Charisma Magazine June 2010 Issue

Charisma Magazine June 2010 Issue

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Oil Exploration Company Expands Reach in Israel - Charisma Online

Oil Exploration Company Expands Reach in Israel

A Christian-owned company exploring for oil in Israel plans to expand its drilling operations through a partnership that includes the purchase a 2,000-horsepower drilling rig.

In a deal announced this week, Zion Oil & Gas will form a subsidiary tentatively called Zion Drilling Inc. through a partnership with Aladdin Middle East Ltd. (AME). The arrangement includes the purchase of a $7 million drilling rig from AME and a series of $1 million payments that are expected to coincide with Zion's drilling of seven additional wells in Israel.

AME will be responsible for the drilling, but Zion Oil & Gas will have 51 percent ownership of Zion Drilling and AME will have 49 percent ownership.

Zion Oil & Gas, based in Delaware, holds two petroleum exploration licenses and explores for oil and gas in areas located on-shore between Haifa and Tel Aviv. AME, incorporated in 1962, has drilled more than 130 exploration and development wells in Turkey and Egypt for oil companies such as Exxon, Mobil and Wintershall AG.

"We are looking forward to establish Zion Drilling Inc., as this will help us to drill as many wells as it takes, in order to recover the ‘treasures of the deep that lie beneath,'" said John Brown, founder and chairman of Zion Oil & Gas, referring to Deuteronomy 33:13-16, one of several biblical passages the company believes point to oil reserves in Israel.

Several companies, both Christian and Jewish, believe the Bible points to vast amounts of petroleum deposits in Israel that could enable the Jewish nation to become energy independent.

In December, an Israeli company, Givot Olam Oil Exploration, announced that it found "significant quantities" of oil at its drill site in Rosh Ha'Ayin, about 10 miles inland from the Tel Aviv coastline, though it was unknown whether the well contained a commercially viable amount of oil.

The previous year, Israel announced the finding of a rich natural gas field 55 miles west of the Haifa port. With initial estimates at $15 billion, the gas field could meet Israel's natural gas demand for 15 years and reduce its dependence on imports.

Zion Oil & Gas found those discoveries encouraging, along with a recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report that said there might be 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable undiscovered oil in the Levant Basin, an area within Zion's exploration rights.

The Jerusalem Post reported that in 1979 a former chief geologist of Shell determined that Israel has a potential of up to 2 billion barrels of recoverable oil. But large foreign fuel companies won't drill in Israel due to threat of a boycott by Arab oil-producing nations. A vast, confirmed oil reserve would likely attract to Israel more foreign oil companies that currently avoid the Jewish state.

"If they [Israel] become an oil producer tomorrow it would change the Middle East," Brown told Charisma earlier this year. "It will bring an economic opportunity that will be unparalleled. ... Israel has a unique place in history where God is going to do a lot for the Jewish people."

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Man 'Praying in Tongues' Finds Missing Florida Girl - Charisma Online

Man 'Praying in Tongues' Finds Missing Florida Girl

An autistic Florida girl who'd been the focus of a four-day search through alligator-infested woods was found alive Tuesday morning by a member of her Orlando-area church.

Eleven-year- old Nadia Bloom was discovered around 9 a.m. in a swampy area near Lake Jesup in the Orlando suburb of Winter Springs by James King, a member of Metro Church, where Nadia and her family worship. Nadia, who has an autism-related disorder called Asperger's syndrome, is in the hospital being treated for insect bites and dehydration.

"James said he was praying. He said he was praying in tongues, he was praying in [the Spirit], and he went right to her," Sandra Green, wife of Metro Church pastor Randy Green, told the Orlando Sentinel.

Officials said King was being questioned about what led him to Nadia. They said the girl was found in an area search teams had not cleared and that they had to use machetes to reach her in the thick brush.

"He's a hero to me right now," Winter Springs Police Chief Kevin Brunelle said of King. He said investigators had no reason to be suspicious of the rescue.

Nadia had been missing since Friday afternoon, when she parked her bicycle on the sidewalk and walked into a densely wooded swampland near the subdivision where she lives. Authorities believe she got lost while exploring in the woods. Before she disappeared, police said she read a book titled Lanie, about an adventurous girl who camps in her back yard.

Officials think Nadia had been in a large conservation area around Lake Jesup, which is considered one of the most alligator-infested bodies of water in central Florida.

Brunelle said Nadia told rescuers two things: "I'm glad you guys found me" and "I can't believe you guys rescued me."

She said she never saw or talked to anyone after she entered the woods.

Nadia was fast approaching the 96-hour mark, when the odds of survival without food or water decrease. "We were getting close to that bewitching hour when I was going to have to make a decision, and I wasn't looking forward to that decision," Brunelle said.

Church members, friends and neighbors had been holding prayer vigils for the missing girl. After the rescue, a crowd gathered in Metro Church's parking lot began singing "Shout Hallelujah."

"I can't even describe it," Nadia's father, Jeff Bloom, said when asked how he felt about his daughter's rescue. "Let's give the glory to God."

A pediatric care expert at Florida Hospital said the biggest danger to Nadia's health would be the prolonged lack of drinking water.

"The key here really in her situation is dehydration, " said Dr. Aaron Godshall, who is not treating Nadia. "The body can convert muscle protein and fat stores into energy. But fluid is another story. The heart must have a sufficient volume to be able to circulate the blood."

He said a child lost for days in the woods could also suffer from post-traumatic stress. But he said the fact that Nadia has Asperger's syndrome could have minimized that trauma.

"Who's to say? Maybe she's seeing this whole thing as an adventure," he told the Sentinel. "She may see it in a different manner. Kids are extremely resilient. That's not to say we don't need to be vigilant about caring for this child. In so many ways, kids end up doing better than adults in the same kind of [circumstances] ."

Read more: http://www.charisma mag.com/index. php/news/ 26711-man- praying-in- the-spirit- finds-missing- florida-girl# ixzz0pQBbqcmh