The family of the little girl, Pamela, who died is in need of financial help. The funeral is going to cost about $1,500. That is not much money in some ways but for a young Peruvian Pastor it is a mountain of money.
They also still have financial problems from the hospital and doctors. You could be a great blessing if you wanted to help.
Click here on the button below and give whatever amount you feel God might have you give.
This is a note that Dean Hamby sent out from Connie Anderson.
I am sitting on the plan in Atlanta having left Jamaica just after the earthquake hit in Haiti. I just turned my cell phone on and got this from Connie in Haiti.
Please pray for them all.
Bro. Dean
Dean, a real quick note to let you know I’m okey. Am in Port au Prince and we had just left the grocery store before it collapsed. Can not get ahold of the mountain and hear how TiKene and kids are doing. Please pray for us, we are still feeling the tremors. Are in the streets sitting the night out. So wish I could get ahold of home. Please call Chris for me and let him know.
It is so sad here. Noise!! Connie
Fred Kindhart from Macedonia World Baptist Mission sent this letter asking prayer for Mrs. Connie Anderson. She is widowed from a wonderful Missionary Terry Anderson. Brother Anderson died on the field in Haiti.
Please pray for Haiti and the situation there due to the earthquake. Heard from missionary Wesley Hutchens in Jamaica who said this are pretty bad with quite a lot of damage in Haiti and Cuba is expecting a possible Tsunami from it. Jamaica has not been affected, he just updated us from there.
We haven’t heard from Sis. Connie Anderson there in Haiti yet but will update you when we do. It is often hard for her to communicate with the outside world from where she is at. Just keep her and the children there in your prayers.
This is from a Facebook status update:
From Andrea Shihady: Please pray for Mrs. Connie Anderson, missionary to Haiti. No calls can go through right now. Pastor will contact the mission board in the morning. Mrs. Shihady spoke with her around 3:00p.m. (before the earthquake) Connie said she was planning to stay in the mission house in Port au Prince tonight. That’s all we know right now. Continue to pray for her safety.
Another major tragedy hit star-crossed Haiti Tuesday when a massive earthquake smashed the capital, knocking down hospitals, high-rises, ministries, churches and part of the presidential palace.
Hundreds – maybe thousands – of dead and wounded people were believed buried under rubble.
“It’s going to be a major catastrophe when we start to count the dead,” said Haitian Ambassador Raymond Joseph.
Haitipal TV reported many of the downtown buildings had collapsed, including the parliament. The presidential palace was badly damaged, Joseph said.
He said he was told President René Préval was not hurt.
In the center of town, more buildings were down than standing, witnesses said.
“People were screaming ‘Jesus, Jesus’ and running in all directions,” said Reuters reporter Joseph Guyler Delva. “It’s total chaos.”
A five-story apartment building was also said to have fallen down, with much loss of life.
The magnitude 7.3 quake hit near the capital Port-au-Prince, home to 2 million people, at 4:53 p.m.
Two powerful aftershocks measuring 5.9 and 5.5 on the Richter scale soon followed, further damaging structures weakened by the initial quake.
Haiti has been struggling to recover from a string of hurricanes that devastated the island in 2008, destroying the island’s infrastructure and killing hundreds.
President Obama said the United States stood ready to help with the latest crisis.
“My thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been affected by this earthquake,” he said.
The Red Cross pledged an initial $200,000 in aid. “We do have staff on the ground – we have not been able to reach them,” said Red Cross spokesman Abbi Weaver.
Witnesses said the streets of the capital were full of panicked people, and screams were coming from under the piles of rubble seen everywhere.
People were clawing at the rubble with their bare hands, trying to save loved ones, witnesses said.
Power was out, radio was off-line and phone service was down. Haitians in New York City frantically trying to contact relatives back home were having little luck getting through.
There were reports the airport in Port-au-Prince was badly hit, which could hamper efforts to fly in aid.
Emergency meetings were being held at the State Department, which was having trouble contacting the Haitian government.
I just got a call from Chris Gardner. Pamela just died. She is the little girl we asked prayer for just a few hours ago. Her dad is Pastor Wilber Hallasi.
I am sure that many of you remember the pastor’s wife in Peru that was dying. Her name was Suhey. You gave special offerings to help her. God worked in her life and she is now ok. Their daughter, Pamela, is a different story.
She is dying as we speak. You can get more information by clicking here on Chris Gardner’s blog. There are pictures. We would like to ask you to be in prayer for the family over the next 24 hours.
I would also ask you to pray that God will fill Chris’ calendar as he comes home to preach and present the ministry there. You can get more information on his schedule here.
“We’re not going to stop because the government bans an organization,” he told CNN by phone. “If that means setting up another platform under another label, then so be it.”
A ban “will just make the use of those names … illegal. But Muslims everywhere are obliged to work collectively to establish the Islamic state and sharia law in the UK or wherever they are — those things can’t change,” he added.
This man says that Muslims everywhere are obliged to work to establish sharia law.
What is sharia law? Sharia law is Islamic law based on the Koran.
I find it interesting that Muslims are so adamant about spreading their faith and practice and yet many Christians so relaxed about sharing what God’s Word says. If you really believe the Bible, if you really believe in Heaven and Hell, isn’t it time to get involved in world evangelism?
Shouldn’t we become concerned about getting the truth about eternal salvation out to the entire world. We are not involved in political movements but we are concerned about sharing our faith.
Muslims say that they will not be stopped. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ should rise up and say that we will not be stopped. We will take the gospel to the entire world.
Indonesia is largely off the missions’ radar screen of most Christians because they believe that Indonesia is a closed Muslim country. Also, many Christians think that Indonesia is a very dangerous country because of spectacular terrorist bombings.
Background:
Indonesia is the 4th most populated country in the world (240 million).
It is the country with the largest Muslim population.
It is an archipelago of 17,000 islands that stretches from the Indian Ocean to Australia.
Though there are many ethnic groups, the national language (Bahasa Indonesia) is widely spoken throughout Indonesia.
Indonesia is not a closed Muslim country:
Though the majority of Indonesians are Muslims (85%), Indonesia is NOT a Muslim country.
It’s constitution, Pancasila (which means “the Five Principles”) states that every Indonesian must believe in the one and only God!
Therefore, all Indonesians must profess one of the following official religions (Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism or Confucianism). In the eyes of the law all these official religions are equal. Though in practice, Islam does get favourable treatment in many places because it is the majority religion.
Most Muslims in Indonesia are nominal. Most of them are really animist in heart and Muslim in outward form.
Fanatical Muslims are a tiny fraction of the population and are concentrated in a few provinces of Indonesia.
Christians (Protestants and Catholics) make up 8.5% of the population. They are free to practice their religion. In fact, in many parts of the country, Christians form the majority.
Indonesia is not a dangerous country:
The recent bombing in Jakarta has put Indonesia back in the news. However, to put things in proper perspective these bombings are meant to grab world-wide attention and are directed at Westerners (not Christians).
There are attacks against Christians and churches are bombed. Again, these are not endemic throughout Indonesia, but generally occur in a few perennial “hot-spots” where large populations of Muslims and Christians live side by side and compete for scant resources (eg. Ambon).
Indonesia is ripe for the Harvest:
Indonesians are responding to the Gospel in large numbers. No reliable figures are available because such data is sensitive to the Muslim majority.
In the past, most converts were from the nominal Christian tribes (eg. Bataks). However, in the last decade large numbers of Muslims are being converted. Many of these converts do not adopt the outward forms of “Christianity” but continue with their previous forms while using the Bible and fully trusting Christ as their Saviour. This trend makes it even more difficult to get accurate data on the number of Christian converts.
Where should missionaries go and what should they do in Indonesia?
Indonesian Christians are the best people to evangelize their own people. Thankfully, God is raising more and more Indonesians to do His work.
The missionaries’ main roles are in encouraging, equipping and helping them to reach out to their own people. Therefore, there are many co-operative opportunities for missionaries in these areas of ministry.
Interest in learning English is also growing in Indonesia and there is a need for English teachers – in NGO organizations or on the university campuses. These provide excellent “bridging activities” for the furtherance of the Gospel.
Summary:
The wind of the Spirit is blowing in Indonesia.
The doors are open.
This is the time to pray for the Lord of the Harvest to send forth labourers into Indonesia.
The great missionary pioneers were people of vision. Carey saw the whole globe while fellow preachers limited the world to their parish borders. Henry Martyn saw India, Persia, and Arabia—the Muslim world—while the church at home squabbled over petty theological disagreements.
The unprecedented attacks have strained ties between minority Christians and the majority Malay Muslims, denting Malaysia’s image as a moderate Muslim-majority country and raising questions about its political stability.
Firebombs have been thrown at seven other churches nationwide since Friday, with another splashed with black paint. No one was hurt and the churches suffered little damage, except the Metro Tabernacle Church in a Kuala Lumpur suburb, which had its office on the first floor gutted by fire.
The recent persecution is associated with the ban on using the word allah for the God of the Christians. This word is in the Bible and is used in other Arabic countries.
Several things have to be considered when you hear of this persecution. One is that we believe in freedom of conscience. That means that we, historically Baptist, do not persecute anyone for their faith. We believe that the Muslims should have the right to worship their god as they see fit. We will not persecute their faith.
Two, we must carry the gospel to them. They obviously are very religious. They know there is a God but they do not know the only true God of the Bible.
We must not allow their persecution to be a cause of fear for us.
Islamists looted and burned a Protestant church in Algeria, the congregation’s leader said Monday, suggesting they were inspired by a recent wave of religious intolerance in the Arab and Muslim world.
He said the looting showed “Islamist intolerance considers there is no room for Christian religious practices in Algeria,” and alleged it was “fueled by what just happened in Egypt,” where six people were killed in a church shooting during Christmas celebrations. In mainly Muslim Malaysia, nine churches have also been recently burned down amid violence against the country’s Christian minority.
But small Protestant groups have been accused of proselytizing, or trying to convert Muslims to Christianity, which is illegal in Algeria. Several Protestants were prosecuted last year for illegally carrying Bibles or converting people to Christianity.
American Christians have let fear and prejudice keep us from carrying the gospel to these needy people. As you read this post do not let fear rule in your heart. Do not hate Muslims. Realize that our battle is not against flesh and blood but against Satanic forces. They will do anything to cause us to fear and to hate.
The Arabic people need the gospel. What will we do to get the gospel to them.
Numbers 32:9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. God’s people got right to the edge of the promise. Some of them even got to […]
Numbers 27:23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses. Moses takes Joshua and in front of the entire congregation he will lay hands on him. In our church we lay hands on men when we pray for them and especially when […]
We are officially on full-time deputation! We are so excited that God wants to use us to plant churches and train Christian leaders in Spain. We have been preparing for this for 7 years, from Bible college, to working on the field, to training at Vision Baptist Church. When I look back at these years […]
Num 20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. They mourned this man for 30 days. He had made big mistakes. He had failed in his leadership, but he had been used of God and he had made a difference. […]
Numbers 16:3 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Jehovah is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah? This is one of those verses that […]
