Updates from across the Globe

During my blog’s inactivity, our ministry partners have been busy sharing God’s Word despite the persecution they face.  What a privilege it is to pray and praise God with them!  Here are just a few stories:

• In the Philippines, our ministry partner was able to redeem the mortgaged land of a martyr’s widow.  Now the widow and her children can farm the land and have a means to survive.
• Our ministry partner in North Africa emailed us to say that right outside their neighborhood churches are being burned and Christians are being killed.  Please pray for their safety and their media ministry!
• From January 11 to April 11 in Bangladesh, 572 people came to know Christ through our ministry partner’s outreach. 375 new believers were baptized!  In addition to overseeing ministries in the village camp, our partner travels 23-25 days out of the month, sharing the Gospel throughout Bangladesh and mentoring the new pastors he has trained!
• This month our ministry partner in India is teaching a new group of illiterate Muslim women how to read.
• Our ministry partner in the Middle East is helping refugees and comforting fearful hearts. He reports a food shortage in one of the areas where his ministry operates.  Ask God to provide.
• Our Iranian ministry partner tells us that even in the midst of great danger Iranians are filled with joy and gratitude when they receive Bibles in their language.  The government is trying to prevent the Bibles from getting into peoples’ hands.  Please pray for the safe arrival and distribution of even more Bibles!

“I have set the LORD always before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.”—Psalm 16:8

“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.”—Ephesians 6:10

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.”—2 Corinthians 4:7-8