Dear Friends,
We are still expecting a few gifts for our recent urgent appeal, and will report at the end of May, and share about ongoing monthly support. We really appreciate your prayers and giving. Thank you so much! Also, for those giving towards our food, hygiene and bibles, for those displaced by the militant crisis in the Mangu region: Thank you very much! Your help is causing praise to God among many in Nigeria and beyond. Interim report below.
Photo above: CFM makes compost at Wurin Alheri for our crops and trees, to improve degraded soil. As the rains pick up, students plant crops and trees around the site.
Students asked if they could make a “CFM” garden along our entrance road.
Last Monday we took food to 1,600 people in two camps in Mangu, including some people from one of our mission stations in the region. All their food stocks and farms of the surrounding villages were destroyed. CFM was the only outside body to help as of last Monday. Elders within the community bought mattresses and water storage containers. We have started receiving support and we will return this coming Monday with more food and assistance and further assess the situation.
We are handing out Hausa and English bibles, as part of a support package from three Voice of the Martyrs gifts. We are taking hygiene supplies this week. The elders said that as of last Monday they had already buried over 200 people. Thousands fled to homes in Mangu and to other regions where they could find support. Five hundred people are still missing.
It’s children’s week at Wurin Alheri. Children from our Jos crisis-care home are running all our services, taking responsibility for ushering, worship and sharing God’s word. Here, they have a question/ answer session on the roles family, adults and children take in preparing children to build their nation. They prepared their own notes and were then coached by our crisis-care home staff members (our bible college graduates), who have excellent hearts in the scriptures. Our bible college dean wants them, but we said our children need them.
WEF’s “collective guilt:” a totalitarian religion
Nations have bought into the WEF's "collective blame." We recall their campaign in 2019, through their talking head, Greta Thunberg, “How dare you!” It’s true there are issues regarding corporatism and its abuse of environment, but the greatest abuse of global power is its relegation of the poor through deindustrialisation, eradication of cheap energy and restriction of money supply for infrastructure and small enterprise. This is a failure of government to regulate monopolies: by definition, corporate fascism. The collective guilt that the WEF imposes diverts attention from the elites’ alternative "economy" of massive money laundering, to place the blame for austerity on the general population, including claims the public are responsible for terrorism and drug smuggling, "industries" owned by the global elite. The WEF's imposition of "collective guilt" is a deliberate prelude to collectivism, which became centre stage during the “covid pandemic.” The virus, it was said, was natural, due to our collective failure, our overconsumption, and collective decimation of the natural environment, so we need to accept a collective punishment. The same is said about “climate change.” The "solution" is, again, collective punishment, which none of the elite share. There is also "collective guilt" about racism, about our history, about sexual and gender repression. Those who drive this guilt through media, sports, and legislation, don’t care for minorities, but use this “virtuosity” to cancel personal autonomy and decentralised governance and build centralised control. Their “virtuosity” launders their crimes, which include child sex trafficking: Epstein was centre stage in their group. The WEF's imposed "collective guilt," which has been the media campaign for several years, is the prelude to centralised control. If the populace feels guilt, then they voluntarily give up their freedom in penance for their sins. Many embrace this attitude and enforce it on others. Not to embrace this collective penance in public will quickly earn you a loss of “virtue,” with social and economic demerits. The collectivism being enforced is Marxist: it is not biblical charity, which builds caring community, without overriding private property or autonomy. Central control of all things is the aim of their campaign. A failure to see, acknowledge and oppose this is throwing our children under the bus. The WEF's guilt movement, ready to absolve all sins and wink at all corruption when we bow our knee in blind faith to their public narrative, is a religious movement of immense worldly power, like Babylon. Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego would not bow. Christ is neither left nor right wing: both extremes lead to totalitarianism. He loves the image of God in each individual, while addressing our sins against family, community, and creation. God builds community while also valuing individual freedom. We need the truth of Christ, and to take back the freedom to speak it, rather than accept the godlessness of the WEF. Jesus frees our heart from sin and guilt, to give us life, not to imprison and destroy us. The WEF uses guilt to depopulate. Jesus increases the value of human life. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against the church." (Matt 16:18)
Click image to enlarge: A church asked us to make a paper aeroplane to represent our call to Nigeria as missionaries. So we got some of our children to help, each with their own plane. They had a ball.
The pure joy in the children's faces, to be helping Grandma and Grandpa, shuffling to be close, then the fun of throwing their paper aeroplanes, reflects the glory of God, who created each beautiful life in his image, every one precious. God sustains all life. That's who he is, that's what he is like. We, in his image, learning his ways, do the same.
Thank you for your help to impact these valuable lives whom the enemy tried to destroy. We invest our lives in them, knowing God will use them to do amazing things tomorrow. We reject Hezekiah's "the future is evil, but it won't be in my day" thinking, and do all possible to grow God's mighty leaders for tomorrow.
If you can help financially, thank you.
Thank you for praying!
Kent, Ruth and team
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