december 13, 2006
Chinese Missionaries Take the Gospel to the Nations
Chinese missionaries continue to leave China for other countries, with a passion for Christ and for the lost peoples of the world. Intercessors Network reports that encouraging testimonies have been coming in from many of them. Specific details cannot be given due to obvious security concerns, but here are highlights from a small group of house church missionaries who are working in a predominantly Muslim country.
"Before leaving China I was trained in how to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with Muslims, starting with what the Qu’ran says about Jesus. One day I started talking with a Muslim lady who operates an Internet cafe. She wanted to learn more, but was afraid. I told her, 'Just take the first step towards Jesus.' Now I am ministering the Gospel to her almost every day. Please pray she will soon count the cost and give her life to Jesus.”
“During the month of Ramadan, when all Muslims fast between sunrise and sunset, two of us also felt that Jesus also wanted us to fast, but unto Him. We fasted for 40 days, and many wonderful things occurred during this time. I met a woman who had breast cancer, and was fearful of dying. I prayed for her, and the next day she went to her doctor and he said he could not believe the results! She went back for further testing and the doctor pronounced her completely free of all cancer! She has now begun to follow Jesus. Praise the Lord.”
“In this country there are a small number of Christians, but most of them live in fear of persecution and never share the Gospel with anyone. We have been praying that they would stand up and be bold like Jesus told us to, and not to hide their lights under a bushel. Please pray with us that this would happen.”
Intercessors Network reports that many "Back to Jerusalem" missionaries are beginning to see God move through them and fruit is being produced for the Kingdom of God. The workers have overcome many obstacles and are learning to be excellent witnesses in the cultures and languages they have been sent to.
Samuel Zwemer, a great missionary to the Muslim world in the first half of the 20th century, wrote, “There is nothing finer, not more pathetic to me than the way in which missionaries unlearn the love of the old home, die to their native land, and wed their hearts to the people they have served and won. ... How vulgar the common patriotisms seem beside this inverted homesickness, the passion of a Kingdom which has no frontiers and no favored race, the passion of a homeless Christ.”
Please pray for all BTJ missionaries, that they might continue to be used by God wherever He has sent them.
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