John Chau commemorated at the Day of the Martry 2022
By means of Voice of the Martyrs
Bartlesville, Okla. (BP) — “Deluded fool.” “Journey bro.” “Dumb American.”
Those had been simply a number of the pejoratives used to explain 26-year-old American missionary John Chau after he used to be killed in past due 2018 making an attempt to achieve the “maximum remoted tribe on this planet” with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 
Indian government even known as Chau’s evangelistic efforts to the unreached Sentinelese tribe on North Sentinel Island, a “out of place journey in a extremely limited space.”
However a more in-depth have a look at Chau’s existence and dying disclose his Christ-like compassion, in depth coaching and preparation, and clear-headed conviction of his calling to the Sentinelese other people.

“Each and every choice John Chau made–for 9 years–used to be made with a watch towards touchdown on that seashore,” mentioned VOM Radio host, Todd Nettleton. “He counted the price to respond to Christ’s name to enter the entire international. He used to be mocked and ridiculed, no longer handiest through the clicking and the secular international, but additionally through fellow fans of Christ.”
This 12 months at the Day of the Christian Martyr, June 29, VOM will honor Chau’s obedient and courageous instance through including his title to the 60-foot-long granite Martyr’s Memorial positioned on the ministry headquarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
In line with church custom, June 29 marks the anniversary of the Apostle Paul’s beheading in Rome. In this essential date in church historical past, Christians around the globe commemorate the lives of numerous believers like Chau who gave their lives for Christ.
“What’s it price to us, each and every people as fans of Christ, to peer other people come to grasp Jesus? What value is just too prime? That’s the query that John Chau’s existence, and Day of the Christian Martyr, encourage us to invite,” mentioned Nettleton.
“There are lots of tactics we will die,” Chau mentioned in 2018. “I’m going to the island this November and I don’t know what will occur, however I’m able. I’m able to put my existence [down] for the gospel.”
“I’m for my part extremely joyful that extra individuals are going to grasp John’s tale–the real tale–as a result of this 12 months’s DOCM assets,” mentioned Nettleton. “My prayer is that God makes use of John’s instance of sacrificial obedience to encourage many extra Christians to obey Christ’s name to unfold His like to each tribe, tongue and country–and to the folk we are living subsequent door to or paintings with on a daily basis.”
At the back of the Lens: Ukrainian Muslim guy hears gospel in Romanian Baptist church
By means of Luke In, IMB
Emanuel Baptist Church in Calafindesti, Romania, is a small church, however its contributors have a large center for Ukrainian refugees. The pastor, Cornelus Miron, used to be one of the vital first responders on the border with Ukraine because the struggle broke out and other people began to escape into Romania. His pioneering paintings ended in Romanian Baptists and Southern Baptist Crisis Reaction groups running in combination on the border, greeting the refugees with water, snacks and a cell phone charging station as they pass the border into Romania.  
The church crammed its basement with mattresses to deal with as many refugees as imaginable. When this picture used to be taken, they had been housing 25 other people. 
Among the refugees, one couple stood out: Vitali, along with his lengthy beard, and Luda, together with her grey hijab. The Muslim couple fled with their 16-year-old son and a pregnant cat, from Bucha, Ukraine. The circle of relatives abruptly discovered themselves within the church. 
Vitali used to possess a fast-food café in Bucha. As soon as it used to be destroyed within the struggle, he and his circle of relatives fled. They hope to transport to Switzerland to start out a brand new eating place. Although he used to be born and baptized into an Orthodox circle of relatives, he made up our minds to turn into a Muslim 18 years in the past.
Bryant Wright, the president of Ship Aid, shared with Vitali the real that means of the pass and Jesus demise for our sins. He defined Jesus’ dying and resurrection with the assistance of translation from Mick Stockwell, an IMB missionary.
Vitali, well-versed within the Quran and the Bible, insisted that, “Jesus by no means mentioned He used to be God, or God’s Son.” Wright shared Bible verses that pointed to Jesus being the Son of God, together with the passage from John 8:58. “In point of fact, actually, I say to you, prior to Abraham used to be, I’m.”  With out entering any debate, Bryant and Mick had been ready to wish for Vitali and left hoping the reality will set Vitali loose.
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