1 877-431-4276Simon Chen | Revival in Asia
Simon Chen has a heart to train evangelists in Asia. He lives in Taiwan and leads Asia Revival Ministry, which aims to train and equip Chinese evangelists to prepare for a “great harvest” in China and other Chinese-speaking nations. Today on the Evangelism Podcast we discuss what God did on one of his recent outreaches in Japan. We talk about the cultural differences in Asia compared to other regions of the world . In Asia people are more reserved and shy about evangelism and it is important to train them and to restore their identity in Christ.
Learn more about Simon Chen: https://asiarevival.org/
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus today. I have a very special guest with me, Simon Chen. Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast.
Evangelist Simon Chen (00:12):
Thank you, Daniel. It is an honor to be here today.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:14):
So you are a graduate of the Christ for All Nations Evangelism Bootcamp, and I was one of the instructors there, and you have a heart for Asia. Tell me a little bit about your background and what you’re doing for Jesus here in Asia.
Evangelist Simon Chen (00:29):
Amen. I am Simon Chen. I’m from Taiwan, and our ministry is called Asia Revival Ministry. About four years ago I was in bootcamp and you were my instructor. I was really blessed by your coaching and your teaching, and then it was such a great anointing on me. We were in Tanzania, as I remember the last week of the training in Africa. God spoke to me about there’s going to be a revival in Asia. So he didn’t want me to stay in Africa. He told me, son, bring back this fire evangelist, fire back to Asia. Asia needs evangelist because people might not know, usually in the Christian circle in Asia, like in the church we have apostle prophet, lots of teachers, lots of pastors, but we don’t have evangelists.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:31):
Yeah, I’m a student of evangelism and I’ve studied what God has done in many different parts of the world. And if you look at American history, there’s been great evangelists. There are great evangelists that God has raised up in Africa from Europe, has great evangelists. And I started to look who are the great evangelists here are in Asia. And David Young Cho, who pastored the largest church of the world in South Korea. He was also a good evangelist. He did lots of evangelism. But I haven’t found many names of evangelists. And I think it’s time for God to raise the gift of the evangelist here in Asia.
Evangelist Simon Chen (02:11):
Amen. Because God spoke to me about the end time revival is going to take place in Asia and then it’s going to connect it to the soul harvest. But in order to have a soul harvest of soul, we need evangelists. We can’t have, it is impossible to have a harvest without evangelists. So our mission in Taiwan, we are based in Taiwan, but we are focused in Chinese speaking nations, and our mission is to train Chinese evangelists, prepare for the great harvest in China.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:46):
That’s awesome. Well, I have a great love for the Chinese people. My wife is full ethnic Chinese, and so both my kids are half Caucasian, half Chinese, and so we love Chinese. God has a great plan for the people of China that are all over Asia here. So tell me some of what you’ve been doing in Taiwan in Japan recently, and now we’re in Thailand right now. What have you seen God do?
Evangelist Simon Chen (03:17):
Yeah, over the past four years, God has been taking us to different countries across Asia. And our ministry mainly is to have a purpose, to do the training for evangelists. We also have a school, we have a gathering.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:41):
It’s so beautiful what you’re doing. I so love what God is doing through you, through your ministry. It’s so beautiful. You were sharing yesterday in the session upstairs about Japan and you went out on the streets of Japan and trained Japanese believers to go out
Evangelist Simon Chen (04:01):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:02):
Saw God do great miracles. What did you see happen?
Evangelist Simon Chen (04:06):
Yeah, it was amazing because when God spoke to me about a nation, what I do is I start praying about the nation
(04:15):
And then the door will open. So for example, in Japan, I’ve been praying for Japan for two months, three months. And then there will be a guy come up to me, Simon, do you have a heart for Japan? I’m like, I’ve been praying for Japan for three months. Of course. He say, would you like to go to Japan with me, a minister? I said, definitely. So I went to Japan with him, and then he connected with me, a local Japanese church with me. And then praise God, I get to minister in one session. And one of the blind eyes, women, her eye got open. She was completely healed. And then people was amazed by what Jesus has done to
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:59):
Her.
Evangelist Simon Chen (04:59):
And the message was sending out to the Japanese churches. So the last two days when we host the revival conference, surprisingly not in the beginning, we thought mostly will be Chinese people show up. But instead, two thirds of the crowd are Japanese people. And it was amazing because people, they were hungry for Jesus. They’re hungry for the power of the Holy Spirit, but they don’t have access to it. And then of course, I know it is God’s will and it’s time for Japan. So we just happen to be in the right moment. Be there. Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:40):
Amen. What is your website, if someone wants to find out more about your ministry, what God is doing here in Asia, how can they find out more information about you? Maybe someone will want to support you and help you to train evangelists.
Evangelist Simon Chen (05:56):
Right. Thank you very much. My website is
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:05):
Asia revival.org. And you’re also on Facebook?
Evangelist Simon Chen (06:08):
Yeah, Facebook if you want to on Facebook, you can look up Asia Revival Ministry and also YouTube as well. Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:17):
Wow. Okay. Share with me some testimonies of what you’ve seen happen as you’ve taken Asian believers out to witness. Because I think Asia is very different from Africa, like in Africa and some nations, there’s great boldness to speak and that’s not hard for them. But here in Asia there’s a different culture. And so talk to me about Asian culture and what it means to be an Asian and to witness.
Evangelist Simon Chen (06:49):
Yeah. I think the culture, there’s a big difference. Asian people are more reserved, they’re more shy. So just in order to encourage them to step out of the war of the church, to share gospel, it feels like to them it’s impossible. But so in our course, we mainly, first thing we have to do is to restore their identity in Christ. They didn’t know it’s not about us. It’s about Jesus and didn’t know sharing Jesus. There’s not shame about gospel. There’s nothing to be shared about gospel. And as long as you can bully, proclaim gospel, proclaim Jesus, the Holy Spirit will take place. You’ll see the miracle. So we train our student in that way. When they start in the beginning, they test it, they try, but they see the results. So they become, after years of training, they become really bold for proclaimed gospel.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:55):
How did you become bold to proclaim the gospel?
Evangelist Simon Chen (07:58):
I’m still shy, but God is, his strengths manifest in our weakness. To be honest, I’m not a really good English speaking person. Oh, your English is very, but I’m trying because I know I’m doing this for Jesus, and I believe that we are in one spirit. As long as we show our sincerity and our for Jesus, people can sense it. Again, it’s not about me, it’s about our king.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:34):
Amen. Yeah. Well, you are doing such a great job. I love your heart, and I believe that God wants to do something amazing here in Asia. There is such a huge harvest field. Jesus said, behold, the fields are ready for harvest. And then he told us, he said, pray that the Lord would send forth laborers into the harvest field. And I believe that God will raise up laborers to come work in the harvest fields of Asia.
Evangelist Simon Chen (09:01):
Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:02):
And I believe that we are going to see the greatest harvest of souls in history over the next few years. And it will come from here in Asia. It must That’s where all the population
Evangelist Simon Chen (09:11):
Is. Hallelujah. Yes, we have in Asia, we have more than three billions unsafe souls. And there are 70% of population in Asia haven’t heard of gospel. People might be amazed in Western people, they might think about, it’s impossible. How can you have not heard of N Jesus?
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:32):
But
Evangelist Simon Chen (09:32):
It’s real. If you go into Middle East, if you go inside of China, some deep place in China, people have never heard of Jesus before. So when we go to those place, we share Jesus. They are touched. It’s like in the Book of Acts, Paul has called to share the gospel to the unreached people, and that’s our calling as well.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:57):
Amen. Well, let’s finish by praying for Asia.
Evangelist Simon Chen (10:00):
Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:01):
Would you pray that God would pour out his spirit upon this entire region of Asia?
Evangelist Simon Chen (10:07):
Amen. Father God, we just thank you for this podcast meeting. Lord, we just ask you in this special moment, we know the revival is coming to Asia. Lord, we just ask you, pull out your Holy Spirit, your spirit among old flesh. Lord I, we declare it is time to raise up the army for Jesus. Lord, it’s time for people to awakening. It’s time for people to hear your name and give your life to you. Lord, we just want to honor you, and we pray that Jesus, your name will be lifted high and you’ll be glorified. In Jesus’ name we pray.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:47):
Amen.
Evangelist Simon Chen (10:47):
Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:48):
Praise the Lord. Thank you for being on the Evangelism podcast.
Evangelist Simon Chen (10:51):
Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah.