Tuesday afternoon:
Another day and another disturbing email about the extreme humanitarian crisis in northern Iraq. As our leaders in Washington, D.C. continue to talk about action, ISIS terrorists are killing more and more innocent victims. RUN Ministries president Eric Watt shared the heartbreaking details with me via email:
Dear Steve,
The situation in Iraq is so evil and dark that many have said that "it seems the world is ending soon." Hundreds of Yazidi children were brutally killed last week by the jihadists, and no one seems to take notice. Kalil and his wife were rescued by our teams, but he lost all four of his children. Kalil was so broken and emotional, while he shared his story with our workers at the "Community of Hope" refugee camps, that I want to ask you to please forward his story to your team members. Kalil said:
"We migrated because Islamic fighters were coming for all of our villages. We lived more than 50 miles from the nearest facilities, but were forced to walk and hide in the mountains of Sinjar. I knew that death was destroying other families, but I had no idea what would happen to our family. I gave them everything we had and begged them to release us. They beat us and tied our hands together so we could do nothing as they took our children away. Days later, I found our four children's bodies on the rocks of a nearby mountain. My nine-year-old daughter was raped and then badly killed."
With your help, we can help put an end to this evil. But we need your prayers and financial support today. --Eric
I can only imagine the pain that Kalil and his wife feel after losing their four children to these monsters. Their story is shocking and horrible -- and it should move all of us to take immediate action on their behalf.
+ + Will you stand with Iraqis who have lost everything, even loved ones, to ISIS violence?
So far, RUN Ministries volunteers have rescued7,000 Christians and other religious minorities in northern Iraq. But that number keeps rising as the need intensifies for food, water, shelter and protection from ISIS.
As I mentioned in yesterday's Grassfire update, the threat posed by ISIS in northern Iraq is still very real -- and deadly. More than one million Iraqi men, women and children have been forced from their homes. Terrorists have reported killed some 6,000 Iraqi civilians, while thousands of women and girls have been kidnapped, raped and forced into slavery.
Eric's team of volunteers is continually in harm's way too. Members of RUN's network of believers in the Middle East are literally risking their lives to continue their dangerous and lifesaving work.
Every donation, no matter how small, helps this ongoing rescue and relief effort. Thanks, in advance, for your support.
Steve Elliott, Grassfire
Another day and another disturbing email about the extreme humanitarian crisis in northern Iraq. As our leaders in Washington, D.C. continue to talk about action, ISIS terrorists are killing more and more innocent victims. RUN Ministries president Eric Watt shared the heartbreaking details with me via email:
Dear Steve,
The situation in Iraq is so evil and dark that many have said that "it seems the world is ending soon." Hundreds of Yazidi children were brutally killed last week by the jihadists, and no one seems to take notice. Kalil and his wife were rescued by our teams, but he lost all four of his children. Kalil was so broken and emotional, while he shared his story with our workers at the "Community of Hope" refugee camps, that I want to ask you to please forward his story to your team members. Kalil said:
"We migrated because Islamic fighters were coming for all of our villages. We lived more than 50 miles from the nearest facilities, but were forced to walk and hide in the mountains of Sinjar. I knew that death was destroying other families, but I had no idea what would happen to our family. I gave them everything we had and begged them to release us. They beat us and tied our hands together so we could do nothing as they took our children away. Days later, I found our four children's bodies on the rocks of a nearby mountain. My nine-year-old daughter was raped and then badly killed."
With your help, we can help put an end to this evil. But we need your prayers and financial support today. --Eric
I can only imagine the pain that Kalil and his wife feel after losing their four children to these monsters. Their story is shocking and horrible -- and it should move all of us to take immediate action on their behalf.
+ + Will you stand with Iraqis who have lost everything, even loved ones, to ISIS violence?
So far, RUN Ministries volunteers have rescued7,000 Christians and other religious minorities in northern Iraq. But that number keeps rising as the need intensifies for food, water, shelter and protection from ISIS.
As I mentioned in yesterday's Grassfire update, the threat posed by ISIS in northern Iraq is still very real -- and deadly. More than one million Iraqi men, women and children have been forced from their homes. Terrorists have reported killed some 6,000 Iraqi civilians, while thousands of women and girls have been kidnapped, raped and forced into slavery.
Eric's team of volunteers is continually in harm's way too. Members of RUN's network of believers in the Middle East are literally risking their lives to continue their dangerous and lifesaving work.
Every donation, no matter how small, helps this ongoing rescue and relief effort. Thanks, in advance, for your support.
Steve Elliott, Grassfire
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