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And, as usual, the entire list is available here.

A couple of photos of our staff evangelist at the recently attended conference at Union University.  Click to enlarge.

Christians in China continue to suffer persecution and arrest simply because they are Christians.

The Christian Post reports,

Police recently arrested four American Christian leaders and dozens of Chinese house church leaders during a fellowship gathering in a northwest province in China. The Americans had arrived at Akesu airport in Akesu city, Xinjiang province, on Apr. 17 and started meeting with house church leaders in the region for fellowship on Apr. 18 at a local church family house, reported China Aid Association’s sources on Tuesday. However, just two days after their arrival, on Apr. 19, China’s Public Security Bureau (PSB) reportedly arrested about 30 Chinese house church leaders who met with the American Christians and detained the Americans. At the time of the CAA report Tuesday, the four Americans were still behind held in an undisclosed hotel for questioning along with their translator Mr. Jinhong Li from Beijing. China’s PSB officials confiscated the Americans’ luggage from the local church family they were staying with on Monday.

So, while many Christians in America take for granted the Church, ignore it, have nothing to do with it, Chinese Christians continue to suffer for it and endure hardship for it. It sort of makes American Christianity seem kind of lame, doesn’t it? Perhaps one day the Church will matter as much to American Christians as it does to so many others. But by then it will probably be too late.

Trey writes

Dear Singing Friends,

Thanks,
Trey Daugherty 

From time to time every parent in our county needs to visit the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry.  Take a look at the photos of the persons who have been convicted of a crime, and if you see them near your children, call the Sheriff’s office immediately.

It’s astonishing how many offenders live in Morgan County, and some aren’t even in prison!

Keep your children safe.  Keep an eye on them, and don’t let them roam around out of eyesight.

Vacation Bible School this year will be June 4-8, at 6-9 p.m. each evening.
Pray, invite, attend.

I apologize for this- but, in the last 24 hours I’ve had considerable difficulties with emails being lost and rejected.  If you have written me a note in the last day or so and I haven’t responded, please resend it.  I think (hope) the problem is fixed and I apologize for mentioning it here.

Mike Beach resigned from Middle Creek Baptist Wednesday night. Along with Middle Creek, other Churches in the Association too are without Pastors- so please remember to pray for them. They are, Big Emory, Chapman Grove, Clymersville, Dyllis, Kellytown, Kingston First, Mossy Grove, New Height’s Mission, Pine Ridge, Riggs Chapel,  and Westel.

It’s not safe to be a Christian in Turkey because some Muslims there believe that killing them protects Islam. CNN reports on the sub-human execution of three Christians in eastern Turkey,

Police detained five more suspects Thursday in the attack at a Christian publishing house that distributes Bibles. Some reportedly said they carried out the killings to protect Islam. The three victims — a German man and two Turks who converted to Christianity — were found a day earlier with their hands and legs tied and their throats slit. Their faces were bruised, and the ropes had cut into their wrists. On Friday, the Hurriyet newspaper reported that at least one victim was stabbed many times. “There were so many stab wounds that we couldn’t count them,” Hurriyet quoted Dr. Murat Ugras as saying. “It was clearly torture.”

Barbarians. Which faith seems nearer to God? A faith that prays for the enemy or a faith that slits the enemies’ throat?  Pray for the victim’s families.

The wall is going up- as you can see.  It doesn’t seem that it will take them long to get it finished now.  And though the color of the brick is not exactly the same, the texture is.