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MARTYRED MISSIONARY’S ‘DREAM PROJECT’ INAUGURATED IN INDIA STUDENTS PROVIDE SCRIPTURES TO MORE THAN 37,000 ROMANIAN CHILDREN ‘BOXES OF BLESSING’ BRING ENCOURAGEMENT TO 250,000 IRAQIS OHIO CHURCH’S UNORTHODOX TECHNIQUES PROVE SUCCESSFUL CUBAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE BEATEN FOR ASKING TO SEE LETTERS * MISSIONARY SURGEON TO LEAD SEMINARS AT HCJB WORLD RADIO IN QUITO

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MARTYRED MISSIONARY’S ‘DREAM PROJECT’ INAUGURATED IN INDIA Five-and-a-half years after the brutal killing of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines in Manoharpur, India, his dream project of a referral hospital was inaugurated in Baripada on Thursday, July 1. “The first phase of Graham’s dream is coming true,” said his widow, Gladys, who is directing the project. “Although he is no longer with us physically, he is here in spirit.” In addition to treating leprosy patients, the facility will serve as a general hospital, open to all patients. In the first phase, a 10-bed hospital has been constructed with family medicine service and laboratory facilities. It will focus on the poorest of the poor who have little or no access to medical care. Although the treatment at the not-for-profit hospital won’t be free to patients, charges will be kept “as low as possible,” she said. Graham came to Orissa as a missionary in 1965 and worked at the mission stations in Rairangpur and Baripada until his death in 1999. A Hindu mob attacked Graham and his two young sons the night of Jan. 22, 1999, setting their station wagon on fire while they were trapped inside. (WorldWide Religious News)

STUDENTS PROVIDE SCRIPTURES TO MORE THAN 37,000 ROMANIAN CHILDREN In a record-setting collaboration this year between the Bible League’s “Children Caring for Children” and the Lutheran schools’ annual “Hearts for Jesus” project, thousands of students raised more than $75,000 to help send Scriptures to children in Romania. Through the Lutheran students’ efforts, more than 37,000 Romanian children will receive copies of the hardbound, illustrated Scripture book, Leading Little Ones to God. Administrators from the two participating school districts — Bruce Braun, assistant superintendent of Lutheran schools in Michigan, and Mark Brink, executive director of school ministries for the Florida/Georgia district of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod — presented checks to the Bible League’s Connie Reitsma, program director of Children Caring for Children. “This is my favorite program because I personally know it works,” Reitsma said. “You’re teaching kids while you’re reaching them. How much better can it get?” This is only one in a series of classroom missions projects designed by the Bible League to “take students around the world with words and pictures and give kids a heart for children who don’t have God’s Word.” (Bible League)

‘BOXES OF BLESSING’ BRING ENCOURAGEMENT TO 250,000 IRAQIS As insurgents continue their assault on the new Iraqi government and coalition forces, ministries such as New Life World Aid, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ in Canada, has provided more than 32,000 “Boxes of Blessing” to help 250,000 people. “I don’t want to give to many details because there are very serious security concerns on our workers, staff and volunteers there,” said ministry spokesman Philip Morris. “But we have teams of Iraqi Christians distributing much needed food supplies to the most desperate of Iraqi families in various centers in Iraq, but mostly in Baghdad.” Morris calls the outreach an eternal investment. “Through personal touch and personal contact, Iraqi Christians are reaching out to their neighbors. We pray that God would move us to give so that Iraqi Christians can be a witness and a help in desperate times.” (Mission Network News)

OHIO CHURCH’S UNORTHODOX TECHNIQUES PROVE SUCCESSFUL A church in Ohio is spreading the love of Christ by filling gas tanks, wiping windows and checking oil. Members of Milan Baptist Church went to a local gas station and paid the station $250 to lower the cost of 1,000 gallons of regular gas by a quarter. During the two hours before the gas sold out, the members served roughly 100 people with a full-service fill-up. Rev. Todd Hartley, pastor of the church, says this is not the first time they have done something a bit unorthodox to share the gospel. “We do things like this quite often in the community,” Hartley explained. “In the last two years we’ve given away 10,000 water bottles at a big community festival, planted flower bulbs for people, cleaned gutters, washed windows and cut grass — just to show people that Jesus loves them with no strings attached.” Hartley says several families in the rural community have started going to church because of these outreaches. (Religion Today/Agape Press)

CUBAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE BEATEN FOR ASKING TO SEE LETTERS A Cuban prisoner of conscience was savagely beaten and tortured by prison guards last week after requesting to see letters and cards that had been sent to him from supporters worldwide. After being thrown to the floor of the prison, kicked and beaten, Jorge “Ant ºnez” Lu ­s Garc ­a P ©rez, who has been in prison for 14 years, had both of his arms shackled and then pulled in opposite directions, resulting in bleeding from the neck and sustained difficulties in breathing. The attack took place during a visit by relatives, including his sister, Berta Ant ºnez Pernet, who said that she was also beaten on the back and neck as she tried to intervene physically to stop the beating. P ©rez was originally charged with “verbal enemy propaganda” in 1990 after publicly shouting, “We don’t want communism, we need reforms!” (Christian Solidarity Worldwide)

* MISSIONARY SURGEON TO LEAD SEMINARS AT HCJB WORLD RADIO IN QUITO Veteran missionary surgeon Dr. Daniel Fountain will lead a pair of workshops to be hosted by HCJB World Radio’s Healthcare Division in Quito, Ecuador, this fall. Dr. Fountain, who served for years at the American Baptist Mission Hospital in Vanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, will hold workshops on “Health, the Bible and Culture” (Sept. 20-24) and “Treating the Whole Person” (Sept. 27-29). Both will take place at HCJB World Radio’s Larson Center in Quito.

Dr. Fountain pioneered the Vanga Hospital’s community health program. In recent years he has served with MAP International and is on staff at the Peeke School of Missions in Bristol, Tenn. He also serves with Christian Medical and Dental Society and is an international health consultant. He has authored a number of books, including Let’s Build Our Lives; The Bible, Health and Culture; and Christian Health and Healing into the 21st Century.

The Vanga Hospital has been providing comprehensive medical care in the Bandundu region of western Democratic Republic of Congo since 1920. However, combining spiritual/pastoral care and medical care didn’t begin in earnest until 1984 when a pastor trained in counseling hospital patients joined the staff. She now has a staff of seven.

HCJB World Radio-Healthcare Director Sheila Leech encourages all Christian medical workers to attend the workshops. “I believe that Dr. Fountain has much to teach us about health programs which are biblically based, sustainable and culturally relevant,” she says. “He draws from a wealth of experience on the mission field and is an outstanding communicator.”

For more information, contact Nancy Cadena at the healthcare offices in Quito at . (HCJB World Radio/Christian Connections for International Health) * * * * * * * * * * * * * James A. Ferrier HCJB World Radio U.S. Ministries Communications Director E-mail: Phone: 1-719-590-9800 Fax: 1-719-590-9801 Web: http://www.hcjb.org http://www.beyondthecall.org * * * * * * * * * * * * *

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