My teammates and I often wondered why God chose a disagreeable, demanding person like him to be a part of planting churches among his Muslim people. But God did choose him. Ajmal was the first known Muslim-background believer in our city. And in spite of his difficult personality, God used […]
The Voice of the Call to Prayer
Each morning around 5:00 a.m., the call to prayer erupts from the mosque behind our house. In his raspy voice, the muezzin calls out over the loudspeaker, admonishing faithful Muslims to wake up and pray. During our first months in the country, the sound of the muezzin’s voice—hoarse with sleep […]
The Balkans: Poised for a Harvest
The Balkans is a region in southern Europe, east of Italy across the Adriatic Sea. Surrounded by seas and studded with mountain ranges, the Balkans owes its name to a Turkish word meaning “wooded mountain range.” Nearly a dozen countries make up the Balkans. Among them are two Muslim-majority nations—Kosovo […]
Ready to Believe
By the time I met with Ajmal, he was ready. He’d first heard the Gospel from a satellite television station. Wanting to learn more, Ajmal started reading the Bible online. But he had questions, so he sent an email to the station. Since my team lives in the same city […]
Moving Toward the Center
God is constantly drawing people toward Him. And in our ministry, we’re seeing more and more Muslim men and women turn toward Jesus and begin making Him the center of their lives. Here are some of their stories. Before Zeina and I became friends, she had never met anyone from […]
Faith for 30 Million
“You’re beautiful,” Hannah often said to Fadila, a young Syrian refugee woman. “God loves you, and so do I.” Hannah, a Frontiers worker, spoke these words every week when she came to Fadila’s home to study the Bible with her mother, Wahiba. But no matter how many times she heard […]
The Coastlands of Southeast Asia
If you were to take 80% of America’s population and put it on one quarter of the land, then divide that land into 10,000 islands, you’d have Indonesia, the largest and most populous country in Southeast Asia. The beautiful island nation of Indonesia claims the largest Muslim population in the […]
The Sweet Joy of Baptism
After studying with us every week over several months, three local friends were recently baptized. One is a young man named Kamal. Last summer, Kamal met some believers who were on a short-term trip. They shared the Gospel with him and, before they left, introduced Kamal to us. Since then, […]
Freedom From Winter’s Grip
We eagerly await spring. All our local friends say that winter ends on March 1. They welcome the start of spring by bundling up and huddling over hot cups of tea. It’s not much different than how they’ve spent the days of the Central Asian country’s long, cold winter. “Remember […]
A Reminder From My Daughter
Throughout the city we live in, we see people begging on the streets. On one street, there’s a young Muslim mother huddled under a blanket with her children; she tries to make eye contact with passersby, hoping to elicit a compassionate response. An old man stares blankly as he squats […]