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IBS, SALVATION ARMY ENCOURAGE 3,000 FIREFIGHTERS IN CANADA POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN FAILS TO SHAKE CHRISTIAN CAMP 2,000 YOUNG PEOPLE GATHER IN TOKYO FOR MISSIONS CONFERENCE INTERIOR WALL COLLAPSES AT JERUSALEM’S TEMPLE MOUNT 2,000 ROMANIANS COME TO CHRIST THROUGH 7 SHORT-TERM MISSION TRIPS FORMER NRB EXECUTIVE HONORED WITH PERCY AWARD

Today’s News Stories:

IBS, SALVATION ARMY ENCOURAGE 3,000 FIREFIGHTERS IN CANADA The International Bible Society (IBS) recently shipped 3,000 copies of Answering the Call, a specially designed New Testament for firefighters, to Abbotsford, British Columbia, to encourage workers battling 850 forest fires in the area. More than 2,000 fires have plagued B.C. since April. The New Testaments will be distributed to 3,000 firefighters and disaster workers by staff and volunteers of the Salvation Army manning Emergency Response Units and Disaster Relief Units. “This is Canada’s worst fire season ever,” said Sues Hyde, director of outreach at IBS. “Many firefighters are stretched to their limits, and God’s Word can bring them peace and strength.” (Salvation Army/International Bible Society)

POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN FAILS TO SHAKE CHRISTIAN CAMP Japan recorded its strongest earthquake in almost a decade on Friday, Sept. 26, registering 8 on the Richter scale. While damage was relative minor considering the quake’s intensity, residents in affected areas were on alert for a possible tsunami on the weekend. Paul Jackson of Evangelical Baptist Mission says the ministry’s camp in southern Japan was undamaged by the temblor. “The earthquake was considerably to the north. In fact, our folks didn’t even feel it,” he said. Jackson calls the camp a “remarkable facility,” reaching teens and entire families with the gospel. “They have just come off a season in which they’ve seen a number of young people come to Christ,” he said. (Mission Network News)

2,000 YOUNG PEOPLE GATHER IN TOKYO FOR MISSIONS CONFERENCE About 2,000 young people converged on Aoyama Gakuin, a university near one of Tokyo’s major downtown areas, for the “Send Me” conference Aug. 13-15. Sponsored by the Japanese Evangelical Association, this event is similar to the Urbana conference held in the U.S. every three years. Lively chorus singing launched each session, including original songs composed for the event. The highlight came in the evening sessions as Japanese speakers challenged young people to serve God anywhere He leads. Many raised their hands at the closing session to indicate a willing response to the Lord. Five Japanese missionaries from SIM who serve among Muslims in Tanzania, Niger and a country in South Asia held workshops presenting a broad portrait of what life is like on the mission field. In an age when the face of missions is increasingly non-Western, this groundbreaking event in Japan represents a trend in global missions as SIM missionaries now represent 36 nationalities with an increasing number coming from Southeast Asia. Many of the non-Western missionaries are also willing to serve in the most difficult fields where sharing Jesus may invoke heavy repercussions. (SIM)

INTERIOR WALL COLLAPSES AT JERUSALEM’S TEMPLE MOUNT An interior wall at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount collapsed Tuesday, Sept. 23, uncovering a 400-square-foot area of dirt and setting off fears of religious violence. No injuries were reported in the area which was the scene of riots between Jews and Muslims earlier this month. “It looks terrible,” said Israeli archaeologist Eliat Mazar as quoted by WorldNetDaily.com. “This collapse might cause a terrific series of collapses.” Mazar is leading the committee for preventing destruction of antiquities at the site. She charged members of the Waqf, an Islamic trust with close ties to Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority, with directing “unsupervised” work in and around the Temple Mount, resulting in the loss of archaeological treasures. However, Waqf spokesman Adnan al-Husseini said the failure was the result of “Israeli intervention in our work and preventing us from maintaining it after we stated it was in urgent need for a rapid action to prevent its collapse.” Last December a “huge bulge” began developing in an outer southern wall on the 37-acre Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. The historic site is the foundation of the Jewish temple that was destroyed in 70 A.D. by the Romans. Israel has given day-to-day administration of the site to the Waqf. “It is frightening to think of this collapse and of what could happen in the future when many tens of thousands of people visit the Temple Mount,” said Mazar. “If a catastrophe occurs, the whole world would blame Israel.” (Assist News Service)

2,000 ROMANIANS COME TO CHRIST THROUGH 7 SHORT-TERM MISSION TRIPS Global Missions Fellowship (GMF) is having an impact on Romania through its “Go 2 Grow” short-term missions program. GMF officials said that in seven trips to the country this year, nearly 2,000 people indicated that they had given their lives to Christ. The ministry also has seen 23 churches planted in the region and was instrumental in establishing AWANA Bible clubs for children. In the latest trip to the Constanta area, plans are to start an AWANA club and a Gypsy church near the city. (Mission Network News)

* HCJB World Radio broadcasts the gospel locally in seven Romanian cities via the partner ministry, Radio Voice of the Gospel. The network is a cooperative effort with the Evangelical Alliance of Romania and the Romanian Missionary Society.

FORMER NRB EXECUTIVE HONORED WITH PERCY AWARD Former National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) executive Dr. Ben Armstrong was presented with the Percy Award at the association’s Eastern Convention Awards Banquet in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 19. Armstrong became NRB’s first executive director in 1966 and held the post for nearly a quarter century. He played a strategic role in bringing Christian broadcasters from a wide variety religious backgrounds together to form a united voice to protect and promote the use of mass media to share the gospel. Today NRB brings more than 5,000 Christian media together each year for a forum of fellowship and education. The Percy Award celebrates the contribution of late Christian broadcaster Percy Crawford who began his radio program, “Young People’s Chapel of the Air,” in Philadelphia in 1932. Broadcasters from across the East Coast assembled in Philadelphia for the NRB’s annual Eastern Convention Sept. 18-20. NRB is the association of Christian broadcasters dedicated to protecting and promoting the airwaves for sharing the gospel. (Assist News Service)

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