“What can you say about this brother in Christ! All I can say is I can’t keep up with him!”
That’s what Mike*, one of e3’s Strategy Coordinators had to say about one of his indigenous partners in the Middle East, Cyrus*.
“One day we were in a city of 1.5 million; we walked 18 miles, shared the Gospel 54 times, and discipled four believers that had come to Christ months before,” Mike said. “That was just one day with Cyrus!”
Mike and Cyrus have been working to identify the gaps of unengaged, unreached people groups (UUPGs) in his home country and praying for other brothers and sisters with whom they could partner there.
Recently, while holding a training of simple Gospel tools, Mike and Cyrus met some me and women who are crossing over from their own communities into communities of people they traditionally have not liked but who do not have the Gospel.
“These brothers and sisters have to learn a new language, eat food that is foreign to them, and adopt the dress of these new communities.” Mike said. “But these followers of Christ have crossed these ethnic lines with the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and have seen breakthroughs into six UUPGs and are beginning to see fledgling churches start in groups that have never had churches before!”
In the past two weeks, Mike and Cyrus have seen six new people come to faith and be baptized. Praise the Lord!
* Names and images have been changed for safety and anonymity