Month: May 2014

  • What is GEHARP?

    Looking for a new way to inspire your prayers for North Africa? We sure hope so. We love and value your prayers for this region of the world and know that your prayers ARE making a huge difference! GEHARP is an acronym that is really useful when praying for communities and nations. Why don’t you…

  • The Blessing of Stability in Morocco

    Morocco seems to have stayed the most stable country in North Africa through out the revolutions and upheavals of the last 3 years. Why? There are some secular explanations. This article is a really interesting discussion and analysis of the stability in Morocco : http://muftah.org/the-aborted-revolution-in-morocco/ There may be some other explanations too. Many believe that…

  • I Always Thought I Knew God

    I Always Thought I Knew God

    A worker in Egypt shares about a friend: B and her sisters, aunts and grandmother have had many spiritual conversations with her two Christian friends. She was touched by one friend’s salvation testimony and has seen dramatic answers when the friends prayed on her behalf. She has inner turmoil in reconciling these experiences with what…

  • Mauritanian Refugees Return to Their Homeland

    About 20 years ago many Mauritanians fled their country due to ethnic tensions and have been living in refugee camps in Senegal and Mali ever since. During 2014 the UNHCR plans to help a further 8000 of them return to Mauritania to re-settle in their homeland. Some have returned spontaneously, specially those from Mali, as…

  • Can You Have Faith for North Africa?

    Can You Have Faith for North Africa?

    Source: Ffald-y-Brenin Do you ever find it hard to really believe that God’s Kingdom can grow in North Africa? Yes, the work can be hard and slow. And yet, we hear more and more stories of how the Church is growing all across North Africa. Do you find it easier now to imagine, than 10…

  • Burst From the Heavens Above Morocco!

    Burst From the Heavens Above Morocco!

    Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down!     How the mountains would quake in your presence! As fire causes wood to burn     and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble.     Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame! —Isaiah 64:1-2 Call…

  • How Does This Photo Lead You to Pray?

    “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage…

  • More Opportunities to Share in Cafes!

    More Opportunities to Share in Cafes!

    Some workers in a North African country were in a cafe and chatted briefly with the waitress asking if there was anything they would pray for her.  She replied that her husband was unemployed and looking for work.  So they prayed that her husband would find a job.  Some time later they returned to the…

  • Opportunities to Share in Cafes

    A group of young workers have been regularly going to a cafe which is popular with college age students.  Students go to this cafe to study but also to talk and hang out.  Its been a great place to meet with young North Africans.  Its clear that there is much shaking happening among the youth…

  • Amazing Testimonies from Algeria

    Miraculous healing: When visiting Kabilye believers in the east, I met a man from a village where at least one-third of the people are believers. He was in his late twenties when he discovered he had a terminal brain tumour. His sister-in-law, a believer, told him, “This cancer is not for death, but for God’s…