In This Issue:
- BURMA: Week of Prayer March 7-13
- NIGERIA: Churches Unite for First Time to Address Violence in North
- INDIA: More than 500 Rescued from Slavery
- ISRAEL/PALESTINE: Palestinian Christians and Messianic Jews Issue Joint Statement
- MEDITERRANEAN: Migrants Sold Fake Life Jackets
Greetings!
This past week’s major news stories unsettled me. I felt as if the world was changing too fast to make sense of it. Not until I sleuthed for news we could use for Missions Catalyst did I find relief. I found stories about the things that matter most and that speak of the good news of the Gospel and its advance.
Consider the story of Shahid, a Libyan man who came to Christ and now reports baptizing Muslim-background believers on the same shores where ISIS beheaded 21 Coptic Christians (Light the Way), or the story of a skateboarding disciple-maker in one of Asia’s urban centers who is seeing lives changed (Pioneers). I’m also encouraged by reports of those reaching out in love to the world’s refugees.
If your head is spinning by what you are hearing, take heart. Heaven’s headlines are always GOOD News.
In Him,
Pat