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> "Although it is too early to tell just how many
> people
> may be led to Jesus through the work of missionaries
> in devastated South Asia, Asher expects Christians
> involved in the relief effort will encounter vast
> numbers of people that are seeking God in the midst
> of
> tragedy."
>
> "When they're passing out a bottle of water, a
> blanket, a lanter, a candle, they're passing out
> gospel tracts with them," the ministry spokesman
> says.
> "So they are definitely taking this opportunity to
> be
> a witness of the love of Jesus Christ to the Hindus,
> to the Muslims, to whoever was affected, certainly
> fulfilling the commandment to take the gospel to
> everybody."
>
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>
> Ministry Joins Tsunami Response, Bringing Physical,
> Spiritual Aid
> -- Also, Task Force Launched to Protect Innocents
> From
> Sex Trade Exploitation
> By Chad Groening
> January 7, 2005
> http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/72005d.asp
>
> (AgapePress) - A Virginia-based missions ministry
> has
> dispatched teams to several of the Asian countries
> devastated by the December 26th tsunami and is
> helping
> to fulfill disaster victims' needs even as it works
> to
> fulfill the Great Commission.
>
> Advancing Native Missions (ANM), based in
> Charlottesville, was already doing work in many of
> the
> countries hardest hit by the tsunami. Therefore,
> according to ministry representative Oliver Asher,
> it
> was easy to dispatch teams to the affected areas.
> "Right now, we have teams that are in India, helping
> out there, teams in Sri Lanka and teams in
> Indonesia,"
> Asher says. "So we do have folks on the ground." ANM
> also has teams in the somewhat less devastated
> areas,
> he adds, such as in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and
> Thailand.
>
> ANM's Christian workers are among those on the front
> lines of the disaster response, Asher says, and they
> have been instrumental in helping to get material
> aid
> to people in desperate need of it. However, he
> points
> out that his people are doing far more than that.
>
> "When they're passing out a bottle of water, a
> blanket, a lanter, a candle, they're passing out
> gospel tracts with them," the ministry spokesman
> says.
> "So they are definitely taking this opportunity to
> be
> a witness of the love of Jesus Christ to the Hindus,
> to the Muslims, to whoever was affected, certainly
> fulfilling the commandment to take the gospel to
> everybody."
>
> Although it is too early to tell just how many
> people
> may be led to Jesus through the work of missionaries
> in devastated South Asia, Asher expects Christians
> involved in the relief effort will encounter vast
> numbers of people that are seeking God in the midst
> of
> tragedy. He says ANM is striving to meet both the
> physical and spiritual desperation in the tsunami's
> wake with a comprehensively Christ-centered response
> -- not only offering material relief and comfort,
> but
> sharing Christ's love with those in need as well.
>
> But even as Church missions and ministry workers
> seek
> to stem the tide of suffering, there is a disturbing
> element coming out of Southeast Asia -- word that
> sex
> traffickers may be exploiting the tragedy by
> abducting
> children orphaned by the enormous wave. Now news of
> this evil enterprise has captured the attention of
> at
> least one concerned lawmaker in the United States.
>
> http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/72005d.asp
>
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