From Team Leader Scott Hanson: My heart was heavy as I stood on a bustling street corner in town with over 1.2 million people who have no evangelical witness. There are no churches, no one reading Bibles and no one openly proclaiming the gospel. You would think it would be a country completely closed to […]
Region: Africa
Provision, understanding and wisdom
From a team member: A local friend is the only one of her family with a job. She lives alone on this island but supports her family on the mainland: her son, father, and a brother who was recently attacked by an elephant. She’s been talking to me about going back to school to be […]
Pleaded for help
A team leader: As we previously shared with you, the door to the country we’ve lived in has closed to us. The last known foreign worker (who was from an Asian country) has been expelled from there. Our underground churches there continue to be harassed and are now being openly persecuted. I spoke with a […]
Q – still waiting, still threatened
A team leader relayed this news: Q sends his deepest thanks for praying for him and his family. He is still in his native country waiting on the UN to finish his refugee paperwork. Once that is done, he can seek asylum in a more friendly country. In the meantime, security continues to call him […]
bullets-are-flying days
From a team member: Some of the realities of living in Africa are that here we don’t cancel school because of “snow days,” instead we have “bullets-are-flying days” Recently we canceled class when people were shot in front of our school and a small riot ensued. When the gun shots began, we nervously gathered our […]
Turn from their violence to Jesus
A team leader reports: News outlets have reported the closures of 21 U.S. Embassies due to specific, credible threats. Recently, we received two State Dept. notices for areas where we live indicating a kidnapping threat to Westerners and warning that attacks may employ a wide variety of tactics including suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings, and […]
When they bring you before rulers
A team leaders asks for more prayer for Q: Q was told to report to his country’s security office tomorrow. No doubt they will harangue and verbally abuse him as they have before. They are not happy that he asked for refugee status and protection from the UN, but what choice does he really have? […]
Suddenly a refugee
A team member has good news: The UN just registered Q as a “refugee.” He is now under their protection, making it harder to persecute or imprison him while he waits to leave The UN will help find a country where he will not be persecuted. Q remembers driving past the UN office many times […]
Miracle needed today
An urgent request from a team leader: Our good friend and coworker, Q heard unbelievable words from the officer. “By special presidential decree, we are not returning your passport and are revoking your citizenship! We want to make you a scapegoat and example to other Christians! We are a Muslim country with no place for […]
brokenness transformed into peace
A team member wrote: I asked my students the other day to write a paper about themselves. My students include some who just came a couple of months ago from the very dysfunctional country which borders here. The most inspiring paper I got was from a student who told his life story and shared an […]
