Wednesday

“Then He said to them,

‘Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.'”

~Matthew 4:19~

 

Mr. Frankie Gehringer is home. Thank you for your prayers for him the last few days and your continued prayers too.

 

MISSIONARY PERSONAL NEEDS. As a result of a governmental treaty between the United States and France, Ron and Lisa Jones have recently learned that they must leave Reunion Island in September 2008. Please join Ron and Lisa in prayer as they seek the Lord’s will for their future as well as the future of the work they will be leaving in Reunion. At this point, they feel the Lord leading them to serve in the country of Namibia. The IMB currently has only one family serving in that African country, and they will be returning to the States on stateside assignment within the next few months and would like to have someone oversee the existing work as well as begin new work. However, in the past few years, it has been difficult to obtain work permits for IMB personnel to enter the country. Thus Ron and Lisa would like you to join them in prayer for a miracle: Pray that the Namibian government will grant a work permit for them to enter the country in a timely manner. They also ask you to join them in praying that the Lord will call out someone to take over the new work they have started in the south of Reunion, surely one of the darkest and most unevangelized areas of the island.

 

Teachers will be going back to school in the next few days, if not already, to prepare their classrooms for the coming year. Please begin to pray for each teacher and each student in each school throughout the area. Pray specifically for the teachers and students you know.

 

Baptist Press

July 22, 2008

HORN OF AFRICA–A simple plant battles malaria & gives hope. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28515

TURKEY–Iranian believer flees to Turkey. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28516

WASHINGTON–Kazakhstan weighs new religion restrictions. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28517

TENNESSEE–McCain’s VP choice ‘significantly important’ to evangelicals, Land says. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28518

TENNESSEE–Man accepts Christ after killing deacon. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28519

TENNESSEE–At Bonnaroo, Baptists offer ‘More than Music.’ http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28520

GEORGIA–FIRST-PERSON (Mike Licona): Is Jesus the only way? (part 1) http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28521

KneEmail

“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” (Philippians 2:10).
Mike Benson, Editor

 

Suffering

IN AN INTENSIVE care ward, all visitors are united by a single, awful thread: concern over a dying relative or friend…

Economic differences…fade away. You’ll see no sparks of racial tension there. Sometimes strangers will console one another or cry together quietly and unashamedly. All are facing life at its most essential. Many call for a [preacher] for the first time ever. Only the megaphone of suffering is strong enough to bring these people to their knees to ponder ultimate questions of life and death and meaning. (Philip Yancy)

“For affliction does not come from the dust,

nor does trouble spring from the ground…

But as for me, I would seek God,

and to God I would commit my cause”

~ Job 5:6, 8 ~

 

Have a good “hump-day”!

Anna Lee