February has left us gasping for breath as we try to keep up with what God is doing in our ministry to reach more people in North Africa and the Middle East. We seem to have aligned ourselves with something He is really interested in doing!

 

The theme all month has been “collaborative partnerships”. This is nothing new for us , since everything we do is motivated by the profound belief that God created us to be interdependent, that He loves teams, and that His great dream for the Church is that we work together in a way that is mutually supplying, reflecting who He is in the earth.

 

But this month, we’ve seen new depths of our “ideal” becoming real, as He adds significant partners to our efforts. We now have confirmed trainers from three other global missions organizations, all of which have extensive fruit-bearing experience in church-planting in muslim contexts. These ministries, who have seen whole Islamic communities come to Christ, have joined with us in our first training intensive in May-June. We are diverse but deeply united by our One Lord and One Mandate!

 

These new collaborations have re-fueled our team on the ground. When you live in cultures that are HIGHLY oppositional to the Gospel you often struggle with a sense of isolation and abandonment. Particularly when you can see on TV the relative ease and abundance that brothers and sisters in Christ have in other nations. They now know they are not alone. That God is speaking to many of His people around the globe to join Him in His mission in this part of the world.

 

Our field team has confirmed that we have Arabic Church planters coming in for the training from multiple nations in the region. Our goal is to help “hone their skills”; to impart the combined wisdom of other seasoned workers, and encourage and build up those on the frontline of the battle. Try to imagine it: four weeks of intense learning, discipleship, impartation, prayer, worship and camaraderie among Arabic leaders who are laying down their lives for the cause of Christ! We are completely in awe of what God is doing among us.

 

But more progress is needed. Specifically from the “sending side” of our partnerships. We invest a lot of our time into communicating the size of the opportunity we have and the potential of its impact, in order to assemble a company of senders who will partner with God and us in mobilizing Arabic believers to carry the Message and Spirit of Christ into their region.

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