Lausanne World Pulse – Seeking God for Revival: South Africa and Beyond

August 2006

By Francois Carr

Heart Cry 2005 was planned in several major churches and cities with keynote speakers from abroad. It consisted of several revival crusades, leadership training, church outreaches and two major conferences—one in the north and one in the south—in South Africa. More than one thousand leaders attended the southern conference. We praise God for the following:

  1. Spiritual leaders who came from sixteen different countries including North America, UK and Africa
  2. Spiritual leaders in South Africa who came from more than 120 churches and communities
  3. Several thousands of people praying and joining together for the need of our nations
  4. Hundreds of people responding to accept Christ during the stadium outreach in Middelburg
  5. Leaders and Christians confessing and repenting from sin
  6. Several local church crusades on revival scheduled for 2006 as preparation for Heart Cry South Africa 2007
  7. School of Prayer and outreaches scheduled for September 2006 in Shannon, Ireland
  8. First Heart Cry Conference on Revival in the Netherlands scheduled for 21-25 September 2006, as well as the opening of a website, office, staff and Dutch revival magazine
  9. Several missionary outreaches and conferences on revival scheduled for 2007 in Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Malawi

Several missionary organizations in North America and South Africa are partnering and joining hands for Heart Cry 2007. It will take place in August 2007 in South Africa and will consist of the following:

  1. Mini conference about revival in Natal
  2. Second mini conference
  3. International Heart Cry Conference for Revival in Pretoria
  4. Two leadership training conferences for six hundred pastors
  5. Twenty missionary teams from the United States working in local churches and communities preaching revival crusades   

If our nation and the world is going to turn from the rapid moral and spiritual decline we are in, people’s lives must change, families must change, churches must change, communities must change and nations must change. What would happen if believers were to get really honest about their sin and serious about pursuing holiness? Might we not once again experience the manifest presence of God in our churches? Revival starts with God’s people. Revival starts with you.

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Dr. Francois Carr is executive director of Revival South Africa. He is senior editor of an English and Afrikaans journal on Prayer, Holiness and Revival, called Revival and HerlewinG. Carr is also the author of Revival! The Glory of God and Prayer for Revival and has authored several books in Afrikaans.

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