Speakers at Joel Rosenberg's "Signs Of the Times" Conference
Please pray for the Christian Jews in Israel.
The Story of Ami Ortiz
Ami today, with his parents
Leah and Pastor David Ortiz Area in the Ortiz family home where a bomb filled with metal shards exploded forward into the dining room table and backward, ripping into the full length of Ami's body. He was found on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood.
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On March 20th, 2008, 15-year-old Ami Ortiz stayed home from school. It was Purim – a Jewish festival in which holiday baskets are sent to friends and acquaintances to commemorate the Jews’ thwarting of Haman’s evil plot as recorded in the book of Esther in the Bible. To Ami’s delight, someone left a holiday package on the Ortiz family’s doorstep. When young Ami opened the package, it exploded in his face, filled his body with hundreds of pieces of shrapnel and left him in critical condition. Ami’s father, David, is a pastor of a Messianic community in the town of Ariel. Apparently, this was not an attempt to injure a fifteen year old boy, but rather an attempt to murder a minister of the Gospel in Israel. The picture of Ami taken just moments after the bombing is gruesome. You wonder how anyone could survive such an ordeal, much less live a normal life. In fact, doctors did not anticipate Ami would live through that first night. However, miraculously he not only survived but has made an amazing recovery. He's now back playing one of his favorite sports, basketball. His physical recovery is one miracle, but another might well be the fact that he holds no bitterness against the people who tried to kill him and/or his family. His parents, David and Leah, have also chosen to forgive the perpetrators, though they still yearn for those responsible to be brought to justice. They don't want anyone else to suffer an ordeal like the one they've gone through. * For more Updates, Videos and Pictures on Ami Ortizes, visit http://amiortiz.com/ |
So many Iranians are coming to Christ!
Read about it here!
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Iran Alive Ministries
Iran Alive Ministries (IAM) has won over 50,000 Iranian Muslims to Christ through the ministry's satellite TV broadcast since it first aired in 2002. Seen in "prime time" throughout the Islamic Republic of Iran, IAM's ICTV (Iranian Christian TV), offers ten hours of programming each week, including: a live, call-in pastoral show; uplifting worship and praise and discipleship instruction. IAM's ICTV is the much loved "home church" for many within closed Muslim countries who dare not worship openly, as well as reaching the globally dispersed Iranian community. Through visions, dreams, and miracles, the Lord confirms the message of the Gospel broadcast daily on ICTV. As a result, each week, Muslims give their hearts to Christ through IAM's ICTV, both on the air and afterwards as IAM ministers to hundreds of calls and emails. Just in the past six months, IAM has seen an three-fold increase in calls, emails and faxes from Iranians living within Iran and worldwide, showing how powerfully the Lord is fulfilling His promise: "I will set my throne in Elam [Iran,]" says the Lord, "and I will destroy its king and princes. But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam [Iran,]" says the Lord. (Jeremiah 49:38-39 NLT)
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"The work to evangelize in Iran first began in 1830, by American missionaries. By 1979, nearly 150 years later, only 3,000 evangelical Christians lived in an Iranian population of 50 million," explained IAM's founder, Pastor Hormoz Shariat, PhD. "In just two years, we estimate over 50,000 Iranian Muslims have accepted Christianity through IAM's satellite TV ministry. Many of these new Christians are facing imprisonment, persecution, loss of employment and martyrdom.
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* Picture at Left: The Gospel is being broadcast to Iran through satellite. This picture shows the number of satellite dishes on the rooftops of apartment buildings and houses despite its being illegal in the country. (Click photo to enlarge.) *Note: The video on the right tends to obscure the whole picture when it's opened so try to do the following: Move the computer screen down until you see only 1/4 of the bottom of the picture, then click on it. This will allow you to see the picture whole. |