Llanelli Centre

The team is based at the International Centre, near Llanelli's railway station.

Llanelli Nations team build family with the various missions based with us. This involves teaching and meditation on God’s word, prayer together and developing projects that may help the local community or further afield as the Lord inspires us. We also encourage the leaders in their own vision and act as a sounding board to the development of their work when required.

The Head Quarters of Nations and much of the movement's administration is based here. We are constantly in touch with works that we have helped to start that are part of our family around the world. Sometimes our support is simply in prayer and consultation but at other times we send teams to help teach and encourage. The missions based with us often want to join in praying for and supporting this wider family.

We have training and office space for up to three young mission teams, and are also developing a new custom-built accommodation area in 2023.

We help to run Celebration for the Nations , a worship intercession for revival. See the section under ‘about us’ dedicated to that for more information.

Roots

Although we did not plan it, much of our work in the last twenty years has developed with Koreans. Certainly their devotion to the Lord in prayer and obedience has been a great blessing to us.

Over the years we came to understand that there were deep spiritual links between Korea and Wales. Our centre is just a few miles from where the 1904 Welsh Revival broke out. This spread, and linked with other moves of God across the world at the beginning of the 20th Century, including Korea in 1907.

More than that, the first protestant missionary to Wales was a Welshman, Robert Jermain Thomas. He is revered in Korea today as a spiritual father, though has been largely forgotten in Wales. Koreans make pilgrimages to where he was brought up, where he was ordained etc.

When we had our first team of Koreans in the Centre it made the local news. That prompted a call from a local man who said he was a descendant of Thomas’s sister. Jermain Thomas himself did not have descendants as his wife died in childbirth in China and he was martyred in Korea.

This man had many letters and other documents from Thomas to his sister. He brought them to show us. When he walked into our Centre he told us that his family used to own it when it was a foundry. So we found out that we were training Koreans to be missionaries in the building that used to be owned by a descendant of the sister of the man who took the gospel to Korea!

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History