument in His hands to bring healing to others – physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually…etc.

We have completed the 2nd edition of our training manual.  Please let us know if you would like an electronic copy.  It is useful to train any mission team or for training for the missionary-oriented life, Kingdom lifestyle.

We are in the process of putting up a new website.  Please continue to check http://africanleadership.info for new updates.

We have quite a few teams this year and I’ll be going back to South Africa to help lead some of them.  I’ll be leaving June 10th and I’ll be gone about 2 months.

A few things I’ve been thinking about lately:

From our training manual:  “Rely on Christ.  “Christ is alive in you and in your coworkers, even though they may act differently and behave differently than you.  Dietrich Bonhoffer reminds us in Life Together that we dare not relate directly to one another.  We must allow Christ to be our intermediary – the bridge between us as we relate to one another through him.” – Tim Dearborn

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself and became obedient to death– even death on a cross!
-Philippians 2:5-8

Life is simple – just trust and obey.  We came into the world with nothing.  Everything we have and do comes from God.  Our life’s purpose is wrapped up in Christ.  All we have to do is trust and obey Him.  Live for Him.  I love this song by Matt Redman, “If you know you’re loved by the King, live for Him, live for Him, live for Him…”

As we look at God, may we rise above our circumstances to remember who we are in His everlasting Kingdom, so that we can live as citizens of the Eternal Kingdom, not only of this earth which will fade and wilt and pass away one day… may we store up treasures in Heaven and not on earth… may what is dear to us be what is dear to Him… may our passions be His passions… may His boundless, infinite love be known by us daily so that we can love beyond our human limitations so that He might be glorified!

May your life be filled with His love, joy and peace my dear brother, my dear sister!

With love and blessings,
For the Kingdom,
Tobi Lin