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Here is a really good adoption journal about a family going to Xinjiang to adopt their daughter Faith. http://meyeronline.homeip.net/china/ . ~ Anita

Here is a recent post on the Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) website. VOM is an organization that provides up to date information about what is happening to fellow Christians around the world and to facilitate the release and support of those imprisoned and persecuted for the faith.

Below is about what is currently happening or has happened to Christians living in Xinjiang Province ( JUDE'S BIRTHPLACE)

CHINA (ASSIST News Service) Twelve house-church leaders were arrested at a Christmas celebration in Ma Na Si County in Xinjiang, North West China, on Christmas Day 2005. According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), officers of the Religious Affairs Bureau confiscated Christmas food, 80 Bibles, a rented minivan, a car and a piano. One of the female pastors reported the police stated the meeting was an "illegal religious gathering." Seven of the pastors were released at midnight the next day, leaving Pastor Guo Xianyao (54), Ms Lu Jianzhen (47), Ms Wu Haifang (28), Ms Wang Ximei (54) and Ms. Zhou Bin (50) in custody at Ma Na Si County Detention Center. An eyewitness reported Pastor Guo Zianyao was beaten. All those arrested were fined and fingerprinted.
In a separate incident on Christmas Eve, CSW says police forcibly ended a house-church meeting and directed about 100 Christians who were meeting at Korla City in Xinjiang to go to the government-sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Movement church. CSW reported Gao Zhisheng, a prominent human rights lawyer, has been threatened by state security agents in connection with his defense work, which has included the recent case of prominent house-church leader Pastor Cai. He has also recently issued a report regarding Christians in Xinjiang. Gao took statements from 13 believers to demonstrate the torture and abuse faced by house-church Christians in Xinjiang. His law firm's work has been officially closed down for a year and his license to practice suspended.
Give thanks to God for Gao's courage and ask the Lord to protect him. Pray the Lord will draw close to His people still in prison, giving them His strength to do His will. Pray the commitment of these faithful Christians will work to God's glory bringing many to salvation.
~ Anita

Photo above right is of downtown Wulumuqi City, Xinjiang, China

Adoption
Not flesh of my flesh nor bone of my bone, but nonetheless my very own.

Never forget for a single minute that you weren't born under my heart but in it

~ Author Unknown

Hi all,

I remember seeing the above poem in a Childrens' book about adoption ; it sums up so simply and eloquently how I feel about Jude.

Yesterday was Rachel's 4th birthday and Bill and me took Rachel and Jude to the Epiphany Glendi festival in Tarpon Springs. We walked around alittle before we decided to go to Mama's Greek restaurant to have some Gyro's. Then we walked back towards the sponge docks and on the way back saw the Budweiser Clydesdales before heading back home. It wasn't all that impressive down there. We read the events update for the day online that stated they would have 300 dancers from around the US and Canada, but when we went down there we didn't see any. All we saw was a band playing Greek music under a very large tent with about 500 empty chairs under it. I was kinda disappointed , but glad at the same time to be able to enjoy the day with the kids minus Amber though , she didn't want to come. She stayed home for nearly 4 hours reading.

~Anita

Happy New Year 2006
For those of you who didn't get a chance to see our Christmas card ; well we had two , but this one was my favorite!
Yesterday Amber and I went to go see the movie "The Chronicles of Narnia" , which was terrific!
Today I am staying home with the kids most of the day; I might go to the store later , but I have alot of housework to catch up on.
Just finished an excellent book called "The Heavenly Man", which is about a man who was a leader in the underground church. He endured 7 years total in prison in China for proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. He also was tortured a great deal while in prison ; it is an incredible story about his miraculous

escape from a maximum security prison and from China. It is now going down as one of my favorite all time books. Here is a broadcast of one of his testimony/ sermons that he gave almost two years ago in Cambridge , England.

http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=3910

Love, Anita