Hello everyone,

>Sun Feb 22 , 1998 -- The US State Department yesterday issued a warning to
>American citizens to leave Iraq and surrounding countries as quickly as
>possible. The State Department added that "non-essential" personnel
>employed in US diplomatic facilities are urged to take vacations and leave the 
>Iraq/Kuwait area until the current crisis subsides. In addition, US officials have 
>called upon all citizens to use caution and avoid traveling to Kuwait and Israel,
>including Judea, Samaria ("West Bank") and Gaza. 

As I was reading this I remembered something I just read on the net. We are 
supposed to be Ambassadors for the Kingdom of God. 

From Collier's Encyclopedia:
Ambassador...is supposed to represent, in theory, the person of his 
sovereign...conduct[s] foreign relations...with other nations.

From Universal Standard Encyclopedia:
Formerly the term "ambassador" was applied to all accredited diplomatic 
agents, and it is sometimes still employed, interchangeably with "minister," 
as a general term to describe such agents of whatever rank. 

From Webster's:
ambassador: 1. an official envoy; esp.: a diplomatic agent of the highest 
rank accredited to a foreign government or sovereign as the resident 
representative of his own government or sovereign or appointed for a special 
and often temporary diplomatic assignment. 2a. an authorized representative 
or messenger 2b. an unofficial representative <traveling abroad as 
ambassadors of goodwill> 

Before any war or period of crisis, what does the government do? It calls 
its Ambassadors home. I guess we're all hoping to be getting that call very 
soon.

Bye,
Moza