Pastor Francis Chan wonders what it would be like to be a caterpillar. He thinks it would be strange to live on one tiny strip of dirt as a fat caterpillar, take a long nap, and wake up with wings and be able to fly as to be a beautiful butterfly.

“Have you ever seen a butterfly crawling around in the dirt?” he asked at Wednesday morning’s General Session to illustrate how a person transforms radically when he becomes a Christian.

Pastor Chan is baffled, he said, when people tell him that they don’t believe that even God could help them through their problems and struggles. “I don’t know what your issues are, but the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives inside of us,” he said. Jesus told His disciples that He was going to go so that this Holy Spirit would be coming for the advantage of the disciples. And Pastor Chan said that whoever benefits us more than Jesus has to be pretty awesome.

After we’re transformed through this Spirit, we have the ability to impact others by showing them the glory of Christ. Pastor Chan asked, “Have you ever pulled that off, where you shine your light in such a way that people don’t praise you but they praise your Father in heaven?”

He said that this is evident in his own ministry, that people who knew him as a student, even in seminary, cannot believe now that he is a pastor. His siblings ask him why people bother to even listen to him.

He started his talk with an introduction of Compassion International, one of the ministries partnering with JAMA at this conference. Compassion works around the world with children in need by clothing and feeding them, educating them in schools, and teaching them about Jesus. Pastor Chan said that he learned from Compassion representatives on his visit to Africa that 29,000 children under the age of 5 will die today. “Is my soul more valuable than one of those children who will die today?” he asked.

When the crowd answered that their souls are not more valuable than these kids’, Pastor Chan asked, “Then why do we spend so much on ourselves? Why do I think I need to preserve myself?”

He read Proverbs 30:7, which is a prayer asking God to “give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.” This prayer goes against our natural instincts. “It’s not an American prayer,” he said. “It’s a Christian prayer.”

He then shared his struggles to separate his Christian values from his American and Chinese values, that he should not live by what he learned in church or from his culture but from the Bible itself, and nothing else. Only then, he said, will he be able to live as God wants him to.

Choirs of angels rejoiced in heaven last night as tens of people all over the auditorium in the JAMA General Session received the gift of salvation and committed their lives to Christ. Pastor Stephen Chong prayed for them as he ended his sermon about sin, a topic that he said makes pastors very unpopular if they preach about it too often.

Referencing Isaiah 58, he told the crowd, “You better get your act together.” Only then, he said, will God be able to work in and through us.

He described the difference between idol worship and idle worship, and how both are detriment in the Christian walk. We choose idols over God when we start to love his blessings more or as much as we love Him. “We depend on human things, and they will fail you simply because they are human,” he said. “But God says, ‘I will never fail you.’”

Idle worship occurs when we stop at worship because we’re not focused on God. And because we’re focused on ourselves even during worship, we do not serve our communities as we should. Even with so many mega churches in the world today, hundreds of people suffer every 15 minutes.

Before Pastor Chong walked onto the stage, Jirani Children’s Choir from Kenya and Danny Oerteli with the New Awakening Band prepared the hearts of the worshipers through energetic praise. And after Pastor Chong’s altar call, over five thousand pairs of hands lifted in worship as Pastor Jim Cymbala asked all of the attendees to stand in praise with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers. “God inhabits the praises of His people,” Cymbala said. “God sits down on His throne and gives gifts when people are praising.”

Finally, Pastor James Byun prayed over those who stayed as he encouraged them to seek God earnestly.

“God never intended for the Bible to be given and studied so that we can answer test questions or beat our neighbors in Bible trivia…God gave us the Bible so that our lives would be changed, and we would continue the mission of Jesus.”

What makes Zimmerman different is his ability to combine both “cutting edge methodology” he received from Campus Crusaders, and the theological depth from the seminary. To this day, he believes that the only way for practical theology to be relevant is to allow the two practices of teaching in seminary and doing ministry to work symbiotically. Zimmerman emphatically noted that one cannot teach practical theology at Biblical Seminary unless they are actually doing the work.

But as discussions of practical theology started to develop, the inevitable question seemed to lurk its ugly head; what is wrong with the institutional Church, and how could we fix it?

“I think the institutional Church has some problems because…just like all institutions, the number one priority is now survival…there is not a lot of energy, time, money, facilities to put into play missionally, because it is kind of all about us.”

Furthermore, Zimmerman suggests that another reason for the problem with the institutionalized Church is the fact that churches everywhere are essentially “creating their own universes”. Churches continue to create separate sports leagues, schools and businesses, and this takes them out of their community context. But the way churches are supposed to function, epitomized by Jesus’ ministry, is to include the community. This severance from community ultimately changes the mission of the church to have the outside community assimilate to this alternate universe.

However bleak the situation may look, Zimmerman, being the practical theologian that he is, offers up an antidote to this poisonous and perpetual plight.

“Let’s become good neighbors to those in the community rather than presuming that we know what they need, develop programs and tell them ‘you need to this’. Let’s build relationships, love them, serve them, and minister to them, so that we bring value to the community rather than…[drain] the community, which is a lot of what churches are…So how can we get away from that?…move into the neighborhood. Isn’t that what Jesus did?”

As simple as the answer might sound, it’s practically impossible. Perhaps there are immediate answers, but as the real church, the body of Christ, we must not lose hope and maintain our faith that through events like New Awakening, God may transform the Church.

                                                                                           
The much-anticipated New Awakening Conference of 2008 has finally arrived. This annual conference has meshed together thousands of people from different walks of life to inspire and to ignite revival in America. This year’s conference holds a deeper significance; this year marks the 150-year anniversary of the pinnacle of the Third Great Awakening.

JAMA did not choose Philadelphia as the location for this year’s conference merely for great cheese steaks (although this could arguably be a legitimate secondary reason) nor did they pick this site for great weather (because the suffocating humidity is almost infuriating). It just so happens that this was one of the cities where revivalistic fervor spread 150 years ago.

It began with six nameless college and post-college men in Philadelphia. At first only a few attended, but soon the revival grew, leading to a four-month tent revival where 150,000 people attended.

We commemorate events like these because of its importance in history. While we should honor the believers that earnestly sought out revival and celebrate an era of rejuvenation, this memory is ultimately celebrated because it is merely a preview for the greater things to come. The embers that started the inferno that was the Third Great Awakening were six anonymous believers. It is not so outlandish that there can be another great revival similar to the one that started with these men in history. There is somewhat a misconstrued idea of revival, and there are many reasons for the lack of a revival. Many of us have allowed complacency of our faith to percolate throughout our mind set. Another portion are cynical to “emotional revivals”, and therefore are found with arms crossed and brows furled. Whatever the symptom is, the fact of the matter remains; this nation, especially the Christians that need to take ownership, has overslept. I believe it is time to go out and wake everybody up, for we are on the cusp of another Great Awakening. Are you ready?

Jesus Awakening Movement for America/All Nations (JAMA) is the product of an ever-progressing vision. Dr. John C. Kim, who saw the need for repentance based on revival in America, dreamed of a movement so knee-buckling that the nation has no choice but to fall on its knee and restore the once Christian nation.

Most of us understand the goal of this conference, but the movement known as JAMA gets inevitably shoved into the unfair label of an organization. From the beginning, Dr. Kim was adamant that JAMA be labeled as a movement rather than an organization.

“JAMA is not an organization…it’s a movement with the Holy Spirit moving us. It’s like a dandelion. When dandelions grow and eventually bloom…[and] when the [wind of the] Holy Spirit blows…[the seeds] go to the [next destination]… JAMA is not someone’s ownership. Everyone who believes is a co-owner. So we don’t hold them here [at the conference]. Once they’ve been really awakened with prayer, repentance, transformation and revival, they must go to their churches, their families, their communities, their schools, and their marketplaces, so that they become a catalyst…Once we have a conference like this, once we have training, we don’t hold them. Go! We send them to all of the places. It’s like dandelions. It’s a movement.”

Because it is a movement, it is dynamic and constantly sending out “dandelion seeds” all across America and around the world. And because JAMA is a movement that aims for revival, the preconceived notions and myths of revivals are not effective in this model.

JAMA is based on 2 Chronicles 7:14: “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land”. This manifesto, originally directed towards Solomon and God’s chosen people, becomes relative towards all those that call themselves Christians. This process, which consists of humility, genuine prayer, the pursuit of God’s face, and a decision to abandon the world, is JAMA. Like dandelions that grow and bloom, JAMA will continue to move as God moves; and as we obey, God has promised a revival to make all things new.

With the Christian rock band Delirious opening us up, the massive Hall was packed with passionate people celebrating and worshipping together! It was a great feeling to be in one place while being united with many of our Korean and Korean-American brethren under the banner of: our Lord, Jesus Christ!

Dr. John C. Kim challenged the attendees– to repent of the sins of America, following the footsteps of Jeremiah Lanphier as he prayed for a revival in the city of New York. Dr. Kim welcomed people from all around the world, including England, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, and Hungary.

According to Dr. Zimmerman, like a fashion show, we must wear the clothes of the Kingdom and walk the runway of life to showcase to the world of the future to come. We have a tendency to forget, but we must remember these three thing order to experience and extend the glory of God: grace, community, and service. We must do this by stepping away from performance-based living. We all fall short. We are all "as if" damaged goods.

Pastor Stephen Chong called everyone to a public and private repentance on the middle stage, which was followed by a skit. A clip was played about the difference between the cruise ship and battleship approach in looking for a church. It was a powerful clip that encouraged everyone to take the Kingdom perspective.

The beautiful Kenyan world-traveling children’s singing group Jirani blessed us with traditional African songs, even in the Korean language!

Reverend Nam Soo Kim preached that we must begin to see ONE Church, ONE Spirit, and ONE Christ. We must imitate children, being simple, pure, humble, and not costly. We need to be open and embracing diversity among God’s people, His creations, and accept them as our community, so we can work together to glorify His name.

We were truly blessed by the continuous pouring of God’s Spirit and blessings from some of the greatest men and women of God ministering and encouraging us today.

등록에 관한 문의는 가능하시면 이메일: conference@jamaglobal.com 로 상세하게 질문 해주시고 성함과 전화번호를 남겨주십시오. 이메일로 해결이 안 될 경우에는 전화연락드리겠습니다. 

영어 안내는 (323) 702-5919, (213) 842-2752, or (818) 642-0655, 한국어 안내는 (714) 614-0446 or 714-403-7978로 해주십시오. 전화를 받지 않으면 다른 분을 도와드리고 있는 것이기에 음성메세지를 남기지 마시고 다시 전화해주십시오.

감사합니다.  곧 뵙겠습니다~

JAMA New Awakening 2008에 참석하시는 여러분을 진심으로 환영합니다. 하나님께서 우리를 위해서 놀라운 계획을 품으신 줄로 믿습니다. 이번 컨퍼런스에서 여러분을 만나뵙기를 고대하며 여러분께서 컨퍼런스에 도착하고, 머무르시고, 떠나시는 모든 일정에 도움이 되는 정보를 알려드립니다.

도착 안내
공항- 가장 가까운 공항은 필라델피아 국제 공항(airport code: PHL)입니다. PHL 공항은 펜실베니아 컨벤션 센터와 예약하신 호텔들이 있는 다운타운 필라델피아까지 15-20분정도의 거리이며 필라델피아의 대중 교통 수단(SETPA)을 이용하시려면 공항에서 Regional Rail(R1-“gray line”)을 이용하십시요. GLENSIDE STATION(Easton Rd. and Glenside Ave.) GLENS 행을 타시고 Market East Station(12^th & Filbert)에서 내리시면 됩니다. 자세한 노선은 www.septa.org로 가셔서 확인하십시요.

만약 버스를 이용하시려거든 모든 버스의 컨벤션 센터 근처 정류장은 12^th Street에 위치하고 있으니 잊지 마세요. 또한 교통체증이 있을 수 있으니 이것을 염두해 두시기 바랍니다

PHL 공항에서 호텔까지 10불에 Lady Liberty shuttle을 이용하실 수 있습니다.

-서비스는 5:30am부터 자정 12:00까지 이용하실 수 있습니다.
-필라델피아 공항의 Baggage Claim 부근에 있는 Ground Transportation 카운터에 가셔서 티켓을 받으세요. (차가 도착하고 본인 티켓에 적혀진 숫자를 부를때 버스를 타시면 됩니다.)
-카운터에서 courtesy phone으로 27번을 눌러 전화하시고 목적지와 그룹의 인원수를 알려주세요. (luggage를 다 찾으신 후에 전화하세요.)

단체로 버스를 타고 오실 때 내리셔야 하는 곳이 정해져 있습니다.
펜실베니아 컨벤션 센터는 12th Street과 Arch Street에서 내리시고
Marriott Philadelphia Downtown은 Market와 Filbert 사이의 12th Street에서 내리시면 됩니다.

컨벤션 센터 주변의 호텔까지 택시를 타시면 약 $25 정도에 이용하실 수 있습니다.

직접 차를 운전하여 오시는 분들은 컨벤션 센터 주변에 Public Parking Structure가 있습니다. 위치는 아래을 참조하세요.

펜실베니아 컨벤션 센터 주변의 PARKING
다른 곳보다 저렴한 Parking Structure 몇군데를 추천합니다:
1. The AutoPark at Gallery Mall
주소: 45 North 10th St. Philadelphia, PA
입구: Enter on 10th St. between Arch & Filbert Streets
Up to 24 hours: $17

2. Chinatown Garage/Kinney Systems - 4133
주소: 1030 Race St. Philadelphia, PA
입구: Entrance off 11th Street just before Race Street — 11th & Race
Daily Max: $25

3. Gallery II Garage
주소: 11th and Arch Streets Philadelphia, PA
입구: Enter on either 11th Street or Arch Street
Daily Price: $23

등록
컨퍼런스 등록은 6월 29일 주일 오후 2시부터 시작됩니다. 교회에서 단체로 오시는 분들은 그룹이 등록으로 인해 혼잡한 곳을 피해있을 수 있도록 그룹 리더 한명이 전체 그룹을 등록해 주십시요.

Day Pass 및 Evening Session Pass 안내
주변에 New Awakening 2008 대회에 참석하고 싶은데 3박 4일간 휴가를 얻지 못하신 분들이 계시다구요? 그런 분들을 위한 일일 패스(Day Pass)를 $70에, 저녁 집회만 참석하실 수 있는 패스(Evening Session Pass)를 $120에 준비했습니다. 현장에서 구입하실 수 있으니 info booth를 찾아주세요.

숙식
컨퍼런스 등록비에서 숙식이 포함되어 있지 않습니다. 저희 웹사이트에 가시면 가장 최근의 호텔 정보를 얻으실 수 있습니다. http://www.jamanewawakening.com/wp/hotel-information/

아직 호텔 룸이 Marriott Downtown과 Courtyard Marriott, Doubletree Hotel과 Embassy Suite에 예약 가능합니다. JAMA New Awakening 2008 가격을 문의하시고 방을 예약하세요! 어떤 호텔들은 sold out이 되었습니다. 다른 호텔들에도 문의해보시고 문제가 있으시면 저희에게 연락주세요.

대회 장소 주변에 많은 식당들과 푸드 코트가 있습니다. 저희 website에 오셔서 확인하세요.

가져오실 것
세면도구(칫솔, 치약, 비누, 샴푸 등), 여름 옷과 긴 소매의 겉옷(실내는 A/C로 인해 춥습니다.), 가방(backpack), 펜과 노트, 그리고 성경책 가져오시는 것을 잊지 마세요!

현금이 필요할까요?
컨퍼런스 기간동안 extra money가 필요하실 것입니다. 주차료, JAMA Store에서 판매되는 책, 티셔츠, 설교 CD, 교통비, 숙식비, 한국어 통역을 위한 소형 라디오($10, 있으시면 본인의 것을 가져와 사용하실 수 있습니다.)

등록 확인 (Registration Check-in)
장소: 펜실베니아 컨벤션 센터(JAMA Registration sign을 찾아주세요.)
시간: 2008년 6월 29일 오후 2시부터 8시, 6월 30일 오전 7시부터 10시

전체집회(General Session)에 들어가시기 전에 반드시 등록을 하셔야 합니다. 등록하실 때 개인의 이름표를 나누어 드리며 컨퍼런스 홀로 들어가실 때 이름표를 확인합니다. 이름표가 없이는 입장하실 수 없습니다. $250에 현장 등록(Walk-in)하실 수 있으며 어떠한 할인도 적용되지 않습니다. 등록하실 때 등록신청서(Registration form)를 작성하시고 18세 이하는 Medical release form를 작성하여 등록신청서와 함께 가지고 오십시요.

Youth Group Leader들께
여러분의 Youth group에는 컨퍼런스 기간동안 Youth track session에 함께 참여할 보호자가 학생 10명당 한명씩 필요합니다. 아직 medical release form이나 liability release form을 보내지 않으신 그룹리더는 모든 학생들의 서류를 반드시 준비해 오셔야 합니다. 이곳에서 필요한 form을 다운로드 하실 수 있습니다. http://www.jamanewawakening.com/downloads/medical_release_form.pdf

JAMA KIDS에 등록하는 자녀분이 있으신가요?
부모님과 보호자 분들께 드리는 편지를 꼭 읽어주세요.
JAMA Pre-K 부모님과 보호자분들께
JAMA Upper & Lower Kids 부모님과 보호자 분들께

출발 안내
컨퍼런스는 7월 2일 밤 10시에 종료됩니다. 일반적인 호텔 check-out 시간은 정오(12pm)지만 컨벤션 센터에서 남은 시간을 위해 여러분의 가방을 맡길 수 있는 장소를 제공할 것입니다.

기도로 준비해 주세요. (50일간의 기도운동)
컨퍼런스를 위해 기도로 준비해 주세요. 여기를 클릭하시면 가이드라인으로 사용하실 수 있는 기도 캘린더를 보실 수 있습니다. 하나님께서 이 기도운동에 참여하는 여러분의 기도를 들으시고 속한 사회의 핵심 멤버와 처한 어려운 형세를 바로 잡아 주시고, 50개 각 주에 축복을 내리시며, 이 땅의 영적 부흥을 내려주실 것이라 믿습니다.

IMPORTANT ADDRESSES
Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19107

문의사항은 email을 하시거나(conference@jamaglobal.com), (714) 614-0446 or 714-403-7978 (한국어)로 전화하시거나 (323) 702-5919, (213) 842-2752, or (818) 642-0655 (영어)로 연락하여 주십시요. 전화통화가 되지 않으면 메세지를 남기지 마시고 나중에 다시 전화주세요. JAMA New Awakening 2008 대회에서 만날 때까지 주님의 축복이 함께 하시길 기도합니다.

한국어를 보시려면 여기를 클릭하세요.

Dear Parents and Guardians of JAMA Upper & Lower Kids,

Welcome to JAMA Kids!
We are very excited to be here this week as the children are invited to see, touch, and hear God’s love at JAMA kids. There are a few things that we expect from you during our JAMA Kids track to help ensure a safe and healthy environment for all children.

Please see below for these guidelines.

◆ BE ON TIME!  Parents must pick up and drop off child at appropriate times

◆ You must sign IN and OUT each time.

○ Drop-off times   
▪ 9:00 am  
▪ 1:30 pm   
▪ 7:00 pm

○ Pick up times 
▪ 12:00 pm
▪ 5:00 pm
▪ 9:30 pm

● Provide Emergency contacts on the back of your child’s name tag and also when
signing in at JAMA KIDS.
● Please inform the staff at JAMA KIDS If your child has food allergies, your
child will receive a red sticker on his/her name tag.

◆ TO BRING! 
○ Pre-K
▪ Snack (due to risk of food allergies we ask of you to prepare snacks for your own child)
▪ Additional clothes, blanket and pillow for nap times
○ Lower & Upper
▪ One time light snack & drinks will be provided between lunch and dinner.

◆ EAT BREAKFAST!
○ Good breakfast will promote energy and concentration energy while fighting off less attentive and sluggish participation.

If your child has special physical or developmental needs, please let us know so that we can prepare to receive your child with appropriate individual care and attention.

We will be taking a walking field trip to the Liberty Bell (about 10-15 min walk) on Wednesday, July 2nd. There will be a permission slip to be signed when you drop off your child at JAMA Kids.
We pray that this will be a time of blessing for you and your child.
A BIG thank you in advance!

Dear Parents and Guardians of JAMA Pre-K,

JAMA Pre-K에 오신 것을 환영합니다!
저희는 JAMA Pre-K에 참석한 아이들을 만날 것을 매우 기대하고 있으며 아이들이 하나님과 다른 아이들을 만나고 알게 되는 특별한 시간이 될 것이라 믿습니다.

JAMA Pre-K 맡기시는 아이의 안전과 편의를 위해 몇 가지 알려드립니다.

● 시간을 지켜주세요! 보호자분들은 꼭 제 시간에 아이들을 pick up 하시고, drop off 하셔야 합니다.

● 매 시간마다 IN and OUT을 sign하셔야 합니다.

○ Drop-off times   
▪ 9:00 am   
▪ 1:30 pm   
▪ 7:00 pm   

○ Pick up times
▪ 12:00 pm
▪ 5:00 pm
▪ 9:30 pm

● JAMA Kids에 오셔서 sign하실 때, 그리고 아이들의 이름표 뒤에, 비상연락처를 반드시 적어 주십시요.

● 보호하는 아이들이 음식 알러지가 있는 경우 JAMA Kids 등록담당자에게 반드시 알려주십시요. 알러지가 있는 아이들은 이름표에 빨간색 스티커를 받게 됩니다.

●  JAMA Pre-K는 대소변을 가릴 줄 아는 아이들만 등록할 수 있습니다.

●  등록한 아이들은 JAMA T-shirt와 아래의 것들을 담아오실 수 있는 가방을 받게 됩니다.

-  담요, 베개, 신발(앞뒤가 막힌 것), 인형이나 장난감, 여벌의 옷 등
-  간식 (알러지를 일으킬 위험이 있으니 아이들 간식은 직접 준비하여 보내주십시요.)

●  컨퍼런스 첫째날(6/29) 오실 때 아이를 누가 데리고 오고 데리고 가실 것인지 저희에게 미리 알려주십시요.

여러분을 만날 것을 기대하며 협조에 감사드립니다.

God Bless