Asia and the Pacific, continued
 Leaders of the Church of North India participate in renewal training in Nagpur.
Pakistan gropes to find a way to move ahead as violence escalates and a peaceful transition toward political stability remains elusive. Our church partner offers hope that the way ahead will come through books, not bullets or bombs.
Within India this past year violent attacks on the Christian community in Orissa and Karnataka shocked the world. Our partner, the Church of North India, which covers two thirds of the country, lives out a strong witness to the good news and is growing. It labors to bring congregational renewal so that churches can effectively engage in mission at the local level.
The global church must “groan and sigh” as the Pacific region islands endure the consequences from global warming, even though the islands’ inhabitants themselves create no significant carbon footprint.
Give thanks for mission co-workers who walk alongside brothers and sisters doing justice, evangelizing, educating, providing health and wholeness, and working for peace as they bear witness to the transforming power of the gospel. Thanks be to God for the witness and sacrifices of Asian brothers and sisters from whom we have much to learn.
As you read their stories in the following pages, pray and continue to support the vital witness of the church in this vast and varied region.
–Rev. David L. Hudson, area coordinator, Asia and the Pacific, General Assembly Mission Council
PC(USA) General Assembly Staff
Mary Lynn Green, FDN
Melinda Green, BOP
Nyema Green, BOP
God of justice and mercy, open us to Asian hospitality, which models vulnerability, self-sacrifice, and mutuality, qualities often in short supply in our culture. May we hear the prophetic witness of the two-thirds world to live simply so that others may simply live. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Ps. 98, 146 and Ps. 66, 116
Exod. 32:21–34
1 Thess. 1:1–10; Matt. 5:11–16
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