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Savill family left and Krystina and Hannah and Hope at far right. Click photos for announcements

Two letters on the same day? Byron, Margie's nephew and Donald's neices, Krystina Rankin announces
missions plans. Hannah, another Rankin descendant sends letter in January 2008 announcing
mission plans and again in 2009! And now Hope prepares
Please go HERE for Hannah's mission plans

Please also PRAY for loss of family members
Please go HERE for family missionaries in Japan

Love Your Enemy

Dirk Willems was an Anabaptist living in Holland in 1569. The Anabaptists were a persecuted religious minority under the Spanish rulers, who were still trying to enforce a Roman Catholic monopoly in the country. Willems was thrown into prison to await trial as a heretic. The prison diet was inadequate, and Willems lost a considerable amount of weight. Knowing his life was at stake, he made a rope out of knotted rags and lowered himself out of an upper window. Then he ran!

A prison guard saw Willems and pursued. Willems was able to cross over a frozen pond safely, his lightweight, emaciated body did not break through the thin ice. But his pursuer, much heavier, broke through the ice. He tried to get out on his own but was unsuccessful.

Willems heard the man's cries. But Willems knew that if he tried to help the pursuer, he most likely would be caught again. He could not let the man drown. So he returned and helped the man to safety. Then the guard promptly hauled Willems back to prison. Shortly thereafter he was burned at the stake for his "heresy" of being an Anabaptist.

Willems exemplified exactly what Jesus was talking about. Willems loved his enemy to the extent that it cost him his own life. Jesus' words are easily acknowleged, but rarely implemented. Dirk Willems is a marvelous exception. Article by James B. North, writer for International Sunday School Lessons for 2007-2008

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PRICE and DANNY - eventful evangelism - former church music ministers making a difference!
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CLICK HERE for Price's December 2009 Newsletter
Talk about missions? - Where do you and I fit in? CLICK HERE - As more missionaries go out will you help?

Below is the December Prayer Requests for our team
This section updated November 30, 2009
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Dear Prayer Warriors,
Attached you will find our teams prayer letter for the month of Dec. Thank you for your continued prayers!
This year Southern Baptists have a Lottie Moon Offering Goal of 175 million dollars. That sure sounds like a lot knowing that last year the goal was not met. I know that because of the economic crisis it is harder to give but I'm asking you to dig deep and give so that missionaries can once again go and be allowed to do the work that God has called them to do. Please prayerfully consider what God would have you to give this year..
“How many there are … who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.” --Lottie Moon, Tengchow, China, Sept. 15, 1887.
Merry Christmas!
Suzie and Kevin Rodgers
-- CO-LABORING WITH YOU TO REACH ZAMBIA FOR CHRIST
Kevin, Suzie, Zachary, Justin and Hannah Rodgers
c/o Baptist Mission of Zambia
P.O. Box 50599,
Ridgeway Lusaka, ZAMBIA
email = rodgerstribe@gmail.com blog= http://www.therodgerstribe.blogspot.com Virtual Prayer Walk: http://easternharvestteam.blogspot.com For more exciting news about what is going on in Zambia look up: http://www.bmoz.org then go to The Rodgers family. Please pray 1 Peter 4:11 for our family... "Whoever speaks let him speak, as it were, the very utterances of God; whoever serves, let him serve by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen" Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle!
email = rodgerstribe@gmail.com blog= http://www.therodgerstribe.blogspot.com
Virtual Prayer Walk: Blog Spot
For more exciting news about what is going on in Zambia look up: http://www.bmoz.org then go to The Rodgers family.
Please pray 1 Peter 4:11 for our family... "Whoever speaks let him speak, as it were, the very utterances of God; whoever serves, let him serve by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen"
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle!
BLOG SPOT and the Rodgers: Rodgers' BLOG SPOT Eastern Harvest Team
Virtual Prayer Walk: BLOG SPOT Baptist Mission of Zambia Website: ZAMBIA SITE

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