Twice a year, I invite Muslim Connect readers to contribute to keep this email going and growing. This is the last week of the winter push. If you’ve been considering a gift, now’s the time. You can give a gift here. (Click in the “Select Designation” window, find me and follow the prompts.) Thank you very much.
Barely three hours into the new year and hell breaks loose in New Orleans. Devastating for those who perished, were injured or simply were there and the families of them all. If you love Muslims and want to see them follow Jesus, don’t lose heart. People do bad things. All of us do, some on a grander scale than others.
In pleasanter news, a couple of buddies are boarding a plane this morning for India. Through their jet lag haze, they’ll puzzle with a couple dozen mission leaders from around the country over the apparent 700+ people groups in India who still have zero gospel workers among them. (Many of those people groups are Muslim.) By God’s grace they’ll collaborate on a plan for information and action that will reduce the 700 to zero.
This feels like a watershed for our little cadre, a starting line to which we’ve been slowly shuffling for several years. Would you join me in praying for this gathering?
How about we pray for the whole sub-continent colossus while we’re at it? India is home to more Muslims than all but two countries. Yet, Muslims make up less than 15% of India’s population! More people live in India than all of North and South America! India has more unengaged unreached peoples than the next 40 largest UUPG countries combined!
Yet, and this is the gut punch, India receives only one-fourth as many international workers as the USA receives! Of course among the ~3% of Indians who are Christian, there are many valiant gospel messengers. May God empower them, strengthen them with partners from around the globe and bless them with kingdom success beyond their wildest dreams.
Here’s the last invitation to give until the summer. Thank you.
For more on the challenge of India, please see page 14 in this article.