CHRIST-FOLLOWERS SUPPORTING IRAQ

Encouraging Persecuted Christians

Ten year old Marlene woke up crying  last August 6th.  Her mother Intisar told her that the noise she was hearing was fire crackers; however, it was actually the sound of explosions and rifle fire coming from the weaponry of ISIS.  Their home in Quaraqosh, 20 miles east of Mosul, had lost power. Needless to say, between all the explosions and the darkness, the children were terrified.
 
Intisar was also terrified.  She knew about the beheadings, the pain and all the persecution that ISIS was visiting upon any Christian families with whom they were having contact. In a short while they fled their home, and at the very first check point they were forced to abandon their car. Marlene is unable to walk; therefore they had to carry her for approximately a mile to the very next checkpoint. The Kurdish soldiers were not letting anyone through, but once they noticed Marlene's disability, they allowed the family to pass, after a 90 minute wait.
 
Intisar, and her family, are among 200,000 displaced Iraqis who have settled in and around Erbil. Things were and are desperate; however, the week before Christmas, all four of her children received gifts collected from churches via Operation Christmas Child and airlifted to Iraq by Samaritan's Purse.. http://www.samaritanspurse.org/
 
Please pray for the 10.4 million children, world wide who received Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes this year, that God would use these gifts to bring them to Christ or closer to Christ.  Children are NOT required to be Christian to receive this help, and people of all faiths receive care.  Pray for those who receive the  Gospel literature that comes with these gifts would respond in faith to Christ our Lord.
 
By the way:  Despite the persecution, Christians like Intisar share their faith regularly. As she says, "We love Jesus."
 
Praise God That You Are Blessed 2day
Especially Today
 
SoJourner

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