Reaching Muslims

Once From Prison, Once from Hunger, Once From Sin

Nov 9, 2022 | Stories

Part Two:
Not long after his miraculous escape from slavery, Bahar moved his family to a new town. But catastrophic flooding across the country soon placed Bahar and his family in a new life-threatening challenge: they had no way to get food.

Bahar’s new town is one in which Samir and Nuh have been sharing the Good News and making disciples. Samir and Nuh, you may remember*, are disciple-makers who were befriended and trained by Frank and Helen.

When Bahar heard that Samir and Nuh’s church was helping the flood victims by providing food, his family visited the church, hoping to receive help. They joyfully received one month’s food supply on the day of distribution. Jesus, through his disciples, had rescued Bahar’s family again.

While at the church, Bahar, his wife, and their 12-year-old son heard more about this Jesus who had released Bahar and his uncle from prison and of His Good News of salvation. Together, the family decided to follow Jesus.

Bahar and his family are telling their family, friends, and neighbors about how Jesus rescued them three times: once from prison, once from hunger, and once from their sin. Bahar’s friends are now asking him, Samir, and Nuh to come share the Good News of Jesus.

The Unstoppable Holy Spirit in the Muslim World

Jun 5, 2019 | Stories

Your prayers for Muslims over the 30 days of Ramadan have mattered! Though Ramadan came to a close this week, we ask that you would keep our missions catalysts who serve unreached Muslims and their work of making Jesus followers in your prayers.
The following is a small glimpse into the work of some Beyonders working among Muslim people groups.

The E family hosts eight-week accountability groups that have seen young people share the good news of Isa al Masih with family and friends. They ask for prayer that many of them would affirm their calling as fellow Disciple Making Movement (DMM) implementers to their own communities.
Thirty-one people joined a DMM training led by the M family. They learned practical methods to share their faith and were invited to join groups where they could have community and accountability as they put these tools into action. The M family asks that we pray for them to come so that many Muslims will become followers of Jesus.
Two trips are planned to places where whole communities have never once met a Christian. M asks us to pray that these communities of Muslims would see Jesus in the travelers and be drawn to Him. M also asks that a recent DMM training would produce twelve new Discovery Bible Groups (DBS) among Muslims.
Flooding has been a devastating issue for many Muslim families where the A family lives. Physical help with food has opened many doors for the A family to introduce Christ to their Muslim neighbors. Pray that God will open many hearts. The A family are also walking with a couple who are grieving the path of their 14-year-old (he is now in his second round of rehab). Please pray for this Muslim family as the A family share how God has carried them through difficult times.
B is relatively new to being a missionary and has recently given her first four-day DMM training to 15 fellow workers dedicated to reaching Muslims. Please pray that God would lead them to People of Peace and for strong movements to be birthed among their people group.
T asks that a refugee sister, “Nancy,” would become open to being a doorway to her people, a conduit to making disciples. Perhaps she is the partner for whom T has been praying for many years. T asks for wisdom and discernment from God for herself and “Nancy.”

This compilation isn’t even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what God is doing through Beyond among Muslims. There is so much more! We are passionate about reaching all unreached people groups and seeing Jesus’ command -to make disciples of all nations- fulfilled.

Now that you have spent the last 30 days praying for the Muslim world, would you go a step further and prayerfully consider supporting our work among Muslims?

From Persecuted to Welcomed

May 30, 2019 | Stories

*Ibu Mun had been a young single woman when she visited her family shortly after becoming a Christian. Her home village is in an area that is nearly 100 percent Muslim, and the whole community was cold to her as she made her way to her uncle’s house. People from this village were born Muslim and were expected to stay that way.

She longed for her mother to know the transforming power of Isa al Masih, Jesus Christ, but instead, Ibu Mun was cornered by her mother, aunt, and uncle as they interrogated her about her new faith. They told her she would have to marry a Muslim man and return to Islam. It seemed clear that they were going to force her to do just that. (Kidnapping young women and forcing them to marry is quite common here.)

Throughout the altercation, Isa al Masih proved to be her refuge and strength. Before she found an opportunity to slip away to the bus station, Ibu Mun was able to demonstrate the love of Christ to her mother though she received only insults and hatred.

Now, six years later, Ibu Mun is married to a godly man, and they have two young sons together. She has been discipled and trained to be a leader in Disciple Making Movements. Recently, that same village has welcomed her back, inviting her to set up a playgroup for 3 to 4-year-olds along with a DBS on the theme of Biblical parenting.

Seeing whole Muslim households interacting with the Word of God and even forming house fellowships is richly satisfying. More than that, Ibu Mun has seen, despite what man threatens, that one can be satisfied with Christ’s sufficiency. God alone is enough.

*pseudonym

Want to Fix the Broken Patterns in Your Life?

May 15, 2019 | Stories

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.

*pseudonyms

WAYS TO PRAY

During this month of Ramadan, ask the Holy Spirit to stir up a holy longing in the hearts of Muslims.
Pray they would have eyes to see the futility of any attempt to know the one and only Holy God, save through Christ alone.
Ask the Lord to bring into sharp focus the process of making reproducing disciple makers to laborers who work among Muslim Unreached Peoples.