THE DREAM

When GOD makes your dreams come true... He does it in a B I G W A Y ! ! '...more than we could ever ask or think'; according to the Scriptures. After Producing over 60 'Praise & Worship' albums for Integrity's Hosanna Music Series, God put a Dream in my Heart-- While working together with the Best-Loved Worship Leaders and Christian Musicians on the planet... I had this Dream-- a Dream to gather together ALL those Great Artists and Players for a 'Grande Praise & Worship Celebration' ; a lavish Worship offering to our Lord Jesus!

THE NAME

A few months ago, while flying back from Europe with 'The Band', God gave me a name for that Dream- the 'WORSHIP ALLIANCE'. I remember waking Abraham up from a 'dead sleep' on the plane to share the idea! 'So Lord, now we have the name, but what do we do next?' The answer came sooner than we thought...

THE NEXT STEP

A few weeks later, we were on Tour in Asia with Don Moen and The Band. We had finished our Concert and were all settling down in bed when my phone rang (around 1:30am). Some friends of ours from Korea were in the Lobby and had an exciting Vision to share with us!! SO... (after some debate as to their timing), I woke up Abe (again!) and we threw our clothes back on and stumbled down to the Lobby. What they had to share with us was unbelievable!

THE VISION

To make a L O N G story short, their Vision is to see the Nation of Korea unified again... They are the only 'divided' Country left on the Earth since the 'Berlin Wall' fell several years ago. At the end of the Korean War 50 years ago, Korea was split at the 38th parallel; with the allies supporting the South and the Communists taking control of the North. Since that day, Christianity has been 'outlawed' in the North, the 'Underground Church' has been brutally and systematically persecuted, and families have been split up with absolutely no communication allowed whatsoever. (*see sidebar*)

God gave these Korean Brothers a Marvelous Vision and Plan-- to see their Nation become 'ONE' again. The Vision is based on four Major International 'Prayer & Praise Events'... The first Prayer Celebration drew 69,000 young Christians to Yoido Park (the 'Central Park' of Seoul). 'Phase Two' happened last week-- a 'Four Day Festival of Worship & Praise & Prayer' held at the National Memorial, Pastor Cho's Yoido Church (the largest in the world; 735,000 members), and at the DMZ, the border with Communist North Korea.

The Lord made it 'crystal clear' to me- 'This is the first step for the 'Worship Alliance'; gather all the Best-Loved Christian Artists and Worship Leaders and all your Musical pals and bring them to Seoul to support the Korean Church in their quest toward Unification. '

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