In the South Asian countries of India and Bangladesh, there are more Muslims than in the Middle East and the entire continent of Africa combined. This region has some of the world’s largest concentrations of unengaged Muslim people groups that have no effective long-term Gospel witness in their midst. With […]
Market Day
Most days, my little town’s square looks like the perfect setting for a gunfight in an old Western film: barren, dusty, and a little rough around the edges. When the market arrives on Tuesdays, however, the place fills with life. Hundreds of merchants from Muslim villages near and far set […]
A Truth That Disrupts
“You’re a Muslim, right?” my colleague Jamila asked me. “I’m a follower of Jesus,” I replied. “But you seem so much like a Muslim,” Jamila insisted. She stared at me with intelligent brown eyes. “I love God, and I also pray, fast, and serve the poor—just as Muslims are instructed […]
The Face of the Unengaged
Meet Ahmed. He’s quite the normal young man. Every day, Ahmed rides his motorcycle through crowded streets to his university where he studies accounting. He hopes his degree will land him a good job to pay off his motorcycle and help support his parents and two sisters. He wonders about […]
A Joke for Abu Belal
Abu Belal is from the south of Syria near the Jordanian border. He was inside his home the day that a rocket hit it, and the house collapsed on top of him. Badly injured, his family brought him to a nearby country for medical care. Now he’s paralyzed. When my […]
Waheeda and the Word
In their first years of ministry, James and Kristin were part of a team that had the joy of leading Muslims to Christ and helping them start fellowships that were beginning to multiply. But most of the new believers were men. Few Muslim-background women had begun following Jesus. James and […]
Friends in the Valley of Enemies
From our kitchen window, there’s a valley stretching just beyond the outskirts of the large Asian city we live in. It’s more like a village than a suburb, with simple houses lining dirt streets. Many of the people who live in the valley belong to a Muslim tribe called the […]
With Shouts of Joy
I met Amira shortly after moving to a new town in our host country, a nation in the African desert that my husband and I have called home for many years. Amira is an energetic, Muslim-background woman who loves Jesus. She visits a Muslim village several hours away every month […]
The Bride of the Red Sea
On the west coast of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lies the ancient city of Jeddah. From its humble beginnings as a fishing village some 2,500 years ago, Jeddah has blossomed into one of Saudi Arabia’s largest cities, second only to Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom. With a population […]
Refugee Diamonds
Eleven Syrian women stepped into the room. They seemed nervous and unsure of what to expect out of the next two hours. With young children clinging to their abayas, the women sat down and looked at the flowers, signs, and refreshments around them. My teammate and I welcomed them with […]