Mark and his team didn’t intend to get involved with the local gang when they started a fitness center in a Central Asian city. From day one, the gym drew in young Muslim men from the neighborhood. About twenty of them started showing up on a daily basis. One day, […]
Cash, Scooters, and Peace with God
“The money should be there!” Zeydan whispered as he scowled at the ATM screen. How could the balance already be close to zero? He quickly took his card and walked out of the ATM booth, his mind was racing. How was he going to afford the monthly payment on his […]
How I Met My Language Helper
Finding a language helper was much harder than Kathryn had expected. For months, she’d been searching and praying. She had even printed fliers advertising her need and had plastered them around the neighborhood and distributed them to local shops. Still, she had no leads. “Lord, what else do I do?” […]
A Movement of Faith in the Middle East
For years, long-term workers in the Middle East have prayed for Muslims to embrace Jesus Christ as Savior. Now, they’re seeing unprecedented openness in this region. The Spirit is moving, and fellowships of Muslim-born followers of Jesus are rapidly multiplying. Joel, a Frontiers team leader in a Middle Eastern city, […]
An Unconventional American Thanksgiving
It was the Thanksgiving before I moved to the field. My brother-in-law placed his homemade lasagna in the oven while I drove across our town to pick up my Muslim friends Houda and Amira. The two women, both Iraqi refugees, were an unlikely pair. Houda was in her fifties and […]
Staying in Persecution
Kyran, a farmer and a Muslim background believer, is used to persecution. His Muslim neighbors rejected him when he started following Christ. The neighborhood mullah, or Islamic religious teacher, speaks openly against them. Occasionally, zealous Muslim men are sent to try to bully Kyran into coming to pray at the […]
Grit, Grace, and the Urban Poor
I bounded out of college bursting with intention to change the world. I had a simple plan: to move overseas to help women living in poverty earn sustainable incomes. A three-week encounter with urban poverty disassembled that plan. It happened my first summer out of college. I’d joined a team […]
To Be Clean Enough
Kamila splashes her face with water and mutters to herself, “I must be clean enough.“ Sitting on a low stool, she washes her right foot and places it on a white cloth laid on the ground next to her. She repeats with the left foot, then grabs hold of one […]
Bringing Good News to the Poor
Mansour and his family have few possessions. They live in a slum surrounded by other Muslim families living in poverty. But Mansour has a priceless inheritance. As a follower of Jesus Christ, he knows that God has accepted him for eternity. Mansour was the first in his family to follow […]
Reaching Beyond One
Irina was new to the neighborhood where Frontiers workers Vance and Kelly lived. She and her family came from a village several hours away, but they knew no one in the city. As an illiterate village woman, Irina was shy, lonely, and insecure. Like other women in her society, she […]