They Loved Not Their Lives Unto the Death
Revelation 12:11
In our August newsletter last year, we shared a report about our partner in Muslim-majority country in northern Africa who had been abducted by a radical Muslim group and held hostage for three months. Teach All Nations was able to replace his vehicle which was destroyed in the attack. During the year that has pasted, we have prayerfully and financially supported this courageous evangelist as he continues to reach the people in his country in spite of the danger that he could face another abduction or even worse. He sends us both exciting and disturbing reports from his travels to remote areas to minister to the Christians in isolated areas in his country – exciting reports about the tenacious believers who continue to share their faith in the face of extreme opposition and disturbing reports of the extreme sacrifices they have made for the faith. One recent email reads, “I have been away from the mission center for the last fifteen days, doing trainings for forty-five pastors in two different regions of the country. There is a wide insecurity in our country, and many churches are affected. Some leaders are discouraged because some of the pastors have been kidnapped and possibly killed. The daughter of one of the pastors at the training was taken five months ago, and there has been no news about her since. I personally spent a few days with him in prayer and crying with him. I cannot say that I understood the pain of losing a daughter, but I can tell that it is horrific. The good Father will help him. Another pastor lost his church, and the terrorists forced him to become a Muslim; but, praise God, he is back to Jesus now. Many believers are suffering such hardships in their attempts to expend the kingdom in our country; I can’t even share all they have gone through. All I can say is that we should pray for these ‘silent voices’ who are risking their lives for Jesus in an Islamic environment. I go out again in a few days to minister to sixty-seven church leaders. It is risky, but we have to go under the wings of the Almighty with angels encamped around about us.”
Just days after receiving this email, we received news from our ministry partner in another country behind the Quaran Curtain, advising us that it was not advisable for us to come to his nation at this time because terrorists were targeting hotels where Westerners stay when in the country. This was the second time we were forced to delay our visit this year, after armed conflict in the area made us change our plans a few months ago. However, the saddest part of his email was not about our trip cancelation but his report that two of his staff had been abducted and killed while returning from an evangelist mission.
Teach All Nations wants to send special offerings to these two ministry partners to help them continue their courageous ministry and to give memorial gifts to the families who have suffered the loss of t
