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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 06:47:33 -0600
Subject: [forum-iki] Front Page Washington Post: Missionaries Works
Group Says It Relocated 300 Orphans
Va. Missionaries Talk of Raising Muslim Tsunami
Victims in Christian Home
By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 13, 2005; Page A01
A Virginia-based missionary group said this week that
it has airlifted 300 "tsunami orphans" from the Muslim
province of Banda Aceh to Jakarta, the Indonesian
capital, where it plans to raise them in a Christian
children's home.
The missionary group, WorldHelp, is one of dozens of
Christian, Muslim and Jewish charities providing
humanitarian relief to victims of the Dec. 26
earthquake and tsunami that devastated countries
around the Indian Ocean, taking more than 150,000
lives.
Most of the religious charities do not attach any
conditions to their aid, and many of the larger ones
-- such as WorldVision, Catholic Relief Services and
Church World Service -- have policies against
proselytizing. But a few of the smaller groups have
been raising money among evangelical Christians by
presenting the tsunami emergency effort as a rare
opportunity to make converts in hard-to-reach areas.
"Normally, Banda Aceh is closed to foreigners and
closed to the gospel. But, because of this
catastrophe, our partners there are earning the right
to be heard and providing entrance for the gospel,"
WorldHelp said in an appeal for funds on its Web site
this week.
The appeal said WorldHelp was working with native-born
Christians in Indonesia who want to "plant Christian
principles as early as possible" in the 300 Muslim
children, all younger than 12, who lost their parents
in the tsunami.
"These children are homeless, destitute, traumatized,
orphaned, with nowhere to go, nowhere to sleep and
nothing to eat. If we can place them in a Christian
children's home, their faith in Christ could become
the foothold to reach the Aceh people," it said.
The Web site was changed, and the appeal was removed
yesterday after The Washington Post called to inquire
about it. The Rev. Vernon Brewer, president of
WorldHelp in Forest, Va., said in a telephone
interview the organization had collected about $70,000
in donations and was seeking to raise another $350,000
to build the orphanage.
Brewer said the Indonesian government gave permission
for the orphans to be flown to Jakarta last week and
was aware that they would be raised as Christians.
["We have no knowledge of this," Foreign Ministry
spokesman Marty Natalegawa said today in Jakarta. "If
confirmed, this would constitute a serious violation
of the standing ban by the Indonesian government on
the adoption of Acehnese children affected by the
tsunami disaster and appropriate steps would be taken
accordingly." He added that he did not believe any
Indonesian official would have approved the transfer
of the children.] "These are children who are
unclaimed or unwanted. We are not trying to rip them
apart from any existing family members and change
their culture and change their customs," Brewer said.
"These children are going to be raised in a Christian
environment. That's no guarantee they will choose to
be Christians."
Brewer, a Baptist minister, was the first person to
graduate from the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty
University in Lynchburg, Va., in 1971. He served as a
vice president of the Christian university before
founding WorldHelp in 1991. It has since grown to 100
full-time employees in the United States and helps to
support indigenous Christian missionaries in about 50
countries, he said.
Brewer said WorldHelp is an independent organization
but has a friendly, informal relationship with nearby
Liberty University, which held a fundraiser at a
basketball game Monday night to benefit WorldHelp's
tsunami relief projects.
"I think Vernon [Brewer] has got the right approach,"
Falwell said yesterday. "If Christian ministries can
earn the right to be heard -- you don't preach the
gospel to a hungry man, you feed him, then if he wants
to hear something you've got to say, that's nice, but
it's not required."
WorldHelp's primary partners in Indonesia, Brewer
said, are Henry and Roy Lanting, a father-son team who
run an orphanage and school near Jakarta. Roy Lanting
is also a graduate of Liberty University, Brewer said.
Efforts to reach the Lantings by telephone and e-mail
yesterday were unsuccessful.
"First and foremost, our intention is not to
evangelize but to show the love of Jesus Christ
through our acts of compassion," Brewer said. "We are
not using this open window of disaster to move in and
set up a beachhead for evangelism. That's not the
spirit of what we're trying to accomplish. . . ." The
Rev. Arthur B. Keys Jr., president of Arlington-based
International Relief and Development, a non-religious
aid group that has a U.S. government contract to
rebuild the water and sanitation system in Banda Aceh,
said he feared overt evangelizing could produce a
backlash. "I think there's a danger that all
international groups could be tarnished by this," said
Keys, an ordained minister in the United Church of
Christ. "I think we have to go out of our way to
assure people that we're there to help, period."
One missionary support group, Advancing Native
Missions based in Charlottesville, said it has raised
more than $100,000 to pay for distribution of food,
water and cooking utensils in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and
South India.
Its workers often hand out Bibles or other religious
tracts along with emergency supplies because disaster
victims naturally question the existence of God,
spokesman Oliver Asher said.
"It's easy to be an atheist when you have no crisis in
your life. But have a 50-foot tidal wave sweep your
family and village away, it makes you ponder the big
questions in life," he said.
Operation Mobilization USA, based in Tyrone, Ga., has
raised about $60,000 to address "both the physical and
the spiritual needs" of tsunami victims, according to
its vice president for resource development, Douglas
R. Barclay.
He said Operation Mobilization, founded in 1957,
supports about 3,700 missionaries in 110 countries and
moved quickly to provide water, food and medical
supplies after the tsunami hit. "In these situations,
we're not going to go out and blatantly preach to
them, we're just going to demonstrate God's love by
addressing their physical needs and sharing our
beliefs one on one," he said.
One of the largest and best-known evangelical
Christian relief groups is Samaritan's Purse of Boone,
N.C., which is headed by the Rev. Franklin Graham, son
of evangelist Billy Graham. It sparked international
controversy by openly mixing evangelization with its
relief work after Hurricane Mitch in Central America
in 1998 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq last year. But
it has made great efforts to be "sensitive to local
concerns" in areas hit by the tsunami, Franklin Graham
said.
Correspondent Alan Sipress in Jakarta contributed to
this report.
Sukseskan "Candlelight-Vigil" untuk mengenang tragedi tsunami dan mendoakan
para korban.
Tempat: Gedung KBRI Washington DC
Sabtu, 15 Januari 2005 jam 5-8 pm
Acara ini diprakarsai oleh Masyarakat Indonesia di Washington DC, dan terbuka
untuk seluruh kalangan masyarakat manapun yang peduli dengan tragedi tsunami.
Partisipasi seluruh lapisan masyarakat dengan membawa lilin dan karangan bunga
sangat diharapkan. Show that we care!
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