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ASA (missions) NEWSLETTER

© 2007 Jo DiStefano Kapus (e-mail: supak@worldnet.att.net) April 28, 2007

SUNDAY'S GUEST Rick Springsteen is a special guest on America's Silent Ambassadors, this Sunday, April 29, at 2 p.m., on station WIBG, 1020AM radio dial. Rick was the guest on ASA on May 1, 2005, which launched the program on the air. This Sunday, he launches ASA's third year on WIBG! Rick, who is the Chaplain at Barnabas House in Wildwood, a halfway house of the Atlantic City Rescue Mission; a pastoral care minister at Greentree Church, and CEO of Gospel Outbound, talks about his many short-term mission trips to ASELSI in Guatemala. He is scheduled to repeat those trips in May and August this year -- one with Gospel Outbound and one with Greentree's STAMP team. Thank you, Rick, for your faithful service to our Lord!

ATTENTION, PRAYER WARRIORS!

This past week, I received the following requests for urgent prayer:

From Jill Mascena: (a) Please pray for her husband, Tony, who will undergo surgery for his Crohn's disease on May 11 at Jefferson Hospital. (Also, please pray that he will end up on Joyce Stout's floor!) (b) Jill, who is an RN, has joined the Health Ministry Team of the Migrant Worker Ministry as a volunteer to work with the South Jersey Family Medical Center (SJFMC) in Hammonton during the blueberry picking season. They are in need of more RN's and LPN's and any extra people or students who speak Spanish. You should be available to do health screening and teaching on the blueberry farms one night a week from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, during June and July, (whenever the berries are ripe). If you can help, please call Melinda Lamb (428-3325), or Jill (428-7342).

From Bob and Heidi Winslow, missionaries in Albertville, France: Pray for their "carte de sejour" application. This is the second step in obtaining long-term residency (similar to a green card in the U.S.). Please pray for favor with the Prefecture.

From Bernard and Trish Cohen, GMO missionaries, Panimaquin, Guatemala, now residing in Florida from where they continue their ministry: Please pray for their family and for needed financial aid to continue their work. Trish turned 70 this past Thursday!

From Les and Yvonne Parr, missionaries in Rwanda, Africa: "Please continue to pray for us as we continually ask God what have we done wrong, what have we done right, search our hearts, let us not offend, let us be builders not destroyers -- help us, Oh God!" Les and Yvonne's home church is Praise Tabernacle in Egg Harbor Twp. They have just completed one year in Rwanda.

PRAISE! PRAISE! PRAISE! Yvonne Parr, was in our area this past week on furlough from Rwanda. She took time out to come to my home and record a program for ASA which will be aired Sunday, May 6, at 2 p.m., on WIBG. Please pray for her and Les, and their ministry. They do a lot of work with children.

"If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another." I John 4:11

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ASA (missions) NEWSLETTER

© 2007 Jo DiStefano Kapus April 21, 2007

PRAISE! PRAISE! PRAISE!

America's Silent Ambassadors, first aired on the air on radio station WIBG, 1020AM, at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 1, 2005. Rick Brancadora, General Manager of WIBG, liked the focus of the program: contemporary mission experiences of our neighbors. Each week, long or short-term Christian missionaries would recount their experiences of their service to God overseas. They would be an encouragement to others to go forth into the world and spread the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ -- Matt. 28:19,20. PRAISE THE LORD!, with God's blessings, we shall soon begin our third year.

Many thanks to those who prayed for the safety of Greentree's STAMP team of 16 teens and five adults. They returned safely (despite the bad weather last weekend) from Guatemala, where they assisted at ASELSI Missions. PRAISE!

SUNDAY'S GUEST Alecia Brennan, will be our guest this Sunday, April 22, at 2 p.m., on station WIBG, 1020AM radio dial. It will be a repeat of the March 4, 2007, program, wherein Alecia, a Cape May County social worker, will speak about her experiences as a short-term missionary to Israel. Her story will be of great interest to those who are burdened with the conversion of Israel. Remember, you can listen simultaneously online at www.wibg.com

BETWEEN YOU AND ME I don't know how much longer I can continue my radio program. God will make that decision. I praise and thank Him with awe that He has allowed me to continue my work in missions in old age. That said, I would like to say to the readers of this newsletter that regardless of what the future will bring, I pray that you will remain in the Lord's service in missions, especially as prayer warriors. There is some great information on the web. For one, try Missionary-Blogs.com

BBC NEWS -- VIRGINIA HERO IS BURIED IN ISRAEL Since Israel is the featured country in this Sunday's ASA program, I share the following information which was excerpted from the above BBC (web) article:

Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, 76-year-old professor Liviu Librescu, was hailed a hero while protecting his students during [this past week's] Virginia Tech shooting. He was an aeronautics engineer and Virginia Tech lecturer for 20 years and was one of the 32 victims killed.

According to his family, as a boy during the Nazi era, he was sent to a labour camp and then to a ghetto in eastern Romania. He emigrated to Israel in 1978 after refusing to give allegiance to the communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu and began teaching at Virginia Tech in 1985.

Professor Librescu is thought to have saved the lives of a number of students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down by Cho Seung-hui.

"Greater love hath no man ..." -- Jesus Christ, Jewish Messiah

John 15:13

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ASA (missions) NEWSLETTER

© 2007 Jo DiStefano Kapus April 13, 2007

SUNDAY'S GUEST Rebecca Enslin Glancey, of Friendship Bible Protestant Church on Ocean Heights Avenue, Egg Harbor Township, will be the guest on America's Silent Ambassadors this Sunday, April 15, at 2 p.m., on station WIBG, 1020AM radio dial.

Originally aired on Sunday, January 21, this broadcast is being repeated because of the great response it received for its subject matter. Rebecca speaks about the ministry her church conducts for people who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Called the Marah Ministry, it was named for her eighth child, her infant daughter Marah, who died suddenly at age seven months. While ASA focuses primarily on overseas missions, this program is a home missions feature that not only spreads the Word of God, but also His love and compassion. Listen simultaneously online: www.wibg.com

PLEASE PRAY

1. Trish Cohen, of Guatemalan Mission Outreach (GMO), Panimaquin, Guatemala, has asked for prayer. She, Bernard and little daughter Sarah are now living in Florida, but are not retired from GMO. They have moved into a large house that will accommodate them and her daughter Lisa (victim of MS) and her family. From there, they will continue their GMO ministry. Trish has asked us to pray that Lisa's huband will receive a job transfer near their new location. The Cohens are in need of prayer for GMO finances. On the bright side, Trish wrote that Diana Sidebotham, from Seminole Christian Fellowship, is now part of GMO full-time in Panimaquin. "We are so happy to have her joining us in the vision for our village," Trish added.

2. Please pray for safe journey mercies for Greentree Church's S.T.A.M.P. team of 16 teens and five adults, all from Greentree, who went to Guatemala to assist in John and Sharon Harvey's ASELSI Missions. They left Monday, April 9, and should return home this Sunday, April 15. Please pray also that the experience will enrich their lives with a greater purpose in serving our Lord.

HEADS UP! RE-CHRISTIANIZING THE CONTINENT

In his article, KEEPING THE FAITH, which appeared in "The New York Times Magazine" dated April 8, 2007, author Russell Shorto listed this disturbing information. He wrote: "Comparing survey data on church attendance in Europe and the United States is doubly revealing. In Western Europe as a whole, fewer than 20 percent of people say they go to church (Catholic or Protestant) twice a month or more; in some countries the figure is below 5 percent. In England, fewer than 8 percent go to church on Sundays. In the U.S., by contrast, 63 percent say they are a member of a church or synagogue, and 43 percent of respondents to a 2006 Gallup Poll said they attended services weekly or almost weekly. ..... 'Americans think religion is a good thing and tend to feel guilty that they aren't religious enough. In Europe, they think being religious is bad, and they actually feel guilty about being too religious'."

Do you wonder why missionaries go to Western Europe to evangelize?

ASA Easter Sunday

ASA (missions) NEWSLETTER

© 2007 Jo DiStefano Kapus April 6, 2007

SUNDAY'S GUESTS HOWARD HUETTL and JOHN TUDOR return as guests on America's Silent Ambassadors this Easter Sunday, April 8, at 2 p.m., on station WIBG, 1020AM radio dial. When you hear this Sunday's program, you will know that Jesus is alive!

Howard and John were part of the Tower of Hope team that went to Uganda this past February 16-28. There were 18 on this evangelist/medical/construction team and both men were involved with the construction work. Hear Howard tell about the work on the clinic that Tower of Hope is building for the needy of two poor villages, and how the native men taught them how to build on that land. Your heart will be touched when Howard relates how enraptured the young boys were when he taught them how to build a big toy airplane, all the while sharing the Word of God with them!

Hear John tell how blessed they were while conducting men's conferences for hundreds of villagers hungry to hear about Jesus. This was a team that not only gave blessed compassionate aid, but spiritual benediction as well.

Uganda is an eastern African nation, smaller than our state of Oregon, with 27 million people who, on an average, live less than 46 years. AIDS, disease, lack of clean water and malnutrition are the most notorious killers.

PRAISE THE LORD! The Lord has blessed this radio ministry. May 1st marks the beginning of our third year. God willing, Rick Springsteen, who helped me launch the first broadcast on May 1, 2005, will help launch our third year. At this time, I want to thank radio station WIBG for the opportunity to tell the man on the street what extraordinary deeds ordinary people can accomplish when serving our Saviour JESUS CHRIST.

YOUR PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED!

Before He ascended into Heaven, Jesus commanded His disciples to go everywhere and teach everyone to obey everything He had commanded them. Please take the time to pray this Easter for the following full-time missionaries, who have appeared on ASA, and who are obediently serving (or have served) overseas:

Renee Boyd, Guatemala Rev. Mary Materniak, Ecuador,etc.

Mike Clark, Guatemala Rev. Dan & Jean Olsen, Africa

Pastor Bernard & Trish Cohen, Guatemala Rebecca & T. M. Onkar, India

Rev. John & Sharon Harvey, Central America Les & Yvonne Parr, Rwanda

Bob Helwer, Guatemala Ellen Pfirman, Africa

Rev. Terry & Patti Jones, Southeast Asia Rev.Rich.& Gerry Walton, Bulgaria

Father Leonard [Carrieri], missionary priest Lisa Whitaker, Central East.Europe

Allen & Joan Timkins Lovekin, Africa Bob & Heidi Winslow, France

"Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called." --Eph.4:1