PERSECUTED BELIEVERS

Cry for Afghanistan - online or download the movie - uses music,
an Afghani poem, excellent photography and PowerPoint functions to convey the message of pain of the Afghani people

CRY INDONESIA
Cry Indonesia is a project dedicated to raising awareness of the events taking place through the 'Hearts of Faith' music project and equipping Christians to pray for their persecuted brothers and sisters in Indonesia. Song Lyrics online. This unique resource package includes a CD collection of 14 indigenous, professionally produced, Indonesian songs called Hearts of Faith as well as the informative and compelling Cry Indonesia video which features the songs from the CD, complete with subtitles. The songs on the CD were recorded on location in Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia in August 2001. The recording represents the work of songwriters and singers from the province of Maluku, who, together with hundreds of thousands of their fellow Malukans have had to flee their homes and villages. For ordering info, see their web site. Contact: cryindonesia@rnc.org.au

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+ OPPORTUNITIES TO USE YOUR ARTISTIC GIFTS
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHERS in order to
HELP SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE
PERSECUTED BELIEVERS (and other potential foci)

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Freedom From Religious Persecution Act

international Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church
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International Religious Freedom Report

Open Doors Resource Page

Persecution and Human Rights Links

Persecution Archives- 2002

Persecuted Church News

Persecution of Believers Links

Religious Freedom World Report

Resource Links

Student Underground - interactive simulation for youth

re persecuted believer lifestyle

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Article 18

Videos

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SONGS/POEMS

FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL

Intro
Oooooooo Ooooooo

In these days, around the world, the Body of Christ is suffering

Many persecuted…tortured…laying down their lives.

Willing to lay down all they own

Willing to see their family's torn

For the sake of the Gospel

Willing to have their bodies torn

Willing to leave the ones they've born/borne (sp?)

Willing to wear a 'crown of thorns'

For the Gospel

In these days, around the world, the Spirit of the Lord is calling,

"Will you, like them, risk it all,

For the sake of the Gospel?

Will you count the cost, my child?

Will you pay the price, my child?

For the sake of the Gospel?

(Are you) willing to have your bodies torn?

Willing to leave the ones you've born/borne?

Willing to wear a crown of thorns

For the Gospel?

These, the world is not worthy of them

These, are blessed for what they suffer

These, are your brothers and your sisters

So pray, as though you're in this with them.

Pray, that I will comfort them

Pray that they will be true - faithful to the end.

Pray, that My Light will shine through

That others will know Me, too,

And live with me till the end

INTERLUDE:
Oooooo Ooooooooo (2 times as in intro and then ad lib

till reader is finished reading the following verses):

Read during Ooooooos
(Heb 11:32-40)…"And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon,

Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets, who through

faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised,

who shut the mouts of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the

edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became

powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead,

raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released so that they might gain

a better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were

chained and put in prison. They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they

were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,

destitute, persecuted and mistreated - the world was not worthy of them. They

wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground…

(small pause between verses)

(Rev 6:9)…"when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls

of those who had been slain because of the Word of God and the testimony

they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign

Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?"

Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer,

until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed

as they had been was completed….

(small pause) (Ps 116:15)…"Precious in the sight of the Lord

is the death of His saints"….

(small pause) Matt 25:21…"The Master replied, "Well done, good and faithful servant!

You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.

Come and share your Master's happiness!"

(Music comes back in)
These, the world is not worthy of them

These, are your brothers and your sisters

So pray, that I will comfort them

Pray that they will be true - faithful to the end.

Pray, that My Light will shine through

That others will know Me, too,

And live with me till the end

Ending: (same as intro) Oooooooooooo Oooooooooooooo (slow down the last phrase).

By God's Grace/Nov23/98
Copyright Feb/99 - Grace Wiebe

** If you would like to use this song, contact: GCWAC@DiscipleTheNations.organd request a

copy of the song on cassette - recorded on a home ghetto blaster, but it will give you the idea -

and a copy of the chords. Only cost is for shipping and handling - $3.00 Canadian **

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THE MARTYR'S SONG

song copyrighted by Craig S. Prest
From CD available through: http://www.unreachednations.org

"ELOI, ELOI, LAMA, SOBACHANI" (Chant & repeat if you desire to)

Ooh so sad, and how insane, what are they doing to God's people
(follow with instruments or voices doing ahahahahah, etc.)
Repeat 1x

Everyday in this world suffering Christians love and die
Few people care, will someone even know to cry?
Parents lose their children, and the other way around
Speaking words of forgiveness as they fall to the ground

"Father, forgive them for they don't know what they're doing."
(follow with instruments or voices doing ahahahahah, etc.)
Repeat 1x

With their homes and churches burning, suffering
Christians give their all, like our brothers and our sisters
who followed The Lamb's call....on a warm and summer day
while their children played, they took each other's hand and
from their heart's they prayed.

They prayed for this world's peoples, to receive God's saving
light, instead of evil and destruction God's love would shine
bright!

Later, tortured raped and hunted, their lives a living hell,
On their way to execution, they used their final breath to tell-
"Jesus is risen, and He is alive!"

(Bridge)
They wear chains of love to bring liberty
To say to the prisoner - "You are free!"
Tp open blind eye from darkness to light
From the power of Satan to God's saving light

To show forgiveness of sins, how the price has been paid
No matter what wrong is done, into God's Kingdom all
are welcomed through faith in His Son....

(Final Chant)
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done.
On earth as it is in heaven (ah ah ah ah ah, etc.)
repeat and finish with instrumental in minor key)

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THE NARROW ROAD - Open Doors and Jars of Clay collaborate:
Jars of Clay has repeatedly dedicated the song to the persecuted church. When sharing about their experiences with the Vietnamese and Chinese Christians, band members challenge believers in the United States to join together in prayer and ministry to persecuted brothers and sisters around the world. And they remind us that we are all called to travel this road together.

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TRAINING

PERSECUTED CHURCH MINISTRY
http://www.okwu.edu
Oklahoma Wesleyan University has launched a new degree in Christian
Missions/Persecuted Church Ministry, in partnership with the nation's leading
ministry to the worldwide persecuted church, The Voice of the Martyrs. "VOM
founders Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand dreamed for years of a serious
academic counterpart to their ministry on behalf of suffering Christians. Now
their dream is becoming a reality," Tom White, executive director of VOM,
said. In cooperation with The Voice of the Martyrs, Oklahoma Wesleyan
University will offer a four-year Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) or Bachelor of Science
(B.S.) in Christian Missions/Persecuted Church Ministry. Students may apply
for admission to this degree program immediately and may enrol for the 2003
Fall semester. From CMD Net

All links checked: August 23, 2002

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