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Prayer Request for Persecuted Church in Vietnam
News Alert
Moriel Japan received the following e-mail this week and prayer request from our friend, a Christian worker among the tribal people groups of
Vietnam. (Village, province and people names changed to D…) ‘Rev T..’ has been a long time friend of us in Moriel Japan. He has been arrested three
times and spent over 10 years in Vietnamese labor camps for his mission work.
Please pray for his work, the many new tribal believers there, and that the government will grant permits for their numerous house churches. (God
knows the people and places!)
Please also pray as they translate Moriel messages into Vietnamese that they will have a wide reading. “Dear Brother, Thank God and thank you
so much.”
In December 20th 2009, we preached the Gospel outside of our house church at (D….) province. There were many problems with Vietnamese
Local Government. But praise The Lord, there were 460 people attended and 14 new believers.
Last Christmas, we went to (abroad) to preach the Holy Bible for Vietnamese churches. (There) I and my wife could study in 2 weeks at a bible
college.
We came back to Vietnam and our churches in ….. province, there are many problems with (D….. local) Government. We have built 16 house
churches, but we were not allowed from …… Government, so that they said that all house churches are inlegoze. (illegal?)
We asked to build a building church for (D… village). But from December 2009 to now, we could not get the permit. May you pray for us. Thank
you about 6 materials for VN church. (Mr. D…) will help to translate 6 messages to Vietnamese. May God bless you, your family and your ministry.
Amen.
Yours in Christ,
Rev. T…
Moriel Haiti Donation to MAF
Moriel Ministries is contributing $10,000 of the contributions it received to address the needs of the Haiti earthquake victims to Mission Aviation
Fellowship [1] (MAF), a long-standing Evangelical missions organization specializing in reaching remote and underprivileged areas of the world
through missionaries operating a fleet of small aircraft, the establishment of communication systems, and distance learning programs to evangelize and
disciple wherever possible. The on-the-ground reports of their activities in Haiti are provided and updated here [2].
As has been the case with other natural disasters such as the tsunami in Indonesia, MAF already had missionary families operating small aircraft in
the area when the earthquake struck. Because they specialize in getting aid out to the hardest-to-reach areas, nearly every participating relief organization,
religious or secular, seeks to partner with MAF because they have the skills and integrity to ensure that equipment, supplies, and services reach
those for which they are intended. They also provide the establishment of satellite and radio communications which often assist in the coordination of
these efforts at a crucial time when communication infrastructures are normally overloaded or inoperable.
Because of the nature of operating small aircraft, they are not only able to bring much needed relief to the remotest of areas, but to extract those
needing medical and other emergency services. They have already provided an additional plane to their existing fleet to step up efforts, and they are depended
upon by many other organizations who can get large amounts of supplies to Haiti in general but are unable to distribute them fully to those most
needing them specifically. This is an organization bridging the gap between donor and recipient, ensuring that the aid so generously offered is actually
getting to the people it was most intended to assist as quickly as possible.
One of the tangible benefits they have been able to provide in this time of crisis is to transfer those needing medical care in the over-run urban areas
out to the more remote rural hospitals which did not suffer the kinds of physical damage experienced in Port Au Prince. But an even greater benefit is
the opportunity these missionaries are being provided to share Christ not only with the victims of the earthquake, but with relief agency workers also
engaged in the overall effort. MAF personnel in such situations become effective witnesses for Christ at a time when it is needed most.
Those wishing to contribute directly to MAF’s Haiti Disaster & Recovery Fund can do so online, www.maf.org/ministry-donation?goMotiv=VVJ1-
F000&desig=4932
Street Preachers Killed In United States
Saturday, February 6, 2010 (8:39 am), By Worthy News North America Service
WASHINGTON, USA (Worthy News [1])– A religious liberty group warned Saturday, February 6, that “Anti-Christian hostility is getting increasingly
deadly” in the United States after two street preachers were shot and killed by a teenager who apparently opposed their message. “The increasing
demonization of Christians in our culture makes some feel its open season on Christians,” said Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission.
Tite Sufra, 24 (pictured above), and Stephen Ocean (pictures below), 23, were shot and killed late Saturday, January 30, in Boynton Beach in the
U.S. State of Florida, where they evangelized, after meeting 18-year-old Jeriah Woody, local police said. “They witnessed to Woody for fifteen minutes
when he got a phone call and told the preachers he ‘had to go,” added the Commission, which closely monitored the case.
Christians Executed
“As they walked away, Woody suddenly started walking back toward them. Sufra walked up to greet him and was killed with a shot gun blast at
point blank range. When Ocean ran, he was shot in the back. After he fell, Woody shot him in the head execution style.”
Woody was detained Wednesday, February 3, and is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Bail was reportedly denied to him.
Cass complained about a lack of interest in national media. “As of today, there are no national news organizations reporting this vicious murder of
two innocent Christian men. Why?” Cass said, “I’ll ask this: If two Muslims, or two feminists or two homosexuals were murdered, wouldn’t the media be
all over it? These were two fine young black Christian men shot by another black man for their Christian faith, yet the media does not seem to care.”
“Ominous Sign”
He described the case as “an ominous sign” of times “that Christians are being shot on the streets and in our churches.”
Last year Jim Pullion was killed while holding pro-life signs in front of his granddaughter’s Owasso Michigan high school. Reverend Fred Winters
was murdered while preaching in his pulpit in Maryville, Illinois.
“Increasingly we see Christian ministers threatened and churches terrorized and vandalized for their stand on marriage. Now when Christians gather
for worship they must have armed security.”
He said, “Anti-Christian defamation and bigotry has helped to create this violent climate and it must stop.” (With reporting by Worthy News’ Stefan J. Bos)
Article printed from Moriel Archive: http://moriel.org/MorielArchive
URL to article: http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/news/usa/street-preachers-killed-in-united-states
URLs in this post: [1] Worthy News: http://www.worthynews.com/
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