Project North Africa

My friend C from Latin America and his wife are leaving in the morning for a 4th follow up trip to the capital. They’ll be meeting with the three new believers we’ve been discipling as a team and hopefully meeting two or three new contacts. Two hours down the road the train stops for half and hour. During that time he’ll meet with Kamal, a national brother who we are helping start a church 2 hours east of that point. He’ll be handing off to him MP3 players and 20 Bibles that we smuggled over the border last week. Kamal will also be following up on three or four MP3 requestors in his region this week while C is following up on the others.

Kamal is a particular blessing since he has just arrived back in the country after attending Bible college the last four years. He has a real heart to do something for God here in his natal country as does his new wife. They arrived back in the country about 6 months ago. We are partnering with him in many ways. We help provide him materials, contacts, and training. We are planning on meeting the three groups (from our city, Kamal’s city, and the capital) this Easter. This will be our biggest meeting yet, Lord willing, of PNA church plants.   

I want to thank Steve from Calvary in Ashland, OH for his recent gift that is allowing us to make these follow up trips. C didn’t have any money last night to take this trip tomorrow but hadn’t told anyone but God. I got an email from Steve letting me know of the money he had sent to help with this project. So this morning I gave C $100 to help with his trip. That’s when C told me of this answer to prayer. Thanks to all of you who make our ministry here possible.

The fragility and infancy of these works couldn’t possibly be overstated. We don’t know how long the Lord will allow us to minister in this country so we are training two young men full time for ministry. So much to do. We need your prayers.

Thanks for your prayers for Suffian and Gus. (a Latin friend of mine here to learn Arabic who is a pro video editor). They met today with one young man named Suffian and Suffian’s friend. Suffian had contacted arabicbible.com and asked for a Bible. Suffian is not yet a believer but Suffian was very encouraged who open they were to the gospel meessage. He gave them both a Bible and MP3 player.

On another note so you can understand that it’s not always good news, one young man named Mohammed who had requested a Bible wrote a text to our cell yesterday. After he had recieved our letter and cd’s int he mail he had received a lot of trouble from his parents. He writes, “My parents are Muslim and are very angery that I am communicating with Christians. Please do not sending anythink more to my home.”

There is a LOT of opposition to Christ in Muslim countries that comes mostly from family. Continue praying that the shoulders of Satan would be continually weakened over the mighty hand of God.