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In Lebanon, the government and President are Christian.
Lebanon is the most important Arab country when it HE LOCKED HER UP IN THE
comes to the Gospel; Lebanon is the only Arab country
where any person holding an Arabic passport has the HOUSE AND BEAT HER
right to enter without a Visa. This is very important for BECAUSE SHE IS A CHRISTIAN
us because Christian families from previous Muslim
backgrounds who have received death threats can be
sent there where they are safe.
In Lebanon we are watching and witnessing a spiritual Sa is a Syrian lady. When the situation in Syria became
movement that nobody can stop. There are so many MBB’s very tough and was under the control of Isis and other
that there is no space which can hold all of them to meet Muslim fanatical groups, she ran away with her husband
together. The only way for them to be together is to meet and three children.
on the roof or in the street, the church cannot contain the Two days before she left Syria, Sa dreamt she was walking
numbers of new believers joining every day. on the seashore with her husband, her parents and children.
M was a Muslim from Syria. He had no rights as a refugee Her family asked what she was doing but she told them
not to worry about her. In her dream Sa was entering
living in Lebanon, he could not do any work except the sea, when there was a road exactly like Moses when
manual labour. It doesn't matter what your academic he parted the Red Sea. She found herself surrounded
background is - a doctor, or an engineer - you have no with soldiers in her dream but then she saw a man with a
rights at all except to register your name. white dress, holding a stick. He told her to hold the stick
M felt lost but started working as a manual labourer. He saw and not be afraid; he then pulled her up and Sa awoke
a group of young people meeting every week at a particular from her dream.
time and day. He watched them and wanted to know what Sa travelled to South Lebanon, where she heard of a
they were doing, why they met every week, so he asked church helping refugees who had nothing. She visited
one of them. M was told that the group talked about Christ. the church, who welcomed her and gave her some
M agreed for some of the group to sit with him and they aid, including food. They took her address, visited her
presented 12 facts about Christ, the Bible and about God. and gave the family a Bible. However, after the church
M accepted Christ and has recently been baptised. members left, her husband said nobody was to touch the
S is from Syria and, after one year of reading the Bible and Bible as it was corrupted and evil.
asking many questions, she accepted Jesus as Saviour. But Sa had something growing in her mind and felt she
She started to introduce her children to Christ and every needed to know more. One day she was standing in
Sunday and Wednesday she took them to the church. the kitchen, and she heard a voice saying “you are my
Her children accepted Jesus but her husband is still not a daughter you are mine, don't be afraid, open the Bible”.
believer. At Ramadan he locked her up in the house and She heard it three times and went and opened the Bible.
beat her because she is a Christian and refused to fast for For three days she read it until she reached Matthew 5,
Ramadan and say Muslim prayers. S refused to deny Christ at which point she felt God talking to her personally.
and follow Islam and refused to give up her faith. As soon Sa knelt and prayed for Christ to enter her heart. She
as Ramadan had finished she left her home and went out started to follow Jesus.
distributing Bibles and sharing Christ. Her husband found out and beat her every day, he cut her
hair, which is considered shaming in the Arab world. Her
husband wouldn't allow her to leave the house at all and
told her she had two choices - him or Jesus. Sa told her
husband that she wanted Jesus. Despite the beatings her
husband was giving her, and the pain in her body, Jesus
and the Bible gave her peace in her soul and her heart.
At the end of a school day, her children didn’t return,
Sa’s husband had taken the children and gone back to
Syria. That was in 2015.
When she attended a conference recently, Sa asked for
prayer to find and see her children again. Of course, we
prayed and, two months later, she received a message
from her daughter saying she desperately wanted to
meet her mother. By God’s grace they were able to meet
up after nine years apart. Sa has led 165 Muslims to Christ
and disciples them every week."
This is just a snapshot of the challenges faced by MBBs.
Please pray for them in the Middle East, North Africa and
in the Muslim world.

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