Global Outreach & Local Impact: News and Reports
February 25, 2009
Lifting Up Christ in Ethiopia
From Samaritan's Purse Newsletter
-An article about the hospital that our retired missionary, Dr. Harold Adolph helped build with help from WBC.
In neighboring Ethiopia, we are seeing many people put their faith in Jesus Christ through our ministry partner, Soddo Christian Hospital. Samaritan’s Purse has helped support this facility by regularly sending volunteer doctors, supplies, equipment, and biomedical technicians through our medical arm, World Medical Mission. Soddo is now one of the premier hospitals in Ethiopia.
Most importantly, the director, Dr. Duane Anderson, and his staff are committed to sharing the Gospel message with all of their patients. Many not only make decisions for Christ but go on to share their new faith with their family and neighbors when they return home.
“It’s the blessing of God that we get to see our patients come to know the Lord,” Dr. Anderson says.
Before he came to Soddo Hospital, Biniyam (name changed for security reasons) had never even met a Christian. There were none in his small village. Throughout his stay at the hospital, the staff told him about God’s offer of eternal life through His Son. Before his discharge, Biniyam repented of his sins and prayed to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior. The excited young man then went home to share what he had learned. His community now has a church of about 60 people, and that little congregation has sent three evangelists into neighboring villages. These dedicated servants work half days in the fields to feed their families, then travel by bicycle to bring the Good News to others.
“We’re really excited about using this facility to plant churches all over Ethiopia,” Dr. Anderson says.
November 19, 2008
Pakistan on a Precipice - Church at Risk
By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service
The security situation in Pakistan is deteriorating. Al-Qaeda-Taliban jihadists, having already captured most of the north-western tribal regions, are escalating their terror right in the heart of Peshawar, the capital city of North West Frontier Province. They are also ramping up their terror attacks in Pakistan's major cities, including Islamabad. Pakistan's Christians have seen their rights and security decline over nearly three decades of advancing Islamisation and escalating radicalisation. Pakistan's blasphemy law is one of the most insidious tools of religious persecution in the world today. An al-Qaeda-Taliban victory in Pakistan would be disastrous for global security and totally devastating for Pakistan's three million Christians (two percent of the population), some of whom are already suffering under Taliban rule in the north-west. Please pray for the Church in Pakistan.
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