Zprávy HCJB 1.3.2009 - 7.3.2009

	Mezinárodní pomocná organizace spolupracuje s americkým námořnictvem při distribuci filtrů na vodu
	Nedostatek čisté vody je problém, který drží celé oblasti rozvojových zemí ve fyzické i duchovní bídě. Co zde zmůže čistá voda? Především je to základní potřeba. Jakmile lidé v zanedbané komunitě mají čistou nezávadnou vodu, mohou začít řešit základní příčiny své chudoby. Když se to stane, mění se společenské klima i pohled na svět. Pracovníci International Aid (IA), organizace se sídlem ve státě Michigan viděli tu bídu a reagovali tím, že vyvinuli plastovou variantu bioaktivního pískového filtru. Jejich filtr je lehký, dostupný, přenosný a poskytne za den 300 litrů čisté vody. Jim Bodenner z IA řekl, že nedávno se IA dohodla na spolupráci s americkým válečným námořnictvem. Tento měsíc má americká loď USS Nashville připlout do Ghany. Mezi přiváženými věcmi budou i pískové filtry. Minulý měsíc šla podobná dodávka do Dominikánské Republiky. „Také jsme nedávno naložili filtry na nemocniční loď USS Comfort, která pluje na Haiti,“ řekl Bodenner. Zdroj: Mission Network News *HCJB Global Hands pomáhá při zajišťování pitné vody ve venkovských oblastech Ekvádoru i jinde. V Ekvádoru se z tím účelem staví veřejné studny s ručními pumpami nebo veřejné vodovody s kohoutky či s přípojkami až do jednotlivých domů. Osvěta a školení v údržbě vodovodů zlepšují zdravotní stav a zajišťují jeho udržitelnost. Při každé takové stavbě příslušná komunita poskytne pracovní sílu a zaplatí většinu materiálu, zatímco církevní pracovníci zde zajišťují vedení a školení. Z těchto vodních projektů mělo jen v roce 2007 v Ekvádoru prospěch 9000 lidí. Minulý měsíc HCJB Global pomáhal při zprovoznění studny v Hateka v domorodé komunitě blízko Akkry v Ghaně. Tým pracovníků z Ekvádoru nyní cestuje po Ghaně a Sierra Leone a pomáhá při rozvojových projektech v těchto zemích.
	Modlitební sdružení se soustřeďuje na duchovní obnovu Francie
	Modlitební sdružení zabývající se duchovní obnovou Francie – „Modli se za Francii“ – žádá křesťany, aby se první tři březnové týdny modlili za tuto evropskou zemi. „Jsem příjemně překvapen rostoucí otevřeností k evangeliu ve Francii v posledních letech,“ řekl David Broussard z modlitebního sdružení Křesťanská nadace Francie. Francie je jednou z nejdůležitějších zemí k šíření evangelia a je také zeměpisným, politickým a společenským středem Evropy. Ve Francii je však také nejméně evangelikálů v Evropě (0,8%) a přes 30% ateistů. Během letošní evangelizační kampaně francouzští křesťané – a také mezinárodní společenství, které se k nim připojuje v modlitbách – cítí výzvu k většímu veřejnému projevování víry modlitebními shromážděními a akcemi. Heslem pro rok 2009 je „Ať trubka zní.“ Zdroj: Pray for France, Christian Newswire *Francouzské programy tvořené redaktory HCJB jsou vysílány hrstkou FM křesťanských stanic ve Francii a v některých frankofonních zemích Afriky.
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	HCJB GLOBAL REACHING 1 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS IN ARAB WORLD, RESEARCH SHOWS Source: HCJB Global Recent research shows HCJB Global, an international media and healthcare ministry, is now reaching more than 1 million Arab households weekly across the North Africa/Middle East region via radio broadcasts through its strategic media outreach. The research was conducted by Intermedia (www.intermedia.org), an international media research organization. “The households in the Arab world have many challenges. They are searching for a message of hope and love, and that is our focus as we reach out,” said HCJB Global President Wayne Pederson. HCJB Global’s media strategy in the region has a two-pronged approach. First, it’s engaging households that listen to broadcasts together. “Our media ministry in the Arab world primarily is to serve people on their journey to faith,” said HCJB Global’s regional director. “Programs are structured so we don’t offend anyone in the family – so they will not close the channel. Our desire is to keep the channel open. And we are designing programming with the entire household in mind.” Second, programs are produced by trained local believers who could face great persecution. These local broadcasters can now tell their neighbors about the hope they have found, when they could not before. HCJB Global recently announced its “Me and My Household” initiative based on the Arab world research. The campaign centers on the Bible verse, “But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15, NIV). The ministry is offering a free prayer e-card at www.hcjbglobal.org/myprayer which Christians can use to encourage their family and friends to serve God and pray for the unsaved families of the world. HCJB Global also is sponsoring a nationwide contest in April that allows Christians to submit outreach projects based on the ministry’s commitment to declare and demonstrate Jesus to others. Contest winners will receive cash prizes to complete the project they submitted. In addition, the ministry will be challenging households across the U.S. and the world to pray for unreached households and to give $1 to reach one household in the Arab world for one year. The Arab world consists of 19 countries and nearly 300 million people. Although Christian radio stations are illegal in most nations in the region, residents can still hear the gospel through HCJB Global’s shortwave, satellite and Internet radio broadcasts. Illiteracy rates, especially among women, can be high, making radio an effective tool for both evangelism and discipleship. The recent study reveals that programming focused on local needs and a message of hope is seeing a great response, with 71,000 households listening in Algeria and 72,000 households listening in Saudi Arabia alone. “There is evidence this generation of people in the Arab world is more open to Christ due to the compassion many have experienced through Christian agencies as refugees or during famines or natural disasters,” said Pederson. “As we receive responses from listeners, we have found many listeners discover what they are searching for.” “I am a very loyal listener to your station, because it broadcasts programs that address our spiritual needs,” wrote one listener from Tunisia. Another listener from Algeria wrote: “I was very happy to hear about salvation and the true happiness that does not come apart from Jesus Christ. I would like to know more about Jesus.” FRANKLIN GRAHAM MEETS WITH PRESIDENT OF SUDAN DURING AFRICA VISIT Sources: Samaritan’s Purse, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, rlgmedia, Christian Post, Associated Press The president of Samaritan’s Purse began his trip to Sudan on Saturday, Feb. 28, to visit humanitarian projects and meet with high-level government officials to discuss a faltering peace agreement that affects Sudanese Christians. Franklin Graham, who heads the Christian relief organization as well as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, is being accompanied by leadership teams from both organizations with the aim of finding new partnership opportunities and ways to help the people of Sudan. On the morning of Wednesday, March 4, Graham met with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. “We had a frank discussion on religious freedom, human rights, extended focus on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and the complexities of Darfur,” he said in a statement. “I challenged him, in light of the pending charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC), to stand up for peace.” Later that day, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Sudan’s president on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. He is being accused of attempting to wipe out three ethnic African tribes in the region. Graham said he would urge U.S. President Barak Obama “not to let the economic crisis distract him from working with Sudan to achieve full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Setbacks now could have long-term consequences.” Samaritan’s Purse has been working in Sudan since 1993, helping hundreds of thousands of people survive regional conflicts while advancing the cause of peace and religious freedom. Graham has worked closely with Sudan’s leadership for years. He also met with Sudan’s president in 2003 and 2007, addressing the concerns of local Christians. 7 ABOARD MISSION PLANE STILL MISSING IN VENEZUELA 2+ WEEKS AFTER APPARENT CRASH Sources: Associated Press, The Huntsville Times A missionary pilot from northern Alabama--whose father was killed while piloting a missionary plane three decades ago--along with six others are feared dead after their plane disappeared while flying in Venezuela Monday, Feb. 16. Bob Norton, 48, director of Adventist Medical Aviation Venezuela, was flying the aircraft when it likely crashed in the dense jungles of Venezuela, said the pilot’s mother, Nytta Norton of Bryant, Ala. Also aboard was his wife, Neiba (a registered nurse), two adults accompanying two sick children, and Adventist missionary Gladis Zerpa. Nytta said her son “grew up with a missionary spirit” and was carrying on for his dad, Elwin, who was killed while piloting a mission plane that crashed 29 years ago in Mexico. Venezuela’s National Civil Aviation Institute and several air rescue groups searched for three days after the plane was reported missing. Shea added that chances are slim anyone on board will be found alive. “It’s extremely dense jungle,” she said. “It may take weeks or months before they find them. But it’s all in God’s hands, and I’m happy to leave it at that.” * HCJB Global Voice worked with local partners to establish a Christian station in La Morita, Venezuela, in 2000. Partner stations in two additional Venezuelan cities are also affiliated with ALAS, the ministry’s Latin American satellite radio network with 95 outlets in 16 countries. INTERNATIONAL AID PARTNERS WITH U.S. NAVY TO DISTRIBUTE WATER FILTERS Source: Mission Network News Lack of clean water is a problem that keeps areas underdeveloped and keeps people in poverty, physically and spiritually. What difference would clean water make? Clean water meets a most basic need. Once people in deprived communities have safe, clean water they can begin dealing with the root causes of their poverty. As this happens, communities and worldviews have been transformed. Michigan-based International Aid (IA) saw the need and responded, initiating development of the BioSand Water Filter. It is a lightweight, affordable, portable water filter capable of providing 75 gallons of clean water per day. IA recently entered into a partnership with the U.S. Navy, according to IA’s Jim Bodenner. This month the Navy vessel USS Nashville is set to arrive in Ghana. Among its cargo will be the sand filters. Last month a shipment was destined for the Dominican Republic. “We also have filters that have been loaded recently aboard the USS Comfort, a Navy medical ship bound for Haiti,” Bodenner said. * HCJB Global Hands helps provide clean drinking water and sanitation to rural areas of Ecuador and beyond. In Ecuador, community wells with hand pumps and community potable water systems with a spigot or connection for each home are built to meet this need. Health/hygiene teaching, water system maintenance training and follow-up help improve the health benefits and assure sustainability. In each project, the benefiting community provides the manual labor and the majority of the resources needed. Pastoral and church lay leadership training is provided in conjunction with these projects. Water projects in 2007 benefited nearly 9,000 Ecuadorians. Last month HCJB Global helped install a water well in Hateka, a community outside of Accra, Ghana. A healthcare team from Ecuador is now traveling in Ghana and Sierra Leone, helping with community development projects in those countries. For updated information on the trip, visit missionary Nate Dell’s blog at http://treesontheriverbank.blogspot.com/. PRAYER COALITION FOCUSES ON REVIVAL IN FRANCE AS OPENNESS INCREASES Sources: Pray for France, Christian Newswire A prayer coalition interested in France’s spiritual renewal, Pray for France, is asking Christians to focus prayer efforts on that European country during the first three weeks of March. “I have been amazed at the increased openness in France to Jesus in just the past year,” said David Broussard, of prayer coalition partner Christian Community Foundation of France. One of the most strategic countries to spread the gospel in the world, France is geographically, politically and socially at the center of Europe. But France has one of the lowest percentage of evangelicals in all of Europe (0.8 percent) and is more than 30-percent atheist. During this year’s prayer campaign, France’s Christian population--and the international community that is coming alongside them in prayer--is being challenged to engage in more public displays of faith through prayer gatherings and events. The theme for 2009 is “Sound the Trumpet.” * French programs produced by HCJB Global Voice programmers air on a few FM Christian radio stations in France and in some French-speaking African countries. LUIS PALAU ASSOCIATION HELPS LAUNCH PORTLAND’S 2009 SEASON OF SERVICE Source: Christian Newswire As the Oregon unemployment rate edges toward 10 percent, Portland’s 2009 Season of Service seems to have arrived at just the right time. A collaborative effort involving the city, local churches and nonprofit organizations, the Season of Service will address some of the area’s greatest social needs. At the official kickoff on Thursday, Feb. 26, evangelist Luis Palau presented a $100,000 check to Portland Mayor Sam Adams--a gift to the city from Portland-area churches. It is designated for the Home Again Mentoring Project, helping homeless families make the transition to stable housing, and to help fund the Portland Schools Transition Center which encourages youth who have dropped out of school to resume their education. The 2008 Season of Service brought together more than 600 churches and agencies and nearly 30,000 volunteers to work on hundreds of critical service projects. This year’s projects will focus on five areas: homelessness, sc hools, health/wellness, environmental projects, and hunger/poverty. NOT ALL BUSINESSES SUFFERING AS CHICK-FIL-A SEES CONTINUED GROWTH Sources: Breaking Christian News, Atlanta Journal Constitution The Atlanta-based chicken restaurant chain, Chick-fil-A, credited a loyal customer base, affordable prices and menu upgrades for helping it increase sales in 2008. God’s blessing didn’t hurt, either, a company executive says. Chick fil-A reported system-wide sales for 2008 of $2.96 billion, up 12 percent from 2007. It marked 16 years straight of double-digit sales growth. The company has increased sales every year since the first Chick-fil-A opened in 1967. Chick-fil-A benefited by being a lower-priced option for consumers, said Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy. He was quick to thank his customers and God for the year. The Cathy family, which keeps stores closed on Sundays, is known for its involvement in church and faith-based charities. “I do think that God has blessed our business,” Cathy told The Atlanta Journal Constitution. ‘WIDOW’S MIGHT’ WINS $101,000 PRIZE AT CHRISTIAN FILM FESTIVAL Source: Crosswalk “The Widow’s Might,” a film written and directed by 19-year-old John Moore, won the “Best of Festival” Jubilee Award at the 2009 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival in January. “The Widow’s Might” tells the story of a community coming to the rescue of a widow about to lose her home. The film fest this year welcomed more than 2,400 attendees, a record 250 entries, and giant first prize: $101,000 to go with the “Best of Festival” award. This Jubilee Award is the largest single cash prize in the U.S. to a single filmmaker, signaling the Festival’s intentions to propagate future Christian films. The Christian marriage film, “Fireproof,” was the highest grossing independent film in 2008, winning the “Best Feature Film” category. CHRISTIANS AT RISK AS RELIGIOUS CLASHES KILL 11 IN NIGERIA, THOUSANDS DISPLACED Sources: BosNewsLife, Vanguard Thousands of people were displaced in mid-February as religious clashes in northern Nigeria left at least 11 people dead and 100 hospitalized, said police and Christian rights investigators. Explanations of the causes of the recent violence vary. Residents of Bauchi said tensions rose in the city of 4 million after Christians allegedly barricaded a pathway used by Muslims attending prayers at a nearby mosque on Friday, Feb. 13. Christian observers, however, indicated that the Christian minority may have been targeted by Muslim extremists. The trouble reportedly started in the city’s railway sector after factions of an Islamic sect known as Izala changed its prayer time at the neighborhood mosque, resulting in another faction blocking the entrance to a nearby Christian facility. When church members protested, it led to unrest, but the situation was brought under control by security men. At about 2 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, the mosque was set ablaze by unidentified persons, but Christians were blamed for starting the fire. Lami Dogari, whose father was attacked while preaching a message of peace, said she and her family narrowly escaped death in the rioting. “The truth of the matter is that the crisis was planned by Muslims in order to retaliate against an incident that happened in Jos,” she said. At least 125 Christians were killed in sectarian violence last November. In response, police reportedly killed more than 300 Islamic rioters. * HCJB Global Voice, together with SIM and the Evangelical Church of West Africa, airs weekly half-hour programs on a local FM station in Nigeria in the Igbo language. HCJB Global Voice has also helped with a partner station in Umuahia. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DEBATES OWNERSHIP OF HISTORICAL RELIGIOUS PROPERTIES Source: Forum 18 News Service Recent cases show how the allocation of historical worship property can prove a minefield for Russian authorities. Moscow’s Old Believer parish, for example, is being pushed out of a building to which it has no historical claim but has used for more than 60 years. In Lipetsk, Baptists continue their fight for compensation for renovating an Orthodox church given to them by the Soviet authorities and now claimed by the local Orthodox diocese. In Suzdal, authorities have confiscated 11 churches and two bell towers--all cultural monuments--from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church. Officials “must think of the consequences of hasty or wrong decisions” when transferring such property, said Mikhail Odintsov, a government human rights official. While calls for the return of historic property began in the dying years of the Soviet Union, it’s one of the most troublesome issues for religious communities. A 1993 presidential decree instruct ed the government “to carry out the gradual transfer of houses of worship, religious buildings, their associated territory and other items of religious significance from federal ownership to the ownership of or usage by religious organizations.” Now a draft law on the transfer of property of religious significance to religious organizations may reignite the process. Besides spelling out the procedure for allocating such property, it would grant religious organizations ownership of all historical property currently in their use. *HCJB Global Voice reaches across Russia with a variety of radio ministries. The mission began sending gospel broadcasts across the country via shortwave in 1941, first from Quito, Ecuador, and in recent years from the U.K. In the early 1990s the ministry began “planting” local radio ministries in Russia and now works with partners nationwide. In 2000 HCJB Global Voice helped launch New Life Radio, the first Christian Russian satellite radio network. More than 76 downlinks have been placed in more than 46 cities across Russia and neighboring countries. The region is seeking to fill full-time positions for radio trainers, technical workers (information technology, broadcast studio design and construction), program producers and administrators. © Copyright 2009 - HCJB Global - Colorado Springs, CO USA

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