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Roger — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:02:21 +0000

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Emergency Call 999!

Roger — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:24:10 +0000

Emergency Call 999! Frontiers Ireland’s new strategic plan with a strategic call to individuals and churches in NI and ROI…

What’s the Emergency?

1.3 billion Muslims live and die with little or no opportunity in their lifetime to hear the Good News of Jesus in a way they can understand.

133 Muslim Unengaged People Groups have populations over 100,000 up to several million, with no know believers, no churches, little or no access to Scriptures in their heart langauge and workers living among them with a church planting vision.

3% of missionaries wordwide are working among unreached Muslims, yet 20% of the world’s population are Muslim, the majority of the world’s refugees and many of the world’s poor.

What’s the Call?

It is a call to prayer and action… a call for 9 churches to send 9 team leaders to 9 Muslim Unengaged People Groups over the next 3 years.

Will you and your church answer the call of God? Talk to us on 028 90681656

‘The Gospel is only good news if it arrives in time’ Carl F.H. Henry

Challenging Times in Syria

Roger — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:57:09 +0000

How are we to respond to the recent massacres in Syria and the ongoing daily violence? How can we stand by and watch this violence against a nation’s own citizens? How should we react as members of the church? What is the best hope for the Christians of Syria? What is the best hope for the majority population of Syria? For the former it may be the status quo. For the latter it may be change.

I think they call that being on the horns of a dilemma, or between a rock and a hard place. Why? The status quo is not an option with the ongoping level of death and brutality; this cannot be an acceptable level of violence; yet the alternative seems even more uncertain and frightening.

Our only hope, and their only hope, is to cry out to God to come and bring transformation and healing to their land, healing the divisions, healing hurting, angry broken hearts; healing and reconciliation that can only come through the cross of Christ. Ask the Father, hallowed be his name, today for his Kingdom to come and His will to be done in Syria, as it is in heaven.

Now you can give to us on-line or by text!

Roger — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:55:20 +0000

You can now donate on-line to Frontiers Ireland using a secure service provided by JustGiving - used by over 8000 charities in the UK.

You can make a one-off donation or set up a direct debit and also take advantage of Gift Aid if you are a UK taxpayer.

Simply click on the button below and follow the instructions.

Or why not text a gift of up to £10. Simply text the code YASW11 with your gift to 70070

eg YASW11 £10 and send it to 70070

Thank you.

9/11: Ten years on…

Roger — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:33:01 +0000

It is hard to image that those images that are so etched on our minds happened a decade ago now. The scale of the events on that day still is unimaginable. The grief, as the family members read out the names of the dead at Ground Zero, is still fresh. The lives of millions of people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have equally been changed forever. Their grief is marked with the same tears and the same loss. Yet the response of the church to the unengaged Muslim peoples of the Middle East and south Asia has changed little and if at all, usually for the worse. For all the new books published on Islam, as friend or foe, there has been little appetite for churches to send of their best to bring the light and love of Christ to the peoples of the Muslim world who need to know that they have a Father in heaven who loves them and sent his one and only son to die for their sin and to take away their guilt. This is the year of the Lord’s favour: proclaiming good news to the poor, binding up the broken-hearted, proclaiming freedom for the captives, release from the darkness to Muslims who will seek God with all their heart.

Excellent New Book: ‘Reaching Muslims’

Roger — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:19:47 +0000

There are many books today on Islam, on sharing your faith with Muslims, but Nick Chatrath’s book is a great starting point if you have an interest in knowing a bit more about how to relate in a significant way to your Muslim neighbour. In a very well written and easy to read style, Nick has provided us with an inspiring guide to understanding simple and effective ways to love your neighbour and to share your faith effectively. With excellent questions and helpful study guides, this book is an excellent one-stop introductory guide.

Reaching Muslims is published by Monarch Books priced £7.99 and is available at www.amazon.co.uk and in Kindle and ePub formats.

New Youth & Student Worker Appointed

Roger — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:26:20 +0000

We are delighted to welcome Erika onto our team as our new Youth & Student Worker. Erika is a former Assistant Chaplain for the Church of Ireland at QUB. She led a team from the Chaplaincy to North Africa with us last summer. Erika starts in September and she will be in the office on Wednesdays and Thursdays. If you would like to meet up with her, please call the office on 028 90681656 or email her directly on erika {at} frontiersireland(.)org

Hope for Syria?

Roger — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:32:24 +0000

As a resolution to the situation in Libya comes closer, the situation in Syria remains one of huge concern. The UN now confirms that the death toll has risen to over 2200, yet there appears to be no likelihood of concerted international action and certainly no military action to see the regime of Bashar al-Assad come to an end.

Syria is a key power broker in the region, making the situation all the more complicated. Instability there, if the regime falls may lead to even greater issues in the region. Saying ‘better the devil you know’, may work at a strategic political level, but it is not a great strategy for Christians to ignore the intolerable violence perpetrated by the state on its own citizens.

Pray for the historical churches in Syria, that the light of Christ may shine through them. Pray for those who have come to faith from a Muslim background who are seeking to live out their faith somewhere in-between the two main faith communities. Pray for the millions of Syrians who have access to Christian satellite broadcasts in their heart language in the privacy of their own homes, that they will seek out and find Jesus in the midst of this crisis that is gripping their nation.

Pray that just as the king of Nineveh repented before God, that Bashar al-Assad will repent of the violence of his regime before the living God and that God would bring a blessing of peace and reconciliation on his nation.

Libya: Please keep praying!

Roger — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:59:43 +0000

The last few days have seen unprecedented scenes in Tripoli, the capital of Libya. Although the capital is now largely in the control of the National Transitional Council, they have only just moved to Tripoli from Benghazi. Pray for a swift end to the violence that still rumbles through the capital and in Sirte and Sabha. Pray that the various factions from the mountains, Tripoli and Benghazi will be able to unite to serve their country in this new era that is unfolding.

We give thanks to God for the removal of this brutal regime and pray that what will replace it will serve the people of Libya well and will rule wisely and justly on behalf of all of the people of this amazing country. Pray too that people will use their new found freedom to seek and find the living Lord.

Tears of the saints

Roger — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:47:55 +0000