SAT-7 News and Prayer Letter | August 2008

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
1 Corinthians 9:24-25 (NIV)

Over the next month we will be hearing a lot about the Olympians gathered to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. While most of the worlds attention will be focused on the feats of these amazing athletes, and possibly also the pollution and political issues surrounding the games, I wonder how many of us in the Christian world are focusing our prayers for the struggling church within the China?

Many Christians who live in nations with limited religious freedom often feel forgotten by the church in the rest of the world. This is especially true in the Middle East and North Africa. In places where churches exist at all, they are often small and struggling. Many Christians feel such pressure that great numbers are fleeing the region, and emigrating to other nations where they can build better lives. Those that remain desperately need support. SAT-7 exists for these believers in Jesus. We seek to support, provide training and encouragement, and to help Arab, Iranian and Turkish churches in their outreach and growth.

As you read the news and prayer items in this e-letter, I encourage you to pray for SAT-7 and our work to support the churches in the region, helping them to run their race in a very difficult region so that one day they will receive the prize of "well done, good and faithful servant" from the only judge who really matters: Jesus Christ.

Yours in His service together,

-Terry

Terence Ascott,
SAT-7 Chief Executive Officer (SAT7News@sat7.org)

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