December 2016 Annual Report
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International Christian Concern<br />
President’s Letter<br />
Dear Friend,<br />
As I reflect on the trials and victories of another year<br />
in the trenches with our brothers and sisters in Christ,<br />
I cannot help but wonder how our work has impacted<br />
eternity. As humans, we like to look back and take an<br />
accounting of our deeds.<br />
In <strong>2016</strong>, Christians suffered increasing persecution<br />
all around the globe. ISIS has ensured that ancient<br />
Christian homelands in Iraq and Syria are now mostly empty of believers, and yet we can still<br />
celebrate a successful year. Why? Because though we expose wickedness and seek justice for and<br />
relieve the suffering of the oppressed, our mission is not to end persecution - it is to love, comfort<br />
and grow the suffering body of Christ - orphan by orphan, widow by widow, church by church and<br />
community by community.<br />
How do you calculate the value of giving persecuted Christian kids an education that will break<br />
them free from a 1,400-year cycle of poverty? How do you calculate the value of the release of<br />
just one prisoner or the value of bringing the weight of the US Congress against a nation that<br />
persecutes? For me, these things are astronomically valuable.<br />
From the simple to the heroic, the mundane to the extraordinary, we are guided by one simple<br />
fact – that whatever we do for the least of these, His brothers and sisters, we do for Him. Your<br />
partnership, both financial and in prayer, makes us partners in doing the seemingly impossible and<br />
I can’t thank you enough for allowing us to be your hands and feet to the persecuted.<br />
It is the great compassion of the Father that has seen fit to grow this ministry of “five loaves and<br />
two fish” to touch more lives than we ever could have dreamed of. The truth is, in the light of<br />
eternity, that’s about all we ever have to offer - and we like it that way.<br />
When you stand with ICC, your gifts will be used effectively, ethically, and efficiently in the mission<br />
of bandaging and building the persecuted Church. I promise!<br />
All God’s Blessings,<br />
Jeff King, President<br />
International Christian Concern<br />
Jeff King,<br />
President<br />
International Christian Concern<br />
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