{"id":4914,"date":"2014-08-20T05:10:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2014-08-22T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:28:33","slug":"missions-catalyst-news-briefs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4914","title":{"rendered":"Missions Catalyst News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In This Issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. EDITOR’S NOTE: Taking Risks<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. LIBERIA: Ebola Giving Christ Center Stage<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. NIGERIA: Market Price for a Christian’s Life<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. UKRAINE: Christians Captured and Killed<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. MIDDLE EAST: Children at Risk<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. SAUDI ARABIA: Is God at Work?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    For additional news, see our Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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    Dear readers,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I’ve been thinking about risk: those at risk, those who take risks, and those for whom life has become too risky. You may have heard our local story about the Amish girls kidnapped<\/a> and miraculously released. This happened about 10 miles from my home. Then there are the girls still missing in Nigeria, the Christian and Yazidi women and children in Iraq, and many in Gaza and Syria. What about the children who risk all to cross a border because life in their home country is far worse? How do we “think Christianly<\/a>” about this?<\/p>\n

    Also hotly debated in the news are those who take risks, like missionaries that get Ebola<\/a>, saints like the Vicar of Bagdad<\/a>, and those that run to the battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    I once heard it said that the risk ratio is the wrong number to look at if we wish to quantify risk. Rather, we should measure what might be gained by taking that risk. This way of quantifying risk is more useful when deciding if a risk is good or bad. John Piper says it better in his book, Risk Is Right<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    \u201cThere are a thousand ways to magnify Christ in life and death. None should be scorned. All are important. But none makes the worth of Christ shine more brightly than sacrificial love for other people in the name of Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Blessings,
    \nPat<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"riskisright\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    \"Pat\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Pat Noble has been the \u201cnews sleuth\u201d for Missions Catalyst since 2004. In addition to churning out the news, she is working to create a SWARM (Serving World A Regional Mobilizers) in Northern New York using the NorthernChristian.org<\/a> website. You can connect with her at www.whatsoeverthings.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In This Issue: EDITOR’S NOTE: Taking Risks LIBERIA: Ebola Giving Christ Center Stage NIGERIA: Market Price for a Christian’s Life UKRAINE: Christians Captured and Killed MIDDLE EAST: Children at Risk SAUDI ARABIA: Is God at Work? For additional news, see our Twitter feed. Dear readers,\u00a0 I’ve been thinking about risk: those at risk, those who … Continue reading Missions Catalyst News Briefs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4924,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}