Call me crazy, but...

[Pastor Gary]

Okay: you can call me crazy, but after visiting the well-known Prayer Mountain near Seoul, I am starting a personal crusade --- take Fields of the Wood and develop it into an American Prayer Mountain.

You can not conceive of the intensity of being in a place where tens of thousands of people from all over the world come to spend hours... spend DAYS in intense prayer and fasting.

We have the place, we have the opportunity to draw first Korean Americans and Korean visitors to America, and then when Americans experience the power of such prayer focus, it could be amazing.

[MacUser]

Run with it.

[pastorables]

Okay: you can call me crazy, but after visiting the well-known Prayer Mountain near Seoul, I am starting a personal crusade --- take Fields of the Wood and develop it into an American Prayer Mountain.

Great vision! I have heard some incredible praying done at FOTW. As a matter of fact, I prayed there as a Youth Pastor for one of my youth to be sent a good husband and God sent me.

[Billy n NC]

Pastor Gary, I think it could be done. I know there is a lot of animosity toward FOTW here on Jude2. But I like you could see it to be an awesome place.

Like you said we have the place.

I know there has been joking about hotels and amusement parks etc

But we have the place.

But we have no vision in place. It may be in the minds of individuals but has it ever be shown or shared. We have not because we ask not.

Vision casting is a major weakness in our organization. yes there are a few churches with vision but not as a whole.

We have so many who still want to go to State Convention or GA and find out what they are supposed to do.

We have the place. What an awesome opportunity we have or could have.

[paul]

Gary,

my pastor just returned from Prayer Mountain in Korea. He spent one week there in prayer. His first words to me on his return was we need one in America. I think it would be fantastic. One might be surprised at the response from others outside of cogop also.

[KBevangelist]

Okay: you can call me crazy, but after visiting the well-known Prayer Mountain near Seoul, .

You can not conceive of the intensity of being in a place where tens of thousands of people from all over the world come to spend hours... spend DAYS in intense prayer and fasting.

PG I am jealous of you right now. After reading "Prayer that brings revival" by David Chongi Cho, I have the upmost desire to go to Prayer Mountain in Seoul. My wife knows one day we are going.

I am glad you got to experience it.

I am all for turning Fields of the Woods into a Prayer Place.

KB

[Pastor Gary]

PG I am jealous of you right now. After reading "Prayer that brings revival" by David Chongi Cho, I have the upmost desire to go to Prayer Mountain in Seoul. My wife knows one day we are going.

I am glad you got to experience it.

I am all for turning Fields of the Woods into a Prayer Place.

When you go, there is a MASSIVE auditorium there... seats thousands, and no matter when you go there the huge front area is filled with hundreds of people standing, sitting, laid out on mats praying... hundreds are sitting in the seats praying or reading their Bibles (aloud and silently)... there are many sick among them, some in wheel-chairs, praying for healing. Before you enter the building, you can hear (and feel) the roar of loud, intense prayer. Koreans don't just pray sincerely -- they pray machine-gun fast and at full volume, and, though that is not the way I pray, it is moving.

As you walk past the rows of tiny private prayer rooms you hear prayers in many languages pouring forth from room after room. Pretty awesome.

Now imagine that sound reverberating through the beautiful hills of North Carolina, where, for us at least, it all started.

[KBevangelist]

When you go, there is a MASSIVE auditorium there... seats thousands, and no matter when you go there the huge front area is filled with hundreds of people standing, sitting, laid out on mats praying... hundreds are sitting in the seats praying or reading their Bibles (aloud and silently)... there are many sick among them, some in wheel-chairs, praying for healing. Before you enter the building, you can hear (and feel) the roar of loud, intense prayer. Koreans don't just pray sincerely -- they pray machine-gun fast and at full volume, and, though that is not the way I pray, it is moving.

As you walk past the rows of tiny private prayer rooms you hear prayers in many languages pouring forth from room after room. Pretty awesome.

Now imagine that sound reverberating through the beautiful hills of North Carolina, where, for us at least, it all started.

You know that just makes me want to cry and want to go even more!!! Thanks for sharing.

[Gerald Creasy]

I am comfortable knowing God hears my most minute heartfealt cry and do not think that numbers praying, duration of the prayer, or a special prayer place impresses him one whit.

But it makes US feel better and more holy and more dedicated to undergo a pilgramage, and How We Feel is all that matters in the modern church.

[oletimer]

There is strenght in that kind of pray. Same as in prayer and fasting.

Mt 17:21
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

[Pastor Gary]

I am comfortable knowing God hears my most minute heartfealt cry and do not think that numbers praying, duration of the prayer, or a special prayer place impresses him one whit.

But it makes US feel better and more holy and more dedicated to undergo a pilgramage, and How We Feel is all that matters in the modern church.

Private prayer, whispered prayer, wailing prayer, secret prayer, corporate prayer... all are valid, and God hears them all, but, Gerald, unless you have experienced the faith-building synergy that comes from a place dedicated to NOTHING BUT prayer, you can't imagine what it is like. I seem to recall a certain pool in the New Testament that was a "special prayer place"...

[Full Quiver]

There is strenght in that kind of pray. Same as in prayer and fasting.

Sorry if I sound like a punk but I find myself asking, Scriptures please (to support such a notion).

[Full Quiver]

So what's wrong with FOTW as it is then? It is a place, it's on a mountain, it has an altar, and there is plenty enough room for thousands to gather in prayer.

[oletimer]

Danny; read the one that I gave for starters. I would ask you to back up and read the part leading up to this verse, but you already know it. I also believe that you have been there and know of the value of that kind of prayer. Rather then high jack this thread, why not start a new one on prayer and fasting? Might be good hear many thioughts on this.

[Pastor Gary]

So what's wrong with FOTW as it is then? It is a place, it's on a mountain, it has an altar, and there is plenty enough room for thousands to gather in prayer.

So, if you were seeking direction from God, say in DECEMBER, and wanted to go fast and pray for 3 or 4 days at FOTW... would it be conducive to that right now?

Prayer Mountain in Korea has many tiny rooms for prayer, out of the weather, providing a measure of privacy, with nearby public restrooms, and you can stay for days. They also have a hotel-like facility for extended stays -- simple, almost spartan rooms, where one can go rest, sleep, shower and retreat.