Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Pastor Paul In India
This is a letter I recieved from Pastor Paul in India. Thought I would share it.
His website is http://gospelinindia.homestead.com/
His Shoutlife url is http://www.shoutlife.com/profile_view.cfm?uid=70619
Greetings to you In the name of our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Once again our father blessed us with the new season a season of celebrating His birth and entering in a New Year again in our life. Especially we all wish you a happy season and the Blessings in the lord.
Mistakes that lead us to
A doctor's mistake is buried.
A lawyer's mistake is imprisoned.
An accountant's mistake is jailed.
A dentist's mistake is pulled.
A pharmacist's mistake is dead.
An electrician's mistake is shocking.
A carpenter's mistake is sawdust.
A teacher's mistake is failed.
A Preacher's mistake is HELL.
Knowing this the mistake we are sincerely going forward to bring the people to the feet of the lord Jesus Christ.
This time I am going to share a small testimony from our new branch church. There is a woman called Manga she started attending church when we started the ministry in Mandapeta area. She and her husband started to ask God to give them a child. From their Marriage they didn't have children. This is 6th year now they come to the lord for the blessing. I have given them a powerful prayer book let and asked wife and husband should pray at early in the morning. They have been praying from 3 months for the blessing .Doctors conformed she has a baby in her womb. Praise the lord we are looking for the signs in the midst of people so let the people taste and see how the lord is good and how He will bless His children. Now this news spread that are and new people are attending slowly. Yes when these kind of signs and wonders happened it would be a great witness for the lord our Jesus Christ to spread the Gospel in the unreached families surrounding our place.
Hope you are going to celebrate the birth of Jesus in a very special way?let us know how you would spend the time and all?
Last month things to praise
1 Lord has blessed our ministry with other new year in our life.
2 Praise the lord He has given me opportunity to preach the lord Jesus in some revival meetings and some Occasions
3 Praise the lord for some new people started to attend the church
4 Praise the lord for healings and wonders in our ministry has taken place by the Holy spirit
Things to pray ???..
1 please pray for christmas programmes in all our churches.
2 Please pray for some believers from our church they are willing to help a little as Macedonians did to Orissa Christians who were still in jungle like food, cloths, and etc?
3 Please pray for potential sponsors to lift our ministry in the days to come at present we have 3 persons.
4 And please remember the 3 persons and their families to bless in the name of our lord for their heart for my family and the ministry. I have met the 2 person's before last couple of months.
5 Specially remember our staff, needy children, widows and the pastors?
Even it looks I have many friends. there are few who have the heart for our family and ministry I hope many are lifting us in prayers but some are very poor they are supporting me in Big way that's prayer. I appreciate what they do in our life. You can lift us in your prayers and at the same time you can remember in your love and can promote us to your friends that have the heart for India. Whatever you do for our ministry the reward I can t able to give you but the lord who called me for His work could bless you and can give you more. We look forward to hear from you
Once again we love you and know that you are in our prayers and we wish you all happy Christmas and happy holidays?. ????????..be blessed and encouraged in the lord in the days a head?/
Your s in Christ
Paul & family ?..Staff?
PS. Our new website is www.gospelinindia.homestead.com
There is always an Opportunity for you to make some thing difference in our poor and needy people. If you are interested to stretch your hands for India please let me know we will contact you?
Brief update about Gospel meetings ??.
We have blessed time with the lord Jesus Christ before Christmas with gospel meetings from 8th 13. Lord encouraged people in a very special way. Few are promised to follow Jesus and few were come forward to take baptisms.
18: And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Labels: Gospel in India, INDIA
Monday, December 15, 2008
New Petition for Iraqi Christians
New Petition for Iraqi Christians
Since 2003, half of the estimated one million Iraqi Christians have left their homes because of the relentless attacks they have been facing from Islamic extremists. Many Christians have been killed in Iraq, including Christian leaders such as Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho. The body of the archbishop was found in the city of Mosul after his abduction in February 2008.
Most recently, over 2,000 Christian families fled from the city of Mosul and more than a dozen were killed between September and November 2008. Christian homes and properties were destroyed. This latest wave of attacks took place following a demonstration that Christians staged opposing the removal of Article 50 from the Iraqi constitution. Article 50 provided a quota that allowed the Iraqi Christians to be represented in the country's parliament. Less than a third of these families had returned to their homes by November 20.
The perpetrators of the attacks warned the Christians to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax which allows non-Muslims to live in Muslim countries, or leave the city or face death. This shows the Islamists' clear intention to either kill or expel Christians from the city of Mosul.
Despite such widespread and systematic attacks against Iraqi Christians, their plight has largely gone unnoticed by the international community.
Here's How You Can Help
#1 Pray: The first thing you can do to help is stop right now and ask the Lord to intervene.
#2 Next, review our petition. Iraqi officials are concerned about their relationship with the United States and other Western countries, so when the people shout, they will listen. We have also found that evil prefers to stay hidden and when we shine the light on it, it flees.
#3 Electronically sign the petition by clicking here.
#4 Print out the petition and take it to your church and have everyone you know sign it. Send it back to us so we can present it to Secretary Rice. Feel free to print out extra signature pages for large numbers of sign ups. When you have collected all your signatures, please mail the signature pages to :
ICC
PO Box 10277
Silver Spring, MD 20914-0277
or fax them to us (301-989-1709).
Please get them back to us by January 10.
#5 Forward this email to all your email contacts and ask them to do the same.
Sincerely in Christ,
Jeff King
President, ICC
International Christian Concern
P.O. Box 10277
Silver Spring, MD 20914-0277
Phone: (800) ICC-5441
Fax: (301) 989-1709
Psalms Chapter 100
1: Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
2: Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3: Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4: Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5: For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Labels: Christian, Christian persecution, Iraq
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
No Christian Persecution in Iraq
The official position of Secretary Condoleezza Rice is that there is no religious persecution of Christians in Iraq.
That may be her "official" position, whatever that means. But the truth of the matter is totally the opposite. As you can see below there is a lot of Christian persecution going on.
The stories below are only a few of many and that does not include the stories that are not told to us.
Keep Iraq in your prayers, especially our brothers and sisters in Christ.
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10,000 Iraqi Christians Flee Mosul As Killings Continue
Added: Oct 20th, 2008 4:46 AM
By BosNewsLife Senior Correspondents Stefan J. Bos and Eric Leijenaar
MOSUL, IRAQ (BosNewsLife) -- Aid workers rushed Friday, October 17, to assist at least 10,000 Christians who so far fled Mosul amid fresh reports that Islamic extremists are trying to eradicate the Christian population in this northern Iraqi town.
Netherlands-based Open Doors, an organization assisting Christians persecuted for their faith, told BosNewsLife it is distributing food, cooking equipment and blankets among some 200 displaced families from Mosul, where up to 40 Christians were killed by militants in recent days.
For full story go HERE.
Four Christians Killed In Iraq
Added: Sep 25th, 2008 3:10 AM
By BosNewsLife News Center
MOSUL, IRAQ (BosNewsLife) -- Authorities were under pressure Wednesday, September 24, to investigate the death of at least four Christians in the Iraqi town of Mosul, amid signs of a fresh wave of anti-Christian violence in Iraq.
In one of the latest incidents, a Syrian Catholic man, Rayan Nafei Jamooa, was shot and killed September 10 by suspected Muslim militants, Iraqi Christians confirmed. The murder came just two weeks after his father, Nassar Jamooa, was reportedly kidnapped and killed.
Full story HERE.
MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 8 /Christian Newswire/ -- On Mike Huckabee's new Fox News program, former Governor David Beasley, who has worked on numerous humanitarian projects in the Middle East since leaving politics, claimed the United Stateshad failed in its responsibility to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians who have been forced to flee religious persecution in Iraq.
Full story HERE.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIFORNIA (ANS) — Religious persecution continues in Iraq as nine Christian houses of worship were bombed this week. [1/11/2008]
Full story HERE.
Revelation 7:9-17
9: After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10: And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11: And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12: Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13: And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14: And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15: Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
16: They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17: For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Labels: Christian, Christian persecution, Iraq, persecuted
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Psalms Chapter 105
Psalms Chapter 105
1: O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
2: Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
3: Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
4: Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
5: Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
6: O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
7: He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
8: He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
9: Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
10: And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
11: Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
12: When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
13: When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
14: He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
15: Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
16: Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
17: He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
18: Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
19: Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
20: The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
21: He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
22: To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
23: Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24: And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
25: He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
26: He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27: They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
28: He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
29: He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
30: Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
31: He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
32: He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
33: He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
34: He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
35: And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
36: He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
37: He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
38: Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
39: He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
40: The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41: He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
42: For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
43: And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
44: And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
45: That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
Labels: Egypt, plagues, Psalms
Monday, December 01, 2008
Migdal Ohr &The Mumbai Massacre
December 1, 2008
4 Kislev 5769
Rabbi and Rebbetzen Grossman's Niece, Nephew Murdered in Cold Blood Rabbi Grossman Leads Rescue Effort of Baby Moshe and His Nanny
Dear Friend,
Migdal Ohr profoundly mourns the passing of the beloved, angelic and dynamic young directors of the Chabad in Mumbai, Rabbi Gavriel and Rebbetzen Rivka Holtzberg.
The last 72 hours have been full of raw emotion and tears for Rabbi Grossman and the staff of Migdal Ohr.
As you may have heard, the slain young couple are the niece and nephew of Rabbi Grossman and his wife Esther. Additionally, Rivka's father, Rabbi Rosenberg, is not only the Rabbi's brother-in-law but is also the Principal of the Migdal Ohr Girls' Elementary School. Who could have ever predicted that someone who has dedicated his whole life to caring for orphans and Children-at-risk would now be faced with having to care for his own Grand-nephew, and would need to help bury his own niece and nephew? What a sad, tragic coincidence.
As is so typical of the saintly work of Rabbi Grossman, there is much to report to you about work behind the scenes to plan the funeral, to reunite Baby Moshe with his grandparents, and to care for the heroic Nanny who saved Baby Moshe's life. And the stories will astound you.
Where to begin? Rabbi Grossman and Migdal Ohr to date have expended great financial costs in flying the Grandparents to India, as well as flying over the ZAKA rescue team to care for the bodies of the deceased. We have been in constant contact with the Israeli Foreign Ministry in an effort to release the bodies to Israel for burial, and in fact to bring everyone over on one flight back home. One of the causes for the delay until now is that the dead bodies were booby-trapped by the murderers with hand grenades, which required prolonged and careful removal.
I am pleased to report that through the incredible joint efforts of the Israeli Government and Rabbi Grossman, an Israeli Air Force Jet has taken off from Mumbai and is scheduled to return to Ben Gurion Airport in Israel close to midnight Israel time (5pm New York time). On the plane are Baby Moshe's Grandparents- Rabbi Shimon and Yehudit Rosenberg, Baby Moshe, The Nanny Sandra Samuel, and the deceased. An official Government Funeral has been scheduled for Tuesday. Seeing that Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg were victims of terror, they will be accorded a full, official State burial. The funeral is expected to draw tens of thousands.
Two-year old Moshe Holtzberg will live with his grandparents in Afula, 15 minutes away from Migdal Ha'Emek. When everyone is settled, Moshe will be enrolled in one of the many Kindergartens that Migdal Ohr operates. How fitting!
As for the Nanny, Rabbi Grossman was able to secure for this heroine- an Indian resident- a full one year visa to come live in Israel with the Grandparents, so that Baby Moshe can continue to live with the most recognizable person in his life. The woman, Sandra Samuel, has no official papers, no ID documents, and yet Rabbi Grossman has managed to reunite her with Moshe and the family, at least for the next year.
In Israel, Rabbi Grossman has become the media voice for this story- appearing daily on Radio and TV to update the Israeli public. "Ma Nomar Uma Nedaber?"What more can possibly be said ? We all have the privilege of being associated with one of the great Rabbis and personalities in the history of the State of Israel- and that is no understatement.
May the memories of the deceased be a blessing for their families, and may their families be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Rabbi Grossman and Migdal Ohr have been asked by the Family to establish a fund for Baby Moshe to be administered by them. We are in the process of setting up this Foundation and we'll let you know in due time how you may contribute.
Sincerely,
Robert Katz
Executive Vice President
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Founded in 1972, Migdal Ohr, the world's largest Jewish Orphanage, provides a nurturing home and outstanding formal and Jewish education to orphaned, disadvantaged and troubled children from throughout Israel. 6,500 children are enrolled in one of our 15 elementary or high schools, 18 kindergartens, or 7 Toddler Day Care Centers with nearly 3,000 living permanently in our campus dormitories. Another 1,000 are supported by and live with foster parents in our highly acclaimed Foster Village, situated in between our Boys and Girls Campuses.
Our model has proven successful at treating the disadvantaged; it repairs the damaged lives of the children and gives them the education and self-esteem they need to flourish. The landmark achievement of the organization is its graduates, who have become doctors, scientists, mathematicians, lawyers, teachers, community leaders, rabbis and successful mothers and fathers.
Rabbi Grossman was awarded the 2004 Israel Prize for his " lifetime contributions to Israeli society"
American Friends of Migdal Ohr
email: robertkatz@migdalohrusa.org web: http://www.migdalohrusa.org/
Copyright ©2006 Migdal Ohr. All rights Reserved.
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Robert Katz,
Please accept and pass on my deeply felt condolences on the deaths of Rabbi Gavriel and Rebbetzen Rivka Holtzberg. My prayers are with Baby Moshe and her nanny as well as Rabbi Grossman and his wife Esther, Rabbi Rosenberg, and the entire staff at Migdal Ohr. May God be with you all and all the other family members.
I know that there are no words I can say to express the utter insanity that is going on around the world today.
God Bless, Michael Carey
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3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6: To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
7: In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8: Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
9: Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
10: That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
11: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
12: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14: Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Labels: Migdal Ohr, The Mumbai Massacre
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