| Prayer
Points for the Chechen
- Pray for God to draw the Chechen people
to Himself because God tells us that no one can come to
Jesus unless God draws him (John 6:44).
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- The Chechens want freedom. Pray that
God would reveal Himself to them as the True Source of
Eternal Freedom (2 Cor. 3:17).
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- Ask God to send laborers to the harvest
fields among the Chechens (Matt. 9:37 - 38).
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- Ask God to set apart Chechen believers
by their obedience to His word (John 17:17) so that non-believeing
Chechens will praise God for the good works they see in
the believers' lives (Matt. 5:16).
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DID
YOU KNOW?
 In
Europe and Russia, Baptists are viewed as a cult, especially
in the Catholic countries and typically are lumped in with Mormons
and Jehovah's Witnesses. Lifestyle, work ethic, and personal integrity
are not even considered. Because they aren't Catholic or Orthodox,
Baptists are despised.
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Adventure Tour
Project:
69288
Dates:
Any 10 days between now and Nov. 11, 2004
Oman
is a little known country of beautiful people, eager to interact
& demonstrate their life & culture, a place of villages
with histories too long to know. More important, without Jesus
the Messiah, Islam controls their lives. Groups of at least 4
needed to come and engage Omanis & learn about local language,
religion, art, clothing, crafts, etc. as they show the love of
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International
World Changers
Ufa, Russia
Dates: July 23-30, 2005
Cost: $495 plus airfare
Distribute food, clothes and Bible literature along with
light construction, sports evangelism, creative arts, home
visits and ministry to orphans in order to serve the people
of Ufa, the peaceful Islamic capital of Russia.
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World Changers
Moscow,
Russia
Project
#: 73292
Dates: March 5-12, 2005
Cost: $495 plus airfare
Reach university students of Moscow by "hanging out"
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and in their community.
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International
World Changers
Constanta, Romania
Dates: July 15-22 and July 22-29, 2005
Cost: $495 plus airfare
Assignments: Minister through creative arts, sports and
home visits as well as provide humanitarian aid to the community
through light construction and repair.
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Ground
Breaker and Seed Sower
Budapest,
Hungary
Project
#71570
Dates:
May 30 - Aug. 10, 2005
Cost:
$1425 +airfare
Help us do what ever it takes to see that every person in
Budapest becomes a hearer and a carrier of the Gospel message.
We need visionary self starters to work with Hungarian nationals
and American short-term teams using ESL and sports evangelism
to start 6 to 12 reproducible, apostolic, small groups.
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International
World Changers
Athens, Greece
Date: June 4-11, 2005
Cost: $495 plus airfare
Assignments: Construct a Christian camp and share the gospel
with non-believers and disciple new believers in a survival
camp setting.
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Adventure
Sport Rafter/Climber
Slovenia
Project
#71288
Dates:
Any 14 days btwn 6/1/05 & 8/1/05
Cost:
$760 + airfare
Live and raft with local Slovene rafters, sharing your testimony,
faith and the gospel as opportunities arise. The float plan
is to establish strong friendship relationships with your
rafting companions, sharing your faith naturally through
the context of your extreme rafting adventure.
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International
World Changers
Thessaloniki, Greece
Date: July 13-23, 2005
Cost: $650 plus airfare
Assignments: Attend a Greek sports camp and build relationships
with Greek students by participating in all daily activities
of the camp.
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more . . .
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Active
ESL Teacher
Kosovo
Project
#73344
Dates:
May 25 - July 31, 2005
Cost:
$3315 + airfare
Teach students conversational English, play soccer, make
relationships, and participate in coffeehouses and drama
clubs. Come and join the AGPG (Albanian Gheg People Group)
Teams and be a part of changing lives summer of 2005.
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Persecuted
Church: Romania
After
having conficts with two Orthodox priests in one village of Romania's
southern Olt county, a Romanian missionary and the priests met
with the police. The priests complained about the work the missionary
was doing in the village, but the police said they did not see
any problems because he was working within the law. The priests,
however, continued to harass and try to keep the missionary and
others from ministering. Because of that, more people are being
drawn to see and hear what the priests are complaining about.
Praise God for turning into good what men meant evil.
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Missionary
Bio Byte: Johann Oncken
By
Angie Weston
He
wanted to be baptized by immersion in a local river, but the German
authorities did not allow "river dipping." So in the
dead of the night, Johann Oncken and several other believers rowed
across the Elbe river and held a private baptism ceremony. The
next day, they began the first monder-day Baptist church in Germany.
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Bible
Study: Annointing with Oil in Hard Times
By
Philip Keller
Phrases such
as "You annoint my head with oil" from Psalm 23:5 are
often confusing at best and meaningless at worst in our modern
day. Nevertheless, the Lord has an important message for us about
His comfort and healing in hard times through this very phrase.
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More
info on this from A
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"Do not pray
for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks
equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." --
Phillips Brooks |
They've
been in the news this week for possibly murdering an American
journalist and earlier this month for holding children hostage
in a Russian school, a standoff that ended in a bloodbath.
The clan-oriented Chechens are strongly rooted in their
land and known for fighting for their independence. Living
in a small territory of the Caucus Mountains between the
Russian and Georgian republics, they are a very proud people
who want their freedom from the Russian government, but
they have no one to lead them to spiritual freedom in Christ.
