Project North Africa

Dear Brethren,

It gives me much joy to be able to direct myself to you and to share with you what God is doing here.  Thank you for your prayers and economic help.

The month of November has been a great blessing, each Saturday I have been traveling to be able to spend time with some new believers.  The first and the third Sunday I was staying in Sister Harira’s home.  It was a great blessing to be with her and her family.  I was able to speak with her older daughter.  She came to many of the meetings before but there were a lot of problems.  She shared with me how she desires to change and to come back.  The second week I was able to stay in Sabita’s home who is one of the young ladies in the church.  She was not permitted to go alone to the meetings, so then by coming with me; her father would not ask where she was going.  Thanks to God, it all turned out well and we enjoyed a good time with her family.  There were many opportunities to spend time reading the Bible and encouraging each other to keep going.

Femua is growing in the church.  It has been a special blessing to be able to spend time with her as she is able to speak Spanish and has been helping me with the language.  This is a great blessing.  I ask for your prayers for her that her work would not consume her and that she would desire to spend even more time with us.

The 22^nd of this month Nadia had a birthday.  She is one of my great friends with whom I am spending time.  We had a small party in her home.  She has many family and economic problems.  I know that God is working in her.  This month I will be inviting her to come to the Christmas meeting.  I ask for your prayers for her that God would touch her heart.

During the week I have been visiting with Fatima, Khadiya, Amina, Turia, Meriam, Ezekia, Hind and Sebah.  I was able to meet a young lady named Kautar.  I ask your prayers for each of them that God would continue to work in their hearts.

I am happy to tell you that Hamima is growing spiritually.  This month there were problems with his parents that want to contract a marriage with a Muslim.  She was strong and did not accept it.  I ask your prayers for her, that God would bring her a Christian husband and strengthen her faith.  Alia has not been going to the meetings as her work is taking all of her time.  She is experiencing many spiritual battles.  She tells me there are many things she would like to change but at times her flesh wins.  She needs many prayers from us.  They are a great blessing and encouragement.

Thank you so much for everything.  I love you in Christ.

Sincerely…

At first glance, you wouldn’t see anything exceptional about this tall, skinny 21 year old Moroccan. That’s because you haven’t seen where he’s come from or what he’s gone through to become the young man he is today. Mohammed grew up in a small city of 100,000 people in a family like any other, a Muslim family. Now, in a country of over 32 million people there are bound to be different religious beliefs and different political views. His family was no exception.

Mohammed was “fortunate” enough to have an uncle who helped to raise him who was both an atheist and a Marxist communist. As Mohammed grew up as the only boy and oldest child of 2 other sisters, he spent a good deal of his time outside of his house while his mother worked as a nurse and his father as a painter. Because of the influence of his uncle and the amount of time he spend away from his Muslim family, Marwan began to understand that Islam is full of flaws and that God must not really exist. So, he began to devote his focus and attention to a communist association that his uncle was a leader in.

Because his uncle’s home had many toys and interests to hold his attention, Mohammed would pass his free time on the internet or listening to music. He preferred solitude and went to great lengths to insure that he had it. Even in his own home, he could put himself into a bubble to avoid certain Muslim beliefs that pervade every Muslim home and family. After officially entering the communist association at age 10, he began to play an active role in promoting human rights in his school, even going so far as to helping them make Communist broadcasts on the radio.

At the age of 16, Mohammed was at a secret communist summer camp being held for young people where he had learned Communist doctrine and songs many summers before. This summer and this camp would prove to be different. The camp was held near the second highest peak in the country and the young people climbed to the top. From the summit Mohammed looked down on the clouds and was so overwhelmed by his own insignificance that his legs became weak and he fell to his knees. He knew at that moment that there was a God and he had been totally opposed to Him. Upon return to his city, Mohammed began to search the internet for information about God. He would google questions like:

“Who is God in Hinduism? in Christianity? in Buddhism?”

“What is sin, heaven, hell, truth in Hinduism? in Christianity? in Buddhism?”

One of the websites Mohammed searched on was alnour.com (a sister ministry to PNA). He clicked on the link and requested a free New Testament.

After 2 years of searching, at age 18, he believed and called out to Jesus Christ to be his Savior, to rescue him from sin and death by the finished work of Christ on the cross. After 3 years of little to no Christian fellowship, listening to Christian music, and wondering if there were many other Christians in Morocco like him… He met two preachers with Project North Africa. They were two godly men who were preaching the Gospel, getting out Bibles, and trying to disciple other men to follow Jesus Christ in a country with only .0001% Christianity. He was studying economics in his university; but after spending a little while with those two men and in the Word, Mohammed was consumed with a desire to serve the Lord in full-time ministry as a preacher of the Gospel.

So what did he do? He has since dropped out of that university and enrolled in an online Bible school where he is learning through the books of the Bible. At the same time, the two PNA workers spend a lot of time with him discipling and training him to preach, witness, and disciple others. This young man may not appear to be much according to the world’s standards – having no outstanding physical presence, having thrown away his education, and all so that he can be a preacher of the gospel. In essence, he has become lower than a street sweeping, rubbish collector in the eyes of the Muslims of North Africa. He has turned his back on Islam and Communism and has chosen to identify with Jesus the Messiah, the Lamb of God. His family now knows that he is a Christian and little by little he is trying to let them all know and witness to them about who Jesus Christ really is. Please pray for Mohammed. Ask that the Lord would strengthen, encourage, and use him to be a preacher and minister of the Word in this country where the harvest is plentiful but laborers like Mohammed are few.

Pray for the pastor of a friend in Kazakhstan. The pastor’s name is Max and he is from Uzbekistan where Christians are greatly persecuted. This man has spent much time in prison in his own country for the preaching of the Gospel and now has been arrested in Kazakhstan in order to be extradited to Uzbekistan. He has a lovely wife and four boys with one on the way. Please pray for Max!

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