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 […]
The Gift That Matters
My Muslim friend Nabiha lost her husband to cancer recently. I was at another friend’s house when I found out. We were decorating our hands with henna in preparation to attend a wedding the next day. I received the bad news as the henna was still drying, its intricate designs […]
Dreamers and Believers
My teammates and I recently met Abdi and his family. In his younger days, Abdi had been an Islamic scholar. But in spite of his religious education, he still felt confused by what he’d read in the Quran. So, a couple of years ago, he started reading it more intently […]
Milk and Honey
Recently I sat in my teammate’s home, sharing a breakfast of spiced coffee and fried dough as we chatted about new friends, neighborhood happenings, and things we’ve been learning. Our conversation turned toward the hard things local Muslim women—our friends—face here. Abuse, rape, war, hunger, and poverty; corruption, lies, and […]