Email Update March, 2012 Greetings! We hope that you are rejoicing in the grace and mercy of Christ Jesus. The next HeartCry magazine is being printed now, and should be in the mail by April 15th. For those of you in the United States and Canada who receive the magazine, please be aware that this will be your last issue if you do not fill out the enclosed subscription form and mail it back in the envelope that is provided. We appreciate your help with this, as we desire to be good stewards and send the magazine only to those who desire to receive it. Please continue to pray for the missionaries who are faithfully serving the Lord all around the world. The Lord has seen fit to enable HeartCry to support 162 missionaries in over 26 countries. The means He has chosen to provide for them is through your prayers and support. We pray that He will continue to raise up laborers to serve in the fields, for they are 'truly white unto harvest.' We also ask that you pray for Holden Barry and his family. He is in Russia and Siberia to meet with potential new missionaries in those areas. Before leaving for his trip, he was glad to learn that "the temperature has warmed up here...it is only 15 degrees below zero now." May the warmth of the Lord melt cold hearts, in Siberia and all over the world! For His Name's Sake, Your Brothers at HeartCry   Report from Naphtally in Kenya  In his January 2012 report, Naphtally discussed a young man, "S.", who had been disciplined from their church and then graciously restored to the Lord.  Naphtally comments further on the work of the Lord in his life: "In our last prayer letter we shared about S. who had repented of his sins and returned to the Lord with joy. We hear that he continues to stand. But the change in his life has brought other changes we never imagined. His mother who has been a staunch Roman Catholic told me over the phone recently that following the changes she has witnessed in her son, she has abandoned Roman Catholicism and wants to be taught what I taught her son! There is no evangelical church near them. S. is also seeking to witness to the young men in his village. Please pray for them and for us as we try to find how best we can help them even though they are far from Eldoret." Furthermore, Naphtally reported of a new friendship that may potentially lead to the formation of a new church in Nairobi: "A gentleman phoned me a few weeks ago saying he got hold of my details over the Internet and would like to meet me for a talk. The meeting was most delightful. M.M. was once a student at one of the nearby universities in Eldoret. In 2009 at the Uni Library he got hold of and read one of John Piper's books. Through this, the Lord drew him to the reformed faith! He has since read a number of excellent books and listened to sermons of many reformed, godly preachers on the net. M.M. works in Nairobi and meets for fellowship with a number of like-minded, serious believers. Please pray for them as they seek the Lord's will in terms of starting a reformed Church in the area where they live. I have introduced him to other reformed brethren in Nairobi."   Report from Antony Simon in Israel  We have had some unique ministerial opportunities presented to us in recent days. The war in the Darfur region of Sudan has a created a crisis situation for the victims of the genocide there as well as for the state of Israel. The African refugees have endured much in their exodus from their countries to Israel with some even journeying large parts of the way north by foot through the deserts of the eastern Sahara and the Sinai deserts in their march to Zion, "the land flowing with milk and honey." Many Africans, especially Sudanese, have been killed in their trekking north through Egypt, where their darker skin is tragically viewed as grounds for unspeakable torture and persecution. The Egyptian border soldiers are ordered to "execute with extreme prejudice" any one of these peoples seeking asylum in Israel, and, according to one estimate, approximately two thousand were killed last year alone. One IDF (Israeli Defense Force) border soldier reported that these refugees are almost nightly running the death run between the bullets of the Egyptians soldiers, scrambling over the barbed wire into the safe zone of Israel. Those unfortunate Sudanese who fail to cross through Egypt into Israel have their organs harvested and sold by their Egyptian Muslim "brothers," with their bodies literally left in the sand to rot and be consumed by scavenging beasts and birds without a burial. Other poor souls, after having their eyes gouged out, are dumped in the desert and are left to wander helplessly unto they die of starvation or dehydration. The misery of these Sudanese does not simply disappear when they arrive in Israel, as the Israeli government is unable to sustain such a large influx of refugees without jobs or prospects. These men typically arrive with just enough money to gain access into Israel. Tel-Aviv is filled with Sudanese that are jobless, homeless, hungry, and cold this winter season. They are forced to sleep outside in places such as public parks, exposed to the rain and cold and without anyone to care for them properly or welcome them. Sleeping on cardboard, huddled in groups to generate warmth, these souls are forced during the daytime to scavenge food any way possible to ensure their survival. To God be the glory, we have been able to come to the aid of these African civil war refugees who are fleeing for refuge to Israel in search of solace and a new life. Recent news from the media suggests that many of these refugees will soon be forcibly deported from Israel. We understand we only have a short window of opportunity to offer the Gospel to them. The atrocities being committed are being carried out by Muslims victimizing darker Muslims, and so the love of Christ and the beauty of the Gospel shines brightly in the eyes of these men who have felt firsthand the darkness of Islam. We have teamed up with other ministry partners to distribute New Testaments, Bibles, and Gospel literature in their native languages. We have been privileged to distribute foodstuff, over 700 blankets, as well as clothes to these homeless sojourners.   HeartCry At A Glance The HeartCry Missionary Society began in 1988 in the country of Peru with a desire to aid indigenous or native missionaries so that they might reach their own peoples and establish biblical churches among them. Since then, the Lord has expanded our borders to include not only South America, but also Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Arctic Region. The HeartCry Missionary Society was founded and still exists for the advancement of four major goals:      *    The Glory of God     *    the Benefit of Man     *    the Establishment of Biblical Churches     *    The Demonstration of God's Faithfulness