High Plains Fellowship
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference
A new association of churches has been founded in affiliation with the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference. The High Plains Fellowship is located in Nebraska and eastern Wyoming, along the Oregon Trail. It consists of six churches located within a 25-mile radius of each other. The membership of these congregations is mostly Russian and German, descended from immigrants who came to the United States in the early 1900’s.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference
8941 Highway 5, Lake Elmo, MN 55042
Friday, February 29, 2008
American Council of Christian Churches
Ralph G. Colas
The American Council of Christian Churches
Ralph G. Colas, on behalf of the American Council of Churches, sent out a letter. This letter expressed deep concerns on two specific topics. First was the new Pope’s assertion that Roman Catholicism is the only proper Christian faith. When one considers the centuries of bloodshed based on that old argument the concern at least seems justified.
As an odd juxtaposition to his first problem his second was the seeming unification of many of the United States’ more liberal churches which claimed that they were just Christians like any other. Colas pointed out the openly Communistic views of Liberation Theology, and that the Methodist church has actively supported homosexuality, a sexual practiced specifically and continuously condemned and abolished in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. Colas went on to say that an unnamed Episcopal clergyman declared that a good foundation for church government could not be found in the Bible, a point of view that Colas called heresy.
Dr. Colas summed up his several statements by saying that Fundamentalism and the Bible were under attack and that Christians should not compromise with liberal groups on spiritual matters.
Dr. Ralph G. Colas
American Council of Christian ChurchesPO Box 5455Bethlehem, PA 18015
The American Council of Christian Churches
Ralph G. Colas, on behalf of the American Council of Churches, sent out a letter. This letter expressed deep concerns on two specific topics. First was the new Pope’s assertion that Roman Catholicism is the only proper Christian faith. When one considers the centuries of bloodshed based on that old argument the concern at least seems justified.
As an odd juxtaposition to his first problem his second was the seeming unification of many of the United States’ more liberal churches which claimed that they were just Christians like any other. Colas pointed out the openly Communistic views of Liberation Theology, and that the Methodist church has actively supported homosexuality, a sexual practiced specifically and continuously condemned and abolished in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. Colas went on to say that an unnamed Episcopal clergyman declared that a good foundation for church government could not be found in the Bible, a point of view that Colas called heresy.
Dr. Colas summed up his several statements by saying that Fundamentalism and the Bible were under attack and that Christians should not compromise with liberal groups on spiritual matters.
Dr. Ralph G. Colas
American Council of Christian ChurchesPO Box 5455Bethlehem, PA 18015
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Arnold Elek
Arnold Elek
Komlόd, Romania
Mission work continues in former Communist countries like Romania. Even though the better part of two decades have past since the Communists left, Eastern Europe is still mired in the corruption, economic stagnation, and religious void that resulted from 40 years of Soviet domination.
As Arnold Elek a missionary in Romania said, “It was so strange and seemed like 50 years ago, and here time had stopped.” Mr. Elek is a 3rd year college student who went to Komlόd back in October. Elek went with a doctor to the village of Beszterce-Naszod and tried to help the spiritual needs of the locals as the doctor saw to their physical ones. The student was surprised by the lack of young people. Elek only saw the old and the sick present, however they were all happy to see the missionaries who were brining them the gospel as well as medicine.
Elek was happy that he could help be the shepherd that they needed even if only for a short while.
Transylvanian Reformed Assistance Committee
6970 Bouer Rd.
Hudsonville, MI 49426
Komlόd, Romania
Mission work continues in former Communist countries like Romania. Even though the better part of two decades have past since the Communists left, Eastern Europe is still mired in the corruption, economic stagnation, and religious void that resulted from 40 years of Soviet domination.
As Arnold Elek a missionary in Romania said, “It was so strange and seemed like 50 years ago, and here time had stopped.” Mr. Elek is a 3rd year college student who went to Komlόd back in October. Elek went with a doctor to the village of Beszterce-Naszod and tried to help the spiritual needs of the locals as the doctor saw to their physical ones. The student was surprised by the lack of young people. Elek only saw the old and the sick present, however they were all happy to see the missionaries who were brining them the gospel as well as medicine.
Elek was happy that he could help be the shepherd that they needed even if only for a short while.
Transylvanian Reformed Assistance Committee
6970 Bouer Rd.
Hudsonville, MI 49426
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
African Bible College
African Bible College
Yekepa, Liberia
The civil war in Liberia recently ended, leaving in its wake a shattered nation with a bleak future. As with the nation so went the church. Heavily damaged in population by hatred and in buildings by weapons fire, this former American colony has to work with little to rebuild. Help has come from Christians in the southern U.S.
Southerners are all too familiar with rebuilding after total wars and natural disasters. They have leant their help and experience to the church in Liberia. So far, the response to this help has been enthusiastic and efforts to build and rebuild churches have begun.
The African Bible College specifically has been trying to “begin again” as they put it. In 1994 the war became so bad that the campus had to be closed. Several buildings throughout the campus have been damaged, unfinished, or just neglected until they needed massive restoration to be usable. Efforts to rebuild have begun and the college is trying to first rebuild the buildings that are just damaged and then build the ones that are gone. For that reason a large push has been made to rebuild the school’s gym. The college is hopeful that soon they will have, “the only Gymnasium in the country of Liberia.”
ABC University
Yekepa, Liberia
S.E. Africa
Yekepa, Liberia
The civil war in Liberia recently ended, leaving in its wake a shattered nation with a bleak future. As with the nation so went the church. Heavily damaged in population by hatred and in buildings by weapons fire, this former American colony has to work with little to rebuild. Help has come from Christians in the southern U.S.
Southerners are all too familiar with rebuilding after total wars and natural disasters. They have leant their help and experience to the church in Liberia. So far, the response to this help has been enthusiastic and efforts to build and rebuild churches have begun.
The African Bible College specifically has been trying to “begin again” as they put it. In 1994 the war became so bad that the campus had to be closed. Several buildings throughout the campus have been damaged, unfinished, or just neglected until they needed massive restoration to be usable. Efforts to rebuild have begun and the college is trying to first rebuild the buildings that are just damaged and then build the ones that are gone. For that reason a large push has been made to rebuild the school’s gym. The college is hopeful that soon they will have, “the only Gymnasium in the country of Liberia.”
ABC University
Yekepa, Liberia
S.E. Africa
Monday, February 25, 2008
A Letter From Pakistan
A Letter From Pakistan
Friends of Forman Christian College
As 2007 closed, a letter giving the current status of Forman Christian College in Pakistan was sent out. President Musharraf was attempting to keep the peace but was curtailing many freedoms to do so. Though Musharraf had worked for democracy in Pakistan he was placed in the odd position of having to damage it to preserve any of it. Student protests were flaring up on colleges around the nation but not at the Forman Christian College.
At the college there had only been one small protest. The administrators were glad that there were no repeats of the 80’s demonstrations and unrest. Those almost destroyed the college and the administrators did not want it to happen again. Interestingly at the time the letter was sent out the school had 4,330 students of whom 709 were Christians. Those numbers have actually grown dramatically since the early days of the decade. That Forman Christian school has been able to hold off the unrest that is ripping through the country is incredible given that the unrest is as much religious as political and the university has a combined Christian Muslim population.
Peter H. Armacost
Friends of Forman Christian College
3434 Roswell Rd.
NW, Atlanta, GA 30305
Friends of Forman Christian College
As 2007 closed, a letter giving the current status of Forman Christian College in Pakistan was sent out. President Musharraf was attempting to keep the peace but was curtailing many freedoms to do so. Though Musharraf had worked for democracy in Pakistan he was placed in the odd position of having to damage it to preserve any of it. Student protests were flaring up on colleges around the nation but not at the Forman Christian College.
At the college there had only been one small protest. The administrators were glad that there were no repeats of the 80’s demonstrations and unrest. Those almost destroyed the college and the administrators did not want it to happen again. Interestingly at the time the letter was sent out the school had 4,330 students of whom 709 were Christians. Those numbers have actually grown dramatically since the early days of the decade. That Forman Christian school has been able to hold off the unrest that is ripping through the country is incredible given that the unrest is as much religious as political and the university has a combined Christian Muslim population.
Peter H. Armacost
Friends of Forman Christian College
3434 Roswell Rd.
NW, Atlanta, GA 30305
Dean Perry
Dean Perry
Devon, UK
Like many developed nations the United Kingdom has problems with drug, and alcohol addiction in its population. Though especially bad among college age people, these problems are symptoms of a larger despair and disillusionment with society and God. For this reason the Gilead Foundations have been working to rehabilitate addicts and use the opportunity to reintroduce them to God and His message of salvation.
This is much more difficult in western nations due to the backsliding of the people into paganism and the active discouragement of open religious discussion by so called “open minded, liberals” who in truth fit the description of neither term in their actions. Since much of the addiction problems have been caused by the utter failure of the church to challenge, or in some cases joining, these counter cultural forces it becomes very difficult to explain to a disillusioned drunk that his or her salvation, let alone recovery from addiction, comes only through Jesus.
Chaplain Dean PerryGilead Foundations Charity International and Registered Office: Gilead Foundations Christian Centre Risdon Farm, Jacobstowe, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 3AJ, United Kingdom
Devon, UK
Like many developed nations the United Kingdom has problems with drug, and alcohol addiction in its population. Though especially bad among college age people, these problems are symptoms of a larger despair and disillusionment with society and God. For this reason the Gilead Foundations have been working to rehabilitate addicts and use the opportunity to reintroduce them to God and His message of salvation.
This is much more difficult in western nations due to the backsliding of the people into paganism and the active discouragement of open religious discussion by so called “open minded, liberals” who in truth fit the description of neither term in their actions. Since much of the addiction problems have been caused by the utter failure of the church to challenge, or in some cases joining, these counter cultural forces it becomes very difficult to explain to a disillusioned drunk that his or her salvation, let alone recovery from addiction, comes only through Jesus.
Chaplain Dean PerryGilead Foundations Charity International and Registered Office: Gilead Foundations Christian Centre Risdon Farm, Jacobstowe, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 3AJ, United Kingdom
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