Hany and Joanne work in church planting and leadership development with Impact Middle East. Hany founded a training center, the Noor Center (Noor in Arabic, meaning “light”), to work with refugees. The Noor Center’s mission is “Bringing Healing, Light and Hope to Refugees and the Hurting.” In the region where the center is located, there are approximately 2 million refugees, most under 18. All these children and their mothers are at high risk of being exploited into slave labor, sex trafficking, or recruited into regional militias or even ISIS. Joanne works with abused women, bringing the hope of wholeness into broken lives. She also leads the Whole Woman Initiative.
Pray For
- protection for Hany and Joanne in a region where spiritual warfare is fierce
- a spirit of wisdom and discernment for choosing and developing new local leaders and church planters
- emotional health and strength in dealing daily with the trauma so many refugees have experienced
- the Noor Center
- the midwives being trained, and mothers and babies being cared for through the Whole Woman Initiative
The Cost of Following
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 of Jesus Christ. This is not the case in many areas of the Middle East. One worker, Mike*, was called to go into a very...
One Woman’s Journey to Belief
My name is Nina.* I was born in Iraq, but in 2014 ISIS attacked our village. The entire village, including my family, became refugees. We moved from place to place with no clothing or possessions — and often little food. Finally, we began living in a refugee camp. My...
Oh, How We Love Jesus: A Family Perseveres Because of Faith
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, but still, we wanted to determine the reason behind their visit. Onmany occasions, relatives come to the church wanting...
The Lord Will Change Your Mind! A Young Man Comes to Know the Truth
Akeem* is a first-year nursing student. He is an excellent student and highly ambitious. However, he lacks one important thing: faith in Jesus Christ. In vain, I tried to share the good news of the Lord Jesus many times. He did not care about what I said to him and...
Take Up Your Cross and Follow Me: A Story of Discipleship
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 God’s grace from his early childhood. Only last year, after joining a discipleship group, he accepted Jesus Christ as...
A New Start
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 others, he began his tory. "I was living in darkness. Through the years, I tried all kinds of drugs. I sold all I had to...