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Jesus Still Lies Ahead of You! Christian Management Association Has Launched Q4 – Shorthand for 'Fourth Quarter' (Of Life) FREE FOR YOU ON REQUEST TO: [email protected] 1 March 2017 Vol 79 No 15 Free On Request: [email protected] Oh What Can Ageing Hands Do To Serve The King Of Heaven? Have you considered that the fourth quarter of your life may be the culmination of everything for which God has been preparing you? It could be that your most sig‐ nificant contribution as a follower of Jesus still lies ahead of you! Christian Management Association has launched Q4 – shorthand for 'fourth quarter' (of life). The average life expectancy for Australian men is cur‐ rently 81 and for women 85. So Q4 begins around the age of 60, and the aim of Q4 is to assist Christians to use their ‘4th Quarter’ purposefully for the Lord. The Bergstroms Bruce Bruinsma Q4 Launch Conventions are being held in February / March in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Launceston led by Richard and Leona Bergstrom, founders of Re-Ignite, based in Seattle USA, and Bruce Bruinsma, CEO and Co‐Founder of Envoy Financial, and founder of the new Time And Purpose Foun- dation: Faithful For A Lifetime, from Denver, Colorado. Dr Keith Farmer, mentor to many senior Australian church and ministry leaders, is also leading sessions in all four conventions. The retirement industry portrays the fourth quarter of life as a time to reap the rewards of a lifetime of work. While recreation and fun will hopefully be part of any retirement, the Bible indicates that for those of us who seek to follow Jesus there is more. About 800 Australians retire every day, and around 15% of these people are Christians. CMA wants to do everything possible to help this cohort of Christians to think strategically about the impact they can have around the nation in their fourth quarter for God's Kingdom. Those who sign up for Q4 Membership for $100 per year will have a package of benefits available to them: a range of resources to help discern the shape of their fourth quarter; a print copy of the Q4 Hand- book and Directory full of articles, inspiration, and listings of products, services and ministries who can connect to their areas of interest; discounts on local, state and national Q4 events and conventions; reg‐ ular newsletters full of stories, testimonies and suggestions for keeping sharp focus; 10 copies of the booklet, How Do You Plan To Spend The Rest Of Your Life? to share with friends; member‐level access to an online hub to connect with mentors / mentees, service opportunities, local accountability groups, and more; and the Q4 Story Collection. For further information, or to sign up, call Paul Arnott on 0468 605 617 or Gary Williams on 0411 846 751 or go to: www.cma.net.au/q4/ ‘Tell the people the full message of this new life’ – Acts 5.20b www.nlife.com.au VOLUME 79 NUMBER 15 ISSUE DATE: 1 March 2017 FILE NO: NL 2017-03-01 ISSN: 1033-7903 URGENT – Australian Coptic Movement Calls For Evacuation Of Coptic Christians In North Sinai FOUNDER: Eric J. Daley The Australian Coptic Movement Association calls on the Egyptian (1910-1992) Government to urgently rescue and evacuate Coptic Christians from al‐ Arish city in North Sinai. There has been a surge in attacks against Copts in EDITOR: recent weeks and the situation in the coastal town of al‐Arish is now criti‐ Rev Bob Thomas cal. Phone: 0417 592 646 Reports suggest that at least seven Egyptian Christians have been Email: [email protected] slaughtered, with the most recent victims burnt to death by extremist mil‐ itants. Just last Wednesday, a Coptic Christian man and his son were gunned BUSINESS MANAGER: down by militants. The week before, Gamal Tawfiq, 50, a Coptic Christian Mignon Goswell teacher, was shot on his way to school by two militants on a motorbike who Phone: 0434 313 646 followed him as he left home in al‐Arish. Five days earlier, jihadists shot Email: [email protected] dead Bahgat Zakher, a Christian veterinary surgeon, also in al‐Arish, North Sinai. In late January, Wael Milad, a Coptic merchant, was killed by jihadists POSTAL ADDRESS: who stormed his shop. PO Box 457 The list of Coptic victims in North Sinai continues to grow. Reports have Mitcham VIC 3132 just been released on Arabic Media of a young Coptic woman, Youstina WEB-SITE: Kamel, and her father, Kamel Raouf, who were both slaughtered hours apart www.nlife.com.au on 24 February, with the young woman’s body found dumped behind an al‐ Arish Police Station. SUBSCRIPTION: These heinous attacks coincide with the release by the Islamic State Free On Request in Egypt of a video titled And Fight Against The Disbelievers, which threatens to eradicate Christians from Egypt. The video features a man claimed to be ACCEPTANCE OF the suicide bomber responsible for the bombing of the main Coptic Chris‐ ADVERTISING tian Cathedral last December in Cairo, where 29 worshippers were killed DOES NOT IMPLY and dozens more injured. ENDORSEMENT. It is clear the situation in North Sinai has become critically dangerous for the Christians remaining there, as they are a soft target for anti‐Gov‐ NEW LIFE RESERVES ernment militants. In 2010 over 1,000 Coptic Christian families lived in al‐ THE RIGHT TO REJECT Arish. As a result of recent unrest in the area, that number has dropped to ADVERTISING DEEMED less than 400 families. Those who remain fear for their lives and have made UNSUITABLE. urgent calls for help. PUBLISHED BY: The ACM calls on the Egyptian Government to immediately facilitate New Life Australia Ltd the following: 1. Safely evacuate all Coptic Christians from al‐Arish and surrounding dis‐ ABN: 15 005 035 138 tricts. 2. Secure the properties of Coptic Christians in the area (ie their homes, CONTRIBUTORS PLEASE businesses and churches) until the situation stabilises. NOTE: 3. The Ministry of Higher Education to facilitate the flexible transfer of stu‐ New Life is archived by the dents to other provinces. National Library of Australia. 4. All terrorists responsible for these attacks to be brought to justice, in‐ It is assumed that contributors cluding those who incite violence against Copts in Egypt. agree with this arrangement and Swift and decisive action must be taken by the Egyptian Government so are willing to be published on to protect the Coptic Christian community in North Sinai, before any more this basis. innocent lives are lost at the hands of extremist militants. – The Australian Coptic Movement Association www.auscma.com NEW LIFE – 1 March 2017 – Page Two MATTERS FOR PRAYER: INDIA: 'I Will Not Deny Christ ...' – Death In Jharkhand; Elections In Uttar Pradesh According to the Hindu nationalist ideology of Hindutva, India is Hindustan, the land of the Hindus. Hindutva deems all non‐Hindus are either corrupted or victims of forced conversion and insists they 'return' to the 'Hindu mainstream' for the sake of Mother India. In truth, Hindutva is pure politics! Once a means of arousing opposition to British colonial rule, it is now a means of drag‐netting the majority Hindu vote to perpetuate the power, pros‐ perity and privilege of the high‐caste Hindu elite. To rally the Hindu majority, Hindutva groups such as the RSS (a paramilitary organisation founded in 1925) and the VHP (a cultural organisation founded in 1964) whip up communal hatred. Motivated by self‐interest, the police and the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, guarantee im‐ punity. Decades of unchallenged Hindutva has created an environment in which everyone knows that Christians can be persecuted, robbed, raped, assaulted, falsely accused, dispossessed, tortured and killed with impunity. The Evangelical Fellowship of India's Persecution Watch report for January 2017 details 18 verified incidents of targeted persecution involving physical violence, attacks on church properties, arrests for alleged 'forceful con‐ versions' and intensive harassment and intimidation with serious consequences. One case in northern tribal‐belt, BJP‐ruled Jharkhand, resulted in a fatality. Ten years ago, ten tribal families in Kubuaa village, Palamu District, Jharkhand, left their traditional animist religion and converted to Christianity. In recent years, however, the per‐ secution has been so severe that seven of the families have returned to the local Sarna Dharam religion. One family standing firm in faith is the family of Bartu Urawn. In January, villagers tried to torture Bartu Urawn, the family head, into renouncing Christ. They bound Bartu's and his wife's hands behind their backs and put them in a frigid pond with their heads only just above water. All through the wintery night they taunted Bartu to renounce Christ. According to their son, Beneswar, who witnessed the assault, his father reïterated every time, 'I will not deny Christ ... I will continue to believe till my last breath.' Pulled from the water at 10am the next day, the couple subsequently fell seriously ill. While his wife recovered, Bartu developed paralysis brought on by nerve damage caused by the freezing water and died on 20 January, aged 50. At that point, the villagers turned their attention to Beneswar, and the family fled. On 3 February the police, who had refused even to register the family's complaint, got the family and the villagers together and made them sign a 'peace agreement'. Whilst the Urawn family has returned home, they are living in fear of their lives. Meanwhile, elections are presently under way in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. Known as the king‐maker state, Uttar Pradesh is India's largest state, with a population of 218 million, including 138 million registered voters.
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