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From: Islahonline
To: hidayahnet
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:46 AM
Subject: Muslims in aceh in danger - christian missionaries taking
advantage Assalamualaikum
Christian misionaries have
launced worldwide mission to Acheh in particular, to take advantage of the
vulnerable muslims victims in the process to convert them... In Sri Lanka, they
are already heavily involved in converting hindu and muslims, notable by GFA.
Brothers and sisters, please make dua so that our muslims brothers and sisters
steadfast with strong iman to resist them... Christian missionaries come with
money donated to them by various parties in the west...
This make it even stronger
case for us, at a minimun, to strongly supports at all cost, our
muslims charities/NGOs,/Organisation...
This deceit
tactic should also be stopped by the governments of the muslims countries
involved... Indonesia government must not allow this missionaries to step to our
muslim homeland even if they are coming in the name of humanitarian and
charities works......
So far I heard:
Sri Lanka has declined
supports offerred by Israel and US Marine
Indonesia has declined
supports (to some extent) US Marine (except for
transportation)..
But I am yet to hear them
banning any christian NGOs...
Also, pls supports muslim
organisations that are focusing on rehabilition/development post tsunami as
without it, those survivors have unpredictable opportunity to continue
surviving...!!!
Islahonline
Posting 1: Christian Ministry -
Advancing Native Missions
Beloved friends,
Some are calling it the worst human disaster in the history of the world. Each broadcast reports an increase in the number of victims. Without delay, ANM contacted our missionaries who are already at work, assessing the wretched destruction and caring for the horror-stricken survivors. We are grateful for the willingness of government agencies to assist; however, they require time to determine what and how much is needed, and what methods to use. We are able, and have already sent funds to those on the frontlines of disaster. We received the following email from Abraham Sahu who has facilitated assistance in many such conditions of desperation. He wrote: . . . We are ready to move as soon as possible and advised. I have already spoken to our team to leave. Thank you for trusting us. We are here to serve our people as arms of God with the heart of God. As I watched the TV reports of the earthquake in Sumatra, I felt overcome with the staggering widespread destruction. My first reaction was one of hopelessness�what could I do to make any difference in such overwhelming misery? Then I saw a truck loaded with plastic bottles of water. I could help provide that! Just one bottle of water, just one blanket, just one bottle of medicine . . . may make the difference between life and death. With the fears that disease could double the number of victims, time is of the essence�we must move quickly to provide the necessities. Because your caring hearts responded so generously to the earthquakes in India and Iran, and to the terror attacks in Beslan, we once again offer to be your channel during this desperate time of need. In this area of devastation are countries ruled by the prince of darkness. Held captive by Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus, we find millions of people groups unreached by the Gospel. Could this be an open door for us to display our weapons of forgiveness and love? What appears to be a terrible tragedy may open many hearts to the Savior as we follow Him into these flooded cities. Gratefully yours, Carl A. Gordon President Posting 2: Gospel for Asia: Tsunami Email
Appeal
Dear Sir, In a few days I will be going to India to assess the terrible situation that has developed as a result of the tsunami disaster. But before I leave, I want to let you know that even as the death toll continues to rise, our Gospel for Asia workers and volunteers are selflessly working long hours to minister among devastated people whose lives have been totally shattered. Today, more than five million children and adults have lost everything - their possessions, their homes, food, clean water, and most tragically, their friends and loved ones. They are truly lost in body and spirit, and they need our help. Your gift of only $100 will provide the vital aid that a family of four needs to survive during this critical time - and will give them God's hope for a new life. CLICK HERE NOW TO MAKE YOUR GIFT ONLINE. https://www.gfa.org/donate?DESIG=2520?motiv=WA4C-G2ER Along coastal areas where we work in India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, more than 40,000 people have been killed by the monster waves. And those who survive now face hunger, exposure, and disease from contaminated water. Please pray for our GFA workers as they bring physical aid and spiritual hope to millions now suffering in the aftermath of the worst disaster to hit Asia in more than 100 years. Your gift of $100 will bring immediate, life-sustaining aid to a family - and will let them know that God loves them. May God bless you for your compassion. K.P. Yohannan Founder & President Gospel for Asia Posting 3: Ministry Joins Tsunami Response, Bringing Physical, Spiritual
Aid
Ministry Joins Tsunami Response, Bringing Physical, Spiritual Aid
-- Also, Task Force Launched to Protect Innocents From Sex Trade Exploitation By Chad
Groening (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 lantern, 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.
Postings 4: Missionary: Many will see quake as God's wrath Missionary: Many will see quake as God's wrath By Ann Work/Times Record News The people of Sumatra's hardest-hit province of Aceh will be searching for
spiritual answers along with their dead, said a Midwestern State University
graduate who has worked as a missionary in Indonesia for 16 years.
The area is well-known for its fanatical adherence to the strictest Islamic
law, said Karren Fosdahl, a missionary from Java - an island south of Sumatra.
That makes them the most righteous of Muslims, Fosdahl said.
"They will ask, 'Why this judgment of God?' They will see it as God's
punishment," said Karren Fosdahl in a telephone interview from her temporary
residence in Wisconsin. "It hit this area of the country that operates under
Islamic law, which is the ideal. That will raise questions. Any of those who
have relatives there ... that will be a great concern to them."
The timing of the earthquake and tsunami - that occurred on the Christian holiday of
Christmas - will also confound them, she said.
Aceh took a double hit
from the Christmas disaster: It sat at the epicenter of the 9.0-magnitude
earthquake and also suffered damage from the tsunami. The area reports 10,000
dead in one town and 9,000 dead in another.
The area is 99 percent Muslim.
The laws are so strict in Aceh that officials might
cut off the hands of a person caught stealing. Such Islamic law is very
different from Indonesian law, which operates in most other areas, Karren
Fosdahl said.
Fosdahl and her husband, Frank, have worked in several cities in Java for the
past 16 years, seeking to introduce Muslims to Christ with the support of Grace
Church of Wichita Falls. Karren Fosdahl worked with Muslims by teaching English
in her home, at local Islamic boarding schools and at the Islamic university.
Frank Fosdahl taught at a theological seminary in Java and helped start four
churches.
To reach Aceh from
where she ministered in Java would take two plane trips or two 16-hour drives
punctuated by a ferry ride.
They are currently ministering in the United States, with plans to return to
a Java ministry next year. The Fosdahls were in Wisconsin at the time of the
tsunami.
The hundreds of Muslims they ministered to during their 16-year stay in Java
will be pondering the meaning of the tragedy, she said.
Karren Fosdahl said she knows of several Christian missionaries telling Muslims
about Christ and working undercover in the heavily Muslim Aceh province. A recent
e-mail from one of them said one missionary is taking 10 doctors with him to the
devastated country.
God works in strange and powerful ways in that part of the world, Karren
Fosdahl said.
"There is one couple there that has a huge ministry in Aceh," she said. "A lot of
signs and wonders occur with their ministry, with the Lord's power, that we
don't see around here."
Education reporter Ann Work can be reached at (940)763-7538 or by e-mail at
worka(at)TimesRecordNews.com.
Postings 5: Sydney priest to open Aceh orphanage http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1275779.htm As Australia's aid effort builds, Father Chris Riley of Youth Off the Streets in Sydney has announced he will open an orphanage in Aceh. Father Riley says an orphanage is needed as large numbers of surviving children are being discharged from hospitals, only to find themselves homeless and without family. At this stage a small-scale tent orphanage is planned but Father Riley says he aims to provide long-term assistance. "It would be foolish of me to say I'm going to rush over there and feed people and feel good about doing it ourselves and then come back here and leave them," he said. "My commitment is that we will take on an orphanage and stick with that orphanage for as long as those kids need it, if that means ten years, so be it."
Posting: Various others:
Christians Help Tsunami Victims
Others UK and US based: Christian Aid CAFOD AND MANY MORE... MASKED BY THE NAME OF CHARITY ORGANISATION
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