Prayer Points for Into Integrity--Solidarity!

December 2019

Dear Friends and family,

We hope you are well! May this Advent season 2019 be a special time for you, listening to the Spirit and spending time with Jesus each day.

We are writing you with a request for prayer, for intercession, and for engaging in spiritual warfare. The Into Integrity FAST resumes (Part Two) from 6-26 December. This is a time of solemn, focused prayer and fasting. The purpose is to call attention to and confront the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at us.

Kelly will be fasting all 20 days and Michèle will fast a few days such as on International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December)  and  International Human Solidarity Day (20 December).  Join with us and others too!

For more information please see the Into Integrity weblog and the PETRA People weblog. You can also listen to the second podcast that Kelly did in June during Part One on Reasons for the FAST.

Suggestions for Prayer

Have a look at the core quotes below (page two) that we have used to call for integrity and confront corruption in the NCI fraud. You can use the content to stir up your prayers for us and for the people, leaders, and organizations affected by the NCI fraud and who can and need to help. The quotes could also be used to stir up prayer for other specific areas of interest and burden to you regarding integrity and corruption.

You can also join in prayer as you listen to the third podcast from June: Praying Good for People and Naming Names for Good. And finally, perhaps you may want to save this message in your email inbox and/or print it and put in a conspicuous place as a reminder for prayer. Feel free to contact us to share prayers and input!

Many thanks and warm greetings in our Lord,

Kelly and Michèle MCAresources@gmail.com

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Some Quotes to Stimulate Prayer
Into Integrity FAST (6-26 December 2019)

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord… Therefore love truth and peace.” (Zechariah 8:16,19, NASB)

“The purpose of the Into Integrity FAST is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michèle. Join with us in FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).” (K & M)

“The only thing necessary for corruption to flourish is to do nothing about it; or to do some non-efficacious and non-resolute ‘thing’ and then move on, often with our consciences placated and our livelihoods protected.” (Loving Truth and Peace: A Case Study in Family Resilience in Dealing with Mission/Aid Corruption, K & M)

“Corruption begets more corruption and fosters a corrosive culture of impunity.” Every year $1 trillion is paid in bribes while an estimated $2.6 trillion are stolen annually through corruption – a sum equivalent to more than 5 per cent of the global GDP…. “I call on leaders everywhere to listen, to nurture a culture of integrity and to empower citizens to do their part at the grass roots.” (quotes from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and International Anti-corruption Day)

"Bullies and predators prey on the defenseless. They count on victims being unable to protect themselves. More important, they count on everyone else being too afraid to confront them. I hate injustice, but I hate silence and apathy in the face of injustice even more. Far too often, bullies’ belief that no one will challenge them is both well-founded and devastating for the people they target. But it doesn’t have to be this way." (Rachel Denhollander, 2019; quoted in Principles for Fighting Corruption, M & K)

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”….. “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes)

“YWAM and other groups are only being challenged now because of the integrity and perseverance of the O’Donnells and those who have stood by them in these last difficult years.  The need for accountability and restitution in varying degrees clearly lies with YWAM, Le Rucher, WEA-MC, MC-E and involved churches [Youth With A Mission, Le Rucher, World Evangelical Alliance-Mission Commission, Member Care Europe...]. In authoritarian settings nearly everyone is too vulnerable to stand up to the power of the leaders—staff have limited rights and limited resources on which to rely.  The time has come for the truth to be known and justice to prevail, without which there can be no proper basis for organizational health and reconciliation.  For everyone involved it is not too late to act with integrity and seek redress, both publicly and privately.”  (Rand  Guebert, conclusion,  Integrated Executive Summary)

Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands." (Matthew 10: 26-28, The Message)