For your edification, and for intercession, here is a small selection of remarkable, written responses that we have received by mail, or E-mail, from friends and supporters, and from the field. Please continue to lift up these people and countries in prayer. And please continue to intercede that our publications, field trips and courses may continue to renew minds, transform lives, change hearts and disciple nations.
“I am always challenged by your articles and thank you for all the effort you put into them and also for being very brave in a weak and silent world where anything goes.” GT “Thank you for The Greatest Century of Reformation. People need the unadulterated Gospel.” BK - Germany
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25 June 2005 marked the 30 th anniversary of the revolution in Mozambique, and the 10 th anniversary of peace in Mozambique. In 1975, after being a Portuguese colony for 470 years, Mozambique was abandoned by the Portuguese and declared independent on 25 June 1975. Despite the existence of several political parties and numerous requests for a referendum or elections, the Portuguese abandoned the country to the Marxist revolutionaries, Frelimo – without any referendum or opportunity for elections. Frelimo’s leader, Samora Machel, declared Mozambique “the first truly Marxist-Leninist country in Africa!” Friends from far and wide gathered at the Pinelands Town Hall, 29 March, to celebrate God’s grace and prayer answering power. More than an hour before the rally was to start the hall was already so full with mission supporters that the programme started half an hour early with the screening of a special new 25 Years in the Frontline DVD with selected highlights of professional films made on Frontline mission fields over the years. This included film clips from the arrest in Zambia, the capture and imprisonment in Mozambique, ministry and bombardments in Sudan, and rare footage of the early years of the mission and its military prayer fellowship.
Christian Action has been involved in a whole series of pro-family events and actions in order to counter the relentless attack of the homosexual lobby against the family.
The Paganisation of South Africa The ANC has been railroading through Parliament the legalisation of homosexual “marriages” in South Africa . The betrayal of this country into the hands of Marxist mass murderers has led to the paganisation of this once strongly Christian nation. Once babies were protected from abortion, all foul language, sex scenes and blasphemy were censored out of Hollywood films before they could be shown in our country, Sundays were honoured with no commercial activity or cinemas open, in honour of the Lord’s Day, schools started with Bible reading, hymn singing and prayer in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. But, today, we have legalised gambling, legalised prostitution, legalised abortion, and now even legalised homosexual “marriages.” In response to several requests for our priority projects for prayer and action:
1. Serving the Suffering in Zimbabwe - Emergency Relief Aid, medicines and food are desparately needed by destitute and starving Christians, especially pensioners, oppressed and persecuted in Communist Zimbabwe. Any support, practical or financial, for our Boxes with Love and ongoing missions of mercy to starving and suffering Christians in Zimbabwe will be greatly appreciated and much needed. 2. Bibles and Bikes – to put Wheels under the Word by providing tough bicycles for pastors, chaplains and evangelists in the field. Many rural pastors are responsible for multiple congregations – sometimes with great distances between them. Bicycles multiply their abilities to meet the needs of more people, more often. Frontline missionaries have provided hundreds of bicycles for pastors, evangelists and chaplains in Sudan, the Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. 3. Libraries for Pastors and Library Donations for Bible Colleges. Any donations of quality Christian books, or study Bibles for our Bibles for Africa and Libraries for Pastors project will enable us to equip and train more pastors, chaplains and evangelists with the books they need to disciple their people, applying the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life. It was in April 1982 when the Lord opened the way for the first Frontline Fellowship mission team to cross the border into Marxist Mozambique.
At that stage, Mozambique was in the grip of an anti-Christian dictatorship that had already desecrated, burned down or confiscated over 5,000 churches. Bibles were banned. Evangelism was forbidden. All missionaries had been expelled. Mozambique was suffering the effects of famine and a vicious civil war. In the light of these facts, and because 85% of the population adhered to animism/witchcraft, with a further 2½ million of its people Muslims, and with a Marxist government, Mozambique was widely considered to be one of the most difficult mission fields in the world at that time. Mozambique was also described by mission research agencies, including Operation World, as “the least evangelised country in the Southern Hemisphere.” Numerous publications described Mozambique as: “closed” and “unreachable.” There is a growing worldwide war against Christianity. Every year, an average of 160,000 Christians die as martyrs for Christ. Churches are being burned by Muslim mobs in Northern Nigeria. Whole villages of Christians have been massacred by the Buddhist military dictatorship in Burma. Churches have been bulldozed by the Communist regime in Zimbabwe. Young Christians have been condemned to death for evangelising their Muslim neighbours in Pakistan. Christian schoolgirls have been beheaded by Muslim militants in Indonesia. Christians are tortured and imprisoned in massive slave labour camps in Red China. House churches have been raided and closed in Communist Cuba. Literally hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide live under persecution and oppression.
![]() “Stretching, mind renewing, empowering, hectic, fun, an adventure!” That is how one of the participants described the latest Great Commission Course. They came from as far afield as California and the Congo, from Arizona to Zimbabwe, from Zambia and from all over South Africa. We had several pastors and career missionaries, some heads of ministries and leaders of church groups and pioneers in missions. Some were missionary candidates at the beginning of their training, others experienced veterans who had been in the field for decades. Some had a business background, one was a nurse, another a computer programmer, another had been a commander in the Navy. The mix of nationalities, cultures, languages, backgrounds, characters, skills and personalities made for a dynamic and interesting Great Commission Course (GCC). Since the Great Commission Course, Frontline Fellowship has been racing from one printing deadline and outreach to more conferences, seminars and services.
Muslim Evangelism There was a good turnout for our Muslim Evangelism Workshop in Worcester this last weekend. Amongst the many participants were pastors, missionaries and teachers. One participant from Nigeria, stood up at the end and gave an impassioned plea for every Christian to get involved in winning our Muslim neighbours for Christ. Boxes of Gospel literature were taken by participants for distribution to Muslims in their areas. Zambia On Friday, we had the privilege of hosting General Godfrey Miyanda at our mission headquarters in Cape Town. General Miyanda was the Minister of Education and Vice President of Zambia in the 1990’s. At one time he was also incarcerated in the same prison as I was – in the 1980’s. General Miyanda is one of the five presidential candidates in the upcoming elections in Zambia. Yakubu dresses in traditional Muslim Hausa robes and hat, but, he is a dedicated Christian. Yakubu was converted to Christ in Jos in 1980. Since 1991, he has been a full-time Evangelist dedicated to winning Muslims to Christ. His ministry, Bazata, means “Unexpected.” He explains that their strategy of using drama, films and Gospel music in the traditional Hausa style, is unexpected, but the primary inspiration for their ministry name is that Jesus will come at a time that no one expects.
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