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June 17, 2021
Two Kurdish men who had fled hardships in southeastern Turkey surprised local missionaries in Greece when they eyed books on the refugee ministry’s shelves and asked, “What are these?” When workers answered that they were Bibles, one of the men asked if there were any copies in Turkish.
June 10, 2021
Building long-term relationships of trust is crucial for sharing the gospel in rural areas of Mexico, and for that local missionaries rely on personal interaction – the very thing the coronavirus pandemic curtails.
June 3, 2021
Just a year out of medical school, Fadhil Jassim was skeptical when his mother, father and sisters prayed to receive Christ, and he told local missionaries that worldwide suffering from COVID-19 was a strong argument that there was no God.
May 27, 2021
A Cambodian accustomed to getting drunk on beer with his wife had been listening to a native missionary’s talk radio program for about a month when he called in with a dilemma.
May 20, 2021
A refugee trying to recover from an injury to his skull sustained in war-torn Syria was in constant pain. Fellow refugees who had received food and other aid from local missionaries believed that kind-hearted people were healers, so they asked the leader of the ministry to come, believing that he was so kind he had to have power to heal.
May 13, 2021
When he turned 18 last year, Manong still had his childhood habit of stealing money from his mother for liquor, cigarettes and drugs. He survived his childhood in a rough-and-tumble slum of the Philippines and feared nothing, including the effects of the drugs he was taking. His haughtiness had alienated his friends, and he had cut off contact with what little family he had when he found himself facing a life-threatening injury.
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