May 2019

60,000 Christians from across the United States gathered recently to be part of a “new Jesus movement.” “The Send,” was a 10-hour event organized by Youth With A Mission, Christ for All Nations, and Lou Engle of Lou Engle Ministries.  The Orlando, Florida event at Camping World Stadium featured several collaborators from various national ministries who hoped to motivate Christians to fulfil their God-given call.  According to Engle, the live-streamed event was inspired by a conversation in 2011 with YWAM members hoping missionaries would rise up following the death of Rev. Billy Graham.

As the day went on, The Send featured pastors and evangelists such as Bill Johnson, Daniel Kolenda and Francis Chan, along with worship teams such as Hillsong Young & Free, Jesus Culture, Tasha Cobbs-Leonard and Bethel Music.  Event attendee and ministry leader in her local Orlando church, Yassirie Moreno testified that The Send did exactly what it set out to do. “I definitely felt it was a call to action.  The most significant thing about the event to me was that it was obvious, it wasn’t about the people on the stage but the people in the crowd.  There was a singular purpose that was felt, and it was to seek Jesus and worship Him,” Moreno said.

Moreno added, “The atmosphere that was set simply allowed us to move in that and empowered us to want to see God’s power manifest outside of the stadium.  It was like charging up your spiritual battery to go out and be the gospel for the community and serve with the heart of God.  I can honestly say it was so much more than I expected.  This event wasn’t hype, which I truthfully expected, but it was definitely a call to action and to live Holy, as Todd White said, ‘Grace isn’t a pass for us to sin but the power for us to live the way Jesus did, without sin.’”

Source: Christian Post

Ross Kemp, is an English actor, author and investigative journalist who has received international recognition as for the BAFTA Award-winning documentary series Ross Kemp on Gangs, exposing modern gang culture in the UK and around the world.  He tells of an encounter he had with a man known as Kahn who has “trafficked” 3,000 or 4,000 young girls, “maybe more” during the past 7 years.  He goes to poor communities, often in Muslim or “tribal” areas, and looks for “real beauties”.  The girls are auctioned and go to the highest bidder.  The most Kahn got for a sale was a million taka, the currency of Bangladesh, the equivalent of £8,500 or US$10,935.

When asked if it’s true that Kahn has sold girls as young as nine for sex, he replies, “I’ve sold girls who are 12.”  None of the children Kahn traffics have ever been returned to their communities.  Kahn said “If they try to run away, or we have trouble selling them, they are killed and buried.  If our bribed police can’t handle it, then we kill the girls.  We don’t count them.  About four or five hundred.  I’m telling you the truth.”  Speaking about the encounter afterward, Kemp said he had to fight back the tears and was “shocked” and “horrified” by what Kahn told him: “Interviewing a guy who admits to killing 400 to 500 kids but doesn’t know exactly how many, that did make me cry.”

Please pray:

• that these evil people doing child (and adult) trafficking will be brought to justice. Pray also for the families of those affected
• for an end to police corruption that allows such criminals to continue to operate.
• for the trafficking that is taking place across the world to be stopped – it’s not just Asia.

Source: International Prayer Council