Christians See Conversion Opportunities in Disaster Relief

krsna · December 29, 2004

VIRGINIA, USA, December 28, 2004: The Christian website, Crosswalk.com,

published a long story about Christian relief efforts following the

tsunami ("source"). While the Christian charity exhibited by the rapid

response of Christian organizations is admirable, the ulterior motives

of conversion expressed by some are disturbing:

Some excerpts:

...."Doctor Ajith Fernando, who is considered by some to be the "Billy

Graham of Sri Lanka,' heads up the Youth for Christ (YFC) office there.

A long-time friend and partner of NDI, he wrote to Williams from Sri

Lanka: 'What a sad day this has been! We keep hearing of more and more

friends and loved ones of friends who have died or lost much of their

belongings. The death toll for Sri Lanka alone is over 10,000 and keeps

rising. We have prayed and wept for our nation for many years. The most

urgent of my prayers has always been that my people would turn to

Jesus. I pray that this terrible, terrible tragedy might be used by God

to break through into the lives of many of our people.' "

...."In the wake of this disaster, Gospel For Asia's 1.5 million-member

Believers Church in India is rallying support and deploying its

leadership and members to minister to those suffering both physically

and spiritually. 'In times like these, we know that God opens the

hearts of those who suffer, and we pray that as our workers demonstrate

God's love to them, many of them will come to know for the first time

that real security comes only through Him,' Gospel For Asia president

K.P. Yohannon said. He add, 'We ask that our brothers and sisters in

the West take the time today to pray for these millions of victims,

that they will feel God's presence and grace in a special way.' "

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