Remember Ambassadors

As of today, Remember is transitioning into an entirely volunteer-based organization.  For the past couple of years, I have been the person profoundly blessed to be paid to do this work, but in following the call of the Lord, this is my last day of full-time work with Remember.  This ministry has always functioned on the backs of its volunteers, and as of tomorrow, I will be one of them!

While we will keep this blog up in the foreseeable future, the posting on it will be sporadic at best.  If you would like to stay up-to-date on Remember’s ministry, sign up for our Intercession Alert!  The Intercession Alert will be a monthly e-mail, with “news bulletin” e-mails as persecution news breaks across the world - a tool to remind you to pray for the needs of suffering saints.

Serving with you,

Gabe

China Aid is reporting a new crackdown against house churches in China.  While stories of persecution are commonplace, this latest crackdown looks like a concerted effort to abolish the house church movement!

We can be certain that no action of the Chinese government will ever abolish the working of God, but our brothers and sisters are hard-pressed.  Pray for them - and pray against the workings of evildoers!

NEWS ALERT: China “Abolishes” House Church Alliance; Major Crackdown Reported

We met Brother J in Jordan, a soft-spoken man whose gentle demeanor belied the incredible story that he told us.

His father was kidnapped first, a terrible, but not uncommon, situation for Christians in their home nation of Iraq.  The kidnappers called Brother J, pretending that they wanted him to go pick up his father for rescue from their evil.  When he went, though, they kidnapped him as well - and that was only the beginning.  They subjected him to unbelievable torture.  Masked militants held a knife to his throat and threatened him with death.  They strapped him down, attached wires to his bare flesh, and ran electric shocks through his body.

These kidnappers held him for three weeks, subjecting him to this brutality.  While all human expectation would be for him to give up, or to become bitter and angry, Brother J did none of those.  In fact, as he  showed us pictures taken shortly after the experience - legs covered with massive bruises from the beatings and electricity - and explained that he still could not walk without pain, he constantly referenced his gratefulness for the love and faithfulness of our God.

All of this torture, he told us, actually brought him closer to God, and taught him to truly pray.  Even more than that, he said, he even had a chance to witness to his kidnappers!  Imagine that - being chained to a chair, being brutally tortured, and witnessing to those evildoers of the eternal plan of salvation!

What a testimony.