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News — Floods hit Suriname; IMB joins relief effort … Death Row inmates=prayer warriors?
Day of Prayer and Fasting — Last-minute helps on the Web
Resources — MANNA projects booklet … 'Voices of the Faithful' released in Spanish and Chinese … West Africa storying cloth
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| IMB missionary Charles Shirey (left) and radio DJ Baa Beele travel by boat to villages on Suriname’s Tapanahoni River to interview recent flood victims for radio. (IMB) PHOTO |
News
Floods hit Suriname; IMB joins relief effort
As muddy floodwaters recede in Suriname, thousands of Aukan villagers are welcoming a flood of another kind: help, and lots of it.
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| High in the Himalayas, Jack Tillery (back to camera) reads a letter of encouragement written by a prison inmate to young volunteers. (IMB) PHOTO |
Death Row inmates=prayer warriors?
Eight Death Row inmates at “Angola,” Louisiana’s maximum-security penitentiary, fervently pray for the Sherpa and Nepal.
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Day of Prayer and Fasting
Last-minute helps on the Web
Would you like to participate in the Day of Prayer and Fasting for World Evangelization June 4, but haven’t ordered materials yet? You can order online until Monday, May 29.
You’ll also find many of the same resources – planning tips, a sermon outline, even the virtual prayerwalk – available online.
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Resources
MANNA projects booklet
• $2.75 buys a stylus for a blind student in Colombia to learn Braille.
• $12 buys a rabbit to help a woman in Uganda provide food for her family.
• $150 buys improved shelter for a Pakistani “tent” family who lost their home in the 2005 earthquake.
Whether teaching children how to love others or leading adults to help those in need, you can find a project suitable for any age or pocketbook in the MANNA booklet.
'Voices of the Faithful' released in Spanish and Chinese
Best-selling devotional "Voices of the Faithful" has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. One Chinese reader read it in two days. “Once I started reading it, I just could not stop,” the reader said. “I read it from day to night (and) it touched my heart.
Read more.
Learn more about “Voces de los fieles”
Learn more about “Huan Yu Zhu Pu Sheng,” (寰宇主僕聲).
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| As these two men are doing, you can use the new storying cloth to show how the Gospel is spread among oral learners in West Africa. (IMB photo) |
West Africa storying cloth
How do you help people constantly on the move learn and tell the stories of the Bible? You create a cloth with a picture to remind them of each story.
Use this cloth to tell your church about it – or use it on your next volunteer trip overseas.
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Speaking of missions
Missions by the Book: Not deterred by persecution
“The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ” – Acts 5:41-42, NIV.
Quotable: Still not deterred by persecution
“You can kill us, but as long as we are alive, we will continue to share the Gospel and worship the Lord Jesus Christ.” – Two church planters in northern India who were dragged out of church and beaten this past Easter
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Illustration: Some prayers He answers right away
A last-minute cancellation left missionary Bruce Wenger in Brazil with a volunteer team unscheduled for three afternoons – until he visited a “favela” (slum) with a new church member, P. “As we walked and prayed, I sensed that God wanted the group’s afternoons to be spent in this area,” said Bruce. When he told P, the man looked amazed. That very morning, he said, he had prayed for a way to tell everyone in the favela about the new social project to begin at his house in 10 days. This was God’s answer to his prayer. As the volunteer team led children’s programs and visited door to door, mothers, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles came to watch and participate with the kids. Many met P and learned about the project he was starting at his house two blocks from the favela. The result? Forty people attended his first Saturday morning meeting.
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