Operation Blessing is hard at work around the US and the world, delivering aid to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Here are some highlights from what’s been happening in the month of April – a huge “thank you” to Operation Blessing donors and CBN partners for making this possible:

You can give to Operation Blessing’s global aid efforts by clicking HERE.

•    *NEW* Week of 4/6 Hunger Strike Force able to bless 29 additional ministries with an average 1-2 pallets of product to help their pantry 

•    *NEW* Week of 4/6 Virginia Beach, VA. Rock Church receives additional food for Easter Sunday giveaway. 

•    *NEW * 4/9 Apopka, FL. Fire Dept. 500 N95 Masks, 36 Home Depot (THDF) Sanitizing Kits

•    *NEW* 4/9 Ocala, Florida. American Medical Response. 750 N95 Masks, 72 THDF Sanitizing Kits

•    *NEW* 4/9 Hillsborough County, Florida Sheriff’s Office. 750 N95 Masks, 36 THDF Sanitizing Kits

•    *NEW* 4/9 Tampa, Florida. USF Health South Tampa Center. 1000 N95 Masks, 72 THDF Sanitizing Kits

•    *ONGOING* – El Salvador now producing chlorine to distribute to government agencies. 

•    *ONGOING* OB Philippines is going to 20 hospitals to give away disposable head covers, shoe covers, gowns, masks, alcohol, gloves, bath soap, ferrous sulfate tablets and ascorbic acid tablets. Tracts and Bible verse postcards. With them is a pastor who prays for the hospital staff. So many medical staff are also now under quarantine. The prayers uplift the spirits of the frontliners.

•    *ONGOING* in Peru, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Guatemala, Kenya, Haiti – producing chlorine to distribute to government agencies.

•    *ONGOING* Hunger Strike Force is continuing to meet the needs of the (12) Hub pantry locations in the Hampton Roads area with additional food. (Now includes 40 additional partners nation-wide).

•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 6th Daytona, FL. Daytona Beach P.D. received 252 N95 masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits

•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 6th Volusia County, FL Sheriff’s Dept. 500 N95 Masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits

•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 6th Ormond Beach, Fl. P.D. received 500 N95 Masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits

•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 6th Ponce Inlet, FL. P.D. received 250 N95 Masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kit

•    *COMPLETED* Hunder Strike Force – Increased additional food giving from our 12 local hub locations to include an additional 40 Food to Freedom ministry partners nation-wide. Between all ministry partners we work with, 5,000 bags of food supplies were distributed this week. (3/30)
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 3 – Guatemala. Delivered chlorine to government officials, partnered with United Way to provide 900 bags of food supplies in 5 schools for families in need.
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 1 – Guatemala. Delivered Chlorine to the President of Guatemala and the government.
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 2 – Bristol, VA P.D.. 500 N95 Masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits.
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 2 – Chesapeake, VA. Chesapeake General Hospital. 1,000 N95 Masks
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 2 – Chesapeake, VA. Bon Secours. 1000 N95 Masks
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 2 – Consolidated City of Jacksonville. 9,504 N95 Masks and 396 THDF Sanitizing Kits
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 2 – Orlando, FL. Fire Department. 1,056 N95 Masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 2 – Orlando, FL. P.D. 1,056 N95 Masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 2 – Alachua County, FL. P.D. 528 N95 Masks. 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 2 – Tampa, FL P.D.. 768 N95 Masks and 72 THDF Sanitizing Kits
 
•    *COMPETED* Apr. 1 – Denton County, TX Emergency Management – 750 N95 Masks and 72 THDF Sanitizing Kits.
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 1 – Tarrant County, TX Fire Marshal. 500 N95 Masks and 72 THDF Sanitizing Kits.
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 1 – Kingsport, VA P.D.. 500 N95 Masks and 72 THDF Sanitizing Kits
 
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 1 – Bristol, VA Sheriff’s Dept.. 500 N95 Masks 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits.
  
•    *COMPLETED* Apr. 1 – Florida Dept. of Health in Alachua County. 500 N95 Masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits.
 
•    *COMPLETED* April 1st, Sullivan County Tennessee Sheriff’s office picked up 1000 N95 masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits.

•    *COMPLETED* April 1st, Bristol Tennessee P.D. picked up 1000 N95 masks and 1 pallet of THDF Sanitizing Kits.
 
You can give to Operation Blessing’s global aid efforts by clicking HERE.

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A new wave of locusts is threatening Africa with devastation and starvation, even as the COVID-19 pandemic undermines efforts to fight the locust plague.
 
Parts of the continent already experienced the biggest locust outbreak in 70 years, just weeks before the coronavirus hit. Now a second wave is on its way, with some locust swarms 20 times the size of the first.

Billions of young desert locusts are coming, threatening plants and crops. This second invasion includes more developed locusts known as “young adults,” which are especially voracious eaters.  

Some Africans view the locust swarms as more destructive than the coronavirus. And there are predictions that the locust plague might cause the coronavirus to spread even further as people band together, trying to fight off the swarms of locusts from eating all their food.

(PHOTO CREDIT: Sven Torfinn/FAO via AP)

“Everyone is talking about” the locusts, said Yoweri Aboket, a farmer in Uganda. “Once they land in your garden they do total destruction. Some people will even tell you that the locusts are more destructive than the coronavirus. There are even some who don’t believe that the virus will reach here.”

Gardens with essential crops like cassava are in grave danger across Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Tanzania and Congo.

“The current situation in East Africa remains extremely alarming,” a new UN Food and Agriculture Organization assessment said. “An increasing number of new swarms are forming in Kenya, southern Ethiopia and Somalia.” 

The Nairobi-based Climate Prediction and Application Center said the locusts are “invading the Eastern Africa region in exceptionally large swarms like never seen before.” 

(PHOTO CREDIT: Sven Torfinn/FAO via AP)

Meanwhile, coronavirus-related travel restrictions around the world are preventing the importation and delivery of urgently needed pesticides in some areas.

“I think, unfortunately, because of other things going on around the world, people are forgetting about the problem with the locusts. But it’s a very, very real problem,” farmer George Dodds told the FAO. 
 
In Ethiopia, six million lives are at risk as the locust outbreak threatens to cause “large-scale crop, pasture and forest-cover loss, worsening food and feed insecurity,” according to the FAO. 

And Ethiopia’s agriculture ministry says the problem is worsening as the locust swarms are now appearing in locations where they had not been previously sighted.

This story compiled from Associated Press material.
 
 

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Welcome to the How to Stay the Coronavirus Plague Briefing Podcast #19. My name is Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International.

Joshua 22:17 says, “Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,”

Matthew Henry said, “It is good to recollect and improve those instances of the wrath of God, revealed from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, which have fallen out in our own time, and which we ourselves have been eye-witnesses of. He reminds them of the iniquity of Peor, As a very great sin, and very provoking to God. The building of this altar seemed but a small matter, but it might lead to an iniquity as bad as that of Peor, and therefore must be crushed in its first rise. Note, The remembrance of great sins committed formerly should engage us to stand upon our guard against the least occasions and beginnings of sin; for the way of sin is down-hill. “There was a plague in the congregation of the Lord, of which, in one day, there died no fewer than 24,000; was not that enough for ever to warn you against idolatry? What! will you bring upon yourselves another plague? Are you so mad upon an idolatrous altar that you will run yourselves thus upon the sword’s point of God’s judgments? It is a foolish and dangerous thing for people to think their former sins little, too little for them, as those do who add sin to sin, and so treasure up wrath against the day of wrath. Let therefore the time past suffice.”

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Leonard Ravenhill said, “There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.”

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According to Johns Hopkins University The novel coronavirus has infected more than 1.5 million people worldwide.

According to Bloomberg New York City reported a record 824 deaths from the coronavirus in 24 hours, a reminder that the health crisis in the largest U.S. city is far from over.

According to the Hill COVID-19, which is caused by the coronavirus that is spreading across the globe, is now the deadliest disease in the U.S., with more deaths per day than cancer or heart disease.

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John 4:23 says, “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.”

Jason Helopoulos said, Family worship Binds the Family Together. In our fast-moving society there are few things that a family does together daily. Even eating a meal together these days seems like a feat. What if your family gathered together daily? And what if that gathering was for worship? It would become the most important and central aspect of its life. Your entire family will come to the realization that no matter what else we do or don’t do, the most important thing that marks us as a family is that we are a worshiping family submitted to Christ. And that bond is an eternal one that strengthens the family in all its other endeavors.”

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Now, if you are with us today and you do not know Jesus Christ as your Savior, allow me to show you how you can place your faith and trust in Him for Salvation from sin and Hell.

First, please understand that you are a sinner and that you have broken God’s laws. The Bible says in Romans 3:23: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Please understand that because of your sins, you deserve punishment in hell. Romans 6:23 says “the wages of sin is death…” This is both physical death and spiritual death in hell.

But here is the good news. John 3:16 reads, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

The phrase “For God so loved the world” means that if you are in this world, God loves you no matter what you have done.

The next phrase, “that He gave His only begotten Son” refers to Jesus Christ. He is God’s son who suffered, bled, and died on the cross for your sins and for mine, and He was buried and rose again.

Our next phrase is “that whosoever believeth in Him”. The word “whosoever” means anybody at anytime. The phrase “believeth in Him” means to trust in Him, to depend upon Him, to rely on Him, or to have faith in Him for your salvation.

Our next phrase, “should not perish”, refers to eternal punishment in a place called hell.

And, lastly, the phrase “but have everlasting life” means to live eternally in Heaven with God.

The Bible also says in Romans 10:9 and 13: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Dear friend, if you are willing to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, please pray with me this simple prayer: Heavenly Father, I realize that I am a sinner and that I have done some bad things in my life. For Jesus Christ sake, please forgive me of my sins. I now believe with all of my heart that Jesus Christ died for me, was buried, and rose again. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life today. Amen.

If you believed in your heart that Jesus Christ died on the Cross, was buried, and rose again, allow me to say, congratulations on doing the most important thing in life and that is accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour! For more information to help you grow in your newfound faith in Christ, go to Gospel Light Society.com and read “What To Do After You Enter Through the Door”. Jesus Christ said in John 10:9, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”

If you accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior today, please email me at [email protected] and let us know. There is some free material that we want to send you. If you have a prayer request, please e-mail that to us as well, and we will pray for you until you tell us to stop.

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Inspired by a family in Georgia, a Christian movement to erect crosses decorated with Christmas lights during the pandemic has taken off nationally as a symbol of positivity and prayer.

As part of a grassroots initiative people are calling both Faith Over Fear and Faith Not Fear, lit-up crosses are appearing in front yards from Kentucky to Louisiana to Ohio. Local Facebook groups have sprung up in communities around the country for people to post photos of their crosses, with well over 20,000 members between them.

The movement sparked when Susan Polhill of Louisville, Georgia, decided to set up a cross at her home after hearing about families that set up Christmas lights to spread cheer in the neighborhood.

Polhill, who is giving away crosses made of bamboo and zip ties and encouraging people around the country to make their own crosses with whatever materials they have, said her project offers an alternative to Easter egg hunts, which may not take place this year due to stay-at-home orders.

It is also meant to show that prayer is the only solution to the pandemic, she said.

“We want anyone and everyone to join in,” Polhill told the Augusta Chronicle. “Through prayer, we come together as a community in faith, asking the Lord to heal our lands and give our leaders and medical people the knowledge they need. Dear Lord, hear our cries!” she said.

But the lit crosses have also drawn comparisons to the Klu Klux Klan’s burning crosses.

“The response I am getting from a lot of African Americans is, ‘how did they not see this looks like a burning cross?’” said Anthea Butler, associate professor of religious and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Christian families in the South often put lights on a cross alongside a nativity scene or other Christmas decorations in December. But minus that context, “this is something altogether different,” Butler said, noting that the lighted crosses reveal how differently black and white Christians see the world.

After conservative commentator Erick Erickson posted a photo of a lighted cross in his yard on social media, he dismissed viral pushback comparing the image to ones of KKK members lighting crosses on fire. Some critics had also suggested the image was particularly insensitive because it was posted on the date of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death.

“Thinking of adding more lights to the cross just to spite the trolls,” Erickson tweeted, later adding, “Wait till the people upset by my Christmas lights on the Easter cross find out what we Christians think will happen to them if they don’t accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.”

Source: Religion News Service

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