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Sudan Update from Missionary Steve Greenberg (Click here to Listen)
Listen to an amazing testimony of how God is using the missionary teams in Sudan. Sudan is currently one of the most persecuted areas in the world for the body of Christ. Please remember to pray for our brothers and sisters in the Lord.

The Problem: Driven by war, the lives of half a million victims in southern Sudan, many of them defenseless children, are held in the balances as severe starvation threatens their lives today.

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A father and son holding hands.
Together walking in shifting sands.
Plowing through the waves of strife,
leave death to find eternal life.
Nothing stops obedience so bold.
Not rain, or snow, or freezing cold.
A miracle beset in an ocean's foam.
The boy surrendered to God's throne.
He went underwater, all can attest.
His spirit there was laid to rest.
Pulled under by currents, like One before,
his sin would curse him in kind no more.
Convictions triumphed at submission's shore,
in that unrelenting internal spiritual war.
A new life to enjoy and to walk uprightly,

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Father God we look to you,
in troubled times like these.
For unending wars and too much debt,
which bring us to our knees.
For people here who have lost their faith,
and confuse reality.
For all manner of our dreaded sin,
even distorted sexuality.
For the first world burning wheat for heat,
while starvation plagues the rest.
For wasted money on foreign oil,
when our own soil could pass the test.
For mineral rights given only to Elk Hills,
while not on my land because "if it spills".
For forgetting the penalties for rebellion,
as it was in Deuteronomy,

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Life in the city was hard but it was OK,
then it was transformed in a wonderful way.
It all came about by a divine request,
someone prayed for God's forgiveness.
A few said separation of church and state,
but many still changed because God is Great!
Then some argued forget kindness, educate,
we've blood and airborne diseases to debate.
Yet travelers there, were now asked to pray,
for those less fortunate they saw that day.
Patiently waiting instead of honking a horn,
drivers now tried to make it their norm.
On public transit -bus, trolly or train,

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I am posting the latest news on Christians laying down their lives. May we learn to lay ours down for each other. It is important that we pray for these our brothers and sisters in chains. "I was in prison and you ignored me" is not what I desire Jesus to say. I am not where I want to be in this, but I am going to seek to grow in my awareness. Please join me.

Tim Reinagel

MYANMAR VOM Calls for Prayer for Christians in Myanmar - VOM Sources

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Islamic militias in Baghdad and Mosul order Christians to pay the jizya, a poll tax which dates back to the period of the Ottoman Empire, which guaranteed non Muslims the right to practise their religion as well as Muslim protection; the groups are ordered "not to reveal their activities" to Iraqi authorities while all contributions are given in alms to the Mosques.

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