Dubious methods of missionaries

The Gospel Thumpers have strange strategy. They want to spread their perverted religion through activities that may seem innocuous to the people. This is what appeared recently on a Christian NGO's website writing upon Indonesian earthquakes.

...The Aceh people are strict Sunni Muslims and have been very instrumental in spreading Islam throughout Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia. It is often stated, "To be Aceh is to be Muslim." The Aceh people strongly and even violently oppose other religions. They are unreached with the gospel.

The Aceh province is the only province in Indonesia where Shari'a Islamic Law has been formally instituted. They also practice a mix of animistic beliefs and various superstitions. Banda Aceh is known as the "Doorway to Mecca" for Muslim pilgrims from Indonesia.

Normally, Banda Aceh is closed to foreigners and closed to the gospel. But, because of this catastrophe, our partners there are earning the right to be heard and providing entrance for the gospel.

We have a four fold strategy for Indonesia with our partners there:

Focusing on keeping children alive by....Providing housing and ongoing care for the 300 orphan children of Banda Aceh. Our partners tell us,"We do not want to just distribute help and leave. We are committed to bring help and hope to these children. We want them to know that Jesus loves them and plant Christian principles as early as possible in their age. To accomplish this means long-term commitment."

They need rent for housing the children, beds, cabinets, desks, food and water, children's workers ... we do not have time to place these children in our Child Sponsorship Program.

These children are homeless, destitute, traumatized, orphaned, with nowhere to go, nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat. If we can place them in a Christian children's home, their faith in Christ could become the foothold to reach the Aceh people.

We must raise $70,000 immediately to begin this children's home. Thankfully, $23,000 was raised over the weekend for this project so that leaves $47,000 that we must wire this week in order to place these children in a Christian home.

Time is of the essence. Their survival is at stake. We only have one week to let the government know that we will take these orphaned children and provide them with a Christian home ... please let me hear from you today.