RMM News Bulletin

[From December Mosaic]
As another year winds down, we can’t help but be filled with gratitude for how God has used RMM in 2006 to draw various ones to Him. We have seen 58 people come to Christ officially, and many more that we are unable to get an official count on, spanning from Mexico to the Middle East! We have also seen our missionary presence in Thailand go from one to eight, sent our first missionary to Siberia, and marveled at how God provided a big financial boost through the 2006 Missions Day offering lifted at the CMC annual conference in Plain City, OH.

Seeing all that God has done this year makes us excited about 2007 – our first family to Morocco is scheduled to fly out in early January; our first family to Spain will leave soon thereafter. These are two realities that are the product of much prayer and petition! God is also answering our prayers for His provision of workers for the harvest fields. We have additional personnel coming through the pipeline with projected departure dates in the fall of 2007. Most of those will, Lord willing, be heading to nations where the evangelical presence is less than 1% of the population.

Prayer and financial support are two key ingredients to a successful ministry. We invite you to join us in regular prayer through signing up to be an RMM Intercessor or by signing up to receive the RMM News Bulletin. You can do both by emailing info@rmmoffice.org and indicating that you would like to be a part of one of these exciting ways to partner with RMM.

We also invite you to prayerfully consider providing the other key ingredient by making a year-end financial contribution. Projections indicate that RMM could end our fiscal year with a major operating deficit. There are many people who need to hear the Gospel message. By making a contribution, you can help RMM finish strong financially, but you also join us in taking the message to them. Thank you for your partnership!

You can visit our website or email info@rmmoffice.org to make a contribution.

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[From December Mosaic]
As Sri Lanka falls into a worsening climate of civil war, Buddhist militants have continued their campaign against Christianity, attacking churches and threatening Christian schools. Christians in Sri Lanka are calling for help from the international community following a rapid deterioration of law and order. The plea follows an attack on Nov. 8 by the Sri Lankan armed forces on refugees sheltered at a school in Kathiraveli, a coastal town in the eastern district of Batticaloa. Protestant and Roman Catholic schools in the Colombo area have received letters demanding that they cancel all Christmas programs, and mobs around the country are frequently preventing people from attending worship services.

[Source: Compass Direct through Operation Mobilization Newsbytes]

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[From December Mosaic]
Carla Wanty, a native of Ecuador and RMM staff member, writes in the December issue of The Brotherhood Beacon about the experience of an Ecuadorian Christmas.

[In Ecuador] we are closer to the sun, so instead of having the typical four seasons we have only two: winter (rainy season) and summer (dry season). There are small climate variations, but most people from the [U.S.] would consider it to be hot during most of the year. It’s common for us to say, “Wow, winter is here, and it’s so hot.”

As night falls on Guayaquil my family loads all fifteen of us in our little van and we head for downtown. On the way to downtown we pass by the “barrios,” (neighborhoods) to look at their nativity scenes… As we start to enter downtown Guayaquil images fill our eyes of large buildings with perfectly placed lights, nativity scenes filling store front windows, and of course the many different Santa Clauses with their red warm costume in the middle of our hot humid winter.

Read the rest of this article to learn more about Christmas through the lens of a culture closer to the equator in the December issue of The Brotherhood Beacon.

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