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More Than Just The News, Inc. FIRST CLASS 3258 Byron Center Ave. U.S. POSTAGE $1.00 PAID Grand Rapids, MI 49509 GRAND RAPIDS, MI (616) 257-7032 PERMIT # 2000 More Than Just The News America’s Nationwide Weekly Newspaper and Website. Reporting the news and views from a Biblical World View since 2000. October 12, 2005 [email protected] Volume 1/Issue 1 Three Americans Nationwide Christian Newspaper planned arrested by Grand Rapids, MI Fennell believes that is those who try to live it,” Chinese Police (MTJTN) - Christian harmful to Christians and Fennell said. community publicist Jerry society alike. Fennell has a multi- ZHOU KOU DAN, China (EP) - A police raid during a Fennell is planning to build “The Bible speaks phase plan to avoid having meeting of Chinese Christians Aug. 23 resulted in the a Nationwide Christian often of the wisdom of to raise hundreds of arrest of 130, including three visiting American mission- newspaper with grassroots receiving Godly council, millions of dollars to start aries. Henry Chu, his wife, Sandy Lin, and Patricia Lan support, His plan will but for over 75 years the newspaper. Each were attending the meeting of the Fangcheng Church take several years to reach Christians in America have phase will finance the next during the raid. All three are Taiwanese by birth, but are a circulation of over one been receiving their phase. The First Phase is also U.S. citizens. Chinese authorities released the three million and he believes council on “what the news the website: missionaries Aug. 25. According to Reuters, the three that five million circulation Jerry Fennell is” and “what the current www.morethanjustthe- were being held for “activities incompatible with the is reachable! sections inserted into it.” events of the day are,” news.com. The Christian tourist status under which they entered China.” Fennell wants to He claims that the major from a news industry that news website has been up The arrests occurred on the one-year anniversary of publish “something like a newspapers of the day, has become more and and running for over a the arrest of Zhang Rongliang, founding leader of the USA Today, only written including USA Today, are more secular and increas- year and averages about Fangcheng Church, a popular Christian movement in from a Biblical World written from a Humanistic ingly hostile toward the 25,000 hits a month and is China with an estimated following of a half-million. It is View, and with local news Secular point-of-view. Biblical World View and Continued on page 2. not clear whether the dates of the arrests are coinciden- tal or intentional. The Fangcheng Church is one of 14 Christian churches labeled as “evil cults” by the commu- nist government. Zhang was arrested in Henan Province with 31 others. Last December Zhang was sentenced to three years in a labor camp under an anti-cult ordinance; he was released on temporary medical leave early this year. Freedom of the press belongs to only those who own a press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (EP) - Freedom of the press belongs to the person who owns a press, it was discovered Wednesday. That’s the message Focus on The Mercy Ship Caribbean Mercy provides free medical and relief supplies to needy people at Caribbean and the Family learned recently when the New York Times South American ports. and USA Today rejected an advertisement criticizing the Supreme Court’s decision to permit partial-birth abortion. The ad, featuring a cartoon by syndicated Mercy Ship making Great Lakes Tour editorial cartoonist Chuck Asay, was rejected as “too graphic.” The ad describes (but does not illustrate) the Grand Haven, MI Caribbean and South and and serve as volunteers. ing her decks to visitors, brutal procedure, and ends with a voice from the Su- (MTJTN) - The 2,265 ton, Middle America port They must raise their individuals as well as preme Court saying, “So what’s the problem?” The ad Caribbean Mercy arrived cities. Manned entirely by support before they come church, school and other ends by saying, “Does this seem right to anyone?” Two in Grand Haven on Oct. 3 volunteers (120 crew aboard. community groups, who other national daily papers accepted the ad: the Wash- to introduce to West members from 15 coun- The 265 foot long want to learn more about ington Post and Los Angeles Times. Michigan the voluntary tries) and equipped solely Caribbean Mercy is her work. work of the Mercy Ship’s through donations, the moored for a June 3 to 22 This year the Carib- “navy”, which provides four ships of the fleet give stay at Escanaba Park in bean Mercy ship under- Christianity snubbed at U.N. free medical, dental, away around $3 million Grand Haven on the last went a $200,000 refit to community development worth of health care and leg of a goodwill tour of equip her to perform eye meeting of World Religious and relief services to relief supplies each year to Great Lakes’ port cities. surgeries. Of the 40 Leaders needy citizens of port almost one million people. During her time in million blind people in the cities of the world. The Crew members pay $250 a Grand Haven, the Carib- world, half could receive NEW YORK, N.Y. (EP) - On Monday, a summit of Caribbean Mercy visits the month to live on the ship bean Mercy will be open- Continued on page 5. world religious leaders meeting at the United Nations to discuss world peace has instead caused more contro- versy. Church fires are The purpose of this Over 1,000 religious leaders representing 70 of the world’s religions gathered at the U.N. General Assem- anti-Christian not anti-Black newspaper is: bly hall for meetings designed to promote peace be- Grand Rapids, MI (MTJTN) - The recent attacks on 1. To serve the Christian Community tween religious groups. The group also established a churches are anti-Christian, not anti-Black, reports the 2. To report the news and issues of the permanent advisory council of religious leaders to the Washington Times. Most of the mainstream U.S. media U.N., designed to help prevent and solve religious has ignored the fact that of the recent fires at churches, day from a Biblical World View disputes. the number of fires are nearly equally divided between 3. To inform Christians so that Continued on page 10. white and black churches. In fact, integrated congrega- they will better informed as to tions have also been the target, as well as Jewish syna- how and for what/whom to pray gogues. Still, the national news media fans the flames West Bank tension derails of racism and seeks to blame society for the fires, the 4. To encourage Christians to get peace talks Times reports. involved in the social issues of The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms the day JERUSALEM, Israel (EP) - Renewed fighting between (ATF) has investigated more than 123 church arsons in 5. To encourage Christians to full fill Israeli police and Palestinian groups in the West Bank 27 states over the past five years. Of those, 38 involved has erased nearly all gains for peace, report sources churches with predominantly black congregations, 32 the Great Commission from the region. The rioting began on Tuesday when involved white churches, 12 were Jewish synagogues. 6. To educate Christians and the Ariel Sharon, leader of the Israeli Likud party and Forty-one were churches with mixed race congrega- World about our Christian former Israeli defense minister, led a group of officials tions. Heritage in America and the to a holy site in Judaism known as the Temple Mount. In the past 18 months 24 predominantly white According to some scholars, the Temple Mount features churches have been burned, a story the national media is Covenant we hold with God prominently in biblical end-times prophesies. The site, failing to report, according to the Washingon Times. 6. To promote literacy so every one known to Muslims as Al Haram al Sharif, or the Holy About half of the fires have been ruled accidental or can read their Bible Sanctuary, is under supervision by the Islamic Trust. non-arson cases. Few news accounts have reported the 7. To promote Christian values Sharon claimed his visit to the Temple Mount during arrest of a 13 year old white girl in connection with a Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year celebration, Charlotte, North Carolina case that police believe the 8. To reach the lost Continued on page 11. Continued on page 16. This is a sample of what a Nationwide National Christian Weekly Newspaper could look like! Page 2 More Than Just The News October 12, 2005 Paper Plans, from page 1 growing. The purpose of universities and thousands per and by newspaper Fennell. After graduation “We will start out for a short time, many hit the website, according to of churches across sells. the intern will be placed in as a weekly. After we a glass wall erected by the Fennell, is to network with America. Boy Scouts and The next step is to one of the Top 150 Mar- have organized all 50 managers, editors and other Christians for news Church youth groups will organize the Top 150 kets to develope a local states, we will sit down fellow reporters because and events. The site is be able to sell subscrip- Markets in the different Christian “News and and ask ourselves, ‘What they were not liberal or also building readership tions as fund raisers, states. One state will be Events” section, sup- will it take to become a secular enough,” Fennell and credibility for the Fennell insists.