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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Egyptian Children Pray to Become Change Makers

By Jeremy Reynalds
Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

EGYPT (ANS) -- In a country rocked by change and division, about 1,400 eight- to fourteen-year-old Egyptian children gathered recently to worship and ask God to change them to be the salt and light for Jesus in their communities.

According to a story by Lindsay Shaw for SAT-7, the network aired the first-ever One Thing Kids Festival, held at the desert oasis of Wadi El Natroun, from July 16 - 18.

"Our vision is to have this generation praying and worshiping God, and to be filled with the Holy Spirit to be able to change the world," said festival organizers Kasr El Doubara Evangelical Church (KDEC) and the children's prayer ministry of the Synod of the Nile of the Presbyterian Church speaking in the SAT-7 story.

Most of the sessions were broadcast live on SAT-7's KIDS and ARABIC channels, as well as on the network's KIDS Youtube Live page. This was the latest on location broadcast from SAT-7, which previously has included prayer by tens of thousands at Cairo's Cave Church and broadcasts from the annual One Thing festivals for older youth.

SAT-7 said the Wadi el Natroun area was long an historic center for Christian prayer by monks and pilgrims, but at One Thing Kids - held at KDEC's retreat and campsite - young children took over that mant le.

Many of the children played a prominent role. Some were part of the worship choir, while others helped to lead prayer times for themselves and their nation.

Children worshiping and praying 
(SAT-7)

One Thing Kids Conference SAT-7's Egypt Director, Farid Samir, said in the SAT-7 story, "In a conference like this we saw kids worshiping and praying from their pure hearts, hearing God's voice and sharing it. Some kids told their testimonies of special encounters with the Lord."

Samir said his own children, ages nine and 10, attended and "were spiritually stretched. They memorized Bible verses, learned new songs, and learned how to intercede for their country."

Samir concluded, "We believe God is going to change things in Egypt because of the faithful intercession of kids, and there will be reconciliation, salt and light especially at the communities the kids will go back to."

SAT-7 airs five channels in Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish languages to a known audience of over 15 million viewers.

For more information about SAT-7 visit www.sat7usa.org/about-sat-7


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Jeremy Reynalds is Senior Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service, a freelance writer and also the founder and CEO of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter,http://www.joyjunction.org He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. His newest book is "A Sheltered Life."
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  • Reimagine Curator August 29, 2013 18:32
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    Egypt and its people have contributed prominently to the spread of the Gospel since the earliest days of Christianity.  In fact, the nation was primarily Christian for six centuries before the rise of Islam.  Key writers and theologians such as Origen and Tertullian were Egyptian.  Alexandria was a center of Christian thought and learning.  Jesus Christ himself walked along Egypt's roads and rivers -- a claim few nations can hold.  The Coptic Christians of Egypt -- roughly ten percent of the population -- have persevered in the faith of the early Church for over 1400 years in the face of ebbing and flowing persecution.
     
    Today -- this month... this week -- that persecution is rising.  
     
    Egypt's political turmoil has led to over 1000 deaths.  Christians have been targeted, and dozens of church buildings have been burned.  The Muslim Brotherhood, for years outlawed and recognized as a radical group, is now trying to place the blame for all the unrest on the Christian minority.  Despite constant shifting and great uncertainty, two things are absolutely certain:  1) God is the sovereign Lord of Egypt, and 2) He loves every single Egyptian man, woman, and child.
     
    Let us cry out together from around the world, standing with our brothers and sisters in Egypt, and ask Jesus to protect and refine His Church and to open the eyes of the spiritually blind across that land.

    Together let's watch and pray,

     

    The Prayercast Team

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