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Open Doors Australia
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Frenchs Forest NSW 2086

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for persecuted Christians

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My donation to help where needed most $
For more than 60 years, Open Doors, Driving a small
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an evangelical Christian ministry, Volkswagen
Women

Provide job training for a persecuted widow Qty x $47 = $ has ministered to the persecuted Beetle, Brother
Provide abuse recovery program for persecuted women Qty x $30 = $ church in some of the most dangerous Andrew
Gift of Hope Plus! Help ten abused or marginalised Christian sisters Qty x $300 = $ regions in the world. smuggled
In cooperation with local Christians on the front shipments of
Provide a Christian convert their first Bible Qty x $6 = $
lines of the spiritual battle, Open Doors provides Bibles and other
Bibles

Give a youth Bible Qty x $5 = $

Bibles, theological books, hymnals, training and literature across
Give a children's Bible Qty x $5 = $
other resources for believers who are persecuted closed borders,
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for their faith. Our commitment is to go in person
to our fellow believers to encourage them Brother Andrew
earning him the
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catalogue 2010/11
Gift of Hope Plus! Provide all 5 Bibles! Qty x $57 = $ whenever possible. And our work is rooted and “God’s Smuggler.”
Provide 1 child with room, board and education for 1 day Qty x $17 = $
grounded in prayer.

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Today, Open Doors helps strengthen the faith of
Children

Open Doors was founded in 1955 by a young

Bringing where faith costs the most...
Provide 1 child with room, board and education for 1 month Qty x $544 = $
Dutchman named Brother Andrew to encourage persecuted Christians in 60 countries across Africa,
Provide 1 child with room, board and education for 1 year Qty x $6,530 = $
Provide Sunday school materials Qty x $16 = $ Christians who were suffering behind the East Asia, Latin America and the Muslim world.
Gift of Hope Plus! Sunday School materials + teacher training Qty x $141 = $ communist Iron Curtain. The ministry in Australia is led by Pastor Nigel
Rooke.
Send an orphaned child to school for 1 month Qty x $35 = $
Send an orphaned child to school for 1 year Qty x $441 = $

Provide 1 bag of fertiliser Qty x $27 = $

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Provide on-the-air discipleship training Qty x $65 = $

thank you!
Support a secret church Qty x $190 = $

Provide a pastor a 1-week training course Qty x $42 = $

Send 1 believer to a 'Standing Strong Through The Storm' course Qty x $87 = $
Provide discipleship training Qty x $234 = $
Gift of Hope Plus! Provide discipleship training for 3 church leaders Qty x $702 = $
Provide 1 chair for a Southern Sudanese Training Centre Qty x $11 = $
Provide 1 table for a Southern Sudanese Training Centre Qty x $38 = $
Provide 1 dormitory bed for a Southern Sudanese Training Centre Qty x $44 = $
Complete 1 dormitory for a Southern Sudanese Training Centre Qty x $48,356 = $
Complete a share of a dormitory in Southern Sudan Qty x $483 = $
Complete 1 seminary for a Southern Sudanese Training Centre Qty x $46,800 = $
Complete a share of a seminary in Southern Sudan Qty x $468 = $ I love my new Bible. I read it
Provide a hospital visit for one person Qty x $15 = $
to my classmates at school,
Medical
+ Literacy

Give 1 family medical care for 1 year Qty x $1,450 = $ and now they all want one too!
Gift of Hope Plus! Reach a Muslim community Qty x $21,768 = $ Aza, Nigeria
Teach a believer to read Qty x $160 = $
Gift of Hope Plus! Teach a believer to read + give a bible Qty x $165 = $
Each gift from this catalogue represents a contribution to a specific project.
Should any project become fully funded, we will apply your gift where the need is greatest. TOTAL $
Open Doors Australia
PO Box 6237
I am giving my gift(s) on behalf of a friend/ loved one. Please send me _______ Gift Cards. Frenchs Forest NSW 2086
www.opendoors.org.au
Please see reverse side to complete your reply form.
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How to use
this catalogue
Dear Friend of the Persecuted Church,
NEW THIS YEAR!

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plus!
Give a Gift of Hope Plus! and
make your gift to a persecuted
Christian go even further!

You’re holding a very powerful tool in your hands—the 2010-2011 Gifts of Hope Catalogue from
women
support

of the persecuted church

Women

"Encourage the oppressed, defend the

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Open Doors. fatherless, plead the case of the widow."
$ Isaiah 1:17
Each gift in this year’s catalogue has been carefully chosen to help you both strengthen and give
hope to persecuted Christians around the world… to give them the support they so desperately Provide job training for
need as they seek to advance the gospel in places where faith costs the most!
a persecuted widow
From providing a Muslim convert their first Bible to sending a child to school whose
parents have been martyred for their faith, your gift can make a very real difference!
In areas hostile to the gospel, women are marginalised…
As you read the pages of this catalogue… I would ask you to do the following four and Christian women have very little hope when
things: their husbands are martyred. Through Open Doors'
1 . Pray. Ask God how He wants you to bring hope to a suffering Christian. vocational training, many women like Grace are learning
a trade, such as sewing, and are able to support their
2. Review each gift. Each gift illustrates a current and pressing need families. “As I am learning a job, I feel that my sadness is
within the persecuted church*. And because of Open Doors’ extensive disappearing,” says Grace. “Now I am going to be able to
ministry network and experience, you can be assured that each gift will make a living! Thank you for your support.”
impact the life of a suffering Christian.
Your gift will help provide job training for a
3. Give generously. Once you have selected your gift(s), persecuted widow so she can support her family.
please complete and return the attached reply form, visit us at

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www.opendoors.org.au, or call us on (02) 9451 2999.
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4. Keep praying! Pray that God will use your gift to bring each
believer the hope they need, and that their emboldened faith will Provide abuse recovery
advance the gospel. program for persecuted women
So I pray you’ll use this catalogue to give the gift of hope to a
persecuted believer who needs it. And as you do, pray with me
Gabi, a 14-year-old Christian girl from the
that God would provide our fellow believers the spiritual courage
Middle East, was kidnapped and raped
they need to stand strong… and that as they are emboldened in
by five Muslim men after her father
their faith, many of their persecutors will come to know Jesus as
refused to allow one of the men to
Saviour.
marry her. When she was found, Gabi
God bless you for giving generously! was traumatised. She wouldn’t speak to
anyone and continues to struggle today.
“This incident has ruined the life of an
innocent child,” said Gabi’s pastor. Gabi’s

Pastor Nigel Rooke

CEO, Open Doors Australia
situation is just one of so many where
Christian women are either abused or
suffer severe discrimination.
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plus!
$
300
Your special gift today will help
*Each gift represents a contribution to a specific project. Should any project
more young women like Gabi find Help ten abused or
become fully funded, we will apply your gift where the need is greatest.
inner healing and hope. marginalised Christian
sisters
Please call our office at (02) 9451 2999 if you have any questions about the gifts in this
year’s Gifts of Hope Catalogue. And thanks again for giving the priceless gift of hope to
a suffering believer! Call (02) 9451 2999 Visit www.opendoors.org.au
Some photos may be representative in order to protect identity.
Bibles
Bible
give a
Sending Bibles to persecuted believers
has been a core ministry of Open Doors
since 1955. Why? Because Bibles are the
one thing suffering believers of all ages
urgently plead for to give them hope—
and strength—in the midst of persecution.
You can help strengthen the spiritual life
of a persecuted Christian by providing
them the power of God’s Word.
Liu was fascinated by what she thought was
I am happy because before I had no
Bible. But now I have one to read and
understand the Word of God.
Issac, Nigeria
$
Provide a Christian
convert their first Bible
In a small Muslim village, Haala stood in line
waiting anxiously to see the Christian doctor.
Behind her veil she hid a nervous smile, not
because she was sick… she wasn’t. She went to
see the Christian doctor because she had seen a
vision of Jesus and knew the doctor could give her
the one thing she now desperately needed. A Bible.
Give a new convert their first copy of
God’s Word.
5
$
Give a youth Bible
a magazine. She was delighted to discover
that it was actually a Bible… and the more
she read it, the more she felt the love of
God. As Liu says, “I’ve read the whole youth
Bible. I think this book is like God telling
me a love story.” Across China there is an
unprecedented opportunity to reach
young people like Liu with the gospel,
and you can help reach them through this
magazine-style youth Bible which features
short articles and pictures.
Give Chinese teenagers like Liu a youth I think this is like God
Bible so they can learn of God’s love
for them! telling me a love story.
Liu, China
Call (02) 9451 2999 Visit www.opendoors.org.au
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5 $
32 Give an MP3 Bible
Give a children's Bible
Like many people in his remote minority
group in China, Jing didn’t know how to
Living in Vietnam's communist read or write. This meant his community of
and atheist culture, Chi is told that believers couldn’t study God’s Word. That’s
God doesn't exist and her family why he was so overjoyed when Open Doors
suffers under severe repression. delivered 20 MP3 players preloaded with a
But after receiving an Open Doors recording of the Bible to his village. As Jing
children's Bible, Chi was given shared, “They will be extremely helpful for
the truth she needs to protect the people in my village because many of us
her from the many attacks on her cannot read Chinese.”
young, vulnerable life!
Help more illiterate believers like Jing
Your gift of a children’s Bible for study God’s Word for themselves through
kids like Chi will help ground your gift today!
a new generation of young
believers in God’s truth.

Provide a study Bible

$
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plus!
Li is a rural house church leader in China and was gravely
concerned about how to keep his church from being
deceived by cults. But after receiving a study Bible from
Open Doors, Li is praising God. As he says, “In the past, I
didn’t know how to distinguish biblical truth from heresy.
But after having a study Bible, I can encounter God's truth

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in His teachings.”
Your gift of a study Bible will help a house church $
leader become grounded in his faith and help
protect his church from heresy. Provide all 5 Bibles!

Call (02) 9451 2999 Visit www.opendoors.org.au

Children

children
$
16 Provide Sunday school
materials
protect & "Little Lu" lived in a remote area in China. His
family was poor and he was raised by a disabled
support grandparent and was known as one of the
"worst" boys in school. But the opportunity to
attend a Sunday school sponsored by Open
Doors changed him. Not only did he come to
know Christ as his Saviour, he is making better
choices.

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141 $ school materials for children as well as vital

of the persecuted church plus!
training for teachers.

Sunday School materials

Children are the most vulnerable + teacher training
members of the persecuted church.
They are in constant danger of being
abducted or abused, and their faith is
tender and needs proper grounding
in God’s Word.
Provide room,
board and Send an
education orphaned
child to
school
When 10-year-old Diego
arrived at the Open Doors
Children's Centre in Colombia,
he was traumatised from
When Nankpak and Nantur’s father and mother were
having witnessed his father's
brutally martyred for their faith, not only did the boys lose
brutal murder. But after two
their parents, they lost any hope for the future. But Open

17 for 1 day
years of being loved and cared $ Doors was there to ensure these precious children could
for in the centre, Diego came
continue to go to school.
to trust God and said, "I like to
You can provide orphaned children like Nankpak and
544 for 1 month
pray now. It's good to do it." $ Nantur hope for the future.
Help protect Diego and other
children of the persecuted
church by supporting the
Open Doors Children’s Centre
$
6,530 for 1 year
$
35 for 1 month
in Colombia. $
441 for 1 year

Call (02) 9451 2999 Visit www.opendoors.org.au

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Secret Believers
Provide 1 bag of fertiliser
$
27
support Farmers like Joshua have suffered at the
hands of the Muslim majority in their village.
They have even been denied fertilser for their
farms. Open Doors recently provided Joshua
with the fertiliser he needed, and now he
is able to support himself and his family.

believers
A “secret believer” is a persecuted Christian whose life is under constant
threat for following Jesus. Most often a secret believer is from a Muslim
background and has been disowned, attacked or threatened by family,
friends or even the local government. Secret believers have unique
“We are able to use the fertiliser given to us
and it has been a source of great blessing.
The harvest was bountiful and we were able
to pay our children’s school fees.”
Your gift will help provide practical
assistance to help sustain secret believers.

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED.

needs that can be met through the help of Open Doors. $
65 Provide on-the-air
ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED. discipleship training

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED. One evening Omar came across a program that presented
the gospel. His heart was moved and he decided to turn

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED. from Islam to follow Christ. Omar says, “I found the Lord
Jesus Christ and that changed my life.” But as a Muslim-

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED.

background believer, Omar is alone, cut off and isolated,
so how can he now grow in his new faith? That’s where
Open Doors’ radio program plays such a key role, discipling

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED. secret believers like Omar.

Your gift will help sustain our on-the-air

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED.

discipleship training program for secret believers
like Omar.

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED. $

190 Support a secret church
ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED.
ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED. In one country extremely hostile to the gospel, an increasing number of Muslims are
miraculously turning to Christ after the Holy Spirit speaks to them in dreams and visions.
Yet when they accept Him, they face many challenges. In response, Open Doors is

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED. helping to establish secret churches that train, care for and support new believers.
One Muslim convert named “Brother John” shared, “We wish to be faithful to our calling,

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED. but this is very difficult…. We need strength to endure.”
Through your support, you will help Open Doors establish and support a

ALONE.
ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED.
ISOLATED. PERSECUTED.
secret church for one year, giving it the strength to endure.

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED. Call (02) 9451 2999 Visit www.opendoors.org.au

ALONE. ISOLATED. PERSECUTED.
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87

training
Send 1 believer to a 'Standing
Strong Through The Storm' course
make In India, believers like Ranjana face some of the worst

secret believer persecution in the world. Their houses are being burned
and many are being killed. To strengthen her faith,
Ranjana recently attended a “Standing Strong Through
the Storm” seminar conducted by Open Doors. After the
seminar Ranjana shared, “In this time of tribulation and
persecution we were all very sad and afraid, but due to
this seminar we were strengthened from within….
[You have] prepared us to face the challenges
of persecution.”
Strengthen believers like Ranjana facing intense
persecution by sending them to an SSTS seminar.

possible
Persecuted believers hunger to know the Word of God and are
$
234 Where Fadil lives, he faces the dangers of pirates,
kidnapping and the hatred of the tribes around him that
are hostile to the gospel. His life is constantly threatened,
willing to risk their lives to learn it. That’s why Open Doors has Provide discipleship yet he is desperate to help his persecuted brothers and
sisters grow in their faith. That’s when he was invited to
an extensive underground Bible training system in places where training attend a discipleship training program through Open
faith costs the most! Doors. “During this seminar I realised that I need to be
trained first, before training others into disciples.”
Your gift will help a Muslim-background church leader
like Fadil attend a discipleship and training seminar.
$
42
Provide a pastor a
1 week training course

As a pastor, Jin was struggling to effectively

lead his church. That’s when he attended
an Open Doors pastoral training course. Jin
shares, “I participated along with seven of

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my lay leaders. After the course, we divided
ourselves into 4 teams and went out to visit $

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20 families and share the gospel with them.
Through the Holy Spirit’s work, 18 of these
families have already accepted the Lord as
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their personal Saviour.” training for 3 church
Help train other pastors to strengthen plus! leaders
their churches and advance the gospel
through your gift today.

Call (02) 9451 2999 Visit www.opendoors.org.au

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training
help build
regional Sam knows just how bad it has been for his students. Many suffered in
the Civil War launched by the Islamic government.
“We remember when the bombs fell all around. The place was a ruin. But
the church grew rapidly during the war and now we have to build up the
faith of these new believers.”
With the rapid growth of the church in Sudan… and the ongoing
persecution at the hands of Muslim extremists… the need for pastoral
training in Sudan is immense. But there are not enough facilities in which
to hold this important training.

centres It is vital we construct a series of new training centres across Southern

Sudan to help make the training program more effective and to build the

in Southern Sudan next generation of Christian leaders.

Your gift can help complete the construction of Open Doors’ new
training centres, equip them… or both… so that the persecuted,
but growing church in Sudan can be strengthened in its faith.

Furnishings
11
$
provides 1 chair (480 needed)
$
38 provides 1 table (480 needed)
$
44 provides 1 dormitory bed (45 needed)

Construction
$
48,356 completes 1 dormitory (3 needed)
$
483 completes a share of 1 dormitory
$
46,800 completes 1 seminary (6 needed)
$
468 completes a share of 1 seminary

The place was a ruin. But the church grew rapidly

during the war and now we have to build up the
faith of these new believers.
Sam, Southern Sudan

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Medical
provide
$
21,768
Reach a Muslim community

care to Muslim-background
believers
In countries across the Muslim world, one of the ways Muslim-
background believers are forced to suffer for following Christ is

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to be denied medical care—as was the case for Pastor Matthew.
$ But after visiting an Open Doors-sponsored clinic, he received
the medical help he so badly needed. “I thank God I received the
attention I needed. I live five hours from here and when I come
to the hospital, most of the time I do not get attention from the
Provide a hospital doctor[s]… Today I received that and more.”
visit for one person Give Muslim-background believers like Pastor Matthew access
to quality health care through your gift today.

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across the Muslim world is the need for even basic
medical care. When Open Doors has been able to build
a clinic in one of these villages, it becomes a powerful
plus! witness to the love of Christ. As one believer said, “The
clinic you built for us has become… a great opportunity
to reach out to [Muslims] with the message of the gospel.”
Your gift can help our persecuted fellow believers
use these medical clinics to reach out to the Muslim
community that has no other source for medical care.

1,450
The clinic you built for us has
$ become... a great opportunity to
Give 1 family medical reach out to [Muslims] with the
care for 1 year message of the gospel.
Pastor Matthew

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payment
provide the
$
160 Teach a believer to read
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program! Today, Shamoun is not only able to read his Bible and grow in his
faith, but to share his faith with his Muslim friends. “God is using this literacy Address
program to shine His light into the darkness,” Shamoun says.
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Please note that due to the strong Australian
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at the time of publishing, this has resulted in a
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with extra meaning
Celebrate a special occasion this year with a gift from
the Open Doors Gifts of Hope catalogue!
Giving a Gift of Hope to honour someone you love this
Christmas or on their birthday or anniversary is a wonderful
way to benefit two people with one gift. Please check the
box on the other side of this reply form so you can show
people who matter in your life… here at home and in
persecuted communities around the world… just how
much you care!