The General Assembly of the Ibero American Institute of Cross Cultural Studies (IIbET) took place November 21-23 in Torrox Costa, province of Malaga, Spain. Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Girón was formally installed as its new executive director and charged with the responsibility of IIbET’s training ministry of Ibero-American missionaries working in the Muslim world.
In December we shared the gospel and the love of Christ with many who had not heard. Still others to whom we ministered have heard the gospel through other ministries but they need a sense of God’s affirmation and love. We were there to share in that blessing.
A reliable source has informed World Missions leadership of sobering news. Some 60 of our ministers were arrested recently, and a number of them have been sentenced to labor camp for a year of “education through labor” for preaching the Gospel in central China.
A San Diego pastor who successfully galvanized statewide support last fall to ban gay marriage in California says recent legal maneuvers by California Attorney General Jerry Brown aimed at overturning Proposition 8 are mostly motivated by political ambition.
