How You Can Cast Your Vote Today For Persecuted Christians
By Dan Wooding, Founder of the ASSIST News Service
LAKE FOREST, CA (ANS – January 28, 2016)
– Here in the United States, the country has voting fever, as the
various candidates from the two main parties jostle for attention, and
point out the “faults” of their rivals.
And yet the Presidential election is still a long way away -- November 8, 2016 -- to be exact.
But
I am glad to say that you don’t have to wait to cast your vote, but you
can register it today on behalf of Persecuted Christians trapped in
violent countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Nigeria, the land of my
birth, all of whom are being terrorized by groups like Islamic State
(ISIS) and Boko Haram.
We, at the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net),
have the great privilege of bringing you, up-to-date news of our
suffering brothers and sisters, who are daily paying the ultimate price
for their faith in Jesus Christ.
But
unlike the campaigns that daily get wall-to-wall coverage in our
American media, and cost the candidates (and their supporters) millions
of dollars, we run our “campaign” for Persecuted Believers, on a
shoe-string.
In
fact, our costs are minimal compared with those wanting to have the
most powerful job in the world – President of the United States. And
none of our ANS writers, including myself, receive a regular salary, but
instead trust the Lord for our support. We call ourselves, “Media
Missionaries.” Some of our correspondents often risk their own lives by
bringing us these stories.
Here
at ASSIST, we have a small office run by our volunteer administrator,
Norma Wooding, my dear wife of more than 52 years, and our costs include
a phone and Internet costs, but still we are running extremely low on
funds, and so this is where you come in.
By
supporting ANS at this time, you will be casting your vote for those
that we daily feature -- heroes like Asia Bibi, the courageous Pakistani
Christian mother-of-five, who has been on death row for years, and is
now appealing her death sentence for alleged blasphemy.
So
I am asking you to today make a symbolic “vote” for ASSIST, by helping
us continue our vital work with a generous donation (tax deductible in
the US), and by doing so, you will be saying that you deeply care for
those that need our help and you pray for.
All you have to do is log onto our website – www.assistnews.net –
and scroll down to the place which says DONATE and put in your gift
amount. If you prefer to send a check, please make it out to ASSIST and
then mail it to: PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609, USA. (If you are
sending a check, would you mind shooting me a short e-mail at assistnews@aol.com with the amount, so I can pass on the good news to Norma.)
This
is a wonderful way for you to “vote” for our brothers and sisters all
over the world that have asked us to continue telling their stories, and
by so doing, you will be making a statement that you really care about
their plight.
Can I depend on you today? Thank you!
Photo
captions: 1) Dan Wooding reporting for ANS from Tiananmen
Square,Beijing, China. 2) Asia Bibi, pictured with her husband and two
of her children. She is still on death row. 3) Norma and Dan Wooding on a
joint reporting assignment for ANS.
About
the writer: Dan Wooding is an award-winning author, broadcaster and
journalist who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, and is
now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has
been married for more than 52 years. They have two sons, Andrew and
Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder
of the ASSIST News Service, has worked as a senior reporter for two of
Great Britain’s largest-circulation newspapers. Dan is the author of
some 45 books, and has two TV programs and one radio show in Southern
California. He has reported widely for ANS from various parts of the
world, including North Korea.
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