1) Attend church

2) Invite People  (your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, acquaintances, checkers at HEB, etc. etc)

3) Bring your tithe

4) Serve at church

I’ve left some stuff out for the sake of simplicity. What am I assuming here? What did I leave out? Leave your comment below.

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Tonight, Americans have spoken. Though the nation remains deeply divided in the political arena, we who are a part of the family of Jehovah God must be leaders in the quest for revival in our land. As Christians we must be people of peace and prayer. Whether you voted for Senator McCain, Senator Obama, someone else, or did not vote at all, you are instructed in God’s word to respect leadership and to pray for them. I recall a time in the life of Samuel when he was unhappy with the direction of his nation, and yet his heart cry was

“As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you.”

This should be our pledge to President-elect Obama, our Congressmen, and our nation. Please join me in making this pledge.

May God bless you and may He spare our nation from judgment as we join our hearts together in humility, prayer, and repentance as we seek His perfect will.

“Lord, I have heard of your fame;
I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord,
Renew them in our day,
In our time make them known.”
(Habakkuk 3:2 NIV)

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Here it goes:

Africa sends out missionaries by the thousands

An Ethiopian tells that when he landed on Indian soil as a missionary in 1998 it surprised him as much as anyone else. “Could this be possible?” he asked himself. “We always thought only white people could be missionaries.” More than a step of faith, this venture created a worldview change for him. After all, he had gone out from Africa, the continent that for generations has been known as the mission field, the place where missionaries go.

But God had prepared the way. Soon after arriving, one of his team members shared the gospel with a woman. She stopped him. “I had a dream last week,” she said. “Fire was consuming the village and people were running. Two people were praying with arms outstretched. Then something like a cross came between the fire and the village.” She concluded, “You were the people.” In the following three months 1,357 people gave their lives to Christ. After their initial success, the home church in Ethiopia sent 20 more missionaries to India and Pakistan.

“In Nigeria, missions have been gaining momentum since the mid-70s. Now 5,200 missionaries are serving around the world.”

In the same way, thousands of Africans from across the continent are defying old stereotypes and embarking on the cross-cultural missionary adventure. In some areas, the church has been doing it for awhile; in other places it’s just getting started. In Nigeria, missions have been gaining momentum since the mid-70s. NEMA, the Nigerian Evangelical Mission Agency, now has 5,200 missionaries serving in Africa and around the world. A church in one of South Africa’s townships has been sending out short-term missionaries for seven years, according to a report at a recent MANI SA conference. Just two years ago they sent their first long-termers. Church members are enthusiastic about their missionaries who are working in three other countries, and are committed to support them.

Africans are still mindful of what foreign missionaries have done in their continent. “We appreciate you, and what the Lord has done through you for us,” said Nigerian Dr. Rev. Nicholas Asamayan, who mobilizes black churches for missions. “And to those who died, thank you for your sacrifice and your love. But in God’s prophetic timetable, the time has come for us,” he said. He explained that it is time for an Afro-centric approach to missions, for defining mission in the African context, for writing materials and coming up with creative ideas.

“They are moving into the earth’s difficult unreached communities. Professionals back home, such as engineers and doctors, raise money to support them.”

God’s new company of African missionaries is moving into some of earth’s difficult unreached communities. What motivates them to go into lowly villages with bad water, disease and a fearful relationship with local gods? Or to venture out into Europe, Asia and South America? Each country has its own story.

In Nigeria, it began with students. As they went out to the villages for their year of national service, they saw parts of their nation they hadn’t seen before, and were moved to action. They began planting churches, but they also caught a vision for missions, leading eventually to the birth of three mission agencies, Calvary Ministries, Christian Mission Foundation, and EMS, the missions branch of the Evangelical Church of West Africa. Then, in the early 80s, NEMA was born – the Nigerian Evangelical Mission Agency, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in October, 2007. They have an exciting support group – the Mission Supporters League (MSL), an innovation rarely found even in more prosperous countries. It includes 100 chapters of professionals, such as engineers and doctors, who raise money for supporting and sponsoring missionaries.

“In Zimbabwe 10,000 churches were planted in the ’90s. As persecution came, they went abroad preaching the gospel.”

Then there is Zimbabwe. “Our church planting model,” says Dr. Shana, “is described in Acts 8 and 9: ‘When they were persecuted, they went abroad preaching the gospel.'” Shana’s congregation, the mushrooming Word of Life Church in Bulawayo, has planted 3,500 churches all over the world, instilled with the missional vision to affect the community around them in every sphere of life.

But Zimbabwe’s missionary movement, according to Dr. Shana, came out of troubled times. It started with a movement in the ’90’s where 10,000 churches were planted. But soon after, the country dove into economic and political turmoil. Unexpectedly, those 10,000 churches became the seedling bed for a new missions thrust. As Zimbabweans left the country to settle in new places, they took their faith with them. “We’ve been following our diasporic sheep,” explains Dr. Shana. “In their new homes, they miss the church they’ve had in Zimbabwe, so they begin to meet in groups, and talk to their communities. A little group starts, which we support and we watch over for a period of time. And we start a church.”

“In Ethiopia over 3,000 missionaries have moved from one culture to the other to share Jesus Christ.”

“The gospel has been in Ethiopia for 1,670 years,” said Pastor Langana at MANI SA ’08, “first brought here by the eunuch in Acts 8. “But I’m sorry to say that, even though we were a Christian nation, we never reached the rest of Africa.” Things changed in 1990. “God brought a missionary,” said Langana, “and used him as a key person. He told us, ‘It is time for Ethiopia to see the people who are unreached.” We had never been thinking of going outside Ethiopia. Now, over 3,000 missionaries in the North African country of Ethiopia have moved from one culture to another in order to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The missions-minded country of Ghana, which has sent people to such far-reaching places as China, Ukraine, Brazil and India, was inspired by the Nigerian missions movement, and continues to be motivated by the Acts 1:8 strategy. It’s simple. Every church has four realms to influence: ‘Jerusalem’, your own home town, ‘Judea’, the next closest region, ‘Samaria’, even farther out, and then ‘the ends of the earth’. The Church of Pentecost is a good example, which opened Pakistan as its 70th mission field this year. Ross Campbell, MANI’s Information Coordinator, observes that “from the day of conversion, believers are commissioned, equipped and engaged in Kingdom advance.” And this is only one of Ghana’s major denominations which all have international mission boards. Others include the Presbyterians and Methodists. GEMA, the Ghana Evangelical Missions Association is a connecting point for them all.

In these and other countries, Africans are a key part of today’s missionary task force, digging into the hard work left to finish the job of fulfilling the Great Commission.

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The son of a top Hamas leader has converted to Christianity and prays some day his family will also accept Jesus Christ as their savior, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef (photo), revealed for the first time in an exclusive interview that he has left Islam and is now a Christian. Prior to the interview’s publication on August 14, Yousef’s family did not know of his faith conversion even though he is in regular contact with them.

Yousef, who is now 30-years-old and resides in America, was first exposed to Christianity eight years ago while in Jerusalem, where out of curiosity he accepted an invitation to hear about Christianity. Afterwards, he became enthusiastic about what he heard and would secretly read the Bible every day. “A verse like ‘Love thine enemy’ had a great influence on me,” Yousef recalled. “At this stage I was still a Muslim and I thought that I would remain one. But every day I saw the terrible things done in the name of religion by those who considered themselves ‘great believers’. I studied Islam more thoroughly and found no answers there. I re-examined the Koran and the principles of the faith and found how it is mistaken and misleading.” With Christianity, Yousef said he could understand God as revealed through Jesus Christ.

Four years ago, Yousef decided to follow Christ, but did not let his family know. He still helped his father with his political activities, and his father only knew his son had Christian friends. “I felt responsible. It was better for me to be there rather than a gang of fools who would poison his mind,” Yousef explained. “I tried to understand those people, their thoughts, in order to change them from inside by means of a strong person like my father, who admitted to me in the past that he does not support suicide attacks.”

The Muslim-turned-Christian says he does not think Islam will survive for more than 25 years because the truth about Islam will be exposed given the mass communication available in the modern age. For his part, Yousef says he hopes to “open the eyes” of Muslims and “reveal the truth” to them about Islam and Christianity with the goal to “take them out of the darkness and the prison of Islam”.

“I know that I’m endangering my life and am even liable to lose my father, but I hope that he’ll understand this and that God will give him and my family patience and willingness to open their eyes to Jesus and to Christianity,” Yousef said. “Maybe one day I’ll be able to return to Palestine and to Ramallah with Jesus, in the Kingdom of God.”

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God Bless,
Randy

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92-year-old Pauline Jacobi reads her Bible everyday. Her strong faith keeps her going in life and may have saved it after she almost became the victim of a parking lot robbery. Jacobi had just finished putting her groceries inside her car at a Dyersburg Wal-Mart when a man jumped into the car through the passenger’s side door. He told Jacobi he had a gun and that he would shoot her if she didn’t give him money.

“I’m not going to give you my money,” Jacobi said. “‘Jesus is in this car and he goes with me everywhere I go.” The robber looked around and tears sprung in his eyes. She told him to ask God for forgiveness and ministered to him for 10 minutes inside her car. “He says, ‘I think I’ll go home and pray tonight,'” Jacobi said. “I says, ‘You don’t have to wait until tonight. You can pray anytime you want to.'”

As tears were rolling down the man’s face, Jacobi voluntarily gave him $10. All the money she had. “When I told him I was going to give him the money, I said, ‘Don’t you go spend it on whiskey either,'” Jacobi said. The man thanked her for the money and kissed her on the cheek. Then he walked away.

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