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Asian American pastor’s Sunday sermon to issue call for prayers and action after Atlanta shooting
The pastor of a Korean church in the Atlanta area said he plans to tell his congregation “it’s time for us to act” when he delivers his sermon on the first Sunday after a 21-year-old man, Robert Aaron Long, was charged with killing eight people at three massage parlors in the vicinity of the church.
Christians should “not just pray, not just worry … it’s time for us to act,” the Rev. Byeong Han of Korean Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, told The Associated Press.
“I’m going to urge people with love and peace that we need to step up and address this issue, so that … our next generation should not be involved in tragic … violence,” the pastor said. “That’s what Christians need to do.”
Another Asian American pastor, the Rev. Jong Kim of Grace Korean Presbyterian Church in the Atlanta suburb of Roswell, was quoted as saying that he had spoken to other Korean pastors in the area, urging them to join the group Asian Americans Advancing Justice, to discuss issues of race and ethnicity and also help the victims’ families to organize funeral services.
The group’s Atlanta chapter believes the shooting on Tuesday “happened under the trauma of increasing violence against Asian Americans nationwide, fueled by white supremacy and systemic racism.”
The 21-year-old suspect, who’s now facing multiple murder charges, struggled with sexual sins he committed in these establishments, a former roommate said.
“I lived with Robert Aaron Long for a few months. I can tell you right now that this is not racially motivated killing, but the product of an emotionally disturbed young man who was religious to the point of mania and who felt deep shame about why he frequented these places,” Tyler Bayless revealed in a Facebook post Wednesday. “I wonder how this would have gone if he had been in an environment where he wasn’t repeatedly told how sinful he was for the things that drove him. What a tragic loss of life, and a kid that was all around one of the sweeter people you’d meet.”
Seven of the eight people Long killed were women, and six of them were of Asian descent. Two of the victims were white.
Long told law enforcement that he would regularly visit two of the massage parlors he attacked, according to The Washington Post, which reported that police had identified the spas as places where sex work and possible sexual exploitation regularly occurred.
The suspect told police he saw the people who worked at the spas as “temptations” he needed to “eliminate.”
The Post reported that the Atlanta Police Department had earlier raided Gold Spa, one of the spas attacked by Long, at least seven times and arrested 10 of its workers.
Police had received complaints alleging that Aromatherapy Spa, another massage parlor attacked by Long, was into prostitution. And the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating Youngs Asian Massage, the third spa targeted by Long, since 2019, the Post added.
Those killed by Long included 33-year-old Delaina Ashley Yaun, 54-year-old Paul Andre Michels, 44-year-old Daoyou Feng, and 49-year-old Xiaojie Tan, according to The Epoch Times.
Yaun and her husband had arranged for a babysitter for their 8-month-old daughter when they went to Young’s Asian Massage on Tuesday. They were in separate rooms inside the spa when Long opened fire and killed Yaun.
Michels, who owned a security systems business after leaving the military, had been thinking about opening a spa himself, his younger brother, John Michels, was quoted as saying. “He was a good, hard-working man who would do what he could do to help people. He’d loan you money if you needed it sometimes. You never went away from his place hungry,” he added.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden indicated that the killing was an outcome of former President Trump calling COVID-19 “China virus,” a term that was first used by mainstream media, including CNN and MSNBC, whose lead anchors and medical experts called COVID-19 the “Chinese virus,” “Wuhan virus,” and Chinese coronavirus.”
“Words have consequences. It’s the coronavirus — full stop,” Biden told community leaders in Georgia on Friday, according to The Washington Times.
Vice President Kamala Harris also appeared to attribute the shooting to hate against Asian Americans, alluding to Trump. “For the past year, we’ve had people in positions of incredible power scapegoating Asian Americans,” Harris said at Emory University in Atlanta on Friday.
She added that “people with the biggest pulpits” were “spreading this kind of hate.”
Robert Cherry, a retired Brooklyn College economist, wrote in an article for The Spectator magazine that the majority of attacks on Asians in the U.S. cannot be attributed to white Americans.
Sharing his research based on 2019 FBI statistics, where he looked at “black and white perpetrators of hate crimes as a percentage of men 18 to 44 years old in their populations,” he wrote, “The black rate was 40 percent, 76 percent and 303 percent higher than the white rate for hate crimes against the Asian/Pacific Island, Latino and LGBTQ communities respectively.”
He added, “Even more troubling, black rates for hate-crime assaults were 94 percent higher while for property destruction and vandalism, they were 14 percent lower than white rates.”
Sources:Christian Post
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ഒളിമ്പിക്സിനോട് അനുബന്ധിച്ച് രണ്ടു ലക്ഷത്തോളം ബൈബിള്; തയാറെടുപ്പുമായി ഫ്രഞ്ച് ബൈബിൾ സൊസൈറ്റി
പാരീസ്: ഒളിമ്പിക്സിനോട് അനുബന്ധിച്ച് രണ്ടു ലക്ഷത്തോളം ബൈബിളിന്റെ വിതരണത്തിനായി തയാറെടുപ്പുമായി ഫ്രഞ്ച് ബൈബിൾ സൊസൈറ്റി. 140,000 ഫ്രഞ്ച് കോപ്പികളും 60,000 ഇംഗ്ലീഷിലുള്ള ബൈബിളും വിതരണം ചെയ്യാനാണ് സൊസൈറ്റി പദ്ധതിയിടുന്നത്. ബൈബിളിലെ പുതിയ നിയമമാണ് വിതരണം ചെയ്യുക. വിതരണം സുഗമമാക്കുന്നതിന് വിവിധ ക്രിസ്ത്യന് മിനിസ്ട്രികളുമായി സൊസൈറ്റി രൂപരേഖ തയാറാക്കിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഫ്രഞ്ച് ഹാൻഡ്ബോൾ ചാമ്പ്യൻ ജോയൽ അബാറ്റി, ഓസ്ട്രേലിയൻ ഹൈജമ്പർ നിക്കോള ഒലിസ്ലാഗേഴ്സ് എന്നിവര് ഉള്പ്പെടെയുള്ളവര് പദ്ധതിയുടെ ഭാഗമാകുന്നുണ്ട്.
ഓരോ രാജ്യത്തെയും ബൈബിൾ സൊസൈറ്റി വഹിക്കുന്നതു സ്തുത്യര്ഹമായ പങ്കാണെന്നും സമകാലിക ലോകത്ത് ബൈബിളിന് ശക്തമായ സ്വാധീനമാണുള്ളതെന്നും ഫ്രഞ്ച് ബൈബിൾ സൊസൈറ്റിയുടെ ജനറൽ സെക്രട്ടറി ജോനാഥൻ ബൗലറ്റ് പറഞ്ഞു. പാരീസ് ഒളിംപിസ്കിനു സാക്ഷ്യം വഹിക്കുവാന് ലോകമെമ്പാടുമുള്ള 11 ദശലക്ഷത്തിലധികം സന്ദർശകർ എത്തുമെന്നാണ് അധികൃതരുടെ കണക്ക്. സെപ്തംബർ എട്ടിന് സമാപിക്കുന്ന ഒളിമ്പിക്സിലും പാരാലിമ്പിക്സിലും ഫ്രഞ്ച് ബൈബിൾ സൊസൈറ്റി പുതിയ നിയമത്തിൻ്റെ പകർപ്പുകൾ വിതരണം ചെയ്യുമെന്നും ഫ്രഞ്ച് ബൈബിള് സൊസൈറ്റി വ്യക്തമാക്കിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.
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In a world of lies, David Hoffman is on a mission to deliver truth.
Hoffman, author of “Relationships Over Rules: 7 Principles to Lead Gracefully and Love Generously – Harnessing the Power of Relationships to Overcome Your Past and Embrace Your Future,” is a successful business and family man today — but his journey didn’t start out that way.
“The world tells us all these rules of what you can’t do,” he told CBN News, citing some of the lies he was tempted to believe. “I grew up Jewish, so I can’t be a believer … I was raised in a broken household without a lot of love, and so I can’t be married with kids and show them unconditional love.”
While many people might buy into lies like these based on their circumstances, Hoffman said there’s another path, one centered on the Lord.
“I just want to encourage people that, with [God] in the center — with the gifts He gives you — with the relationships He places in your life, you can reach your true potential,” he said.
Hoffman said his upbringing led to complex feelings and emotions. Overall, he felt a lack of love as a child, and this missing puzzle piece left him with a great deal of pain.
“My father left when I was 11,” he said. “I grew up with like a lot of neglect and I felt like I was alone a lot.”
Hoffman continued, “I would ask God why He would let all these bad things happen to good people.”
It’s understandable why he felt so conflicted. Hoffman described a childhood filled with abuse. The challenges were profound — so much so that, when nourishment was reportedly withheld, he resorted to eating dog food when he was hungry.
And that’s just one example of his purported struggles.
Over time, Hoffman came to understand God’s nature and character, realizing the Lord isn’t the author of any of the evil we might face in life.
Rather than living in lament, he came to appreciate this reality.
“I just want to encourage people … that your past does not define your purpose,” he said. “And your past doesn’t dictate your potential. And, so, for me, not having … many loved ones in my life, not feeling a lot of love, not having a lot of opportunity … it made me crave those and appreciate those.”
Hoffman said he has “learned forgiveness” and has “no malice towards anyone” from his past. In fact, the struggles have only made him stronger and more persistent.
“Adversity became a gift as I got older, because, again, I’m grateful,” he said, noting he doesn’t want anyone else to feel the loneliness and pain he once experienced. “I felt like I was always being told, ‘No,’ and so I want to always find the, ‘Yes.’”
For Hoffman, much of the chaos in his life was healed after becoming a Christian. Because he was raised religiously Jewish, he said he didn’t hear about Jesus until he was 30 years old.
“Unbeknownst to me, God had big plans,” he said. “I didn’t even know Him.”
Hoffman had recently moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, at the time and was working hard to find success — something he discovered after getting into real estate in 2005.
By 2008, business was booming, and then the economic crash hit him hard. Plus, Hoffman had a one-year marriage before his ex-wife left him.
“The money dried up and there was no faith foundation, and so we went separate ways,” Hoffman said.
One night, though, he felt a voice speak to him and that message changed everything.
“So, one day, I’m meeting with a dear friend … who loves the Lord, and the night before, I heard God say to me — I didn’t know it was God yet — but I heard an audible voice say, ‘You’ve trotted your way for almost 30 years. Give me a chance,’” Hoffman said. “And the next day, I went to lunch with a dear friend. And he said, ‘David, you’ve tried your way for almost 30 years. You look tired. Give it to God. Give Him a chance.’ And this same friend had taken me to church two days earlier.”
At that lunch in 2009, Hoffman realized how tired he was and how much he needed the Lord. Erupting in tears, he admitted his need for God, and his journey with the Lord commenced.
“That Tuesday afternoon I said, ‘I’m tired. I’m just tired, God. … I’ve tried it my way long enough. I’m just going to give it to you,’” Hoffman recalled. “The next day, I met my wife.”
From then on, the puzzle pieces started to come together. Now, Hoffman sees how it all connected for God to work good in his life.
“God makes no mistakes,” he said. “I just point to Jeremiah 29: 11 — ‘He has a plan for us and for us to prosper.’ And it’s not always on our time.”
Today, he’s focusing his attention on his blessings, and he hopes “Relationships Over Rules” helps people discover God’s plans for their lives.
“I want to encourage people that their past does not define His plan and purpose of their life or their potential,” Hoffman said. “And that adversity they faced last night or 30 years ago … that is actually providing a unique perspective that only they have to really be grateful to see all that God is doing [in] their life.”
Sources:faithwire
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