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ISIS CAUSES IRAQIS TO TURN TO CHRIST AT A "STUNNING PACE"
News Staff : Oct 10, 2014 : Christian Aid Mission

"I think of the [indigenous Christian] workers who stayed behind in Mosul and the surrounding areas because there are so many who are receptive to the Gospel. They are willing to risk being in an area under the rule of ISIS for the privilege of more and more fruit for Christ." -Christian Aid Mission's Middle East director

(Iraq)—Working in northern Iraq's Kurdish region day and night to help meet the needs of people displaced by the threats and violence of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Mosul and other areas, members of an Iraqi ministry team recently came into contact with a colonel from the Kurdish forces battling ISIS. (Photo via ChristianAid.org)

The colonel was serving as a division commander of the Peshmerga, the Kurdistan Regional Government's armed forces, which have helped to slow the incursion of ISIS in its brutal push to establish a caliphate imposing a strict version of Sunni Islam. With the aid of U.S. airstrikes, the Peshmerga have also slowly retaken some territory. They are helping to secure the Kurdish capital of Erbil, where the ministry team assisted by Christian Aid Mission is supplying displaced people with food, clothing, beds and medicine.

The colonel had a few questions for the team members: What was the reason for offering all this aid? What was the motivation, what was the source of it?

"We spoke with him explicitly, explaining everything to him, saying that Christ taught us to love and express our love to the people in a practical way," said the team director, who informed the officer that all relief items had been donated or purchased locally.

The Peshmerga colonel, whose name is withheld for security reasons, was quick to respond.

"You see the Arabs around you in the Gulf states, which claim to be religious Muslims, have not sent us anything but terrorists," he told the ministry team members. "But you who follow Christ send love and peace and goodness to people every day."

The conversation continued at length, the ministry team director said.

"After we had a long talk with him about Christ, he bowed and prayed, asking Christ into his life," the director said. "And he said, ‘Today I am the happiest person—I've had the privilege of making this decision,’ and he received a copy of the Bible."

The colonel's experience was just one of many taking place in Iraq. In cities of refuge like Erbil for people displaced from their homes in other parts of Iraq, people are turning to Christ at a stunning pace. Tent churches are springing up in the makeshift camps. Under normal circumstances, mission strategies focus on how to proclaim Christ effectively, but the challenge now is keeping pace with the number who would receive Him, the director said.

"The greatest challenge in the ministry right now is not whether these people will accept Christ or not," he said. "In all our travel to deliver the aid and preach God's Word, we did not find anyone opposed to or rejecting our message. The challenge is how and when we will reach all those people with the message of salvation in the squares, sidewalks, roads, inside the tents and out, and everywhere." (Photo via ChristianAid.org)

Christian Aid Mission's Middle East director said that as a result of this trend, some church leaders and workers for ministry organizations are remaining in Iraq even as the cruel practices of ISIS—beheading Iraqi children who refuse to deny Christ in Qaroqosh and Western journalists elsewhere—gain greater notoriety.

"I think of workers who stayed behind in Mosul and the surrounding areas because there are so many who are receptive to the Gospel," he said. "They are willing to risk being in an area under the rule of ISIS for the privilege of more and more fruit for Christ."

Forced to trust God more than they ever have before, these Christians are growing in their relationship with God in ways they had never imagined, he said.

"I respected them before the Arab Spring because they were serving in Islamic areas, but now they are serving more and maturing even more," he said. "We need to intercede for these workers. They are all always in danger. They need God's power to show His love to the thousands of helpless people."

When Iraqi ministry workers assisted by Christian Aid Mission obtain more funds for food, water, medicine and other supplies, they have the opportunity to demonstrate Christ's love in a tangible way, he added.

"God has put within the hearts of thousands of Muslims a desire to read His Word," he said. "We can be the instruments of providing them with New Testaments and audio Bibles."

http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=14747

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Nothing new!
When faced with adversity, man by nature hopes in the Supernatural. Another delusion!
They probably haven't heard how many Christians in Nigerian churches have been killed by similar terrorists, while seeking help from same God.

Ufranklin92:
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Sadly such wonderful topics as this that promotes the christian faith NEVER make front page on nairaland. Nairaland is biased in favour of the jihadist.

PastorKun:
Sadly such wonderful topics as this that promotes the christian faith NEVER make front page on nairaland. Nairaland is biased in favour of the jihadist.

I have not noticed... But will be VERY observant henceforth.

SEUN IS NOT JUST BIAS BUT A DEVOUT MUSLIM. COULD WE SAY THAT HE HAS TIES WITH AP IF YOU ADD IT C NA YOU SABI AND BOKO?

JUST ASKING O.

masterpower:
SEUN IS NOT JUST BIAS BUT A DEVOUT MUSLIM. COULD WE SAY THAT HE HAS TIES WITH AP IF YOU ADD IT C NA YOU SABI AND BOKO?

JUST ASKING O.

Is he atheist, Muslim, or Christian? Make up your minds.
I'm guessing that he probably balls over with laughter at all the speculations.

YOU people wake up. RELIGION AND ITS WICKEDNESS IS THE CAUSE OF ALL SUFFERING ON EARTH. WHAT HUMANS NEED IS TO CREATE TRUTH, MORALITY AND JUSTICE. bible, koran, new testament make people crazy and stupid. pasyors and imam are raping children. the most wicked people are Christian devils. Learn righteousness, seek truth. Jesus is not the Way. Morality is the way. Stop following jews who have murdered millions of Hamite Canaanites. the Jew is not the way to any paradise.

Liveair:
Nothing new!
When faced with adversity, man by nature hopes in the Supernatural. Another delusion!
They probably haven't heard how many Christians in Nigerian churches have been killed by similar terrorists, while seeking help from same God.

It's not a matter of being killed by the islamic terrorists it's whether you are prepared to meet your Maker when your time is up.

OLAADEGBU:
It's not a matter of being killed by the islamic terrorists it's whether you are prepared to meet your Maker when your time is up.

You should really be thinking...
The same "maker" who promised to save them in time of trouble?
The "maker" that told them He will give his Angels charge over them but keeps failing to do so?

The harvest is really ripe and plenty.
Let's pray unto the Lord of the harvest.

make I hia word joh.

Liveair:
You should really be thinking...
The same "maker" who promised to save them in time of trouble?
The "maker" that told them He will give his Angels charge over them but keeps failing to do so?

Our Maker also promised us persecution at the hands of the agents of the devil. Get your facts right.

OLAADEGBU:
Our Maker also promised us persecution at the hands of the agents of the devil. Get your facts right.

So your maker speaks from both sides of the mouth? After promising that "the expectation of the Righteous shall not be cut short" and promising to save them from affliction aka "no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper", he seems even worse than a human friend - that's if you are still convinced he exists.

Liveair:
So your maker speaks from both sides of the mouth? After promising that "the expectation of the Righteous shall not be cut short" and promising to save them from affliction aka "no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper", he seems even worse than a human friend - that's if you are still convinced he exists.

For a person like you it's either you have tasted the grace of GOD before and later sold yourself to the devil or you an agent anointed by him to come and cause others to fall.
Whichever catigory you belong, my prayer is that Almighty GOD your creator will set you free from Satan that you are a slave to; may you become instrument in the Mighty hand of GOD in JESUS' Mighty name! Amen.

OLAADEGBU:
Our Maker also promised us persecution at the hands of the agents of the devil. Get your facts right.

Your two faced maker promised you good and bad experiences to make you feel the maker is at work when either of the sides hit you. What a clever way to fool you.

CyreB:
For a person like you it's either you have tasted the grace of GOD before and later sold yourself to the devil or you an agent anointed by him to come and cause others to fall.
Whichever catigory you belong, my prayer is that Almighty GOD your creator will set you free from Satan that you are a slave to; may you become instrument in the Mighty hand of GOD in JESUS' Mighty name! Amen.

Your main problem is extreme IGNORANCE, then lack of INFORMATION.

Liveair:
Your main problem is extreme IGNORANCE, then lack of INFORMATION.

Your case is not in anyway a surprise, because I have seen and keep seeing alot that were deeper in corrupt knowledge than you; whom the grace of God found and today are; a changed person(s).
Hence, prayer still holds that by the reason of the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for you, the mercy of God shall locate you. In Jesus name! Amen.

MOG's be collecting tithes and divorcing wives and saying how they are MOG's and spewing crap about kingdom finance , real Christians be converting Arab Muslims


BTW

Liveair:
Nothing new!
When faced with adversity, man by nature hopes in the Supernatural. Another delusion!
They probably haven't heard how many Christians in Nigerian churches have been killed by similar terrorists, while seeking help from same God.

confused nigga alert

youngice:
MOG's be collecting tithes and divorcing wives and saying how they are MOG's and spewing crap about kingdom finance , real Christians be converting Arab Muslims


BTW

confused nigga alert

Your moniker says it all!
You are too young to think properly. It should really be "youngMumu"

Ufranklin92:
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Maybe in your dreams. This news does not fit in to the political correctness required to make it to the front page.