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April 2016 • Vol. 3, No. 4
Lies We Believe... By Louise Alleva | Page 4
Palmetto Outreach Brings Salvation Message to All By Bob and Madeline Duffany | Page 3
‘I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen.’ — Rev 1.18a
Mentally ill Man Wandered Aimlessly in the jungle until Jesus Healed His Mind
on Good Friday By Mark Ellis
By Mark Ellis
ADEN, YEMEN (ANS - March 25, 2016) -- Sister Sally, a superior of the Missionaries of Charity, an order founded by Mother Teresa, miraculously survived an Islamic State (ISIS) attack on a convent and a home for seniors in Yemen that killed four nuns and 12 others.
A man from the Korwa people group in Chhattisgarh state put his faith in Christ after church prayers healed him. (Christian Aid Mission) In one of India’s most remote areas, among one of its most primitive tribes, Pratik* wandered aimlessly among the predations of the jungle and the tangled muddle of his own mental illness, seemingly lost for weeks at a time. He periodically came back to his senses and returned to his wife at their home in an area of Chhattisgarh, one of India’s poorest and most illiterate states, according to a report by Christian Aid Mission. between sanity and insanity, wandering between his home and the jungle and its perils. His wife feared for his life. This cycle might have continary named Siddharth* had not been gripped with a passion: to reach thousands of people groups in India yet to hear the message of salvation in Christ. Siddharth began his outreach with the Gonds of central India, idol-and nature-worshiping animists who suffer daily from hunger and poverty. With the power of the gospel and the Holy Spirit, he and his team of indigenous missionaries gradually saw Gond villagers’ addiction to alcohol turn into zeal for the Lord, according to Christian Aid Mission. Then he and his team went to unreached areas among the Sahu, Oravan, Khadia, KanwarChamar, and Korwa people, and 50 churches were planted. One of the new converts among the Korwa was a friend of Pratik. This new believer ran into Pratik early last year during one of Pratik’s periods of sanity – a reminder of God’s sovereignty and providential care. “He heard about the Lord Jesus Christ through one of his friends, and he wanted to know more about the Lord,”Siddharth told Christian Aid Mission. Amazingly, Pra tik walked 31 miles on jungle paths and dirt roads to reach
Nun miraculously survived Islamic State attack;
Early on Friday morning, March 4th, Sister Sally was
Pratik was insane but now a preacher! the Korwa church. Once he was there, the power of the Word and the Spirit began to touch Pratik’s heart and mind. The church surrounded him in prayer and God moved powerfully to bring healing. “The Lord delivered him from the mental illness, and he has become completely normal!” Pastor Siddharth exclaimed. Pratik put his faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior, and he became a new person in Christ. “After tasting the love and deliverance of our Lord Jesus Christ, he started visiting the villages in a 15-kilometer radius and preached the gospel, telling what the Lord had done in his life,” Siddharth reported to Christian Aid Mission. “Within six months he has er villages he has brought one or two families to Christ. During my last visit to his village, the Lord enabled me to baptize more than 50 Korwa people.” In that area, more than 400 Korwa have come to Christ though the ministry of Pratik and an indigenous missionary, one of the ministry’s 60 indigenous workers, he said. The Joshua Project describes the Korwa people of India as unreached.“The Korwa are the most primitive tribal people in central India,” Siddharth said.
“As far as we know, no other mission is working among this people group in this part of central India. Their villages are usually on hilltops or covered with thick forest. They are animistic, and they also believe in magic and witchcraft. Witchcraft plays a very important role in their social life.” “We teach them the Word of God and train them in techniques of church planting in our satellite school. We Praise God for what the Lord is doing through the life and witness of these new believers.” *Names changed for security reasons For more information about Christian Aid Mission’s work in India, www.christianaid.org/ News/2016/mir20160317. aspx?SC=MIR ASSIST News Service PO Box 609 Lake Forest, Ca 92609 www.assistnews.net
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Ethiopian Christians ran to alert the sisters that Islamic State had arrived to kill them. Clearly alarmed, the nuns ran two-by-two in different directions. Some of the workers at the home for seniors yelled, “Don’t kill the sisters! Don’t kill the sisters!” “They caught Sister Judith tied them up, shot them in the head, and smashed their heads,” according to Sister Sally’s account obtained by The Clarion Project.
Sister Sally recounts her miraculous escape in media interview. Then Sister Anselm and Sister Marguerite were caught and brutally killed in the same fashion. One of the sisters speculated later that the smashing of the heads was a cruel mockery of the Scripture, “He will crush the head of the serpent.” The gunmen entered the oldage home, which housed 80 people, by persuading the... To be continued in Page 5
“The Islamic jihad against Christendom started before anyone ever heard of a Crusade” By James A. Lyonsretired U.S. Navy admiral and
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewsFleet Commander and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations, Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons has detailed how Islamic jihad against Christians started before the use of “Crusades” or “Crusaders”. Writing for The Washington Times, Lyons writes: “Use of ‘Crusades’ and ‘Crusaders’ as terms of abuse is clearly meant to stir up Muslim masses that they are under assault, not that we are defending ourselves against jihad… Not surprisingly, when President Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast
last year on the issue of terrorism, he attempted to minimize the Islamic element of the Islamic State’s barbarity: ‘Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.’” Lyons explains that the Crusades were a series of wars launched by Western Europeans starting in 1096, following defeats of the Christian Byzantine Empire by the Seljuk Turks. “All told, the Crusades occupied a brief period of just over two and one-half centuries. They were limited in scope...Continued in Page 5