The Field is the World (Matt. 13:38)

Isn't it comforting to know that you're being prayed for? I know during Emily's recent Emergency Room visit dear friends in our hometown had contacted everyone they know and asked them to pray for Emily. When I learned that, it was real comfort in what could have been a desperate situation. Today (May 3, 2007) is National Day of Prayer, as well as Emily's 8th birthday. I want to ask anyone who might read this to pray for her, and drop me a line at sowers {at} thefieldistheworld {period} com, if you will. In case we haven't contacted you through e-mail or telephone, in case you haven't read our update in our prayer letter, or you need a summary, here's the situation: On Saturday, April 21, at about 12:30PM, Cindy was in line at a store with Emily and Luke, and Emily started telling Cindy she was tired and wanted to go home. That would have attracted no attention, except that Emily said it with a pronounced slur, like someone who needed speech therapy. We had ...

For those of you who thought the last book in the Bible, after the book of "Concordance," was called the book of "Maps," this might not be that interesting. http://www.openbible.info/ This site contains a Google Earth -compatible downloadable file which maps out every identifiable place found in the Bible...both Old and New Testaments. Ever wondered exactly how far Jonah was headed in the wrong direction when he took a ship bound for Tarshish after being told by God to go to Ninevah? Now you can map it out! (2717.15 miles!) Locate the seven churches in the Book of Revelation, Ai from the book of Joshua, the land of the Amelekites, Ammonites, Edomites, Midianites, Moabites, Jebusites, and Philistines, as well as the Valley of Jezreel, where the Battle of Armageddon will be staged. Because the Google Earth program has been constructed using satellite imagery, you get a very good impression of topography and surroundings; with the measurement tool, you can get a good...

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I've been going over the statistics for all of our sites in order to create a Google Earth Tour simulating typical results in an hour from Europe and Russia. (109, with 13 from Russia) It's astonishing to realize we got 4.7 million visitors to our websites last year. Every hour: 21 people from the UK 13 people from Russia 9 people from France 5 people from Austria 5 people from the Netherlands 5 people from Romania 4 people from Sweden 3 people from Greece 3 people from Poland 3 people from Hungary 3 people from Norway 3 people from Spain 2 people from Bulgaria 2 people from Belgium 2 people from Ireland 2 people from the Ukraine... ...and someone from: Croatia, Lithuania, Italy the Czech Republic, Latvia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Macedonia, Finland, and Malta... ...are exposed to the Gospel through GMO 's ministry.