Several months back, we announced the availability of a training for students that had committed two years in the next ten years towards East Asia. This training, “Antioch Forerunner Foundation” or AFF, was to be held this summer.

In May, over thirty Chinese leaders from around the world came together at IHOP in Kansas City to discuss the future of the student Back to Jerusalem movement.

One of the things we felt strongly coming out of this week was that holding AFF this year was actually not the right step at this point towards releasing a student volunteer missions movement in East Asia and back to Jerusalem. To make a long story short, in the process of our meetings it became clear to everyone on our team that doing AFF this year was premature.

This was a difficult decision to make, and we deeply regret that we did not come to this conclusion earlier, especially since we realize that many of you had made significant sacrifices in order to be available to come to AFF this summer.

Even as excited as we were about holding AFF this year at IHOP, we realized we needed to be faithful to what the Holy Spirit was speaking, and that in the end we believe that it was better to cancel, even at this late point, than to move forward when it was clear that the timing was not right. As of right now the “Antioch Forerunner Foundation” training program is postponed until 2008.

This student missions movement is very significant, we want to make sure we make the right steps carefully, in order to build a strong foundation for the move of God that is upon us and ahead of us.

Again, please accept our apology for this late notice and disruption of your summer plans. Please feel free to email intprogram@ihop.org and admin@campuschurch.net for any assistance.