Source: The Christian Post, September 13, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thousands of Mongolians heard the gospel of Jesus Christ during an unprecedented outreach by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association [working alongside nearly 250 churches], in which more than 2,000 reportedly made decisions for Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 17,300 people attended the two-night Festival of Hope held at Steppe Arena in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar [September 10-11], according to BGEA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sandwiched between Russia and China, the Central Asian country of roughly 3.3 million people has a long tradition of Buddhism and, more recently, a rise in the practice of shamanism, the worship of the elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But after 20 years of prayers from Mongolian church leaders, the plan for the Mongolian outreach came together, marking the first time in Mongolia\u2019s history that hundreds of churches gathered for such a large-scale event, BGEA reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story<\/a>. Note: Per the BGEA report, 9,000 attended the in-person event, while another 8,600 watched online. Youth aged 10-18 were the group with the largest number of decisions to follow Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: The Christian Post, September 13, 2022 Thousands of Mongolians heard the gospel of Jesus Christ during an unprecedented outreach by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association [working alongside nearly 250 churches], in which more than 2,000 reportedly made decisions for Christ. More than 17,300 people attended the two-night Festival of Hope held at Steppe Arena … Continue reading Mongolia: More Than 2,000 People Decide to Follow Christ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11394,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions\/11394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}