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Beyond
the Wall — Challenge
of Islam: Spreading across Africa
News — IMB
trustees vote $2.5 million for Katrina relief … Quotable: More powerful
than a thousand Category 5 hurricanes … West Africa: A formidable challenge
Resources — New!
South Asia Christmas ornament reminds you to pray … Kids On Mission is
better than ever … New for kids! Letters from Auntie D
Speaking
of missions — Missions by the Book:
Especially after disasters … Quotable: How many
churches were destroyed?
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Beyond
the Wall
Sharing the God of love with Muslims
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| This West African imam talks about the path to paradise.
He is responsible for evangelizing the villages nearest him, and he teaches
Quran classes to boys and men who are new Muslim converts. |
Challenge of Islam: Spreading across Africa
Muslims say more than half the 700 million peoples in Africa claim their
religion – and the number is growing. Read how a Muslim
missionary goes
about his work. Read the stories of others
who have left Islam, such
as “Musa”, “Juma,” and “Fazlin” and “Nazeem.”
Learn
10 things you can do to reach Muslims.
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News
IMB trustees vote $2.5 million for Katrina relief
Southern Baptists have given faithfully to help missionaries keep ministering
worldwide. Now IMB leaders want to help Southern Baptists – and others – hurt
by Katrina. Read
more.
They’re
also offering IMB staff a week of paid leave to help Katrina victims. Read
more.
Read
about other matters trustees handled recently.
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| New missionary Madge Vosteen is greeted at
a reception following the International Mission Board appointment service
Sept. 13. She and her husband, Paul, who has been part of the team producing
this newsletter, will serve in Western Europe. PHOTO by Bill Bangham |
Read
about a couple who fled New Orleans with three days’ worth
of clothes, a few photo albums and two pet chinchillas – and were
appointed as missionaries Sept. 13.
Quotable: More powerful than a thousand Category 5 hurricanes
“We’re sending out a force … that’s more powerful
than a thousand Category 5 hurricanes.” – IMB trustee chairman
Tom Hatley when the International Mission Board appointed new missionaries
in a Gulf Coast city just east of the region battered days earlier by Hurricane
Katrina
Read
more about the new missionaries.
In their own words: Listen
to the testimonies of some of these new missionaries.
West Africa: A formidable challenge
In West Africa …
– Almost 40 percent of the people claim to be Christians, but they
are primarily limited to a few major people groups.
– 75 percent of the Unreached People Groups have a population of 15,000
or less.
– The region is tops in missionary resignations and rounds out the
bottom of missionary appointments.
After a recent trip in the regions, IMB
President Jerry Rankin said this: “Every
region of the world has its unique challenges, but few have to embrace such
a sacrificial lifestyle and live in the midst of suffering and chronic needs
as those in West Africa.”
See
what other formidable challenge they face.
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Resources
New! South Asia Christmas ornament reminds you to
pray
Last
year’s Christmas ornament
was
so popular that we’ve started a series – with a new ornament each
year to remind you to pray for a particular part of the world. Some churches
used last year’s ornaments to decorate a tree showing how much they’ve
given toward the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®.
Tell
us how you used your ornaments last year.
Order
your ornaments now.
Kids On Mission is better than ever
Take kids ages 5-12 to Madagascar, China and areas of Asia hit by the tsunami
with the fall edition of Kids On Mission. In each of these places
they learn about helping others. $10
Order
now.
New for kids! Letters from Auntie D
The world’s tallest building, people taking their birds out for a walk,
an army of warriors made of clay – read all about them when Auntie D
writes her young friend Jesse about living among the Chinese. The letters
and pictures on this blog are
a great way for older children to learn about China.
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Speaking of missions
Missions by the Book: Especially after disasters
“Sing to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim his salvation day after
day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples”
– 1 Chronicles 16:23-24, NIV.
See other Scriptures
that speak to God’s heart for the nations.
Quotable: How many churches were destroyed?
“We were all moved by the devastation of that storm (Hurricane Katrina),
and we’ve heard that in Mississippi and Louisiana some 900 churches had
some form of destruction. [Still,] “that means there was a Baptist church
to be destroyed. When the tsunami swept in on Dec. 26, and 250,000 people
were swept into eternity without Christ, how many Baptist churches do you
think were destroyed? To my knowledge, not one.” – Gordon Fort, IMB vice
president for overseas operations. Fort explained the killer tsunami hit long
stretches of Asian coastline the Christian gospel has yet to touch.
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