Prisoners of Hope
They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places. New International Version Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you. New Living Translation Come back to the place of safety, all you prisoners who still have hope!
I promise this very day that I will repay two blessings for each of your troubles. English Standard Version Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double. Berean Study Bible Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double. King James Bible Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: Contemporary English Version and offer you hope. Return to your fortress, because today I will reward you with twice what you had.
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Good News Translation Return, you exiles who now have hope; return to your place of safety. Now I tell you that I will repay you twice over with blessing for all you have suffered. Holman Christian Standard Bible Return to a stronghold, you prisoners who have hope; today I declare that I will restore double to you. International Standard Version Return to your fortress, you prisoners who have hope.
Even today I am telling you: In return I will repay you double. NET Bible Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you. New Heart English Bible Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope.
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They find ways to overcome even the most tremendous obstacles. Of the experience, they stated, "It was really privilege and honor to see the president, to be able to visit the Oval Office, and then to be able to stand with him out in the rose garden. Heather Mercer and Dana Curry decided to go to help people who needed help.
Their faith led them to Afghanistan.
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One woman who knows them best put it this way: They had a calling to serve the poorest of the poor, and Afghanistan is where that calling took them. And Heather and Dana's faith in God sustained them throughout their ordeal. It's a wonderful story about prayer, about a faith that can sustain people in good times and in bad times. Their faith was a source of hope that kept them from becoming discouraged.
I talked to them right after their release, their freedom, and I sensed no bitterness in their voice, no fatigue, just joy. It was an uplifting experience for me to talk to these courageous souls. Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer made a number of national appearances on television programs such as Larry King Live and the Today Show encouraging others to become active in foreign missions and aid work. Mercer's mother Deb Oddy, who had opposed her daughter's decision to go to Afghanistan from the beginning, began to publicly denounce the mission in the days that followed the prisoners' release.
They responded that that was not the case and later divulged that one of their primary reasons for writing Prisoners of Hope was to allow the American public to have an accurate account of what had happened. Heather Mercer founded Global Hope in , a nonprofit organization that serves in Iraq. While working in Iraq, she married Mohanad, a Kurdish Christian from the region. Morgan of Christianity Today.
During the interview, she reiterated that she does not regret her decision to go to Afghanistan and stated that everyone involved in the hostage crisis continues their work in relief aid. A Publishers Weekly review stated that the book's divided perspective between Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry made it difficult to follow but that the story remained compelling. It concluded, "Especially heartbreaking are the stories of all the Afghan families who were relying on the women for life-saving support and who were abruptly cut off at the time of their arrest.
Perhaps most powerful is the honesty with which Mercer discusses her spiritual difficulties in captivity.
This is not the story of larger-than-life heroines whose faith never wavers in the face of persecution; readers are allowed glimpses into Mercer's very real despair and the rift it caused in the group of prisoners. This gritty sense of the real life of ordinary, believing Americans keeps the pages turning. A documentary film entitled Kabul 24 details the imprisonment of the aid workers, the ransacking of the SNI offices, the dismal conditions of the detainees, the torture of the 16 Afghan prisoners, and the eventual rescue of the hostages.
In it, he says, "It is the rare person willing to make the unqualified sacrifice who changes the world Eight anonymous people were suddenly thrust upon the world stage, reluctant players in a life and death struggle between good and evil. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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I had no experience to qualify me—only average talents and abilities. In prayer I felt God ask me if I could do three things: Can you love your neighbor? Can you serve the poor? Can you weep as I weep for poor and broken people? I came to see God didn't need someone with extraordinary gifts and achievements.
He just needed someone who could love, share her life, and feel for others as he did. He was looking for faithfulness, not fame. Retrieved August 25, Retrieved August 26, How the Taliban Failed to Break 8 Christians". Bush on Aid Workers and Policy on Cloning". Retrieved from " https: Pages to import images to Wikidata.