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Sunday, 15 November 2009

  • Supplement

    For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue,

    virtue with knowledge,

    and knowledge with self-control,

    and self-control with steadfastness,

    and steadfastness with godliness,

    and godliness with brotherly affection,

    and brotherly affection with love.

    For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  For whoever

    lacks these qualities

    is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

    Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never   f

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    For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

    -2 Peter 1:5-11-

Monday, 09 November 2009

  • Week of Nov 8th - Shaikh (Marathi) of India

    This continues a series that will focus on an unreached people group.  These are the bottom 40 Least-engaged Peoples, meaning that there is no ministry known to be going on within the group.  According to the population number, every 50,000 people is assigned a potential missionary, so, you can see how many missionaries are needed for each peoples.  Here is the fourth group:

    Shaikh (Marathi) of India

    Population:  2,335,683

    Religion:  Islam

    Missionaries Needed:  46

    Adopted?:  Yes.

    Language:  Marathi
    Bible?:  Yes, completed.

Monday, 02 November 2009

  • Week of Nov 1st - Bhenrihar of India

    This continues a series that will focus on an unreached people group.  These are the bottom 40 Least-engaged Peoples, meaning that there is no ministry known to be going on within the group.  According to the population number, every 50,000 people is assigned a potential missionary, so, you can see how many missionaries are needed for each peoples.  Here is the second group:

    Bhenrihar of India

    Population:  4,264,429

    Religion:  Hinduism

    Missionaries Needed:  85

    Adopted?:  Yes.

    Language:  Wagdi
    Bible?:  No Jesus Film.  Radio Programs.  New Testament since 2000

    Finding a description about this people group is kind of tough.  I'm still on the hunt for something to post on here.

Thursday, 29 October 2009

  • Poem: Emerging (10/29/09)

    Emerging

    by Sarah ><>

    October 29th, 2009

    On the tip of my brain
    Sits a poem only half-formed.

    It has been on the verge of being written
    But lacks a common thread or substance.
    Inspiration...

    The change of the seasons are a muse
    As is Prokofiev, green tea, and daffodils.
    When peering out into nature
    To watch God's amazing workmanship
    Words drip into the sky
    And peek out from behind the trees.

    These fleeting moments of clarity
    Are so difficult to grasp,
    But their memory leaves a taste in my mind
    And can't help but make me thirst for the something greater.

    Like the dark shadows shining down from the clouds
    Between the bright rays of the sun.
    Or the resonance of a string on my violin
    With the tamborine atop the piano.

    The sound rushes through the air and finds a kindred voice
    And the two shake with joy at their meeting,
    Lifting my heart with them
    And laughter bursting forth.

    Observing the absurd and giggling
    Deeply until I must gasp for air.

    God, the beautiful painter,
    Who made the colors to complement each other.
    He put red flowers on stalks of green;
    Purple and yellow wildflowers
    Scatter themselves and dance along the highway,

    Crowned with caps of white.
    Trees containing one hundred shades of orange, gold,
    And vibrant, burning embers of scarlet
    Against a vastness of blue
    And a trunk of black.

    Each leaf then holds a secret;
    Each flower petal an answer,

    And my eyes flit over them oft unaware
    Of such a great mystery.
    Oh, grant me the liberty to write such a verse
    That would do justice to these trappings
    Beating out of my heart.

    A calling, a whisper,
    A rampant longing for the glorious.

Sunday, 25 October 2009

  • Week of Oct 25th - Crimean Turkish of Turkey

    This continues a series that will focus on an unreached people group.  These are the bottom 40 Least-engaged Peoples, meaning that there is no ministry known to be going on within the group.  According to the population number, every 50,000 people is assigned a potential missionary, so, you can see how many missionaries are needed for each peoples.  Here is the second group:

    Crimean Turkish of Turkey

    Population:  5,097,667

    Religion:  Islam

    Missionaries Needed:  101

    Adopted?:  Yes.

    Language:  Crimean Tatar
    Bible?:  New Testament only

    The Crimean Tatars are Turkic people who inhabited the Crimean peninsula, now a part of Ukraine, for over seven centuries. They established their own Khanate in the 1440s and remained an important power in Eastern Europe until 1783, when Crimea was annexed to Russia. During World War II, the entire Tatar population in Crimea fell victims to Stalin's oppressive policies. In 1944 they were unjustly accused of being Nazi collaborators and deported en masse to Central Asia and other lands of the Soviet Union. Many died of disease and malnutrition. Although a 1967 Soviet decree removed the charges against Crimean Tatars, the Soviet government did nothing to facilitate their resettlement in Crimea and to make reparations for lost lives and confiscated property.

    http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/krimtatar.html

    The Crimean Tatar have fled and settled in many countries as Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Uzbekistan, Western Europe, the Middle East, and North America.  Living as those who are exiled from their homelands, they are strangers in a strange land, seeking to preserve their cultural identity and yet make a living and survive to pass on that heritage to their children.  Pray that someone would be raised up to reach these people among the Turkish.

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