AFGHANISTAN: Have Faith and Not Fear

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🗓️ 22 June 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

After the attacks of 9/11, God called Werner and Hannelie Groenewald to go and share Jesus’ love in Afghanistan. Even some of their own family members said, ‘NO! God would never call you to take your children to Afghanistan!’

Inside the country, they served and loved the Afghan people in the name of Jesus. Hannelie, as a doctor, provided medical care. Werner worked in leadership development and humanitarian aid. Their work, and the fact that they served in the name of Jesus, did not go unnoticed by radical Muslims in Afghanistan.

In 2014, a Taliban attack on their home took the lives of Werner and the Groenewalds’ son and daughter, Jean-Pierre and Rodé. Hannelie was not home at the time of the attack, and her life was spared. Listen as she tells the story of God’s call to Afghanistan, and how God increased her faith even in the days and weeks before the attack, preparing her to endure faithfully a terrible loss.

You can watch online as the names of Hannelie’s family, Werner, Jean-Pierre and Rodé are added to The Martyrs Memorial on Day of the Christian Martyr, June 29th. You can find more information, and register to access the video of the ceremony, at www.Persecution.com/martyr.

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0:00.0	Hanalee Grunwald remembers getting called to the medical clinic where she served in Kabul, Afghanistan.
0:07.1	Administrators wanted to be well staffed in case of a terrorist attack during a United Nations meeting.
0:15.0	It wasn't my day to work at the clinic their day.
0:18.0	I usually worked on a Wednesday, but the Wednesday they called me
0:21.0	and they said, you know, we we suspect this going to be an attack in
0:24.3	COBOL on Saturday and we want you to be one of the medical staff
0:28.8	present during a UN meeting in one of the hotels.
0:33.0	And I did not realize that that attack was actually going to happen in our house that afternoon.
0:41.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
0:47.0	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:50.0	Jesus' words came true in the life of the Apostles, and they're still coming true today in the lives
0:55.7	of his followers around the world.
0:57.7	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. now on the voice of the martyrs radio
1:04.4	network. According to church tradition the apostle Paul was killed
1:07.7	outside the walls of Rome on June 29th. Beginning this year, we want Christians around the world to remember June 29th as the day of the Christian martyr.
1:20.0	One of the ways we're going to honor the example of the Martyrs here at the
1:23.4	voice of the Martyrs on this June 29th is to add the names of three people to
1:29.4	the Martyrs Memorial at our headquarters here in Bartelsale, Oklahoma. The Martyrs Memorial is a
1:35.1	black granite wall that's part of our headquarters building here and on the wall
1:39.6	are inscribed the names of men and women throughout history who gave their lives for the gospel
1:46.1	and for the cause of Christ.
1:48.2	It's a constant reminder to all of us here of the example of these great saints of the martyrs. On the day of the Christian martyr, we're going to add the names of Werner
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