Stanley Scism

Adoptions from Nepal:

People wishing to adopt children from Nepal may wish to view the following website:

http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/country/country_424.html

Many private adoption agency websites (which you can peruse via websearch) say adoptions from Nepal are on hold while the Nepal government reviews its policy.

www.adoptionindia.nic.in lists the adoption agencies recognizes by India’s government.  As of 2008, end of May, these were:

Lutheran Child and Family Services
7620 Madison Street
PO Box 78
River Forest, IL 60305

The Berkshire Center for Families and Children
472 West Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Holy Cross Child Placement Agency, Inc.
1915 Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20006

Maine Adoption Placement Service International
565 Congress Street Suite 206
Portland, ME 04101
Williams-Illien Adoptions Inc.
3439 Venson Drive
Memphis, TN 38135

West Sands Adoptions Counseling
461 East North
Provo, UT 84604
Evangelical Child & Family Agency
1530 N. Main Street
Wheaton, IL 60187

The Adoption Center Inc.
836 Lake Howell Road
Mainland, FL

Los Ninos Children’s
International Adoption Center
1600 Lake Front Circle, Suite 130
The Woodlands, TX 77380-3600
Hope for Children, Inc.
1511 Johnson Ferry Road
Suite 100
Marietta, GA 30062

Cascade International
Children Services
3439 NE Sandy Blvd., #1333
Portland, OR 97323

The American Adoption Agency
1228 M. Street, NW Second Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Love Basket, Inc.
Frank R. Block ACSW/LCSW
4472 Goldman Road
MO 63050

Children’s House International
PO Box 2321
Salt Lake City, UT 84110
Travellers and Immigrants Aid of Chicago
327 So. La Salle Street
Chicago, IL

Adoption Advocates International
136 Black Diamond Road
Port Angeles, WA 98362
Wide Horizons for Children, Inc.
282 Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02154

The Family Network, Inc.
9378 Olive Street Road
Suite 320
St. Louis, MO 63132

Adoption Services of WACAP
PO Box 88948
543 Industry Drive
Seattle, WA 98188

Children’s Home Society of Minnesota
2230 Como Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108

The Alliance for Children
110 Leader Street
Wellesley, MA 02181
Work Adoption Services, Inc.
49 Lenington Street
Newton, MA 02165

Hope Adoption and Family Services International, Inc.
421 So. Main
Stillwater, MN 55082
Rainbow House International
19676 HighWay 85
Belen, NM 87002

Association Catholic Charities, Inc.
Archdiocese of Baltimore
320 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Plan Loving Adoption Now
PO Box 667
Mc Minnville, OR 97128

The United Methodist Children’s Home
PO Box 68
Worthington, OH 43085
Crossroads
4640 West 77th Street
Suite 179
Minneapolis, MN 55435

Adoption Horizons
PO Box 247
Arcata, CA 95521
Holt International Children’s Services
PO Box 2880
Eugene, OR 97402

Americans for International Aid and Adoption
877 S. Adam, Suite 106
Birmingham, MI 48011
All God’s Children Inc.
PO Box 37637
Phoenix, AZ 85069

Catholic Social Services
22 North 17th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio
57 E. Main St.
Columbus, OH 43215

Montana Intercountry Adoption, Inc.
26 W. Babcock
Bozeman, MT 59715

Welcome House Social Services of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, Inc.
24 Beulah Rd, PO Box 836
Doylestown, PA 19901

International Families, Inc.
5 Thomas Circle NW
Washington, DC 20005

Adoption Unlimited, Inc.
4724 B Cooks,
Montclair, CA 91710

Lutheran Service Society of
Western Pennsylvania, Inc.
11 Garden Center Drive
Greensburg, PA 15601

Bensenville Home Society
331 South York Road
Bensenville, IL 60106

Vermont Children’s Aid Society, Inc.
79 Weaver Street
Winooski, VT 05404

Family Connection
1528 Oakdale Road
Modesto, CA 95355

F.C.V.N.
Friends of Children of Various Nations Inc.
1756 High Street
Denver, CO 80218

Dillon Children’s Services, Inc.
7615 E. 63rd Place South
Tulsa, OK 74133

Adoption Serv. Information Agency, Inc.
7720 Alaska Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20012

Thursday’s Child Inc.
227 Tunxi Avenue
Bloomfield, CT 06002

Hillcrest Family Services
1727 First Avenue, SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

Children’s Homes, Inc.
209 Slicer Street
PO Box 725
Kennett, MO 63857

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, Inc.
Family and Children Services
5294 Lyngate Court
Burke, VA 22015

Fundacion Ascencio-Pine
PO Box 8225
Horseshoe Bay, TX 78654

Wisconsin Lutheran Child and Family Services
PO Box 23221
Milwaukee, WI 53223

Bal Jagat Children’s World
9311 Farralone Avenue
Chatsworth, CA 91311

Children’s Adoption Resource Exchange
1039 Evarts Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017

Catholic Social Services
140 North Fifth Street
Hamilton, OH 45011

Lutheran Family and Children’s
Services of Missouri
4625 Lindell Boulevard, Suite 501
St. Louis, MO 63108

Sunny Ridge Family Center
2 S 425 Orchard Road
Wheaton, IL 60187

Catholic Social Services
2045 Lawton Street
San Francisco, CA 94122

Counseling and Family Services
182 North Knoxville Avenue
Peoria, IL 61603

Bethany Christian Services, Inc.
901 Easter Avenue, NE
Grand Rapids MI 49503

Bay Area Adoption Service, Inc.
PO Box 2617
465 Fairchild Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043

Partners for Adoption
927 Cherry Street
PO Box 2791
Santa Rosa, CA 95405

Colorado Adoption Services
3333 Quebec, Suite 4030
Denver, CO 80207

Adoption Services International
4737 Ortega Street
Ventura, CA 93003

Aid for Children International
PO Box 698
1516 Ridge Road
Lancaster, PA 17603

Accept and Adoption and Counseling Center
No. 543 Byron St.
Palo Alto, CA 74301

Christian Counseling Services
515 Wood Land Street
PO Box 60383
Nashville, TN 37206

Pauquette Children’s Services
315 W. Conant Street
P.O. Box 162
Portage, WI 53901-0162

Children’s Services International Inc.
Suite 318, 1819 Peachtree Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30309-1847

Children’s Aid Society of Utah
652 26th Street
Ogden, UT 84401

Lutheran Social Services of Texas, Inc.
PO Box 40589
Austin, TX 78765

Family Counseling Clinic, Inc.
19300 West Highway 120
Greyslike, IL 60030

www.ichild.org has also been recommended to me

www.lovebasket.org, likewise, and is listed above

www.newbeginningsadoptions.com is working with other agencies to facilitate international adoptions in many nations, including India

If you want to adopt children out of India, see http://www.adoptionindia.nic.in

I quote from the person who advised me on this:
‘CARA (Central Adoption Resources Agencies) is the organization to guide anyone on this. They are quite strict now after many cases of human trafficking reported few years back from India. International Adoption can happen only from recognized agencies. State Government have been empowered to recognize them….There are many who will say they can help but ultimately they may not be recognized putting eager parents and the child in total disappointment if legal formalities are not done correctly.’

Regarding where there are orphans to be adopted:  I know several orphanages in various Indian states and will ask them to send to me pictures of orphans, will put them on this website, with information as to which children’s home they’re in so that people can contact that children’s home.  I will ask each children’s home to provide a state-government recognized agency.  Don’t even bother to work with an agency not so recognized.

I knew that if Marilyn Monroe had lived longer, she’d have grown to look older, but this is ridiculous.

Look at this picture from 15 feet away, and you see what she looked like while living.  Then look at it from up close, and you see the potential for aging.

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India See Increase in Religious Persecution in 2007

by Stanley Scism

All India Christian Council compiled statistics to say Christians were attacked over 1000 times in India in 2007.

And 2008 isn’t starting well, with many attacks in Orissa, and a ripple effect in other N Indian states.  Many of the gun, knife and bomb assaults have been done by Vishwa Hindu Parishad workers, and in the police’s presence.  The VHP is trying to hide evidence,  and so many bodies are missing.

Near Barakhama Village, 415 of 450 homes of tribal Christians were burned.  One Christian of that village, Bhogra Naik, was cut to pieces by attackers after they destroyed his home.

From 1950 to 1998, government figures showed only 50 anti-Christian attacks.  In 1998, the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power at the central government,  and the attacks began escalating because attackers knew the government would do nothing to punish them.

Although now the central government is no longer under the BJP, several state governments are.  The present wave of attacks started on Christmas Eve.  A Hindu mob,  angry because some Hindus have become Christians, attacked Christians and churches.

Demonic attacks like this have failed before,  and they will fail now.  Times of persecution have been some of the times of most rapid Christian growth.  In Christianity’s early history, people noted that, for every Christian killed, ten more people became Christians,  and said,  ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.’  Some day, when the dust clears, we’ll see that a larger proportion of India’s people became Christian during this time,  as people turned from hatred to God’s love shown to mankind by his coming down as Jesus Christ to save us from sin.

Only people afraid that their faith’s dominant position is endangered attack others.  Notice that the Christian majority nations are, generally speaking the ones in the world with religious freedom, simply because Jesus Christ has the best message, and it can take the competition in the theological and philosophical marketplace of ideas.

Sanjit Subba graduated from Scism Christian University, is now SCU’s representative for North Bengal/Sikkim, assistant pastor for the nation of Nepal, and secretary-treasurer for Bhutan. He reports:

Dear Brother Stanley,

Brother Muthu (of Malaysia)’s visit greatly blessed all our churches he visited in Nepal, Bhutan and North Bengal. Due to political problems, we changed some plans, but later we found that is how God wanted to work–his plan, not ours. Here is the report of his wonderful work in the churches we visited:

2007 November 25 - Kolkatta ( according to Bro Muthu’s report), 5 people received the Holy Spirit and 9 were healed.

27 and 28 - Jaigon, N Bengal, near Bhutan border. In two services, the Holy Spirit filled 17 people and healed 9.

29 - Birpara, N Bengal. Eleven people received the Spirit, 2 were healed.

December 1 and 2 - In Ilam and at a refugee camp, both in Nepal, 28 people received the Holy Spirit and 10 were healed. The refugee camp church elder is independent. He’s in touch with me all the time by phone, asking me to visit his church. Thank you, Bro M uthu, because by you we had a chance to meet this brother.

December 4 - Sikkim. Twenty people received the Holy Spirit, 4 were healed.

December 6-8, Darjeeling, N Bengal. Thirty-one people received the Spirit. For the first time, we had prophecy and tongues and interpretation in our church, and it was all from small children.

December 7-11, Panighatta, N Bengal. Seventee people received the Spirit, three were healed.

This is the first time that all small Churches came into one unity.Thank you brother Stanley for inviting Bro Muthu and his wife. God has done wonderful work. We always looking forward to see his great revival.

Sincerely,
Sanjit Subba

Bihar is an eastern state of India, known for its lawlessness.  Jharkhand was once southern Bihar, is now a separate state.

Bitendra, a man from Sonpur, Bihar, joined the Indian army and was posted to Churchandpur due to the ethnic strife tearing the area apart at the time.  He met Christians there, came to Christ, was baptized in Jesus name, received the Holy Spirit, married a Pentecostal woman, invited Manipur’s ministers to speak in an army church.

Bitendra had a great burden for his people, and many times went to Bihar to preach good news of Jesus Christ.  When his family wanted to be baptized, Manipur minister Ramliana gave Bitendra the address of Daniel Darlong in Calcutta.  Ramliana and Daniel had attended Scism Christian Institute in New Delhi together.

Daniel went from Calcutta to Bihar and baptized the people.  In 2006, some of Bitendra’s family attended a crusade in Calcutta, and in Bihar we now have five churches, 11 preaching points and 104 baptized members.  In Jarkhand, we have nine members.  The Dum Dum, Calcutta, church supports the Bihar workers a little.

One worker, Prem Jaslok, was murdered on September 3, 2007.  He was 25 years old, the only son of an elderly woman named Devi.  He left behind a son, one year old, and his wife, twenty years old.  After he died, her parents, who are Hindu, took her back to another village.

Ramliana, Daniel and a young man from Calcutta who is Bitendra’s oldest son visited Bihar in November 2007.  Because Kiran is a very new Christian, too new, Ramliana feels, to survive as a Christian all alone, he asked her parents to let her and her son go to Churachandpur where the church will make a home for them.  They’ll see the parents’ response in February.

Ramliana, Daniel and friend also visited the towns Jadhua, Bidhipur, Mahanan, Mamrispur and Sonpur.  As Ramliana says, ‘The Healer is with us.’  Many people were healed, 32 received Holy Spirit baptism and eight people were baptied in Jesus name.

The brothers thank many people from many places who prayed for them.

Stanley Scism

The BBC had a report against Apostolic Christianity due to impressions British people had of Oneness Pentecost from the film, ‘Borat’.

Since media effect comes and goes in public consciousness as new things come up to hold attention, and because the UK is a religiously free society, I feel the UK is likely to pass a law against Oneness Pentecostalism specifically or against Pentecostalism generally, but, since the UK also loves order and bureaucratic red tape, they might well pass laws more closely scrutinizing:
a.  financial records of churches
b.  claims that churches cause psychological damage.

As an American who grew up in India under British influence, I am formed as much by Britain and India as by America.  As an apostolic Christian who holds to God’s love for humanity and his sacrifice as Jesus Christ for our sins, and having exprienced his Spirit’s presence in my life, I do want to see people in all three countries thrive Spiritually through God’s Spirit’s presence in their lives.

Having been for some weeks in the part of America where the segment was filmed and having spoken with people there about this, then having seen the segment of the film having to do with this, I have the following observations:

First, people filled with God’s Spirit worship God differently in different nations, states, even cities.  Apostolic churches in Britain aren’t necessarily the same as those in America, nor are all the churches in America the same, nor all the churches in Britain, nor even all the apostolic churches in London, as those of us who have visited more than one can attest.  And British people certainly has their own freedom to worship Jesus Christ as they please, as do Americans and, for that matter, Indians.  For instance, in Mizoram, NE India, apostolics dance in a circle during song services.  In South India, they usually sit on the floor.  In China, they even worship in Chinese!  And in secret because of government oppression.  Apostolics in Britain, America and India don’t do that because these are religiously free societies.’
2.  Remember ‘Borat’ is fiction–Cohen said he was providing a documentary, but it’s a movie.  ‘Borat’ is a fictional character.  It’s not more credible than ‘Braveheart’ showing medieval lowland Scots wearing paint and kilts.
3.  ‘Borat’ showed footage of one church service of one state in America,  and anecdotal examples are not exhaustive evidence of Pentecost as a whole, Oneness Pentecost as a whole, American Oneness Pentecost as a whole, or even that one state’s  practice generally.
4.  Cohen in his movie was good at faking his own conversion (and faking many things in the movie) and in deceiving honest, good, people who actually work for a living, but this is an indictment of him as being unreal and uncouth and untrustworthy, not them.’
5.  Also, ‘Cohen did not interview the people who actually received Spirit baptism, so the audience didn’t see what Pentecost is like on a day-to-day basis in people’s lives.  A ‘documentary’ not even interviewing people is not credible.’