Dear family & friends in Christ,
We really look forward to seeing you tomorrow Friday the 7th of August at 7:30pm at the 9th Anniversary Rise Up Australia Prayer Celebration!
Pastor Danny will be sharing his personal life story, how the Lord called him to Australia, and the exciting journey of the RUA prayer movement!
Israeli warships cross Red Sea in apparent signal to Tehran
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office refused to respond to a report today purporting to quote an Israeli defense official stating the recent deployment of warships across the Red Sea should be seen as serious preparation for an attack on Iran.
“It is not our policy to comment on such reports,” Mark Regev, Netanyahu’s spokesman, told WND.
Earlier this week, two Israel Navy gunboats openly sailed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea with permission from Egypt.
“This is preparation that should be taken seriously. Israel is investing time in preparing itself for the complexity of an attack on Iran. These maneuvers are a message to Iran that Israel will follow up on its threats,” the Times of London today quoted what it said was an Israeli defense official as saying.
The warship movements follow the passage last month of an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine through the canal, later returning the same way. (more…)
Dear family & friends in Christ,
It’s with great joy we wish to bring to your attention that this Friday 7th August 2009 marks the 9th year of Rise Up Australia prayer meetings uniting the Body of Christ to prayerfully seek the Lord for our nation’s transformation. This interdenominational prayer movement that begun on the 1st Friday in August 2000 in Melbourne has now spread to 50+ locations throughout Australia, overseas to America, the UK, and many parts of Africa. Every month there are approximately 50 prayer meetings in 50 different towns and cities across our nation of Australia. So, how did this journey start??
A Church of England bishop urged homosexuals to ‘repent and be changed’, as he joins a coalition of conservative parishes opposed to single-sex unions.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, said people who stray from traditional Bible teachings ‘do not share the same faith’.
The coalition, which has been labelled a ‘church within a church’, claims to have the support of the Queen. Organisers said she had sent a message to leaders of the movement, saying she understood their concern about the future of the Anglican Communion.
Row: the comments from Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali will be seen as a direct challenge to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Dr Nazir-Ali spoke after more than half a million people, including the Prime Minister’s wife Sarah Brown, took to the streets of London yesterday to celebrate gay culture at the annual Pride festival. (more…)
Dear family & friends in Christ,
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We wish to thank all of you who responded promptly to the call to help those who were effected by the recent civil war in Sri Lanka.
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2 members from the CTFM team visited Sri Lanka in order to help people who were in need of urgent supplies such as clothing, food, dry rations etc. Carlyle & Kenny returned after a very successful mission to Sri Lanka a few days ago.
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This is what they had to say,
“It was a very successful trip with the hand of the Lord being with us throughout the journey around the country. We were blessed in many ways during our travel and stay.
What do you call a continent which cares more about the rights and wellbeing of crabs, lobsters, and even the common octopus, than it does about unborn babies? Just in case you cannot come up with anything, let me suggest a few possibilities: deranged, degenerate, despicable and delirious. And just to keep the alliteration going: dumb, really dumb.
This is how the New Scientist begins its coverage of this bizarre story: “Animal welfare legislation generally applies only to vertebrates. There are, however, moves to include invertebrates. Proposed changes to European law, for example, would extend welfare laws to crabs and lobsters. Up to now the only invertebrate protected is the common octopus.
“‘Invertebrate rights’ has become a campaigning issue. Advocates for Animals recently produced a report which concludes that there is ‘potential for experiencing pain and suffering’ in crustaceans. The group is particularly concerned about boiling lobsters alive. The wider public is also showing interest. Research supposedly demonstrating that hermit crabs feel and remember pain received worldwide news coverage†(more…)
Peter Costello
July 29, 2009 – The Age
A proposed charter may be used to curtail religious freedom.
WHAT happens when equal rights between men and women are so widely accepted that mainstream Australia hardly thinks about it? Surely it is time to acknowledge that anti-discrimination statutes have done their job?
Not according to the Victorian Government. It harbours the view that discrimination has got sophisticated – so hard to find under current law – that we must widen the law to catch more of it. One area in the State Government’s sights is religious bodies, and their schools. (more…)
With the Victorian government currently considering all the ‘exceptions’ and exemptions’ in Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act, things are starting to heat up!
The religious exceptions in the Act are causing a great deal of concern among many Christian groups.
Section 75 covers churches and religious schools, Section 76 covers religious schools and Section 77 covers individuals.
The exceptions say that religious bodies and so on are excepted from the anti-discrimination laws. They mean, for example, that Christian schools can specify that those they employ have Christian beliefs and lifestyles that are consistent with their Christian beliefs.
The Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee put out an Options Paper in May 2009 and asked for submissions. Over 1,000 were received and the Committee is now analysing them.  (more…)
By Teresa Neumann – Breaking Christian News
“I was an atheist. Now I’m considering going to church and being a believer. There’s got to be someone up there who’s saving our little daughter.”
(Buffalo, NY)—Miracle baby, one-week-old Ava Isabella Stinson weighs only 2 pounds 4 ounces, but the tiny tike is already changing the lives of the people around her. Like her parents, Natalie Paquette and Richard Stinson.
It all started when Natalie went into labor three months before her due date and found there was “no room at the Inn” for hospital care for the premature Ava in her hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, where a shortage of neonatal beds is an ongoing problem. (more…)
By Michael Ireland – ASSIST News Service
From a variety of meetings with government leaders, human rights lawyers, leaders of Civil Society the statement was consistent: “the Christian Church must lead us in reconciliation.”
(Sri Lanka)—The aftermath of Sri Lanka’s three decades-old armed conflict has displaced more than 300,000 people who are in desperate conditions.
A team of diplomats, business leaders, and church leaders from the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States recently visited the island on a fact-finding mission.
Its mission was to learn about Sri Lankan humanitarian needs, to encourage fellow Christian leaders, and to build bridges of understanding with non-evangelical Christians, other faiths, and governmental leaders.
The June 1-5, 2009 mission was organized by the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), an association of national alliances in 128 countries, in response to an invitation by Christian leaders in Sri Lanka. (more…)
By Teresa Neumann
“We can’t just preach about Jesus from the pulpit or during crusades and not demonstrate his love to our neighbors. This is the first time for the officers to go out and give food and clothes to members of the community and we will continue to do it.”
(Fiji)—The Fiji Times reports that as part of their community policing crusade, police officers in Labasa—joined by church pastors—donated food and clothes to residents of Namara squatter settlement and shared the Gospel of Jesus with them at the weekend.
Regional Police Commander Northern Senior Superintendent Isikeli Ligairi was quoted as saying officers needed to show people that Jesus cares. (more…)
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Indian Christian: Attacks have increased our faith
By Dibin Samuel
Indian Christians in Orissa state were attacked by Hindu radicals in the wake of their leader’s death in August 2008.
(AP)
The wave of attacks on churches in Karnataka, India, have only “increased our faith and brought us together,” says Archbishop Bernard Moras, whose initiative has united churches of many denominations.
On June 19, over 200 Christians from various denominations gathered at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Bangalore. They came together under the banner of Karnataka United Christians Forum for Human Rights (KUCFHR).
Addressing the gathering, Archbishop of Bangalore Bernard Moras said, “God has the power to bring good even from evil. The formation of this forum is a testimony to that.” (more…)
By Star Parker
President Obama hosted a reception at the White House celebrating LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Pride Month. Black Christians should take note and learn a few things about our black president.
As they say, we are what we do.
It tells us something that Mr. Obama had no time to host an event for the National Day of Prayer.
Nor did he have time to accept the invitation to convey greetings and a few remarks to the couple hundred thousand who came to Washington, as they do every January, for the March for Life.
However, the LGBT Pride event did make it onto the president’s busy schedule.
Here are parts of his remarks I think noteworthy for black Christians:
First, we now know that Mr. Obama buys into reasoning equating the homosexual political movement to the black civil rights movement: “… it’s not for me to tell you to be patient any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African-Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half century ago.” (more…)
Did Michael Jackson repent, accept Christ?Gospel superstar Andrae Crouch and his twin sister, Sandra, confirm meeting with Michael Jackson and praying and singing with him weeks before his death.
Jackson, raised as a member of the Jehovah’s Witness sect 
and reportedly a convert to Islam last year, sought out the Crouches for inspiration for his upcoming tour, for which he was unprepared, according to a report in Assist News Service.
But while some blogs have reported that meeting led to a spiritual conversion by Jackson, the Crouches say they are not certain.
“Not sure where that came from,” said Sandra Crouch on her Facebook page. “We loved and respected Michael and will continue to pray for his family. All the extra is not from us.” (more…)
Click the following link to listen to Pastor Danny's recent radio interview with 2CC Radio in Canberra regarding the recent Chasers program on ABC TV. http://www.radio2cc.com/podcasts/59-mike-welsh-podcasts/215-you-know-youre-famous-when-the-chser-is-on-your-front-lawn.html We thank God that…
