Construction Zone did church yesterday. This is the
young people of our church.
Isaac read a scripture that he torn the paper in
half. Hilarious watching this cutie reading. With a big smile this small Khmer
kid read the verse.
We listened to Francis Chan bringing the message via
internet/youtube. Yip we moved up the tech-line hahaha. Just because the youth
did it, we had to go high tech.
Jerry shared about fellowship and how we must work together.
He was talking about church being like a string but all strings need to work
together as one, then we are stronger.
Anton explained to us The Communion and that we need
to be dead serious when we do this. He talked about
breaking bread, how we shouldn’t mess about and how we need to get right with
other first.
Paul talked about why we should pray, what happens
when we pray and what we can pray about. He then explained snowball prayers and
we had a go. We had to throw a bundled up prayer item in the middle and picked
up another and pray for it.
Hosea helps with giving out pens as well as with
Jerry’s demonstration of how much better it is if we all work together.
After all a wonderful time in church. We praise God
for Fiona Thomas that encourages our children to be bolder. Let’s pray for our
children to be more bold in sharing the good news to others. It is becoming
more and more the norm to be non-christian related. I believe our children are
under a lot of pressure to stand up for their faith.
This week is going to be a very special week. Our
daughter Suzaan is coming to visit on the 29th, this Thursday.
Cannot wait to have fellowship with her and enjoy a real family Christmas
together. Pray for her safe travels.
My good friend Sonny, from Malaysia , is also
bringing a team to come and minister with FGC. Pray for a fruitful time here in
Siem Reap as well as open hearts to listen to the message of God. Pray also for
safe journey. They will be here on Wednesday.
Please pray for Deon Botha. His wife reports that he
started work again today. He is still not completely healed so please pray that
the Lord will restore him completely.
Not sure if all of you follows the news. Last week
this happened on one island near India. Amazing that there are still such isolated
tribes still in the world. I know that there will be different views on this as
we all think different. But this is real missionary material. If we look at the
missionaries from long back we see things like this happened. Just go and read “
Lords of the Earth by Don Richardson “ and you know what I am talking about.
Indian officials are facing a difficult
task to retrieve the body of an American missionary reportedly killed by an
endangered tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
A police boat faced off with Sentinelese
tribesmen on Saturday but withdrew to avoid confrontation. John Allen Chau was
said to have been killed with arrows when he landed on North Sentinel. He was
trying to convert the protected people to Christianity.
The fishermen who ferried Chau, 27, to
North Sentinel on 17 November said they saw tribesmen drag a body along a beach
and bury it.
The fishermen later accompanied police
back to the point on the island where they believed the body was buried. Six
fishermen and one other person have been arrested over the incident.
On Saturday, police stationed their boat
about 400m (437 yards) offshore and, using binoculars, saw tribesmen on the
beach armed with bows and arrows. Regional police chief Dependra Pathak told
Agence France-Presse: "They stared at us and we were looking at
them." The boat then withdrew.
"We have mapped the area with the
help of these fishermen. We have not spotted the body yet but we roughly know
the area where he is believed to be buried," Mr Pathak said.
Outsiders are banned from even
approaching the island so as to protect the people who live there, and their
way of life.
The complete isolation of the
Sentinelese people means contact with the outside world could put them at risk,
as they are likely to have no immunity to even common illnesses such as flu and
measles.
The tribesmen have treated outsiders
with hostility for years. In 2006, two fishermen were killed and their bodies
placed on bamboo stakes, Mr Pathak said. Those bodies were recovered but fears
remain that Chau's may never be retrieved.
A murder case has been registered
against unknown persons but it has not been suggested tribesmen will face any
charges.
Chau's family have said they forgive
those who killed him.
The point I want to make is this. After this attack
this came up in Facebook, “Man Martyred; Facebook Erupts in Anti-Christian
Hatred” Facebook erupted over the incident is nothing short of stunning. The
BBC’s post on it had 5,600 comments under it just seven hours after
publication. The anti-Christian tone runs cruel. Here’s a sample:
Haha good riddance. Leave them alone.
God acts in mysterious ways…
They sent him to Jesus… we must be happy
about it.
I can but hope he was an American
Evangelical.
They nipped that s**t right in the bud!
I wish all indigenous cultures did this.
They may have survived.
Honestly not even sad about this. Gosh
however has this tribe survived so long without jesus in their hearts
We should have done that here!
(The words inside “< >” are text
translations of emojis.)
I ran a sample of comments, choosing 100
selected randomly out of the first 750 or so (it’s beastly hard to get to large
numbers of Facebook comments). The blatant, laughing cruelty you see above
showed up in about 1 out of 8 comments in that sample. It’s probably a good
representation of the whole.
Smug Satisfaction
Two-thirds of all comments expressed
smug satisfaction over the man’s death. Examples:
Why can’t we respect another human and
their choice of life. What do you get? Keep your believes to yourself and God.
Why didn’t his god protect him?
Imagine that, another self righteous
“christian” goes where he is not wanted or needed and in fact has been told to
leave it alone, and something bad happens. And these people will be feared now
when they are the ones who are scared•
How come his god didn’t protect him? Hm
Should have minded his own business.
They have done what he says: they sent
him to heaven
About a quarter of the comments echoed
the “mind your own business” theme you see in some of the above.
This wasn’t on some atheist website,
mind you, where that kind of attitude is likely to be over-represented. This
was on the BBC’s Facebook page.
It’s another picture of the world we
live in, especially online. They accuse Christians of hatred, then this kind of
thing happens.
https://stream.org/man-martyred-facebook-erupts-in-anti-christian-hatred/?fbclid=IwAR2O27nnN5Hxym2vH170XpKuhw3yHAXZ674HsOJptvMPL-qvE3QPMiwOX3M
This truly makes for a good discussion. Please let
me know what you think. As I say, we all have different views.
Leave you on this note, may this week be a blessing
for you all and may we become bolder in speaking the TRUTH.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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