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LILA TROTMAN, WIDOW OF THE NAVIGATORS’ FOUNDER, DIES AT AGE 90 WORLD VISION URGES COOPERATION TO HELP UGANDA’S IMPERILED CHILDREN PAKISTAN’S PARLIAMENT AIMS TO STOP ABUSE OF ‘BLASPHEMY’ LAW MICAH CHALLENGE LAUNCHED AT U.N. AIMS TO HALVE POVERTY BY 2015 FLOURISHING CHURCH NEAR SEATTLE REDEFINES ROLE OF CONGREGATION * HCJB WORLD RADIO AIRS PROGRAMS TO ENCOURAGE BESLAN SURVIVORS

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LILA TROTMAN, WIDOW OF THE NAVIGATORS’ FOUNDER, DIES AT AGE 90 Lila Mae Trotman, widow of the Navigators’ founder Dawson Trotman, died in Colorado Springs, Colo., the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 27. She was 90. The ministry began in the 1930s when Dawson began to teach high school students and local Sunday school classes in California. In 1933 he and his friends began to extend their work among sailors in the U.S. Navy. They emphasized Bible study, Scripture memorization, prayer and one-on-one discipleship, encouraging trainees to teach others what that had learned. The Navigators was incorporated in California in 1943 and moved to Colorado Springs 10 years later when the ministry obtained the Glen Eyrie property. While Dawson traveled for the ministry, Lila helped run the organization and managed the office. After her husband’s death in 1956, Lila’s involvement in the outreach waned, but she remained a lifetime board member and attended meetings regularly. “She was a woman of influence,” said her son, Bruce, in an interview with The Colorado Springs Gazette. In addition to the conference center, Glen Eyrie is home to the ministry’s publishing division, NavPress, and the administrative offices. Eagle Lake Camp is also nearby. The Navigators works in 110 countries and employs nearly 4,000 people worldwide, including more than 400 in Colorado Springs. A memorial service for Lila Trotman will be at Glen Eyrie Castle at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7. (Navigators/Colorado Springs Gazette)

WORLD VISION URGES COOPERATION TO HELP UGANDA’S IMPERILED CHILDREN In Uganda more than 20,000 children have been abducted by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army in the last 18 years, forcing them to become soldiers, sex slaves and weapons porters, states a new report from World Vision. The report, “Pawns of Politics: Children, Conflict and Peace in Northern Uganda,” calls for greater cooperation at the local and national levels both in Uganda and Sudan, and for concerted action from the international community. The report revealed the impact of the 18-year conflict on northern Uganda, including new research that shows HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in conflicted areas are almost double the national average and rising. More than 1.6 million people, including 80 percent of the northern region’s population, are homeless, living in displacement camps that are squalid and cramped. Keren Winterford, World Vision’s program officer for Uganda, says children are used as pawns for military and political purposes. “These children are abused and manipulated,” Winterford said. “They are forced to kill and are killed themselves. There is a lost generation of children and young people in this conflict. In spite of good intentions and laws to protect children from abuse, their security and basic rights are not met. The protracted nature of this conflict has created a humanitarian crisis that is among the world’s worst, and it’s time the international community put a stop to this.” World Vision is reaching out to the young victims with trauma counseling, healthcare, education and vocational training. (Mission Network News)

PAKISTAN’S PARLIAMENT AIMS TO STOP ABUSE OF ‘BLASPHEMY’ LAW Pakistan’s national assembly has passed a bill aimed at reducing abuse of harsh blasphemy laws that have been the subject of fierce criticism from minorities and human rights groups. The amendment to the law requires senior police officials to investigate blasphemy allegations for substance before criminal charges are filed. Currently, anyone accused of blasphemy is immediately arrested and charged after which an investigation occurs. One of the major complaints about the law is it is often misused to settle personal vendettas and arguments over property or money, particularly against the country’s minority Christian community. Blasphemy in this Islamic nation of 150 million people carries a maximum sentence of the death penalty, although no one has ever been executed for the crime. Tahir Muhammad Khan, chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said the amendment is welcome, but inadequate. “The procedural change will reduce [but not stop] the misuse,” he said. The amendment to the law must still pass the country’s senate where the government also has a majority. (WorldWide Religious News/AFP)

MICAH CHALLENGE LAUNCHED AT U.N. AIMS TO HALVE POVERTY BY 2015 Micah Challenge, a global campaign to mobilize millions of Christians in 100 countries to press their governments to halve poverty by 2015, was launched at the U.N. on Friday, Oct. 15 by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town, South Africa. The effort, spearheaded by the World Evangelical Alliance, represents 3 million local churches in 111 countries, and a network of 260 Christian relief and development agencies. The campaign — named after the Old Testament prophet of justice — encourages believers to deepen their commitment to share the hope of Christ with poor communities. It also urges churches to encourage governments to fulfill their public promise. “Governments and business can say the words, but they need all the encouragement . . . that we can give to deliver the goods,” Ndungane said. Canceling the debts of Third World countries and eliminating trade inequities are key points in the success of the stratagy. The eight U.N.-approved goals are to stop extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development. The group is working to enlist 25 million Christians worldwide to endorse the movement through its website, http://www.micahchallenge.org. (World Evangelical Alliance/Mission Network News/Baptist World Alliance)

FLOURISHING CHURCH NEAR SEATTLE REDEFINES ROLE OF CONGREGATION With auto mechanics on staff and its own funeral home, an Assemblies of God congregation in Washington state is redefining how a church can reach a community for Christ. Joe Fuiten, pastor of the Seattle-area Cedar Park Church, has challenged his congregation to redefine its role, using a wide variety of skills to reach others — auto maintenance, counseling, retailing, education, funeral and cemetery services, and music productions. It’s all aimed at meeting the needs of local people — not just on Sunday, but throughout the week. “What I want is the church to be the center of the community,” Fuiten told Charisma magazine. At Cedar Park it’s church 24 hours a day. Regardless of the ministry, it’s all aimed at linking the church with the community to provide connections for sharing Christ while solving people’s day-to-day problems. “We create ministries outside of the church setting,” Fuiten said. In what is considered one of the least-churched states in the country, Cedar Park continues to flourish, growing in attendance while neighboring mainline Protestant churches decline. Including services in Spanish and Japanese, a private school and seven satellite campuses where services are held, more than 5,000 people regularly attend the church. (Religion Today/Charisma News Service)

* HCJB WORLD RADIO AIRS PROGRAMS TO ENCOURAGE BESLAN SURVIVORS HCJB World Radio is working with various broadcasting ministries in Russia to encourage survivors of the horrific terrorist attack on a middle school in Beslan, Russia, in early September that left more than 350 people dead — many of them children.

“We have produced a series of Christian responses to the Beslan tragedy,” said Mark Irwin, director of HCJB World Radio’s sub-regional office in Moscow. Radio ministries represented in the outreach also include Trans World Radio, Russian Christian Radio, the Russian Baptist Union, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Russia and a local studio that was developed with HCJB World Radio’s help in nearby Nalchik.

Olga Meltinis, a graduate of HCJB World Radio’s broadcast training program held in 2002, is among those producing special broadcasts designed to encourage the traumatized people of Beslan. A former production manager at a factory in her hometown of Voronezh, Russia, she produces Christian programs that air both locally and internationally, telling about the powerful, life-changing work of God.

Meltinis, working with a colleague from her team in Voronezh, went to Beslan to interview numerous witnesses and others whose lives were shattered by the tragedy. “Then she returned to Voronezh and has produced various programs that reflect God’s power to change lives and to encourage forgiveness,” Irwin explained. “These programs have aired internationally via shortwave and on a local Christian FM station in Vladikavkaz, Russia, which also reaches Beslan.”

Her weekly program, “Eternity in Miniature,” spotlights testimonies of those whose lives have been transformed by God. The programs air on shortwave across Russia as part of HCJB World Radio’s Russian language programming as well as on the New Life Radio satellite network and on local outlets.

Meltinis will also take part in a mass media evangelism campaign set for Petrozavodsk, Russia, in November. HCJB World Radio’s Moscow staff helped prepare some materials for the media campaign, including special radio programs.

A graduate of the 2001 radio course, Nadya Arxipova, will help with the Petrozavodsk campaign, a media outreach coordinated by Campus Crusade for Christ and International Russian Radio and TV.

Earlier this year, HCJB World Radio’s Moscow staff, along with Arxipova and a fellow graduate named Dima from the 2000 school, produced programs for a similar outreach held in Ufa, Russia (capital of the Bashkir republic).

In early October the Moscow staff completed a two-week training course in the Siberian city of Surgut as 10 students came from various cities and cultures to learn Christian broadcasting. “Among them were three pastors, two former policemen who served during the Soviet era, and a former drug addict,” Irwin said. More training courses are planned for 2005, including radio program production and Christian music recording and production. (HCJB World Radio)

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