This week I was heavily inspired from my last post on Evangelizing: Persecution versus Freedom to search throughout the Internet to see what is being done about this problem and If other countries are trying to rectify this atrocity. I have found there are organizations out there trying to mobilize support through prayer, financial support, or through providing jobs for the people in that country.
My first website is called Open Doors. This website is dedicated to serving persecuted Christians worldwide through prayer, sending aid, and equipping them with inspirational resources to endure their current situation. The site provides a lot of information on how you can get involved in your own country by sending letters to your congress man/woman and to join in with current petitions that Open Doors is already doing. According to the Webbby Awards, this site does a great job of engaging the viewer in events around the world and inviting them to participate in a number of ways. The next website is an example of people in a persecuted country that try to do something for their own people and to increase their quality of life. This site is called Operation Nehemiah. This site is geared to provide current Sudanese who have been persecuted out of the country or who had their jobs taken away to be financially stable again and to be encourage that Christ can still be trusted in for salvation. Some other projects that Operation Nehemiah is trying to accomplish are: Bee Keeping, Brick and Tile Production Fund and Trumpet Call Radio in which shares the unhindered word of God in their own language. This site definitely gets the viewer involved in giving to specific projects that will help rebuild Sudan. The next site is a blog called Persecuted Church Weblog. This blog is focused on the persecution of Christians and providing viewers with a resource of where they can learn what is happening around the world and in United States as well. According to the Blog Evaluation Assessment, this blog does a great job in updating its events and news under the blog activity section and also has easy, but educated language where anyone with a fifth grade level education can read it. This next site is a site in which I am most found of because it has a wealth of information in the form of reports on video of where persecution is happening around the world too highlights of people who are changing their world for Jesus Christ. This site is called Persecution TV. This site even reaches the younger generation by having a Facebook group where they post videos and allow for people to converse and pray openly about topics that they were not aware of. Also the site has a section where you can download video reports and information to your ipod via pod cast. This site really does reach and incorporates all age groups to view and become spiritually involved with the website.
This next site is from Canada where the Voice of the Martyrs can be heard by viewers like you and me. This site is The Voice of the Martyrs in Canada. As the other sites, this site involves the viewer by encouraging them to remember the captives and shows the viewer how they can do so at the bottom of the page. This site also has the Persecution Report video where you can watch what is going on in another country and updates of captive Christians. Another site is called Chin Aid where their main purpose is to expose the suffering, encourage the believers and to equip the suffering through aid from the larger body of the Church of God. KLove News is another site is very interactive by providing uplifting and encouraging Christian music and educational elements to covey the gospel to millions of listeners. This site also has news that orientates the viewer to news in their own city and how legislature affects their current surroundings. This next site I stumbled across displays Christian History like no site I have ever seen before. The site is called Christian History Institute. It is an extensive site on Christian History from the first century too the twentieth century. It has articles from the most famous Christian thinkers' too interesting facts about today's date in relation to Christians who lived in the past. For instance, on this day, March 29, 1549, the Jesuit Manoel da Nobrega and his five companions stamped Brazil with a Catholic imprint that is still alive today in Brazil. This site even tells you who was born on your birthday in Christian History. Overall, this site is very informative, inspirational, interactive, and takes you back in time without leaving your keyboard.
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Religion strikes me as particularly interesting because it is a subject I personally find difficult to understand. Growing up in an agnostic environment and never developing a sense of faith, I am dependent on tangible realizations, empirical evidence, and scientific theory built from the former two. Anything beyond these borders is speculative and I do not commit to it or believe in it with pure certainty. For these reasons, religion escapes my grasps, but captures my imagination. The sites you listed are of superb quality and did just that. Specifically, both the Christian History Institute and the news articles on Open Doors enthralled my curiosities. Additionally, I liked that you provided pages offering different mediums of media such as radio and streaming feeds. It is important to demonstrate the vast power of the web and offer diverse sources to your audience. You did a wonderful job providing a "little something" for every type of reader, even a nonbeliever.
On to my humble suggestions. Though you did a great job describing the sites, I think if you added critical decompositions it would provide more guidance for the readers. For example, critiquing a web page's scope, functionality, and weakness helps deliver a better understanding of a site's suitability. Also, this should help create an organic structure as you transition from one "link" to the next. There is too much dependency on the phrase "this site" and grouping by subject, strengths, and weakness will allow for a less formulaic exposition. As a side note, I would like to comment on an area of your writing that I struggle with every time "I put pen to paper": the use of prepositions and past/present participles.
For example,
"This blog is focused on the persecution of Christians and providing viewers with a resource of where they can learn what is happening around the world and in United States as well."
can be rearranged to deliver your message more effectively.
This blog focuses on educating readers about persecuted Christians in the United States and around the world.
Though not perfect, I hope it exemplifies the potency of being direct. You will find that it is even more imperative to watch participles and prepositions in arguments. This use to be my biggest problem and I would spend hours rereading and rewriting my sentences, and I still do.
Anyways, I really enjoyed your links and I'll be looking forward to your next post.
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