Purpose and Focus

The Call Congo (DROC): God is calling One million Christians worldwide to pray for Congo (DROC) on One Day for One King to reign there: Jesus.

June 19, 2008 is the day one million will pray!

This had been scheduled for June 30, but I just learned that there will be a historic reconciliation meeting in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, on June 19-21. Leaders from several European nations will come there to apologize for the sins of their nations in colonizing Africa, especially Congo. For more details, see the Blog post below this one. We need to join the prayers for national healing that will be prayed in Congo during that conference!

DROC Congo ( there are two Congo's in Africa) is one of the most spiritually dark, violent and corrupt nations in Africa. See the post below for details.

The forces of darkness are so well entrenched there that only a large burst of prayer can pierce the ancient fortresses of darkness and empower the Church of Congo to reclaim their beautiful nation for Jesus. God can easily call 1 million of His children to pray for Congo.

One Main Prayer Request: That that the Christians of DROC would experience the truth of Romans 8:15-17 and be released from the "spirit of slavery" and experience the "Spirit of Adoption" as children of God! Africa has been enslaved by people many times, but even more by spirits of slavery.

"For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!" The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him (Rom 8:15-17)."

In help them experience that Spirit of Adoption, pray that:

1. That the Christians of DROC would confess and renounce the sins and strongholds of their ancestors who worshiped false gods and committed sinful acts of violence.
2. The Church of DROC worships God intensely for many days.
3. The Church of DROC walk in greater holiness each day.
   

The solutions to suffering in any nation are based in the spiritual. The recent revival in Uganda is a clear example of this biblical truth.

Have you seen the video about Uganda's revival and how it changed the nation? AIDS went down, the economy went up and many got saved. The Church of Uganda could help DROC find similar solutions to its pain through such a transforming revival.

Look at this video clip on the video called Transformations II at http://www.sentinelgroup.org/trailer.asp

Transformations 1 also has a story about an African town that was transformed after the Church prayed the witchcraft out of town. These truths in these video's can change nations. Unless this kind of spiritual work is done in places like DROC, nothing will change much.

Please pray. God is calling One Million to Pray One Day for One Nation for One King to Reign in that nation.

Please pray on June 19, 2008!

(Let us know if you are praying by leaving a comment here or by emailing to renard47@gmail.com)

Major Reconciliation Conference in Congo, June 19-211

Email on June 30,2008 about the conference: ( ignore Blog post date)

I do not know if you are aware of it but there will be a major reconciliation conference taking place in Kinshasa 19^th to 21^st June where the European nations will be apologizing to Africa (but in particular the DR Congo). This is all part of a process which started in 1999 and in 2005 saw more than 500 people present in Berlin – going back to the roots of the carving up of Africa – being the Treaty of Berlin 1884/85. Since then the European Christian leaders present that day have led delegations to Harare in 2006, Libreville, Gabon in 2007 and now onto Kinshasa for June 2008!

If you would like more information please see reports published on www.peaceworks.org.uk

Blessings

Lynn

Lynn Nwagbara-Badcock

African Enterprise Belgium

Country profile: Democratic Republic of Congo

A vast country with immense economic resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been at the centre of what could be termed Africa’'s world war. This has left it in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.

The five-year conflict pitted government forces, supported by Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe, against rebels backed by Uganda and Rwanda. Despite a peace deal and the formation of a transitional government in 2003, the threat of civil war remains.

OVERVIEW
The war claimed an estimated three million lives, either as a direct result of fighting or because of disease and malnutrition. It has been called possibly the worst emergency to unfold in Africa in recent decades.

The war had an economic as well as a political side. Fighting was fuelled by the country’s vast mineral wealth, with all sides taking advantage of the anarchy to plunder natural resources.

The history of DR Congo has been one of civil war and corruption. After independence in 1960, the country immediately faced an army mutiny and an attempt at secession by its mineral-rich province of Katanga. A year later, its prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, was seized and killed by troops loyal to army chief Joseph Mobutu.

In 1965 Mobutu seized power, later renaming the country Zaire and himself Mobutu Sese Seko. He turned Zaire into a springboard for operations against Soviet-backed Angola and thereby ensured US backing. But he also made Zaire synonymous with corruption.
After the Cold War, Zaire ceased to be of interest to the US. Thus, when in 1997 neighbouring Rwanda invaded it to flush out extremist Hutu militias, it gave a boost to the anti-Mobutu rebels, who quickly captured the capital, Kinshasa, installed Laurent Kabila as president and renamed the country DR Congo.

Nonetheless, DR Congo’s troubles continued. A rift between Mr Kabila and his former allies sparked a new rebellion, backed by Rwanda and Uganda. Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe took Kabila’s side, turning the country into a vast battleground.

Despite coup attempts and sporadic violence a fragile peace has held since the formal end of the war. But the Kinshasa government has no control over large parts of the country and tension remains high in the east.

Moreover, the lot of DR Congo’s citizens is little improved. The Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think-tank, said in 2005 that 1,000 people were dying every day from war-related causes, including disease, hunger and violence.

FACTS
Full name: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Population: 56 million (UN, 2005)
Capital: Kinshasa
Area: 2.34 million sq km (905,354 sq miles)
Major languages: French, Lingala, Kiswahili, Kikongo, Tshiluba
Major religions: Christianity, Islam
Life expectancy: 42 years (men), 44 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 Congolese franc = 100 centimes
Main exports: Diamonds, copper, coffee, cobalt, crude oil
GNI per capita: US $120 (World Bank, 2006)

LEADERS
President: Joseph Kabila
Joseph Kabila became Congo’s president when his father Laurent was assassinated in 2001. He gained a mandate through the ballot box to rule the vast country as its elected leader in an election in 2006.
The historic presidential election was intended to bring a new era of stability after years of war, dictatorship and chaos. The vote was generally praised by international monitors.

Mr Kabila has enjoyed the clear support of western governments such as the US and France, regional allies such as South Africa and Angola and businessmen and mining magnates who have signed multi-million dollar deals under his rule.
He is a former guerrilla fighter who participated in nearly a decade of war that ravaged the country.
He fought alongside his father in a military campaign from the east that toppled dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 after more than 20 years as the despotic, whimsical and corrupt leader of the nation he had renamed Zaire.

But when Laurent Kabila was killed by a bodyguard in 2001, his soft-spoken, publicity-shy son, who received military training in China, was thrust into the political limelight and installed as the world’s youngest head of state.
He swapped his military fatigues for elegant business suits, but - in contrast to his chubby, jovial and temperamental father - remained a reserved figure.

Mr Kabila has promised to rule by consensus to try to heal the still raw scars of Congo’s many conflicts.
Though revered in the Swahili-speaking east, where he is widely credited with helping to end Congo’s 1998-2003 war, he is less liked in the west.
Joseph Kabila is the eldest of 10 children fathered by Laurent Kabila. He spent much of his early life in East Africa, where his dissident father lived in exile.

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