Heartbeat

Often, we serve God in our communities and churches without any thought to our safety or the danger we could encounter just by sharing the message...

A new family from a non-Christian background started coming to our church. A relative who became a believer invited them. We welcomed them warmly,...

Akeem* is a first-year nursing student. He is an excellent student and highly ambitious. However, he lacks one important thing: faith in Jesus...

One young boy in our church has gone from knowing to believing and following Jesus. He grew up attending Sunday school in our church and heard about...

We invited him to our house-church meeting to share how he had become a follower of Christ. Although he was shy and hesitant to speak in front of...

Sumayya*, a Yazidi girl, had attended a seminar about forgiveness at our center. I later visited her at home to ask her about the seminar and her thoughts about the topic. Her mother and two of her siblings were present as well. Sumayya shared that she couldn’t understand how to forgive people who committed horrible acts such as Dae’sh (ISIS) had done to the Yazidi people. They had killed men, raped women and young girls, and destroyed their homes and possessions. Those who survived had to leave their homes and become refugees.

We invited a woman from one of our searching groups to join us for an event explicitly organized to reach people for Christ. The messages we delivered were very clear, and we felt the Holy Spirit surrounding and touching the event and many hearts. When the event was finished, the woman came to me saying: “I loved the message. It was good, but I can’t accept Jesus as Savior for my life. That decision would turn my life upside down.”