Want to Fix the Broken Patterns in Your Life?

In the Muslim context where she lives and ministers, *Anna follows the cultural norm and rarely speaks directly to men. The Holy Spirit, however, sometimes orchestrates exceptions.

Angking, a SaSumBi man in his early twenties, was Anna’s server one day in the neighborhood restaurant. As he poured her cup of coffee, Anna shared that her husband would not be able to join her and that they were both followers of Isa al Masih (Jesus the Messiah), the straight and true way. *Angking did not hurry away at this news.

Instead, they began sharing information about their families. Angking shared about his siblings, and Anna described her precious grown children. In the course of their conversation, Anna asked, “Angking, in what ways would you like to emulate your father and in what ways would you like to be different?”

Angking shared an all too common scenario among his people. His father had “kidnapped” his mother, made her his bride, gotten her pregnant and then abandoned her with an easily acquired letter of divorce. Anna asked if he knew of a new way to be a SaSumBi man. Angking shook his head, and Anna proceeded to share faith in Christ, the only way to be made new.

Anna then asked if Angking, his family, and friends would like to get together with her husband, Evan, to discuss stories from the life of Moses, the Psalms, and the Gospels. “It is only when we meet up with (God’s) heart for mankind that our broken patterns can be transformed.”

Angking accepted this offer, and Evan has since met with Angking and one of his friends, leading them through the first Discovery Bible Study story.

Please pray that the Holy Spirit will stir Angking and his household with the longings to know the only source of personal transformation and give him a desire to form an ongoing Discovery Group with Evan and a local partner.

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