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Greetings,
We just wanted to get out a quick prayer list as we have just started Christar’s two week training program in Muslim evangelism and would appreciate your prayer power for the students, teachers and the interaction and outreach students have with our contacts and the contacts they may make on their own while here. The training consists of daytime classes and afternoon/evening outreach. We will be teaching some of the sessions, helping in the kitchen and taking them on outreach. Pray we can give our best in all areas.
ESL classes will end after this week and the students, thankfully, are very disappointed. So, I will be having “informal” classes this summer and we will be reading through Lewis’ “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”. They are excited about coming together for a book club during the summer and I’ll be making the connections between the text and the gospel. We will all be taking turns hosting in one another’s homes so are also getting closer in our personal relationships. We pray this leads to deeper trust to be able to share the truths of the gospel.
I will also be leading a book club for our church this summer and we will be reading “The Sermon on the Mount” from John Stott. It is a great book and thick book that is very deep. Pray we can gain God would have for us from this resource as we study the Sermon on the Mount.
Lots going on this summer that has already started, so thank-you for praying for us.
Sam and Colleen
Pray:
-ESL summer “informal” class. Good participation, connections from the book to gospel, seeds and salvation.
-Justice, whatever that looks like, for the Middle East.
-Jiran outreach: for the Muslims who come to hear the Bible stories and all the story tellers.
-Manarah, C*’s training program for Muslim Evangelism, has begun. Pray for students and teachers as they teach, learn and interact in outreach to the community.
-Leaders from Arab service have decided to pause this ministry. Pray as they go forward to consider if we continue.
-Friendship Friday: The joyful friendships made with these contacts will allow for deep conversations at other times.
-Continue to pray for Afghani friend and her daughter. Very thankful for her citizenship and the arrival of her American passports. She has begun to be anemic, is taking medicine for depression and is shaking a bit. Pray for her health in all areas.
-We will also be helping with Christar’s North American Annual conference this August. Please pray as we are currently trying to get a teach of child care workers.
-Our discipleship class will produce lasting fruit and growth.
-Sermon on the Mount summer book club.
-Along with our regular Saturday coffee days, we are planning outings for our students this summer. Again, pray for opportunties to share the gospel.
Praise:
-We are completing another year of ESL and have made lasting friendships.
-A discipleship group with my Iranian student and a few other younger women from my church has begun.
-Manarah has begun and we look forward to the next two weeks of training and seeing what these eleven students will do as they take up the baton.
-We will welcoming Sam’s family for a visit the first week of July.
-A former student from Iraq will be getting married in July in Toronto and we are very happy to be attending his wedding. Between ISIS, losing his home and career, and having to put off marriage for many years, we are so happy to be celebrating with him.
Sam: I was raised in a Christian home and I followed my parents when they went to church. When I was a teenager, I attended a Billy Graham’s evangelistic meeting and I made decision to follow Christ. When I was a high school teacher, I felt I need to be equipped to reach out to to high school kids, so I decided to go to seminary. During the mission course, I found there are many unreached people groups in India. At that time, I knew I would like to go to India to share the gospel with them.
Colleen: While working for the Department of Natural Resources in a rustic park, while working, my boss would always share the gospel with me. After a couple years of sharing and praying, I finally really understood what the scriptures he was sharing meant, and on June 10, 1981, I repented and started following Jesus.
My Current Role in Christar
We are ministering in Dearborn, MI, home of the largest Arab Muslim population in the US. We work along with a church in Dearborn teaching ESL during the week, hosting a Friday night outreach, visitation, and participating in another city wide outreach called Jiran, a time of Arab/English singing and Bible storying. We also give on-line training for an organization in HK called Oasis, who train Nepalis in HK for pastoral work.
Alliance Seminary HK: Sam just completed mentoring 2 D.Miss students and they have us both as second readers for their D.Miss program.
Writing is also a continuing ministry. Sam continues writing for Christian Times from HK.
Columbia International University: Sam continues to teach as an on-line professor to students in the mainland.
About Christar
Christar workers PARTICIPATE by planting churches in these LEAST-REACHED communities, where He is yet to be worshiped. The vision of Christar is to cultivate Christ-honoring transformation in communities where He is yet to be worshiped.
Christ-honoring transformation speaks to the process as well as the outcome. In the establishment of indigenous churches, we pursue a Christ-honoring influence on the community at large. As workers who partner with God in His work, we are a part of the transformation process that God is bringing about. God’s promise in Revelation 5:9 is clear. People from every tongue, tribe, people and nation will worship God in eternity.
Our vision is to go to those people who are not accounted for in the eternal roll call of nations!