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Court Wood, director of Virginia-based In Jesus’ Name Ministries, is to be the pulpit guest at Thunder Mountain Community Church today — not June 22 — at the 10 a.m. service at the Sierra Vista Middle School on North Lenzner Avenue, said the Rev. Randy Youngblood, pastor.
Wood’s organization focuses on global ministry to Christians who are persecuted and in need.
From information provided by the In Jesus’ Name Ministries, the group is working currently in Asia and Africa, but also is involved wherever persecution is reported.
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Citing facts presented at a 1998 Human Rights Conference on Religious Persecution by Sharon Payt, attorney for Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, Wood’s ministry quotes 200 million Christians worldwide experience severe persecution, while 400 million endure serious discrimination because of their faith.
Payt says “Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world.”
Michael Reid, a T.M.C.C. elder, says the congregation has been supporting this ministry for some years.
“We are helping pastors to the poor and persecuted to fulfill the Great Commission.”
He reports having journeyed with Woods to mission sites in Mexico and India, where he and his wife, Charlene, became committed to helping alleviate their foreign “brothers and sisters in Christ” from their plight of hunger and persecution as much as possible.
The shock of witnessing personally the hardships of fellow believers has made them sensitive to the help required.
Wood’s extensive ministry works with congregations, Christian schools, hospitals and clinics, leper colonies as well as other non-denominational agencies serving the handicapped, poor and the persecuted.
Wood also is to preach at 5 p.m. in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, Sunday evening, to which others are invited to travel across the border with T.M.C.C. members.
Those interested may contact the church by phoning 366-0029 for details.
The 150-member congregation welcomes others to attend the Sunday services to discover what is happening to fellow Christians in remote areas of the globe — and how they can help.
Dick Andersen is a writer for the Herald/Review and a retired minister living in Cochise County.
Tony P wrote on Nov 25, 2008 12:24 AM: