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November 29, 2018
A native missionary in West Africa was showing a documentary about Islamic extremist atrocities to villagers at an earthen-walled, thatched-roof home when a neighbor showed up saying the police were on their way. The native missionary, Eric*, took his equipment and left, telling the others to disperse as quickly as possible. Muslim Akposso leaders had directed the police to arrest him.
November 22, 2018
A woman in Kazakhstan had been an alcoholic for many years before a native missionary told her the gospel, and she learned about Jesus Christ for the first time. Within months, she was sent to prison for nearly killing someone. She had a New Testament the native missionary had given her. That was all she needed.
November 15, 2018
Patricio went into a prison in Ecuador for aggravated assault and came out wanting to plant a church among the unreached in a remote northern jungle. Evangelists with a native prison ministry led Patricio to Christ, breaking through the spikey shell shielding his tender core and seeing him change from hardened hot-head to determined missionary. He spent months in Bible study, and he knew sweet fellowship in an otherwise hostile environment. But that was just his first transformation.
November 8, 2018
A 68-year-old man in Laos who met Jesus in a miraculous way found that not even the Lao culture’s deep respect for elders could protect him from anti-Christian fury. Seriously ill most of last year, Keoki* put his faith in Christ one year ago after a native missionary and others prayed for him, and he was healed.
November 1, 2018
Some years ago a concern that most parents had about their daughters in North Africa was marrying them off, but 17-year-old Mariam’s parents were especially concerned. Though beautiful, their daughter had mental abilities that doctors said were lower than those typical of her age, and they feared she would degrade the middle-class family’s honor by failing to have any children and living in poverty.
October 25, 2018
A Muslim mother of three trying to bring her family from Syria to Lebanon across snowy mountains feared they would freeze to death if they stopped moving. Even with the help of a paid guide to smuggle them into the country, the refugee family was blocked – snow had piled up on a road through the border area’s windy mountains. Her exhausted children, who had been hearing only sharp commands to keep moving or else they would freeze to death, were relieved to get a rest. At first.
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