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May 2, 2019
Millions of Syrians remain as refugees in countries such as Turkey even though Syrian government forces have retaken large areas previously lost to rebel forces; why? Refugees living in tent camps and dilapidated apartments tell native missionaries that they have nothing to go back to but more danger. The Syrian army bombed their homes or set them on fire, and security authorities are threatening those they suspect of supporting or sympathizing with the uprising against the regime of President Assad.
January 24, 2019
Winter is slowly killing Syrian refugees in Turkey, and native missionaries are praying for help. “Refugees are physically weaker now, as we can see just from looking at them,” a native ministry leader said, adding that cancer is increasing due to the harsh conditions. “Their already weakened bodies will not get enough food, and some of them may not survive the winter”
January 17, 2019
A team of 26 native missionaries prayed that it would not rain during a recent outreach to a village in West Africa, because most of them would be sleeping in the open air. The village in central Togo had little space for visitors to spend the night. They managed to find a small shanty to rent for the women, and the others slept on the ground or on benches. No rain water fell, but later stones did rain down on some of them.
September 20, 2018
Abdel, a young man in a Middle Eastern country, knew something was wrong when his mother showed up at his apartment with a checkbook in one hand and a burial cloth in the other. It had deeply wounded her when Abdel told her he had left Islam to become a Christian. He knew that embracing Christ would mean being shunned by his family.
August 23, 2018
The Lord told a native missionary to erect a church building in southern India, which he obediently did. By the next day, villagers had destroyed it. The missionary had come to a village where no one knew Christ. God had told him that He desired a church building there, however, under the philosophy, “If you build it, people will come to Christ.”
August 2, 2018
One of the things Nurul most disliked about the home for widows in Indonesia was the joy an elderly Christian woman there exuded. The 68-year-old Muslim could not stand that another widow, Amelia, could sing and smile so much in the home for widows and orphans. Besides having no money, Amelia had no children or other relatives to care for her, Nurul thought; was she demented?
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