Let me know what you think.
Davy
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News out of Nigeria the last few days is not good. It seems over 500 Christians, mostly women and children were killed by Muslim gangs over the weekend. The killing took place in the villages around Jos which is toward the northern part of Nigeria.
Please pray for the people of Nigeria. Bro. Shobanke and the folks we have visited in Nigeria are more toward the south but there are many Christians and missionaries in that area who's lives are in danger. In addition violence like this can reach a flashpoint and spread quickly. They need God to help.
I have posted the link and the story below. The details are a bit graphic so please consider that before reading.
Davy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article7054630.ece
Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning's Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess.
One toddler appeared fixed in the protective but hopeless embrace of an older child, possibly his brother. Another had been scalped. Most had severed hands and feet.
Officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by Muslim gangs near Jos, the city that bestrides Nigeria's Christian-Muslim fault line.
Local journalists and civil rights organisations who toured the area yesterday told The Timesthey had counted at least 200 victims shot and hacked to death in apparent revenge for sectarian violence in January that claimed about 300 lives from the two communities. Mark Lipdo, a co-ordinator for the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian aid group, confirmed at least 93 dead in one village. "But there are corpses charred beyond recognition," he said.
Survivors claimed that Muslim inhabitants of the targeted villages of Zot, Dogo Nahawa and Rastat had received telephone calls two days before the attack telling them to leave the area.
Witnesses said gangs waited at main entry points to the villages while others went from house to house, setting the homes on fire.
Those who fled were killed at the exit points. Others were slaughtered after being caught in animal traps and nets as they ran in the dark.
Ben Kwashi, Anglican Archbishop of Jos, said he visited one of three villages engulfed by the violence. "I could see kids from age zero to teenagers, all butchered from the back, macheted in their necks, their heads. Deep cuts in the mouths of babies. The stench. People wailing and crying," he said.
Nigeria's Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner, ordered troops into the riot-affected area "to confront and defeat these roving bands of killers", he said in a statement. Last night he sacked Sarki Mukhtar, the national security adviser, a powerful figure in the inner circle of the ailing President, Umaru Yar'Adua.
Villagers said army assistance came too late. Christian youths accused the military of complicity in the killings.
Survivors told The Times that entire families were killed, some to the chants of Allahu Akbar — God is Greatest. They said villagers awoke to shouting and gunfire at about 3am on Sunday.
"They then set homes on fire and attacked men, women and children. Many were decapitated," said Theresa Malinowska, press officer for Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Staff counted the bodies of four babies and 28 children under 5 in one location alone.
Jos is the regional capital of Plateau State, where Christians from Nigeria's south and Muslims from the north compete over the fertile farmland. The area has often been a flashpoint. In rioting in September 2001 1,000 people died and Muslim-Christian battles killed up to 700 people in 2004.
Jos has been under a dusk-until-dawn curfew since January's violence. Archbishop Kwashi said he believed a significant organisation was behind the killings because they happened during curfew, with the army in the area.
"I think it is all Christians killed. The Muslims, I heard, had left the village. The kind of co-operation that came into play — that could violate a curfew, that could take the law into their own hand. I worry which village, which town, will be next," he said.
Tuesday Morning-
Bro. Tim Hudson-" He Is Here"
Bro. John Burdine-" Self Defense"
Bro. Aaron Brock- "He And We"
Tuesday Youth Service
Bro. JJ Stevens- "The Enabler"
Bro. Jonathan Prickett- "To Close To Tarsus"
Bro. Michael Groves "Focus or Fail"
Tuesday Night
Bro. L.D. Savage-" Lest"
March Meeting at Allentown is a highlight of our year. It is a breath of fresh air. We get to hear great preaching and we get to see lots of friends. There is still time for you to join us before Friday night. It would be great to see you here in Alabama!
Now I'm headed to bed to get some sleep before doing all again for Wednesday.
Goodnight
Odie
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But the real reason we we come is the great food. We love the
shrimp Poboys and they pile on the shrimp! Kelly Jo tried the steamed
shrimp this time and it was good too.
Wish you all were here to enjoy!
Davy
Bro. Addis is a great soldier of the cross that blazed the trail
for us evangelists for over 40 years. It was so good to be in service
with him today.
Davy
Sis. Shea & Donna Beauvais (Producer)
Sis. Shea Boyd
Dayla
Darah & Donna
Davy
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Bro. & Sis. Charles Moore (Bro. Steve's parents)
Pastor Rickey & Sis. Sharon Searcy
Great service tonight at New Mission & then a great meal at Jo's
Pizza afterward. Bro. Rickey brought several from Mt. Vernon tonight
& we sure appreciate it. The Lord blessed & helped tonight in a
special way & we praise Him for it. We are looking forward to great
services the rest of the week. Come see us if you can.
Davy
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Top pic is a bunch of us eating after church, the next two pics
are Bro. Fellers, Bro. Toliver and Bro. Rich.
Everybody loves to put my suit coat on but in the last picture
everybody puts it on at the same time! These clowns are the pastor's
sons Derrick and Dillon Rich.
Davy
This great burger came from Spanky's in Broken Arrow. Kelly Jo
and I went back on Friday and this was the wonderful result. If you
get a chance to go you need to do it. It is owned by Learon and
Heather Kellogg from the South Mission church and I am sure they would
appreciate the business.
God bless
Davy
