On Christmas Day, Robert Park (28 years old), was arrested by the North Korean after crossing into their country with letters asking NK to close down their concentration camps bringing a message of “Christ’s love and forgiveness.”
Robert Park grew up in Tucson, AZ and grew up attending a church that one of our staff members go to.
His intent was to leverage his life to speed the fall of the unstable NK regime. Currently 1000 people per day are dying from starvation in North Korea. His hope was that because he was an American that his capture would serve as a catalyst for people around the world to demonstrate against the atrocities that are happening to a helpless people in North Korea.
Robert asks for these prayer requests during an interview he had on Dec. 22, 2009:
- Declare God’s love for N. Korean and pray for their salvation. (John 3:16-17)
- Open borders to bring food to areas that need it most (Matt. 25:35)
- Close down concentration camps and free all political prisoners (
- Unification for South and North Korea under a transformed leadership. (Daniel 5:18-21)
- Freedom, salvation and new life for N. Korea…for God’s message to ring clearly through Robert’s love for the N. Koreans. (Amos 5:21-25)
- The impact of Robert’s message to be widespread and that there will be a global outrage and outcry especially in the church over the human rights abuses in N. Korea. Ask ourselves what can I do to help? Robert’s actions have shown us that we cannot stand still and do nothing. May Robert’s message unite us to take action. (John 17:20-23, Isaiah 58:5-12)
- Encouragement, continued spiritual strength, and protection over Robert.
- Peace and comfort to Helen and Pyong Park, his parents.
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