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Pray for Christians in North Africa

I want to ask you to be praying for our friends that serve God in Northern Africa. There is a lot of turmoil there. Satan plays with their minds to cause them to worry. There is every reason to worry unless you consider the greatness of God and how He will work through all of this.

Here are some things to help you pray better:

The largest national newspapers are putting articles about Christianity on their front pages. One of the papers dedicated about half of the paper to the subject.

The paper reports that the American Churches have a goal to convert 10% of Moroccans by 2020. They reminded the Moroccans that the penalty of conversion is 6 months to 3 years in jail. They highlighted the testimony of one Moroccan family who had become Christians and then returned to Islam.

Though not true they reported that there are about 40-50,000 Christians in Morocco with an attempt to stir up the people.

Another day’s headlines in the newspaper were the following:

“9 centuries of missionary activity in Morocco”

“800 missionaries in Morocco. Casablanca at the forefront”

“Said Oujibou: A Moroccan running a campaign to evangelize Moroccans in France”

“Missionaries target the hearts of Moroccans”

Though Satan is attacking God is still working. Attendance in church services is actually growing. God is working in the hearts of new believers to make them more bold as they learn the Word of God.

Some churches have stopped having services but others are seeing God’s blessings.

Pray for faith in times of fear for these believers

Pray that the missionaries and believers will reject the thoughts of the accuser and hear the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

More exciting news articles on bcwe.org

The Cambridge Seven

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Seven young Englishmen (C. T. Studd, M. Beauchamp, W. W. Cassels, D. E. Hoste, S. P. Smith, A. T. Podhill-Turner, C. H. Polhill-Turner) who went to China in 1885 as missionaries.

Today is the anniversary of the Cambridge Seven arriving in China to meet Hudson Taylor. They had sailed and traveled for 6 weeks before arriving in China.

These men would go on to make a difference in eternity and also in the hearts of men and women as they would surrender their lives to be missionaries around the world and especially to China.

As I think of them today I wonder where the Alpharetta Seven are? I wonder where the young men and women willing to risk all of their lives to take the gospel to the world are. God has given us some great men and women in the Our Generation Training Center with just that heart.

We have more than seven right now preparing to go, not to China but some where in the world with the gospel. We have the great Vision Baptist Church standing behind them, loving them, training them and sending them out.

I beg God to stir the flames of passion for Him, His Word and His cause of world evangelism. My heart breaks for the Muslim countries who have no hope. They live hopeless lives and die even worse deaths.

My heart breaks for India and China where very little gospel is preached. I pray for Indonesia, the 4th largest country in the world, with very little gospel preaching taking place yet the doors are wide open.

My heart breaks for the vast area of Africa where little or no true gospel preaching exists. Where there are entire language groups with nearly no gospel witness.

Will you go? Will you help me help people go? Will you pray that God will send forth laborers? Will you help me get the message out?

The Cambridge Seven went out and by going not only did they make a difference as missionaries but they raised up an awareness that some said was almost embarrassing for the cause of world evangelism. Will you get involved?

More about the Cambridge Seven:

Report on “The Cambridge Seven”

The Cambridge Band and Shan-si

Wikipedia

Find more articles about the need of world evangelism at bcwe.org!

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