To you my loved friends..and to the Youth and Young Adults of Naznet

[Judy Hamilton]

I know that when touring Phnom Penh S-21 prison and the “Killing Fields” in Cambodia…I stirred place in my soul that I had for decades suceeded in silencing. Do we each not cry from somewhere in the deepest recesses of our souls when injustice of this magnitude slaps us in our face? As I stated in an earlier post, when Cambodia sealed her borders and in a tragic communist effort to make these precious peoples into a classless society, I turned my head and refused to listen to the few cries for help that did reach my senses. When I answered, “yes, I will go” and be part of the medical team and serve two weeks of my life in Cambodia, I truly had not a clue to how my soul would be ravaged. I am almost 63 years young…and had I another life to give, give it I would.

I implore Christians to be proactive in international politics and for young Christian adults to involve themselves in matters of the State Department and the Ambassadors over this globe. A Christian is an Ambassador and a follower of Jesus Christ. An American Christian is also an Ambassador of freedoms and an ambassador of the love of Jesus Christ. The words of the Hymn ring true

“The love of God is greater far, than tongue or pen can ever tell.
It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest Hell”

It is ONLY by the mercies and grace of a loving God that the “killing fields” will not be repeated in Iraq. I encourage each of you to please do not become weary in our prayers for the hand of God to move in this Mideast crisis.

Encourage yourselves and encourage each other, God does hear our cries for His mercy and grace to be poured out on a people that do not know His heart and His love

I thank you for responding to this grievous burden to my soul. You know my respect and love for you as brothers and sisters in Christ deepens with each truth the Lord leads me to face and with grace extended during past times of crisis in my life.

I believe that without God, Iraq/Iran could become the "Lowest Hell"

I ask you in your quite time and loud time before the Lord to come boldly before the Throne of Grace and pray "may God have mercy on the Middle East"

Judy

[Jim Franklin]

Well said, dear Judy. Perhaps somewhere in what you said is why I was called to teach at the college level originally and to pursue doctoral studies in Cultural Geography and International Geopolitics and not as a missionary in a international area because I would have become too involved with the local political scene and the injustices that abound. I remember responding to a question in the Hearld some 40 years ago as to what was the US doing in Vietnam and my response was to help establish a free government so that the citizens of that nation would have a better chance at choosing Christ as their spiritual king than being forced to accept a temporal dictator. I still feel that Barry Goldwater was right in 1964.

[Jill Mickelson]

I know that when touring Phnom Penh S-21 prison and the “Killing Fields” in Cambodia…I stirred place in my soul that I had for decades suceeded in silencing. Do we each not cry from somewhere in the deepest recesses of our souls when injustice of this magnitude slaps us in our face? As I stated in an earlier post, when Cambodia sealed her borders and in a tragic communist effort to make these precious peoples into a classless society, I turned my head and refused to listen to the few cries for help that did reach my senses. When I answered, “yes, I will go” and be part of the medical team and serve two weeks of my life in Cambodia, I truly had not a clue to how my soul would be ravaged. I am almost 63 years young…and had I another life to give, give it I would.

I implore Christians to be proactive in international politics and for young Christian adults to involve themselves in matters of the State Department and the Ambassadors over this globe. A Christian is an Ambassador and a follower of Jesus Christ. An American Christian is also an Ambassador of freedoms and an ambassador of the love of Jesus Christ. The words of the Hymn ring true

“The love of God is greater far, than tongue or pen can ever tell.
It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest Hell”

It is ONLY by the mercies and grace of a loving God that the “killing fields” will not be repeated in Iraq. I encourage each of you to please do not become weary in our prayers for the hand of God to move in this Mideast crisis.

Encourage yourselves and encourage each other, God does hear our cries for His mercy and grace to be poured out on a people that do not know His heart and His love

I thank you for responding to this grievous burden to my soul. You know my respect and love for you as brothers and sisters in Christ deepens with each truth the Lord leads me to face and with grace extended during past times of crisis in my life.

I believe that without God, Iraq/Iran could become the "Lowest Hell"

I ask you in your quite time and loud time before the Lord to come boldly before the Throne of Grace and pray "may God have mercy on the Middle East"

Judy
AMEN AND AMEN AND AMEN! AMEN!