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| On foot, bicycles, motorcycles or in
cars — Indians are on the move as the country grows
toward the status of the world’s most populous
nation. |
Zippies on a fast track
India’s young “Zippies” want it all.
One Indian magazine described these young Indians thus: “Oozes
attitude, ambition and aspiration. Cool, confident and creative.
Seeks challenges, loves risks and shuns fears.” Sound
like anyone you know?
Find
out one thing they need, but most aren’t finding.
Energizing your church for missions
The churches with the most vital missions involvement make
it a year-round affair. Consider
these suggestions from
Jerry Daniel. Jerry leads a team devoted to providing the
help you need as you involve your church members in missions.
The Gift
As you shop for everyone on your list, don’t forget
the most important gift of all. Give of yourself. Watch the
video.
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Use this brief video in worship services or Sunday School
classes as the holidays approach.
Countdown for pastors and leaders
- Continue receiving the Lottie Moon
Christmas Offering® and
sharing progress with your congregation. Read a missionary
thank you note with the report.
- Consider whether your church wants
to commit to continuing involvement in India or other
parts of South Asia. Check
out this list.
- Tell us about your Lottie Moon Christmas
Offering experience. Send stories, ideas and photos.
E-mail to ime@imb.org or
mail to:
International Mission Board, SBC
Publishing Department
P.O. Box 6767
Richmond VA 23230-0767
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Resources
Last-minute Christmas gifts!
Looking for something your teens and college students will
enjoy? Check out Audience
of One: the Task Anthology, our “best
of” compilation DVD from Task. Besides video
clips from the field, the DVD includes NINE clips of everybody’s
favorite rappin’ granny, Eloise. They’ll provide
great entertainment for the whole family, after they’ve
opened gifts and polished off Christmas dinner. But you must
order online by Dec. 20 and pay for shipping, requesting
the 2-Day Standard method, to ensure delivery by
Christmas.
Have you seen this Eloise video?
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News
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| Southern Baptists have had missionary
physicians like Dr. Larry Pepper working with AIDS patients
in Uganda since the disease began appearing there in
the early 1980s |
20 years later, Uganda AIDS battle
has turned to
spiritual issues
As a missionary physician in Uganda, Rick Goodgame was
among the first to study the mysterious disease later identified
as AIDS from an African clinic. Recently he and his wife,
Susan, now living in Texas, jumped at an opportunity to return
to Uganda for six months. Find
out how things have changed.
Read
what another missionary, who’s been
on the front lines in AIDS education in Africa since the early
days of the epidemic, says will — and won’t — stop
AIDS.
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The Dhobis seek to be ‘scrubbed
clean’
Their fingers are worn and their bodies are weary. Day after
day, they squat along the banks of South Asia’s rivers
and scrub clean the clothes of community members who have
hired them at a meager wage. They are the Dhobi (pronounced
DOE-bee) people and traditionally are the washermen and washerwomen
of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. About 5.3 million
Dhobis live in India alone. Most Dhobis are Hindus, but a
tenth of them are Muslims. They mostly worship Ghatoia, the
Hindu god of ghat, or of the river landings where they wash
clothes. Before entering the rivers, the Dhobis bow to the
stone on which they will wash the clothes. Pray that the
Dhobis will meet the living God who can wash away sins and
make hearts pure. Pray that the Dhobis will trust in Jesus
fully and worship Him only. Pray for a church-planting movement
to rise up among the Dhobi people of South Asia.
See how
you can pray for other
Unreached People Groups in South Asia.
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