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Urgent Prayer Requests For Delynne Collett

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Delynne was admitted to the hospital yesterday (12/27/07). She is having a blood transfusion. Her red and white blood cell count is low. She has a fever and they are trying to determine the cause. Her immune system has been compromised and she is not allowed out in the public at this time. She is very weak. They will give her an injection of Neulasta to help build her red blood count, platelets and antibiotics through her port.

Her brother, Jonathan, was taken to a clinic and diagnosed with bronchitis. Rick (dad) is with Jonathan and Crystal and Minnie (mom) is at the hospital with Delynne and Brielle.

Please pray for this family and especially that Delynne’s body will be strong to fight all that is going on within her. Pray that her counts will go up and for protection against infection and that she will have no ill effects from the platelets or blood transfusion. She has lost 20 + pounds and has had a feeding tube to try to help her get the nutrition she needs and put back on the weight she lost. Delynne still struggles with blurred and double vision. Only God can intervene and turn all this around. The Lord will show you how to pray in a situation such as this.

Praise the Lord that Delynne is still in good spirits with all that is taking place!

Thank you for standing with us in the gap for Delynne and her family.

Love and Blessings,

Bill and Pam Malone

Pray U.S.A.!

Keep Sheila in your prayers

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Please continue to keep Sheila in your prayers. She is post-op (foot
surgery) and is recovering nicely. She is having the pin taken out
tomorrow
(Friday).

Thanks!

Susie

goodnews@gate.net

Dear Friends, I am not the type of minister to run over to everyone in a wheelchair or place my finger in every deaf person’s ears. I only do what I see the Father doing.
I know in my heart that this child will walk with enough prayer!!!


This precious child, Ethan, fell down a staircase five years ago and due to head injury he has been in this wheelchair ever since. I received in my spirit from God, he will walk and his full speech will return. His parents make sure he gets injections that keep his muscle tone. These shots are very painful and this child is a great soldier and is declaring and begging, and I do mean begging, for his healing. Won’t you all join Ethan and his parents in praying for him. We held his hands and he WALKED with much exhaustion. He did a great job but one of his ankles would not straighten out!!

Father is Mark and Mother is Anita

kelshinga@yahoo.com

Greetings in the name of our soon coming King Jesus Christ. We are a young dynamic and committed followers of
the Lord Jesus Christ Commissioned with the mission of diseminating the word of God to those in rural areas.
We believe that the primary task of the church is to fulfill the Great Commission Jesus gave us before He
ascended into heaven(Mark 16:15)We are working on spreading the gospel. Along with a Gospel Team, we conduct
Bible classes to train new pastors in rural areas and we equip them with bicycles and bibles who are going
out into remote villages and mountain areas to plant new churches.

We have been operating a feeding program for orphans in the area we are operating from,who are without
nice clothes, shoes and homeless. Children in rural villages of Zambia and totally lacking comfort and parental
love.

Daily we see numbers of helpless orphans in public settings throughout the villages. Please remember them
in your daily prayers. They suffer for want of food, clothing and shelter. Some have been starving for days on
end. Their condition is truly pathetic. We are soliciting donations from fellow christians to meet their dire
needs. We need some generous sponsors to provide care for at least some of them.

Please allow us to explain the situation and tell you about the existing conditions of orphaned children in
Zambia. Here, the number of orphans is geometrically increasing from one day to the next as families disintegrate
due to the death of parents. Many boys spend their days at public places like bus stops, railway stations and
enterprise centers like petrol bunks or in the landlords, fields.

They struggle the entire day for their owners, where they are accustomed to insufficient food. These pitiful
youngsters wander the streets where they may eat only three days out of seven.. Sometimes, after feasts of the
wealthy, orphans compete with stray dogs for food left in the the trashbins. In such a hostile environment, these
helpless little one will one day become hardened and powerful criminals and sociopaths. This most serious
problems of our contemporary society must surely inspire compassion in any human being.

In this land, people are aware of these bitter and frightening conditions, but few from our middle or upper
classes comes forward to aid these helpless and suffering victims. We so pitied their existing conditions, that
we proposed and planned a feeding program to uplift these helpless orphans. Being christians we make personal
decisions according to the Bible in James 1:27. These words made a great impression on us and we decided to
take the responsibility for the helpless orphans. We have adopted 65 double orphans from a total of over 200
orphans and vulnerable in one church in the rural area we are operating. We give them one meal once per day
because we can not afford full meals everyday. These children have no good clothes, shoes, blankets and shelter.
They are plenty of orphans in this area who are just surviving on mangoes. Some are kept by their grandmothers
who also widows.They need help from compassionate christians.

Food, clothes, shoes, blankets, shelter and toys are urgently needed for for the 65 orphans. To ensure these
destitute children healthcare and education, we need to provide free accomodations, clothing, shoes, blankets,
medicine, electricity, food and toys. There age is from 3 weeks to 11 years old.

We humbly request generous and kind hearted people from your church to lend us a hand by supporting these
orphans. We hope and pray that our request will be met by positive response and together we are assured of God’s
divine blessing. We have also attached some pictures in order for you to see the situation as well as see what we
are doing. The pictures are showing the few that we are feeding with help of our volunteers, some children
picking mangoes from the tree as a means of survival, some with there grandmothers and a three weeks old baby
left by her dead mother one week after delivery. We hope to hear from you soon.

Yours Faithfully

Pastor Kelvin Shinga&

Bishop Maxwell Kabumbwe

Suawin@aol.com

Christ’s Victory International Mission of Liberia

514 -44th Street Court East, Bradenton, Florida 34208,

Tel./Fax: (941) 746-1783,

Email: suawin@aol.com

This is love: not that we loved God, but that He love us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.“ I John 4:10

Merry Christmas and Holiday Blessings!

From Christ’s Victory International Mission of Liberia

& And the Children of Hope Orphanage

Praise to the Lord our God for His faithfulness. We are making Jesus know, but ultimately the Lord must bear
the fruit. But we also thank you for your continued fervent prayers, encouragement and financial support.
We are blessed to have you as friends and partners. Please also pray with us as we end this year and begin
another year in the Lord.

Special prayer requests include the following:

1) Short term missions trip – David left for Liberia on 12/4/07, and Annette leaves on 12/29/07,

2) Children of Hope Orphanage Christmas celebration as we settle in 17 new children and reserve supplies are very low,

3) The Annual Leadership Conference at one of the village churches from 1/6/08 – 1/13/08 – Travel is very challenging as all of the roads are very bad and none of our pick up trucks are working,

4) Short term missions team that is planning to come over in June 2008 from First Baptist Palmetto,

5) Completion of the parsonage in Monrovia. and rent payment that is due for Pastor Nathaniel’s family in February 2008,

6) Wisdom and perseverance for all CVIM leaders, other ministry leaders and government officials.

May the Lord bless you abundantly more than you can ask or think as you serve Him, celebrate the birth of His Son and welcome a New Year full of opportunities.

In His Service,

Pastor David & Mrs. Annette Dann

thevoice@persecution.com

“For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And
His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)

IRAN Christians Arrested, Interrogated and Literature Confiscated – VOM Sources

Recently Christians were arrested and interrogated by secret police. The Voice of the Martyrs contacts report Christian literature and other items were confiscated during the arrests. In the last six months, thousands of pieces of Christian literature have been confiscated as part of a significant crackdown by secret police. Pray God protects believers in Iran and for God to give them wisdom as they share the gospel in dangerous areas. Pray their courageous testimonies will draw nonbelievers into fellowship with Christ. Psalm 118:17, Psalm 91

PAKISTAN Christians Under Attack Ask for Prayer – VOM Sources

The Voice of the Martyrs has received several prayer requests from believers in Pakistan. Due to the volatile
and sensitive climate in Pakistan, VOM cannot release the specific locations of these believers. They request:

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Chinese Christian bookstore owner arrested, family in hiding

from this page: http://www.MNNonline.org/article/10683

China (MNN) — Voice of the Martyrs Canada reports that a Christian bookstore owner was arrested when 20 members of the Public Security Bureau raided his Christian bookstore on November 28 near the Olympic Village in Beijing.

Mr. Weihan Shi is a husband with two young daughters. The others who were arrested along with Shi, including his wife, have already been released from prison. However, Shi has not been allowed to see his family or consult a lawyer, according to the latest report.

Shi has diabetes which is causing concern over his health since he does not have access to medication. Also, Shi’s wife and daughters have gone into hiding for fear that another attack could present itself before legal action has been taken.

Pray for the man’s health and
for his family who have gone into hiding. Pray, also, that he will stand firm in his faith.

Also visit our:

persecution prayer watch pages, click here

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Here are your weekly prayer items. Please pray over them during your
personal devotional time and at your church prayer meeting.

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Court sentences missionary kidnappers in the Philippines

Philippines (MNN) — There has been some resolution to the 2001 hostage
situation that resulted in the death of a missionary with New Tribes
Mission, Martin Burnham. On Thursday Dec. 6 a court in Manila sentenced
14 members of an Islamic militant group Abu Sayyaf to life in prison.
Gracia Burnham was held hostage for more than a year with her husband
before he died in the rescue that freed her, and she says the sentence is
fair. “I would just like more than anything for these guys to hear the
Gospel of Jesus while they’re in jail. I’m glad they weren’t sentenced
to death. I would love for them to hear about the forgiveness of
Jesus.” Burnham thinks perhaps someday she’ll be able to share that message.
“I would love to go back and be able to visit with them and just talk
with them through an interpreter, and most of all get some literature
in their language that talks about salvation.” Pray for the Burnham
family during this difficult time of the year.

* Pray for the witness of Gracia Burnham to be used to illustrate
the power of forgiveness.

* Pray for the salvation of the Islamic militants while in jail.

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Two YWAM staff gunned down in USA

USA (MNN) — Youth With a Mission continues to be in shock after two of
their young staff members were killed and two others wounded. YWAM’s
Paul Filidis says a man described in his early 20’s came to the YWAM
training center dormitory shortly after midnight Sunday morning asking to
stay there. That’s when 26-year-old Tiffany Johnson was called. “She
explained to him apparently that this was not an option — this was not a
place where he could stay. And in response to that, he pulled out a
gun and started shooting, killing her and one other person”–24-year old
Philip Crouse. YWAM sends Christians around the world — some to places
where persecution of Christians is common. Filidis is concerned that
“people not shy away from getting involved as God is calling people to
get involved in ministry and missions. Pray that this would not detract
them from what God may be asking them to get involved with. We hope
that maybe more people will be interested in ministry rather than shying
away from it.”

* Pray for recovery for those who are injured.

* Pray for comfort for the families of those who were killed.

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A ministry grieves with believers in Colorado, considers impact

USA (MNN) — Authorities investigating Colorado’s shootings at YWAM say
the gunman held a grudge against Christians. Ironically, Matthew
Murray had been training at the missionary training school to go on a
mission trip, but was not accepted. While some called the four who died in
Sunday’s shootings “martyrs,” Carl Moeller of Open Doors USA clarified
that a bit more: “I would say that those brothers and sisters who lost
their lives this past weekend were killed in persecution against
Christians–a vendetta by this man against Christians.” Open Doors supports the
global persecuted church. Moeller says this incident shows that the
American church should be prepared for the rigors of evangelism. “As
Christians in America, the more we stand up for righteousness in our
society, the more we stand up for God’s Word in public places, and the more
we make Christianity the issue of life…we’ll draw more and more fire.
It’s inevitable.”

* Pray for healing in the two communities affected by the
shootings.

* Pray for those who are persecuted for their faith around the
world.

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Bombings in Iraq keep Christians in fear

Turkey (MNN) — At least 27 people died and 100 were wounded Wednesday
when three car bombs ripped through a southern Iraqi city. Rival Shiite
groups have been battling for control of oil and power. The violence
has forced thousands of Christians out of Iraq. Some say 90-percent of
the Christian population is gone. Many are refugees in Turkey. World
Evangelical Alliances’ Johan Candelin says they’re now his mission. “The
challenge is huge, but it’s better to do a little than to do nothing. So
that’s why I’m going there to comfort them, to share the Gospel about
the birth of Jesus Christ and bring some food and toys for the
children.” Candelin says he’s helping a small group of 2,000 who have had loved
ones killed or kidnapped. “Many have had children who have been taken
away. Once they got them back, they left the country. So unfortunately,
the Christian population in Iraq is leaving the country very fast. It
is becoming a totally Muslim country, unfortunately.”

* Pray that the Gospel will continue to bear fruit in Iraq and that
the Church will grow.

* Pray for believers in Iraq to be strong in their faith.

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Open Doors reaches out to Iraqi refugees

Iraq (MNN) — The United Nations estimates that roughly 2,000
Christians per day are being displaced by violence in Iraq. Open Doors is
working closely with local partners to bring in survival supplies for those
who have fled to the North. In doing so, they’re helping preserve a
remnant church and Christian identity. Carl Moeller of Open Doors says, “To
be completely dislocated is so horrible for them. They’ve lost their
jobs, they’ve lost their homes, and they’ve even lost their church. So
we’re actually working to bring Christian communities together in small
groups–local churches of refugees where people can find others that
have fled as well.” However, seeking refuge in the North hasn’t turned
out very well, either. “The influx has created a social dynamic that has
created more violence against Christians, so we don’t have a lot of
optimism in the short term for the situation over there. We’re just
praying that God would intervene in these violent areas so the violence would
decrease, and that not only physical relief would be provided for
these, but a spiritual relief.”

* Pray that Open Doors co-workers can continue to provide relief
supplies to the most needy.

* Pray for spiritual healing.

* Pray that the violence will decrease and the refugees can return
home.

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Please pray for Sheila who is having foot surgery this morning and the doctors who will be treating her.

Thanks!

Susie

thevoice@persecution.com

“All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the
LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.” (I Samuel 17:47)

LAOS Three Laotian Pastors Released From Prison VOM Sources

On December 6, Pastors Van Thong, Bua and Amkha were released after more than 12 months in prison. According
to The Voice of the Martyrs’ contacts, “Their families will be rejoicing to see them come back home and be with
them again.” Pastors Van Thong, Bua and Amkha were arrested on November 21, 2006, along with nine other pastors,
after attending a Christian meeting. The nine pastors were released from prison in May 2007. The Voice of the Martyrs
supported the pastors and their families during their time in prison. Praise God they will be reunited with their
families shortly. Pray for their protection and for other believers in Laos. Ask God to give them courage to
continually live for Christ despite the immense challenges they face. Pray their testimonies will draw nonbelievers
into fellowship with Jesus Christ. Hebrews 13:5-6, Romans 8:31

AZERBAIJAN Imprisoned Baptist Pastor in Poor Health Christian World News

Recently, imprisoned Baptist pastor, Zaur Balaev, was transferred to a prison colony in Azerbaijan where his
family is forced to bribe prison guards to bring him food. According to a Christian World News (CWN) report, Mission
Network News and the Slavic Gospel Association reported the frail pastor was experiencing harsh conditions at the
prison. CWN reported, Joel Griffith of Slavic Gospel Association said, “Officials at this prison where he’s being
held are demanding a high level of payment in what seems to be basically bribes. They’re demanding these bribes before
Pastor Balaev is getting food or being able to meet with his family.” The report added that since Pastor Balaev’s
transfer to Darnagyul, the pastor has been in poor health, and his church and family are concerned. However, they
have been able to supply him with warm clothes, blankets and food. Pray God heals Pastor Balaev and works in his
favor during the appeal process. Pray the Holy Spirit will encourage his family and church during this difficult time.
Psalm 91, Isaiah 40:31

INDIA Two Pastors Beaten and Arrested Compass Direct News

On November 25, Pastor Joemon, Pastor Jojo and another believer were stripped of their clothes, tied to a pole
and beaten after a worship service at Christ Vision church was raided in the Hassan district of Karnataka. According
to a Compass Direct news report, when police arrived several hours later, they took the Christians to the police
station and charged the pastors with forcibly converting Hindus to Christianity. The Christians have reportedly
refused to press charges, saying they have forgiven their attackers. Pray for the full recovery of those injured
and for endurance for them to remain faithful despite this attack. Pray for Christian converts in India who are
facing pressure to renounce their faith. Psalm 107:2

TURKMENISTAN Pastor Ordered to Leave Turkmenistan Forum 18 News

Baptist pastor Vyacheslav Kalataevsky has been denied permission to remain in his native town of Turkmenbashi,
Turkmenistan. According to Forum 18 News, “Kakataevsky’s visa application to remain with his wife and family was
rejected by the Migration Service and he will have to leave the country. He is due to leave on a flight to Moscow on
December 11.” Officials have refused to explain the reason for denying the visa, Pastor Kalataevsky explained
to Forum, “But of course it is linked to my activity as a believer. Everything that has happened to me since 2001
is related to that.” Pastor Kalataevsky was released in November after eight months in prison. Pray for his family
during this difficult time. Pray for his church as they have no pastor, Ask God to protect them.
Psalm 23, Isaiah 54:14

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Few Christians in the West consider the country of Nigeria a Muslim nation. Yet half of its citizens are Islamic…
and there is a growing minority of radical Muslims who are violently targeting Christians in this African nation.

Elder Saidu Dogo, the secretary of the northern Nigeria chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN),
recently told Compass Direct that Muslim leaders are encouraging their followers to “take over Nigeria by going to
war against Christians.” And as a result, many believers in this nation are being threatened, abducted, or
murdered.

Left for Dead

Henry Ogbaje, a 24-year-old Christian, was on his way home in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Friday, October 12, when a group
of radical Muslims attacked him and beat him unconscious with wooden clubs.

Believing they had killed him, his assailants left him for dead… and Henry lay in a pool of his own blood until he
regained consciousness three hours later.

A passerby eventually helped Henry get home, and his family members immediately took him to the hospital. A doctor
treated him that night, and told Henry’s family to bring him back to the hospital in three days’ time. On Sunday night,
however, Henry’s family rushed him back to the hospital… and by 8:00 p.m., Henry died.

“Henry was a peace-loving person,” remembers his father, Sgt. Emmanuel Ogbaje. “He was not a
troublemaker.” This is why Henry’s death is so horribly shocking to those who knew and loved him.

Henry Ogbaje’s murder took place as Muslims were celebrating the Eid-El-Fatr festival, which marks the end of
Ramadan. Another man identified only as Basil was also killed in Kaduna during this same time.

Noting that other Muslim leaders also preached attacks against Christians during Ramadan,
Elder Dogo is pleading for the Nigerian government to protect Christians. He is asking they act quickly to forestall
what he and other Christian leaders say is a systematic effort to wipe Christianity out of northern Nigeria.

“We are alarmed over these types of killings and plead that the government seriously do something about these
security breaches,” he said.

The Rev. Joshua Magaji, assistant secretary of the Kaduna state chapter of CAN, said the killings were meant to
provoke Christians into angry retaliations and trigger another religious crisis in the state. Tens of thousands of
deaths have been the result of religious violence in the past three decades and violence has broken out several times
since the imposition of sharia (Islamic) law in 2000.

“We thank God that Christians in the state have restrained themselves from avenging the killing of these two,
and we would like to appeal that they continue in this spirit,” Magaji said.

Need for Prayer Crucial

Please be in prayer for the families of those who have lost loved ones at the hands of radical extremists. And
please pray for the safety and perseverance of the millions of Christians and Muslim-background believers living in
Nigeria as thousands of believers are being threatened or attacked because of their faith in Jesus Christ!

Thank you for your enduring support and compassion for our brothers and sisters who are paying such a high price
for their faith. May God bless you for battling with them through your gifts and prayers in the coming days!
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