like C. Peter Wagner, Chuck Pierce, Che Ahn, Lou Engle, and Mike Bickle hardly needs their presence in Malaysia to be powerfully felt. Chuck Pierce, Cindy Jacobs, and other key “prayer warriors” often visit Malaysia, and often appear before prayer rallies with implicitly political messages (35). Samuel Rodriguez (of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference) was in Malaysia for the World Pentecostal Conference held at Calvary Church in 2013. Skyline Wesleyan Church’s Jim Garlow works with Prince Guneratnam (both are co-chairs of James O. Davis’s Synergise group) - and Jim Garlow’s predecessor at Skyline, John Calvin Maxwell, has a powerfully sustained presence in Malaysia through his work as a “leadership guru”, and as head of the evangelical training ministry EQUIP, and its regional body Equipping Leaders for Asia. At the same time, “prayer warfare” in Malaysia has its own extensive network of local prayer warriors – Wagner’s Spiritual Warfare Network, for example, is coordinated locally by the chief pastor of Petaling Jaya’s Latter Rain Church, Dexter Low, and the N.A.R.’s “central command” (including the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders) is also represented locally by such men as Ong Sek Leang (Metro Tabernacle), Henry Pillai (Grace Assembly), and Philip Marc Lee (Elim Freedom Church). The N.A.R.’s close affiliate Revival Alliance has frequently been represented in Malaysia by its US members (such as Bill Johnson and Randy Clark), but it also has enduring local partners in churches like DUMC. (36) And the influence of N.A.R. zealots Lou Engle and James Goll is firmly embodied in the Bread of Life church network – and in numerous prophecies made over Malaysia regarding the fall of Islam (37) The International House of Prayer (based in Kansas City and Tallahassee) was especially active in support of Governor Perry. IHOP’s C.E.O., Daniel Lim (who was brought up a Baptist in Penang) often visits Malaysia, and IHOP has set up at least one branch church in the country. The Penang House of Prayer, or PENHOP, connects closely with the city’s Baptist churches, and numerous other church bodies such as the Charis Centre, Penang Full Gospel Assembly, the local YWAM, and Penang Christian Centre – as well as groups in the US, New Zealand, and Singapore. Some of Perry’s support came from agencies more commonly seen as issue-based “NGOs”. The heavy stress on sexual morality and family values at the rally, for example, was reflected in the high profile of groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. In Malaysia, Focus on the Family has a major influence as a Christian pressure group, holding values often shared by the government – and even, on occasion, actually co-opted into working with government. (38) Groups like Focus on the Family, however, have agenda which are always far wider than such common ground – and the political ramifications are rather different in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious state such as Malaysia’s to what they are in the United States. And this is especially the case with groups from the Evangelical Right. Finally, what of Governor Perry’s “National Mobilization Coordinator”? The Malaysian presence of Doug Stringer is also very strong. Stringer has preached in Malaysia on a number of occasions, and his work is popular with many churches (such as those in Eu Hong Seng’s Evangelical Charismatic group). He also works with Prince Guneratnam as a co-chair of Synergize, has partnered with Beram Kumar (of the Malaysian Centre for Global Missions) in disaster evangelism, and is a close colleague of Tan Sri Francis Yeoh. In fact, in 2013, Doug
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