Christmas in the Sahara desert is so quiet. Few people around us know it’s Christmas, and even fewer care. Life goes on as normal. Shepherds milk the cows. Bricklayers build homes. Men go to the mosque. Women head to the market. As far as Christmas goes, there’s nothing. You’d never know […]
Lesson 22: Sent to Serve
We’d been studying God’s Word with the group of new believers for five months by the time we got to lesson 22. The 31-lesson series starts with creation and ends with the resurrection of Christ. With every lesson, we’ve seen God move powerfully in the lives of our friends—four believing […]
Pray for Yemen
This article was originally published November 2017. Current estimates suggest that 85,000 children have died from acute malnutrition, and millions are on the brink of famine. On the southern half of the Arabian Peninsula is Yemen, a land of ancient cities and beautiful landscapes. The country boasts a long history […]
The Greatest Challenge We Face
My team is seeking to start a movement to Christ among a people group in Southwest Asia. But engaging in meaningful contact with local Muslim men and women is not easy. Some are suspicious of us. They imagine we work for the government or that we’re associated with some sort […]
God’s Heart for Southwest Asia
The strategic region we call Southwest Asia spans from the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent. This mountainous region has some of the oldest civilizations in the world and is home to over 200 million Muslims. The countries of Southwest Asia frequently make the front-page news. Some parts of the […]
Reaching Little Hearts
My teammate Brooke and I live in a Muslim community in Northeast Africa where doors stay open and drop-in visitors are welcome. Every day, neighborhood women stop by to greet us and chat for a while. But it’s their children who visit us most often and who stay the longest. […]
An Inexpressible Gift
Joy and thanksgiving don’t come naturally for many of us. We scrutinize our lives and find that work is toil, our relationships are imperfect, and health is fleeting. But a wonderful thing happens as we consider Christ’s perfect gift of salvation: God binds our hearts with abounding joy over His […]
Majid and the Sheikhs
Frontiers worker Ben never would have guessed that his Muslim friend Majid could influence the spiritual destinies of so many people. Over the years, Majid had shown little interest whenever Ben shared the Gospel with him. But Ben never gave up. He continued sharing, and his teammates kept praying for […]
The 20-Year Wait
Basima was 10 years old the first time she had the dream of a foreign woman giving her a book. She didn’t think much of it at first. But after having this dream several more times, Basima told her parents. They took her to a neighborhood mullah who specialized in […]
The Path to Fields of Praise
Thunder rumbled as Officer Iman sat down in his living room. His young daughter crawled into his wife’s lap, whimpering at the sound of the storm crossing over the hills toward the small military base where they lived. Just as he did every evening, Iman picked up his shortwave radio […]