Home: News Archive: February 2003

"Matthew, Mark, Luke, and...Nicholas?"
During the Christmas season, we followed our own advice from the last update about including Muslim acquaintances in Christmas celebrations. When the "Delight" family was over, we had the privilege of explaining what Christmas is all about. We were surprised to learn that they had no idea that Christmas was about the birth of Jesus Christ. Rather, they thought it was a holiday honouring Santa Claus. They already knew a little about Santa Claus since they were from Turkey, the homeland of St. Nicholas. But they were also under the impression that St. Nicholas was one of the disciples of Jesus, and one of the writers of the New Testament! They were very happy to learn that Christmas is about Jesus. They listened to the scriptural account of the birth of Christ and gladly accepted a Gospel portion as a gift so they could read more about the Good News of salvation. Pray for the Turkish "Delights".

"Say it Again, Sam"
Our online Bible Correspondence School (al-kitab.org) now has a total of 87 member/students. That's up 10 new members just since the new year began. "Sam" is from Southeast Asia and has completed 3 of our Bible study courses. At the end of the last lesson he added, "My spiritual eye is now open towards the spiritual message of Jesus the Messiah." Praise the Lord, and pray for "Sam".

A New Door of Service
We are in the process of assuming the operations of a second evangelistic website ministry geared for the Muslim audience. The man who started it is heading to Africa for a different kind of missionary service and will no longer be able to maintain it. Between our original site and this complementary site, there is fantastic potential for spiritual impact. We will give you more information about this in the next update. Please pray for us as we learn the multitude of details to this additional avenue of outreach.

Thank you for praying and giving. We value your partnership in this ministry.

Yours in Christ,

George for we7kings