Praise from ASA

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