“Today’s pictures are too awful to show. You know I love to show photos but the photo I was sent today was the most awful I have ever seen. A family of 8 all shot through the face laying in a pool of blood with their Bible open on the couch. They would not convert it cost them there life. This is Iraq today. The only hope and consolation is that all these dear people are now all with Yesua in Glory.” (Canon Andrew White, 4 August, Baghdad)

Thanks to everyone who came to the First Priority prayer meeting yesterday. We took a small collection which has been sent to the Barnabas Fund Iraq Emergency Appeal.

Let’s keep praying:

• Canon Andrew White’s blog
• Refuge for Iraqi Christians could play into Islamic State’s hands (DT)
• ISIS aims to eliminate Christian presence (BF)
• Iran and Iraq presentation for First Priority prayer meeting 7 Sept (pdf)