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Picture Pictured: Gary Hill, Executive Director
The Unstoppable Edition When decades had passed, and Abram and Sarai hadn’t been able to have children, it seemed God’s plan of a mighty people had been thwarted.
attack, despite hardship, “the word of God continued to spread” (Acts 12:24).
We’ve seen that at CRU throughout 2020. The year When the Israelites had been trapped between the dawned with our views limited by bushfire smoke, advancing Egyptian army and the Red Sea, it looked and threats to life and property. COVID-19 brought like the journey had ended. lockdown, limits and loss of life. Yet God has continued When mighty Goliath mocked to provide, and His Word has the frightened army, it continued to change lives as Yet God has continued to provide, appeared that the battle the Spirit has worked. None and His Word has continued to was lost. change lives as the Spirit has worked. of this year’s events surprised God. We celebrate those When a beaten and battered things in this issue of CRUview, Jesus was nailed to a cross, including our Annual Report. and exhaled his last breath, it suggested that all hope was gone. I love the last two stanzas of Heidi Tai’s poem, Unstoppable: When Saul, with the backing of the Sanhedrin, launched a campaign to eradicate the fledgling church, Though our headlines shake and crumble, you might have thought it was all over. our Lord will build his church, saving his people from sin and death, Yet time and time again, the Bible’s pages show us that reviving stone hearts with flesh and rebirth. God is unstoppable. “Why do the nations rage and the people plot in vain…against the Lord and against his Though tomorrow may look uncertain Anointed One?” asks Psalm 2, quoted in the face of as first world idols continue to topple, persecution in Acts 4. We have Jesus’ promise that He let us anchor our souls in the word of God will build His church, and not even the strongest forces - unchained and unstoppable. can stand in the way of that (Matthew 16:18). Despite
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