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hutongs — traditional neighborhoods with narrow
cobbled streets and old-styled architecture — are being
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Hohhot: Winds of change
The flags flutter
and crackle in the dry breeze, supposedly carrying prayers
with each movement. The wind moans through the rafters of
the ancient Buddhist temple just outside the city of Hohhot.
“We used to have so many more idols here,” says the lama of
the temple, “but the winds came and blew them away.” While
this wind was the Communist Party in the 1960s, a growing
number of Christians pray for new winds — winds of God’s presence
— to come to Hohhot, a city of 2.4 million in China’s Inner
Mongolia region. Read
more.
View
the photo gallery.
Watch
a video on Hohhot.
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That all peoples may know Him
Coming soon!
New planning guides for offering promotion
Ideas and helps for promoting the
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®, a CD-ROM with PowerPoints,
videos and photo galleries — all go into the mail to
your church this month. This year your church will receive
two planning guides, each including the CD.
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New this year!
A special guide for pastors includes suggestions for planning
up to five weeks of worship services focusing on international
missions.
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A guide for missions
leaders includes planning suggestions, stories from South
Asia and a catalog of resources you can use in your church.
Your church should
receive the guides by Oct. 1, but in the meantime, visit
the Web to preview this year’s materials.
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Beyond the Wall
Sharing the God of love with Muslims
Host
a women’s prayer tea
Invite other women into your home. Enjoy tea together. Share
what God is doing in your own lives. Then venture to the edge
of lostness as you pray for Muslim women, who have less access
to the gospel than anyone else in the world. The leader’s
guide will tell you how to plan a prayer tea.
Participant’s brochures will help those who come know how
to pray. Brochures will be available the end of September.
Order now.
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News
‘Jihadists’ target freedom, not just Christians, worker says
Extremists who bombed five churches in Iraq Aug. 1 targeted
the congregations as symbols of a free Iraq and not specifically
because they are Christian, a Southern Baptist worker with
a heart for the Iraqi people said. Read
more and see how to pray for the situation.
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South Asia
South Asians need our friendship
During her last stay in the United States, a Southern Baptist
worker in Asia, met many South Asians — including a
hotel manager in Tennessee, a gas station attendant in Georgia,
a salesman in Colorado, a convenience store clerk in Florida,
a waiter in Virginia and a cook in Missouri. Sadly, she learned
that few of them have had any Americans embrace them in friendship
or share a gospel witness with them. “Muhammad, a Bengali
Muslim from Bangladesh, is one example,” she says. “Muhammad’s
uncle, a high-ranking, influential governmental official in
Bangladesh, sent his nephew to the United States to live and
work. Muhammad speaks English well and has a good job through
which he interacts with many Christian customers. Yet during
his 10 years in the states, few Christians have taken the
time to befriend Muhammad. When I talked with Muhammad, he
expressed that he suffers a great deal of stress-related illness
that is brought on by pure loneliness.”
What can you do
for South Asians like Muhammad?
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Pray for the
salvation of South Asians living in the United States
and Canada.
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Ask God to provide
you with opportunities to befriend South Asians.
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Invite South
Asians to celebrate holidays with you and your family.
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Tell South Asians
how deeply Jesus loves them.
Learn
more about needs and ministries in South Asia.
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