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FLASH FLOODS IN INDONESIA OPEN MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES TERRORIST GROUP IN UGANDA KILLS 18 IN QUEST TO FORM ‘THEOCRACY’ BAPTIST VOLUNTEERS DISTRIBUTE 45,000 FOOD BOXES IN IRAQ MINISTRY WORKS TO HELP AVERT RUSSIA’S ‘NATIONAL CATASTROPHE’ ESCALATING HIV/AIDS PROBLEM IN INDIA PROMPTS MINISTRY TO HELP BILLY GRAHAM, 85, WON’T LET AGE SLOW DOWN PREACHING IN 2004

Today’s News Stories:

FLASH FLOODS IN INDONESIA OPEN MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, deadly flash floods last week have devastated whole villages. AMG International’s Larry Malone says the ministry has teams in the area which are putting aside normal outreach to help. “The floods provide an opportunity for greater work,” he says. “One of the things that has helped AMG is that anytime there’s a disaster, flood relief, we’re in with immediate supplies to help the people just to live and exist for the time being and then we seek to reach into their lives by helping provide homes and food.” On his most recent trip to the area, Malone saw a dedication to ministry despite the conditions. “Pray that God will continue to provide for their needs. The economy in Indonesia is devastating,” he said. “The people are existing on very little. They just need God’s people to uphold them in prayer that they’ll stay faithful to the Lord.” (Mission Network News)

TERRORIST GROUP IN UGANDA KILLS 18 IN QUEST TO FORM ‘THEOCRACY’ At least 18 people were killed and many more abducted when rebels with a terrorist group called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) launched an attack on a village in northern Uganda’s Lira district the night of Wednesday Nov. 5. Military and local government sources said on Thursday that the attack on Apala occurred at around midnight. Army spokesman Lt. Chris Magezi confirmed the assault and said this was the first time Apala had ever been an LRA target. Local Councilor Joel Otim said the attack was on “women and children. They abducted people and looted the place of all its food.” Magezi said an army unit had been swiftly deployed to the scene. “Our commanders have not yet verified the deaths. Until they do, we can’t be sure,” he added. The LRA has been fighting since 1986 under its leader, the enigmatic Joseph Kony. He wants to replace the Ugandan government with a theocracy based on the Ten Commandments, but most attacks have centered on civilians in the rural north. (IRIN News)

* HCJB World Radio, together with the Evangelical Churches of Kampala and FEBA Radio, broadcasts the gospel locally in Uganda on two FM transmitters. HCJB World Radio also worked with Jesus Focus Ministries to put a 500-watt FM station on the air in Masaka. Programs air in English and Luganda.

BAPTIST VOLUNTEERS DISTRIBUTE 45,000 FOOD BOXES IN IRAQ Iraqis cheered as a volunteer team moved through their neighborhood to give out cartons of food sent by Southern Baptist churches across America. Children ran up to the five Southern Baptist men from Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., like they were long-lost uncles, giggling and jostling to get close. Mothers handed over their babies to be held, and the few men around extended greetings. If there were any anti-American feelings, they were well hidden in this impoverished Shiite Muslim village where some families have had relatives killed or tortured by Saddam Hussein. “It reminded me of kids coming up to Jesus,” marveled Jim Walker, a digital press artist from East Bend, N.C. The 10-day project in late October and early November was just a small part of a massive effort by Southern Baptists to help the Iraqi people. In late October the last of 69 truckload-sized cargo containers — carrying a total of some 45,000 boxes of food — arrived by truck and were offloaded in a warehouse for distribution to needy people across Iraq. Thousands of Southern Baptists in America had stuffed each carton with about 70 lbs. of flour, sugar and other basic foodstuffs — enough to feed a family of four for several weeks. Distribution of the cartons had been halted in August because of fears that supporters of Hussein might target humanitarian workers. Even during this period, however, a small crew of Southern Baptist workers continued to distribute food, working through Iraqi churches, community councils and other organizations. About half the food has been distributed, and the rest is expected to be delivered by the end of this year. (Baptist Press)

MINISTRY WORKS TO HELP AVERT RUSSIA’S ‘NATIONAL CATASTROPHE’ Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the situation of Russia’s neediest young people a “national catastrophe and social priority No 1.” Vera Lekareva, a member of Russia’s parliament lamented, “Criminals, sexual predators and drug dealers have opened an insolent and merciless hunt on our children.” With at least 3 million of the nation’s children homeless, 3 percent living in under-funded childcare institutions run by the state, and 120,000 children serving time behind bars, the plight of Russia’s children and youth is cause for grave concern, says Russian Ministries Vice President Sergey Rakhuba. More than 1.2 million Russians have died from drug overdoses in the last decade. At a recent gathering in Moscow led by Rakhuba, workers adopted a new ministry focus and strategy to respond to the critical need for new Christian leaders. The ministry expects to train 1,875 to 2,500 young leaders who will then be challenged to enlist and train five other youth within their region during a two-year period. The organization is working in partnership with St. Petersburg Christian University, Evangelical Christian-Baptist Union, New Life Russia, Josh McDowell Ministries, Reach Out Youth Solutions, Samaritan’s Purse, Cross International, Alliance for Saturation Church-Planting, Young Life, CoMission for Children at Risk, The Gathering (Moscow), Evangelical Accrediting Association, and Viva Network. (Assist News Service)

* HCJB World Radio reaches across Russia with a variety of radio ministries. The mission has been sending gospel broadcasts across the country via shortwave since 1941, first from Quito, Ecuador, and now from the U.K. In the early 1990s the ministry began “planting” local radio ministries in Russia and now works with partners in more than a dozen cities. In 2000 HCJB World Radio helped launch the first Christian Russian radio satellite network (operated by Christian Radio for Russia), reaching across Euro-Asia. Downlinks have been installed with more than 26 partners in Russia alone.

ESCALATING HIV/AIDS PROBLEM IN INDIA PROMPTS MINISTRY TO HELP The HIV/AIDS epidemic is increasing, but not only in Africa. The same is true of India. Recent reports indicate that 4.5 million Indians are infected with either HIV or AIDS, prompting experts and government officials to call for urgent action. World Vision is helping, but it may be awhile before the full scope of the problem is realized, says spokesperson Reena Samuel “Because of the stigma and the discrimination, we don’t have people coming out [and admitting that they have the disease]. But it’s surely growing, and it’s at a good rate.” Teaching biblical moral values and providing loving care is providing great opportunities to share Christ, she says. “World Vision’s rule of being with them, standing next to them and saying, ‘We care for you.’ That’s really been the important thing. People come up and tell us, ‘It’s not about money or material things. It’s about the love that we see here in this place.'” (Mission Network News)

BILLY GRAHAM, 85, WON’T LET AGE SLOW DOWN PREACHING IN 2004 While evangelist Billy Graham marked his 85th birthday Friday, Nov. 7, he has no plans to slow down in his preaching. “I never dreamed that I would live to be 85,” Graham said in a statement. “I am grateful to the Lord for the strength he gives me to hold additional crusades.” Graham spokesman Larry Ross said officials of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association have decided to once again use the term “crusades” to describe Graham’s major events, rather than “missions.” “I think that there’s been consensus among the leadership to return to the more familiar term, ‘crusade,'” Ross said. “It’s what he’s been known for all these years.” In 2001 shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Graham suggested the next announcement of an evangelistic outreach be called something other than a “crusade” in an effort to be sensitive to people of non-Christian faiths. Ross said the change reflects an emphasis on the “denotation of the word” rather than “any implied connotation.” The evangelist has been meeting with his son, Franklin, chief executive officer of the association, and others to discuss invitations he has received to hold future evangelistic meetings. He plans to announce his 2004 schedule in January. (Religion News Service)

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