Reaching the Nations
Shore Elim is also involved with the following individuals /
organisations:
A Family Working in North Africa (Senders: Elim
Christian Centre - City Campus)
This family live in a large, finding opportunities to talk
about God, faith and Jesus Christ as they live their lives among
the Muslim peoples around them. They are also responsible for the
pastoral care of other team members spread throughout the
country.
We help with prayer, promotion and finance.
Suzanne-Muslim Awareness and Resource Network- MARN.
(Mostly self-supporting with help from churches and
individuals).
Suzanne founded MARN as a network and to provide resources for
those wanting to be a blessing to Muslims here in New
Zealand. She also runs awareness seminars and is asked to speak at
missions conferences and churches. Two key events she is involved
in is the International Cultural Festival held in Mt Roskill every
year and the 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim world during
Ramadan.
We help with prayer, promotion and finance.
SS YWAM, currently at University in a large Asian City.
(Supported by individuals and churches)
As possibly East Timor's first Protestant missionary, SS is
a gifted evangelist and loves sharing his faith wherever he goes,
currently among the students at the University he attends.
We help with prayer, promotion and finance.
MARN Update
MARN Newzlink - Special Edition 2
May 2011
Overview
1. Osama Bin Laden is Dead
2. 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World
The aim of this newsletter is to raise awareness about
Islam in New Zealand and the West and to provide you with resources
that will help you befriend and reach out to your Muslim
neighbours, friends, work colleagues and contacts.
Normally Newzlink does not comment on specific world
incidents but this recent event is a significant one that will
have an on-going influence on the Muslim community internationally
and locally.
1. OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD
President Obama's Announcement
http://abcnews.go.com/International/video/president-obama-confirms-osama-bin-laden-killed-white-house-triumphant-time-america-politics-13505864
Osama Bin Laden Killed - The White House releases information that
public enemy number one killed.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/osama-bin-laden-killed-white-house-releases-information-public-enemy-number-one-politics-13505713
Obama Gives Order, Bin Laden Is Killed: White House Time
Line
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/osama-bin-laden-killed-white-house-releases-information-public-enemy-number-one-politics-13505713
The following comment is summarised from an
interview just viewed on the 6.00pm TV One news:
Osama's death may help alleviate the deep grief Americans
experienced after 9/11, a grief that has continued for the past 10
years. However it is unlikely to have a major impact on reducing
terrorism as the terrorist cells are very decentralised and now
have bases in over 100 countries. They do not need an overall
leader. It may even have the opposite effect of creating a martyr
out of Osama and his martyrdom may be used as a catalyst for an
increase in terrorist attacks.
We need to watch and pray and see how this latest development
plays out on the world stage. Then there is the potential backlash
to Christians and Christian workers living in Muslim-majority
nations to consider. While there is a sense of joy, celebration,
relief and perhaps even the beginning of healing in the Americal
nation, I believe we should see this incident as a call to greater
prayer for the Muslim world than we have engaged in to date.
I urge you to participate in the "30 Days of Prayer for the
Muslim World" during the month of Ramadan, 1-30 August 2011, and to
encourage those your churches, home groups, prayer cells and
networks to get involved also. For details see the next item.
Many of the Muslim families and individuals in NZ will be
affected by this news also and may experience great fear for
themselves and for family members overseas or there may well be a
sense of anger, outrage and injustice. Either way this is a
wonderful opportunity for Christians to come alongside
those they have already befriended to affirm their
relationship and to share the Hope we have within us for the future
because of what really happened at the cross at Calvary and later
the empty Tomb. These are stories we can share from our hearts,
remembering to respond with patience and gentleness to all
questions and responses. Just as it takes time for water to soak
into parched land (initial rainfall tends to run off the
surface), it takes time for the Truth to soak into the
hearts and minds of our Muslim friends. Much prayer is needed.
Ladies, you might like to visit Joy Loewen's blogspot
http://joyloewen.blogspot.com/ and soak in her gentle,
warm, spirit-filled advise for sharing with your
Muslim friends.
If you have suggestions as to how Christians can be
bearers of Good News at this time to the Muslim community here
in NZ, please drop us a line on
marn@talk.co.nz or just drop us a line if you would like
to respond to this posting.
