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PRAYER POINTS

Paul reminds us in Ephesians 6:18 to pray for the saints.  Prayer is a foundational part of any outreach.  As God brings these things to your mind, please take them to Him in prayer:

• International Students Inc.
  • Continued opportunities for 121'ers to be the hands of feet of Jesus
  • The work of the Holy Spirit to be accomplished without hindrance in international students
• India
  • The breakdown of spiritual strongholds in a country full of idolatry
  • Wisdom, patience, perseverance, and spiritual sensitivity and protection for the workers on the field
• Upcoming Trips
  • Prepared hearts for the youth living in orphanages who will hear about God's love for them
  • Prepared hearts for the trip participants through whom God will be working
• Other current efforts
  • Russian pastors who will soon be visiting 121
  • Continued growth for seeds planted in Acuña
  • Bryan and Leslie who are in training and will soon be going overseas full-time
    

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

In the Presence of My Enemies
Gracia Burnham
Paperback

In this remarkably honest and unaffected memoir, Burnham tells the story of her captivity at the hands of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim extremist group in the Philippines. For just over a year, she and her husband Martin, a missionary pilot, lived with their captors and a variety of other hostages in the Philippine jungle. In a botched rescue attempt, the Philippine army shot and killed Martin Burnham and Ediborah Yap, a nurse who was the other remaining hostage. Gracia Burnham was also shot, but rescued and treated for a leg wound. Burnham hauntingly depicts the alchemical reaction of deep Christian faith, Stockholm Syndrome and the unremitting terror of hostage life. The odd intimacy among the hostages and captors comes across in surprisingly frank conversations. At one point, Martin boldly refers to all the bad things the captors have done to the hostages, only to have one of them look at him quizzically and claim he has never done any harm to the hostages. The captors, in fact, do unspeakable things, such as beheading hostages or taking them as unwilling "wives." Impressively, Burnham makes no attempt to dramatize these events for shock value, nor does she use this book as an occasion for Christian triumphalism. Instead, she chronicles both her high and low moments as a Christian during that year, and shows tremendous respect and love for members of other faiths with whom she lived.