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As we pray for the nation, the church & our fellow brothers & sisters, we want to make sure that we continue praying steadfastly every day for all those who need prayer. With this in mind, we want to continue praying for you. That's why we've put together "The Wall", our praying ministry. As ambassadors for Jesus Christ, it is our commitment to make sure the body of Christ is encouraged, empowered & equipped to stay strong in the faith & press on with hope in the journey, ...and prayer is a vital part of our charge. If you would like us to pray for you, please share your prayer request to us on "The Wall", which can be found at www.marshillnetwork.org/thewall. Your request will be sent to our prayer team, who will be faithfully praying for you. Your request will remain confidential to only our prayer team; however, we can post your prayer request on The Wall so other faithful followers of Jesus Christ can pray for you as well. More information on that can be found on "The Wall" We thank you for entrusting us with your prayer requests. Please know that we take each request seriously, and that as we pray, we entrust the Lord to answer your petitions according to His perfect will. Stay strong in Christ, & Press On with Hope in the Journey. #marshillnetwork #hopeinthejourney #thewall #powerinprayer #praydaily #stronginChristpressingon

#verseoftheweek #marshillnetwork #hopeinthejourney 1 Peter 2:24 "He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed."

Here are some pictures of yesterday's National Day of Prayer event at the Onondaga County Courthouse steps in downtown Syracuse sponsored by Christians for Syracuse. We also recorded video of the entire event & we will be reposting the NDP event from the courthouse steps here on our Facebook page, our YouTube channel & on our website. Stay tuned next week for more details. Thank you to everyone who came yesterday! Let's continue to keep the nation, the church & our fellow brothers & sisters in prayer #NationalDayOfPrayer #PrayForAmerica #PrayForTheChurch #powerinprayer (: Fasulo Photography)

#ICYMI Here's yesterday's National Day of Prayer Service at The Gathering Place at North Syracuse Baptist Church presented by Driver's Village. Thank you to everyone who participated in the National Day of Prayer! If you want to continue in prayer, please check out our new ministry dedicated to prayer: https://www.marshillnetwork.org/thewall/ Stay strong in Christ & Press On!

Here's a video from our friends on The Presidential Prayer Team to you about this year's National Day of Prayer, especially for those who may not have an NDP event near them to go to. #nationaldayofprayer #PrayForAmerica

#verseoftheweek #marshillnetwork #hopeinthejourney Hebrews 4:16 "So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most."

THOSE WHO SOW IN TEARS.... In 1921 David and Svea Flood went with their two-year-old son from Sweden to the heart of Africa, to what was then called the Belgian... Congo. This missionary couple met up with the Ericksons, another young Scandinavian couple, and the four of them sought God for direction. In those days of much devotion and sacrifice, they felt led of the Lord to set out from the main mission station to take the gospel to the village of N’dolera, a remote area. This was a huge step of faith. There, they were rebuffed by the chief, who would not let them enter his town for fear of alienating the local gods. The two couples opted to build their own mud huts half a mile up the slope. They prayed for a spiritual breakthrough, but there was none. Their only contact with the villagers was a young boy, who was allowed to sell them chickens and eggs twice a week. Svea Flooda tiny woman only four feet, eight inches talldecided that if this was the only African she could talk to, she would try to lead the boy to Jesus. And she succeeded! Meanwhile, malaria struck one member of the little missionary band after another. In time, the Ericksons decided they had had enough suffering and left to return to the central mission station. David and Svea Flood remained near N’dolera to carry on alone. Then, Svea found herself pregnant in the middle of the primitive wilderness. When the time came for her to give birth, the village chief softened enough to allow a midwife to help her. A little girl was born, whom they named Aina. The delivery was exhausting. Svea Flood was already weak from bouts of malaria so the birthing process was a heavy blow to her stamina. She died only 17 days after Aina was born. Something snapped Inside David Flood at that moment. He dug a crude grave, buried his 27-year-old wife, and then went back down the mountain with his children to the mission station. Giving baby Aina to the Ericksons, he snarled, I’m going back to Sweden. I’ve lost my wife, and I obviously can’t take care of this baby. God has ruined my life! With that, he headed for the port, rejecting not only his calling, but God Himself. Within eight months, both the Ericksons were stricken with a mysterious malady and died within days of each other. Baby Aina was then turned over to another American missionary family who changed her Swedish name to Aggie. Eventually they took her back to the United States at age three. This family loved Aggie. Afraid that if they tried to return to Africa some legal obstacle might separate her from them, they decided to stay in their home country and switch from missionary work to pastoral ministry. That is how Aggie grew up in South Dakota. As a young woman, she attended North Central Bible College in Minneapolis. There she met and married Dewey Hurst. Years passed. The Hursts enjoyed a fruitful ministry. Aggie gave birth first to a daughter, then a son. In time, her husband became president of a Christian college in the Seattle area, and Aggie was intrigued to find so much Scandinavian heritage there. One day she found a Swedish religious magazine in their mailbox. She had no idea who had sent it, and of course she couldn’t read the words, but as she turned the pages, a photo suddenly stopped her cold. There, in a primitive setting, was a grave with a white crossand on the cross were the words SVEA FLOOD. Aggie got in her car and drove straight to a college faculty member whom she knew could translate the article. What does this article say? The teacher shared a summary of the story. "It is about missionaries who went to N’dolera, Africa, long ago. A baby was born. The young mother died. One little African boy was led to Jesus before that. After the whites had all left, the boy all grown up finally persuaded the chief to let him build a school in the village. He gradually won all his students to Christ and the children led their parents to Him. Even the chief became a follower of Jesus! Today there are six hundred believers in that village, all because of the sacrifice of David and Svea Flood." Aggie was elated! For the Hursts’ 25th wedding anniversary, the college presented them with the gift of a vacation to Sweden. Aggie sought out her birth father. David Flood was an old man now. He had remarried, fathered four more children, and generally dissipated his life with alcohol. He had recently suffered a stroke. Still bitter, he had one rule in his family: Never mention the name of God! God took everything from me! After an emotional reunion with her half-brothers and half-sister, Aggie brought up the subject of her longing to see her father. They hesitated.... You can talk to him, but he’s very ill now. You need to know that whenever he hears the name of God, he flies into a rage. Aggie walked into the squalid apartment, which had liquor bottles strewn everywhere, and slowly approached her 73-year-old father lying in a rumpled bed. Papa, she said tentatively. He turned and began to cry. Aina!" "I never meant to give you away! It’s all right, Papa, she replied, taking him gently in her arms. God took good care of me. Her father instantly stiffened and his tears stopped. God forgot all of us. Our lives have been like this because of Him. He turned his face back to the wall. Aggie stroked his face and then continued, undaunted. Papa, I’ve got a marvelous story to tell you!" "You didn’t go to Africa in vain. Mama didn’t die in vain. The little boy you won to the Lord grew up to win that whole village to Jesus! The one seed you planted in his heart kept growing and growing! Today there are 600 people serving the Lord because you were faithful to the call of God in your life!" "Papa, Jesus loves you. He has never hated you or abandoned us. The old father turned back to look into his daughter’s eyes. His body relaxed. He slowly began to talk. And by the end of the afternoon, he had come back to the God he had resented for so many years. Over the next few days, father and daughter enjoyed warm moments together. A few weeks after Aggie and her husband returned to America, David Flood died. And a few years later.... Aggie and her husband were attending an evangelism conference in London, England, when a report was given from Zaire (the former Belgian Congo). The superintendent of the national church, representing some 110,000 baptized believers, spoke eloquently of the Gospel’s spread in his nation. Aggie could not help going to ask him afterward if he had ever heard of David and Svea Flood. Yes, madam, the man replied in French, his words being translated into English. Svea Flood led me to Jesus Christ! I was the boy who brought food to your parents before you were born. In fact, to this day, your mother’s grave and her memory are honored by all of us. He embraced Aggie for a long time, sobbing. You must come to Zaire! Your mother is the most famous and honored person in our history. When Aggie and her husband went to N’dolera, they were welcomed by cheering throngs of villagers. Aggie even met the man who had been hired by her father to carry her down the mountain in a hammock-cradle. Then the pastor escorted Aggie to see her mother’s tomb with a white cross bearing her name. She knelt in the soil to pray and give thanks to God. Later that day, in the church, the boy turned pastor read.... I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. John 12:24 Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. Psalm 126:5 Read more: https://www.epm.org//1986/Feb/18/story-eternal-perspective/

WHOA! This is so powerful!

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Here's a post about our own Dr. Bruce Jones, host of Let's Examine the Word. Looks like someone needs to examine his leg!

During today's perilous times, we are unsure of what the future holds, but we know our Lord Jesus Christ holds the future, and we put our faith in Christ through prayer. We had the opportunity to have Dr. Bruce Jones and Dr. Erwin Lutzer join us LIVE on Facebook for their discussion about modern day perilous times and time they dedicated to prayer after Franklin Graham called for a National Day of Prayer for the United States.

Behind the camera at the Mars Hill video studio. Teddy Caputo and Val Case discuss the Harvest 2020 Campaign

The Dawn Duo. Mark Warner Lynnette Deacons. The morning team at Mars Hill Network. Broadcasting in black & white.

We have three hours left in our on-air portion of Harvest2020! If you haven't contributed yet to Harvest2020, you can call 1800-677-1881 or go to www.marshillnetwork.org. Here is a special production from our One North Digital Media Studio for Harvest2020.

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Good Friday Morning! This is the final day of the on air Harvest Fundraising Campaign. Thank you to the over 500+ Friends who have stepped up to financially support our mission of providing Hope in the Journey! You can take that step right now by calling 800-677-1881 or go to www.marshillnetwork.org and make a secure contribution. Tune in today for great programming, great music and great company!

We sat down with Hank Blok, one of the founding board members & current Secretary Treasurer of Mars Hill Radio Canada to talk about the history of MHRCanada, how Covide-19 has impacted the lives of Canadians and why this year is an important year to contribute to Harvest2020. #mhrcanada #faithfeature

Harvest2020 is on the air at the Mars Hill Network! Thank you to all who have contributed to the Fall campaign! You can contribute now to show your support of our mission to provide Hope in the Journey. Call 1-800-677-1881 or on line at www.marshillnetwork.org Thank you!