Day of Prayer...one week later

What an amazing time we had during our recent day of prayer. We received many prayer requests both from friends and partners here in the states but also from 4 countries in Asia. We truly consider it a privilege to pray for you, and we are humbled by the fact that you would pray for us and the ministry of The Aquila Project.

I want to share with you one of the prayer requests we received from our friend in Bangladesh, Theophil Chakraborty. You may have seen on the news about a recent spree of suicide bombings having taken place in Bangladesh. One of those bombings took place in the city of Chittagong, where Theophil lives with his wife and son, here is his account of that day:

"Not only the city I live in but the whole country is unrest now. That day I had plan to pass the court building in order to visit a family of my church, but due to an emergency need of young people of mine, I had to change the plan. Later I heard the news of the bombing and killind and of wounded of many otheres on the spot where I was supposed to go. In the afternoon a lady of my congregation informed me that her son-in-law was late to go to his office, for his wife served breakfast late, he has been saved. The bomb was blasted in his office. Just before to arrive in his office, he was still in the rickshaw, he heard the bomb blasting sound, but he has been saved for his late arrival. Please pray for our country. We all need your prayer support."

Please join with us in praying for Theophil and his church, Oishee Prim Baptist Church, as well as all believers in Bangladesh (they make up less than 1% of the population in this heavily Muslim nation). In the same email that contained this story, Theophil asked us to please come to Bangladesh to help with the training of pastors, please begin praying now as we make plans to return to Bangladesh next year (2006).

That all may hear!

J

Monday Mission Moment

"The motto of every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life'". - Adoniram Judson

Judson truly lived that motto. Judon, the first American missionary, set sail for India in Februaryof 1812 with his wife Ann. Forced out of India by the British East India Company, the Judsons settled in Burma in 1813. Judson, with "marked linguistic and scholarly gifts," early began translating the Bible into Burmese, completing the task in 1834. Ann (Hasseltine) Judson died in 1826, and in 1834 Judson married Sarah Boardman, widow of missionary George Dana Boardman. Shortly after her death in 1845, Judson returned to America for his only furlough. Receiving a hero's welcome, he stimulated interest in foreign missions wherever he went. In 1846 he married Emily Chubbuck, a well-known writer, and later that year they sailed for Burma. Judson's latter years were spent largely in work on a Burman-English dictionary. Chronic illness became more severe, and in 1850 his death occurred on an ocean voyage which had been prescribed as his only hope for improvement. He was buried at sea in the Bay of Bengal, Apr. 12, 1850.


Pray this week for Pastor Kim Chhoung of Battambang, Cambodia
His requests are:

1. That the widows and orphans in the church can earn money (Pastor Kim's church teaches sowing to the widows and orphans).
2. For church growth.
3. For ways to reach new groups of people.
4. For the difficulties of God's ministers.

Thanks for taking the journey with us!

For more on Adoniram Judson's life see www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpjudson.html