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Week
of Prayer for the Kurds
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| The Kurds are the fourth largest
people group in the Middle East. |
March 15-21, 2005
One year ago four Southern Baptist workers — David
McDonnall, Larry and Jean Elliott and Karen Watson — were
killed while ministering among the Kurds and other peoples
of northern Iraq. As we remember their deaths, join in praying
that Kurds around the world will come to know Jesus Christ.
Find tools to lead
your church in praying:
● Videos: Download any
of three videos to show your church.
● PowerPoint: Download a
virtual prayerwalk to show before the worship service begins
or during a mid-week prayer time.
● Flier: Open and
print a black and white PDF prayer guide for the week.
● Learn more about
the Kurds.
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| Southern Baptist volunteers
pray for a man in Sri Lanka whose home was destroyed
by the tsunami. |
Tsunami
response
Tsunami response enters new phase,
gifts top $12 million
As ministry to Asian tsunami survivors begins
the shift from emergency relief to long-term recovery, Southern
Baptist gifts to the aid effort through the International
Mission Board have topped $12.3 million (as of March 1).
Find
out what kind of long-term aid is being planned.
Many hands make for lighter work
Living in a home with mud ankle-deep,
sleeping on a bed just high enough to escape the water,
a father and son didn’t
know what to do. Despair and hopelessness were written on
their faces. How could they put their lives back together
when the father was too old — and the son too young — to
get all the mud and destroyed belongings out of the house?
A group of volunteers showed up and with
the father’s
permission began working. They took everything out of the
house, saving what they could, then started shoveling mud
amid the heat and foul smell. After a long time, one of the
floors became visible. The looks on the faces of the man
and his son began to change. Hope began to replace despair.
They went to work beside the team. The son, no more than
12, worked just as hard as any adult on the team. By the
end of the day, the mud was cleaned out of the house. The
father sat speechless trying to choke back the tears of joy
for the restoration of hope that he had been offered through
the sweat of strangers.
Read
more stories from volunteers helping with tsunami relief.
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