While I appreciate the United States being speculative and suspecting, I will be very happy if one of my heroes, Secretary General Kofi Annan is proven to be the honorable, careful and intelligent man I have always known him to be.

For those of you who don’t know Kofi Annan is the Secretary-General of the United Nations. A national of Ghana who is fluent in English, French and several African languages, he was appointed on 17 December by the General Assembly to serve a term of office from 1 January 1997 through 31 December 2001.Prior to his appointment, Mr. Annan served for thirty years as an international public servant in the United Nations. He will have been the U.N secretary general for 10 years in
December. Mr. Annan served as Under-Secretary-General for Peace-keeping Operations, and for a year before that, as Assistant Secretary-General for Peace-keeping Operations. In these positions, he helped to formulate new approaches to the complex uncertainties of a post-cold-war world.

This great mind is now being asked to resign due to speculation on the U.N. oil-for-food program, which is under investigation for corruption and mismanagement. Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and dozens of other countries have rallied to support beleaguered U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a U.S. senator called for his resignation - but the United States has stayed quiet. Three years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Annan is the target of escalating attacks in the United States.
The Minnesota Republican Sen. Norm Coleman who is leading one of five U.S. congressional investigations into the oil-for-food program, wrote in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal Annan should resign because "the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch.” Outside the United States, there is no clamor for Annan's resignation, and the secretary-general has been receiving letters and phone calls of support.

I can only ask for prayer concerning the situation and that the truth be known.

Some of this information is aken fromt he washington post.com and other sources. To know more about his go to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30649-2004Dec3.html?referrer=email

Shake the rim ( Missions in need of help)

The Pacific rim region is a very vast region that stretches from Japan to Australia.
Church planter evangelist Gerald Davis working with the International Mission Board
uses his media experience in Southeast Asia the worlds largest location of earthquakes to work to identify and promote the very diverse pacific rim to to southern baptists and other denominations. It has proven difficult because this is a high area of political problems, natural disasters and persecution where missionaries are not accepted and have even been thrown out of certain countries. The greatest problem is balancing the need for people to pray for these people and at the same time convince them to come and be missionaries in this place of great suffering. Currently the project struggles with identifiying itself and coming up with a logo and identity so that they can begin to promote this mission.
To learn more about the International Mission board visit: www.imb.org

Our very interactive world

Today we encounter a merging of the traditional form of evangelism and modern technology. Its about time that we catch up and I am proud that liberty is heading it up!

The "Internet Evangelism for the 21st Century" conference will be held at Liberty University Apiril 1-2, 2005. This conference expects to draw attendees from the 8,000 member residential student body as well as pastors and leaders from Central Virginia and beyond. LU's state of the art wireless campus is an ideal venue for IE-21st Century.

Please take a miniute and for more information visit http://ie-21stCentury.com and/or email Professor Daniel Henrich at mediastrategy@readmail.biz.