Empower 2025 Overview

Eighty years ago, Korea was split in two. And unlike East and West Germany, the divide in Korea was marked with war and bloodshed, resulting in 800,000 military deaths and 1.5 million civilian deaths. 2025 also marks the 75th year of the Korean conflict remaining unresolved — the two Koreas are still technically at war. It is in this context that Empower Korea 2025 focuses on “Jesus: Our Reconciliation and Peace” as our conference theme.

The fruit of Empower 2023 was reflected in the theme “Many Parts, One Body.” It was Reah’s first fully-bilingual (English/Korean) conference, hosted by South Korean churches. Representatives from 25 nations who have a heart for North Korea gathered together, including many people with experience living and working in North Korea or who are preparing to go. Empower 2023 bridged Christians from around the world with South Korean churches to consider NK engagement and the power of having many parts come together as One Body in Christ.

The second of three conferences in Korea, Empower 2025 now focuses on the head of the Body — Christ who shows us His way of reconciliation and peace. Colossians 1:18-20 states:

“And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”

At Empower Korea 2025, through plenary, workshop and track sessions, we will seek to learn from Jesus and the ripple effects of His reconciliation and making peace on the cross, upon the divisions that exist in our hearts, our lives, our relationships, our work, our churches, our ministries, our societies, our nations, our world.

Join us Oct. 1-3, 2025 in Seoul, Korea, as we fix our eyes upon and worship Jesus: Our Reconciliation and Peace.