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The conference place was Villa Marista, a very beautiful, convenient retreat center with good food. M. Pauline with her 3 second-gens'  families, Ruth and several leaders of Satan Cruz 1 and 2, wholeheartedly served us with joy and love. The rainbow suddenly appeared when we just began the opening message! We were greatly encouraged by Immanuel Jesus through this promise of salvation.

Opening message: Juan Carlos (Venezuela missionary to La Plata, Argentina) delivered "Coworking in God's work"(Jn 4:37-38) "They planted and we harvest!" The main message was presented by M. Moses Yoon with powerful and heart touching message.

Pastor Stephen Ahn from Korea gave us heartmoving Revelation 4 lectures. We saw "Immanuel," 'God with us' is the best blessing and we can and should overcome the world with Immanuel!

-P. Jacob Lee showed God's joyful work in vision camps of 2018 and 2019 camps just before the European international conference. He  encouraged many second genes to come and grow as leaders.

Ambassador Pablo Oh gave an excellent lecture with passion about "the hope of Latin America through 500 years of Latin history."

P. Paul Chung gave us a lecture on church history, the early church fathers' faith. M. Juan Seo gave a very useful and practical lecture about "Spiritual leadership and discipleship" well based on his practices of discipleship ministry and theory.

M. Esteban Cho's closing message was from Rev 12:7-12, "He who overcomes!" We can and should overcome with a martyrdom spirit of Jesus who shed blood to testify God's justice, love, and power!

3 Latin regional coordinators (Elias Park, Josue Ham, Juan Seo) who served last many years were appreciated with a plaque of thanks. Three new regional coordinators (Juan kim, Andres Kim, and Noe Jung were ordained to cowork with M. Esteban Cho. Here are joyful music by second gens and local leaders and missionaries.

We had very deep group bible studies in 10 groups. Here are some pictures of them. Nearly 30 local leaders had their own sessions to discuss several topics (discipleship, self-supporting ministry, house church,  leadership succession, second gene education etc..

Thank and praise God for blessing the Latin leaders' conference by sending over 70  (near half is national leaders with some delegates (P. Stephen Ahn, Amb Pablo and Pauline Oh, Kim Jae Ha from Korea, Dr. Peter Chang Germany, David Lee, Paul Chung. Maria and Joseph Ahn from USA with P. Moses Yoon).

We prayed to be one in Jesus, to pioneer 7 countries (Barbados, Costa Rica, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago). On January 16-19, 2020, Southern Latin region international conference will be held in Brazil (We will have no Latin coordinator's conference) followed by 2 more Latin regional international conferences accordingly (the dates TBA).

Thanks for your prayer support for the Latin conference.

By Esteban Cho