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January 10, 2019
The leader of a native ministry in Turkey was shocked when a wealthy Muslim friend told him he was planning to buy a Syrian refugee girl as a slave. The leader’s friend told him, “In a few weeks I’m going to go down to the camps. I have a wealthy old friend who bought a young Syrian girl and made her his second wife; I was going to go pick one for myself.”
January 3, 2019
For all of his 60 years, Karim had been a staunch Muslim in a rural area of Bangladesh where few knew of anyone who was not a Muslim. Leaving Islam was also unheard of. So when a young Bangladeshi from outside the village began visiting homes and telling families about Jesus, Karim was as perplexed as he was scornful.
December 27, 2018
Suppose the Lord found plenty of workers to go into the harvest – and then, before they could bring in anywhere near the full number of the redeemed, they left. That’s the problem a native ministry leader is facing, just as a huge opportunity to bring the gospel to Muslims in Syria has opened up.
December 20, 2018
When a native missionary in Brazil went to an unreached people in the country’s southwest, it didn’t take long before he found out about the most hated man in the village. The missionary had heard that Carlos* looked for excuses to fight with his neighbors. Constant drinking fueled his temper, and his drunken rages often left his wife with bruises impossible to hide. When his wife dragged him to an open-air evangelistic event, they never dreamed what a powerful ministry would emerge from it.
December 13, 2018
A staunch Muslim in Iraq who hated Christians had a very personal reason for wanting to learn more about Islam. Mahmod Mohammed* was happy to see the arrival of ISIS in northern Iraq in June 2014. Three months later, ISIS militants seized his home and turned it into a weapons storage site. When he tried to resist, they beat him and took his wife. He never saw her again. Because the militants had a Koranic rationale for everything they did, Mahmod resolved to learn more about Islam.
December 6, 2018
The gospel spreads primarily by word-of-mouth in Laos, especially if you count the mouths of radio broadcasters, but a native ministry has discovered a key role for social media in the advance of God’s kingdom. It is illegal to post anything that could harm the reputation or “national security” of the country, but a native ministry says response to the Facebook page it began in June – including that of non-Christians – has been overwhelming.
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