Bulgaria
Harry Miller
Back in June, the Synod of the Evangelical Church met in Velingrad to dedicate its new building. In late July and August they held their annual pastor’s conference in Velingrad. About 40 ministers and their wives were in attendance. Also, even though the church building in Panagyurishte was returned to the congregation by the Bulgarian Supreme Court it was in an extreme state of disrepair. No one is certain if it should be repaired or demolished and built anew. Severe water damage, hidden by the concrete covering the wood floor, is one of the major sources of concern. This is not the only construction going on. Presbyterian Evangelistic Team Member Ivan Dimitrov has gotten help from as far away as Australia in building a family retreat center outside of Petrich, Bulgaria.
Harry and Julie Miller
2095 Rolling Acres Dr.
Conyers, GA 30094
Friday, March 7, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Creation Museum
Creation Museum
Petersburg, Kentucky
The recently opened Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, has caused both wonder and controversy among its visitors. The museum was created as a direct challenge to the evolutionary steamroller that has been used to badly educate children on scientific and social matters. Students are taught to believe that the Bible is wrong and that humans should be worship as the highest form of life in existence, and that scientists are the infallible priests of this new religion. Worse, the utter refusal of evolution to be taught as a theory leads to teaching evolution as though it were law. Children are then taught to accept authority without question.
The Creation museum serves to point out that there are other points of view on the questions surrounding the origins of the universe and the creatures that inhabit it and that these paradigms, specifically the Christian one, are supported by good scientific research. Apparently, even some who went to the museum as detractors were impressed by the exhibits quality, which supposedly rivals far more famous science museums.
Whereas the evolutionists have tried to destroy our culture, starting at its roots in Genesis, the Creation Museum serves as a bulwark that upholds the distinctly Christian belief in observed study. The evolutionist refusal to debate these matters flies in the face of the scientific method and is disturbingly reminiscent of the dogmatic and superstitious “scientific” communities of the past who threatened to kill those who opposed their points of view. With the current ridicule that believers face from the mainstream world for voicing dissenting opinions in public it looks likely that the more drastic and homicidal methods of the past may come back into fashion. That is why challenges to such dogma, such as the Creation Museum, need to be presented now before it is too late.
Rusty Benson
American Family Association Journal
PO Drawer 2440
Tupelo, Mississippi 38803
Petersburg, Kentucky
The recently opened Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, has caused both wonder and controversy among its visitors. The museum was created as a direct challenge to the evolutionary steamroller that has been used to badly educate children on scientific and social matters. Students are taught to believe that the Bible is wrong and that humans should be worship as the highest form of life in existence, and that scientists are the infallible priests of this new religion. Worse, the utter refusal of evolution to be taught as a theory leads to teaching evolution as though it were law. Children are then taught to accept authority without question.
The Creation museum serves to point out that there are other points of view on the questions surrounding the origins of the universe and the creatures that inhabit it and that these paradigms, specifically the Christian one, are supported by good scientific research. Apparently, even some who went to the museum as detractors were impressed by the exhibits quality, which supposedly rivals far more famous science museums.
Whereas the evolutionists have tried to destroy our culture, starting at its roots in Genesis, the Creation Museum serves as a bulwark that upholds the distinctly Christian belief in observed study. The evolutionist refusal to debate these matters flies in the face of the scientific method and is disturbingly reminiscent of the dogmatic and superstitious “scientific” communities of the past who threatened to kill those who opposed their points of view. With the current ridicule that believers face from the mainstream world for voicing dissenting opinions in public it looks likely that the more drastic and homicidal methods of the past may come back into fashion. That is why challenges to such dogma, such as the Creation Museum, need to be presented now before it is too late.
Rusty Benson
American Family Association Journal
PO Drawer 2440
Tupelo, Mississippi 38803
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Presbyterian Missions
Presbyterian Missions
Team Timothy
The Presbyterian Missionary Union recently held a Vacation Bible School in La Paz, Bolivia. Of the 54 children who attended 11 claimed Jesus as their personal lord and savior. The school was organized by Team Timothy Bolivia, a group of eight missionaries working in Bolivia on behalf of the PMU. Team Timothy also held divine services and distributed 250 tracts to the people who attended. The team Timothy USA group claims to need new members for missions.
Part of this mission work involves reaching out to local churches like the Grand Island Bible Presbyterian Church in Grand Island, New York. This church has been in existence for fifty years. To celebrate this momentous occasion Grand Island BPC are planning to try and bring the gospel message to every home on the Island.
Other mission work has been going on in Myanmar, really Burma, and Cambodia. Neither one of these countries is particularly safe therefore each makes a good place to spread the Gospel. Desperate people need a savior and Christianity has proven historical benefits for nations that adopt Christian social and business practices.
The Missions Banner
Presbyterian Missionary Union
1650 Love Road
Grand Island, New York 14072
Team Timothy
The Presbyterian Missionary Union recently held a Vacation Bible School in La Paz, Bolivia. Of the 54 children who attended 11 claimed Jesus as their personal lord and savior. The school was organized by Team Timothy Bolivia, a group of eight missionaries working in Bolivia on behalf of the PMU. Team Timothy also held divine services and distributed 250 tracts to the people who attended. The team Timothy USA group claims to need new members for missions.
Part of this mission work involves reaching out to local churches like the Grand Island Bible Presbyterian Church in Grand Island, New York. This church has been in existence for fifty years. To celebrate this momentous occasion Grand Island BPC are planning to try and bring the gospel message to every home on the Island.
Other mission work has been going on in Myanmar, really Burma, and Cambodia. Neither one of these countries is particularly safe therefore each makes a good place to spread the Gospel. Desperate people need a savior and Christianity has proven historical benefits for nations that adopt Christian social and business practices.
The Missions Banner
Presbyterian Missionary Union
1650 Love Road
Grand Island, New York 14072
Monday, March 3, 2008
News From Atlanta
News From Atlanta
Presbyterian Evangelical Fellowship
Paul Bellino has been doing some unusual things in Atlanta. One of Bellino’s groups Atlanta’s Church of All Nations has been attempting to break down barriers between people of different nations and races for the cause of Christ and even just for the sake of getting along. Unlike many groups that claim the mantle of multiculturalism, ACAN actually works with various groups as opposed to setting them against each other for a short-term political gain. The ACAN states that it is, “grateful to be a place of Christian fellowship and love for all people, ‘red and yellow, black and white.’” Bellino’s message is that what brings people of different races together is not civil rights but the gospel of Jesus.
Bellino’s work has included such outlandish yet successful efforts as getting Black Christians to work with the Sons of Confederate Veterans to try and free Black slaves in the Sudan from the Muslim warlords who are their masters. This is not a man who thinks small.
Paul Bellino
Presbyterian Evangelistic Fellowship
425 State Street, Suite 312
Bristol, VA 24201-4300
Presbyterian Evangelical Fellowship
Paul Bellino has been doing some unusual things in Atlanta. One of Bellino’s groups Atlanta’s Church of All Nations has been attempting to break down barriers between people of different nations and races for the cause of Christ and even just for the sake of getting along. Unlike many groups that claim the mantle of multiculturalism, ACAN actually works with various groups as opposed to setting them against each other for a short-term political gain. The ACAN states that it is, “grateful to be a place of Christian fellowship and love for all people, ‘red and yellow, black and white.’” Bellino’s message is that what brings people of different races together is not civil rights but the gospel of Jesus.
Bellino’s work has included such outlandish yet successful efforts as getting Black Christians to work with the Sons of Confederate Veterans to try and free Black slaves in the Sudan from the Muslim warlords who are their masters. This is not a man who thinks small.
Paul Bellino
Presbyterian Evangelistic Fellowship
425 State Street, Suite 312
Bristol, VA 24201-4300
Friday, February 29, 2008
High Plains Fellowship
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
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
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
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