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The reading is from Romans chapter 10, starting at verse 8.

But what does it say? The word is near to you. It is in your mouth and in your heart. That is the message concerning faith that we proclaim. If you declare with your mouth, Jesus is lord and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For it is with your heart that you believed and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As scripture says, anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame for there is no difference between you and gentile. The same lord is lord of all, and Richly blesses all who call on his on him. For everyone who calls on the name of the lord will be saved. How then can they call on the 1 they have not believed in?

And how can they believe in the 1 whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news? But not all the Israelites accepted the good news.

But Isaiah says, lord, who has believed our message. Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. But I ask, did they not hear? Of course they did, their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the end of the world. Again, I ask, did Israel not understand?

First, Moses says, I will make you envious by those who are not a nation. I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding. And Isaiah Boldy says, I was found by those who did not seek me. I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me, but concerning Israel, he says. All day long.

I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people. Now it it's really lovely to have the Browns with us. We've got Missus Brown. That's where it all started, I think. And their little browns came from her.

So very welcome. That's Paul Brown's mum. It's lovely to have you with us. And Paul is at the back there. It's lovely to have you, Paul.

Really lovely with Katie. Thank you for waving. Lovely to have you really lovely. But we also have Paul's brother, who is Ken, and Ken come up here, Ken is with us, and Ken's, a missionary, and we we we've sort of decided that it's good for us to hear from missionaries used to always get in church, missionary stories, and they were always fun. I I've got now I've got to not say the 1 that's gone through my mind.

It was a tribe called Yes. Stop it. I bet he knows what it is. Anyway, yes. Sorry.

I've got it out of my mind now. Anyways, lovely to have Ken. Ken and his wife and family, missionaries that were called over, well, over 20 years ago now to Mozambique, and Kenny's gonna tell us some stories, tell us a bit, I guess, about Mozambique. Well, it's really up to you. I don't wanna don't wanna make you do what you you haven't planned.

But we wanna hear those things, how god is working in Mozambique. Anybody know anything about Mozambique? Oh, well, we need to hear that good coffee, isn't it? Yeah. I know a Bob Dylan song called Mozambique.

That's that's really all I know about Mozambique. So it's over to you, Ken. Thank you for coming. Great to be with us, and tell us about what's going on with with you. Thank you.

Thank you, Peter. Well, thank you so much. It's so good to be here with you. And it's wonderful to be in a church that's full of friendly people. I just see the love and joy you have for each other and for worshipping God together.

It's beautiful. We shouldn't take it for granted, because many people don't have the opportunity to truly share deep fellowship with other Christians and to worship openly. We work with the Muslim people group in northern Mozambique, called the Makhuwa-N. I also work with other groups as a consultant, but that's where we started, with the Makhuwa-N. I would like to tell you more of our story.

I grew up in a Christian family. My mother and father taught me about God, and I went to Sunday School every week. I was a good boy, at least I looked like one. But when I was 13, I realised, actually, I'm a sinner. I really need God, but I was afraid what would happen to me if I died and stood before God, a holy God, and he asked me, why should I let you into heaven and I didn’t have an answer? But then I went to a youth camp and heard about the cross.

I already knew about the cross, but for the first time I realised that it was Jesus who died for my sins. He died for me so that I could be forgiven and accepted into God's family. That changed my life. I began to see the Bible as a letter from God, a love letter rather than just another book. I couldn't stop reading it. God's Word has the power to transform your life.

And I began to share my faith with my friends at school. But then in grade 11, I realised, I don't know, like, 80% of the people in my country because I was growing up in apartheid South Africa, and I didn't have black friends. I didn't know anyone except the worker who came to the house. And so I went on a summer campaign. Operation Mobilisation had a summer campaign to Gazankulu, and we lived in rough conditions, like on the floor.

I had diarrhoea. I got this terrible headache, but then God challenged me, saying I should stop thinking about myself and start loving the people around me. Suddenly, I felt an amazing joy—the joy of knowing that God was smiling on me. Despite my circumstances, I saw the joy of giving and loving. We used to sing a song that went like this: "What is on your heart? Tell me what to do. Let me know your will, and I will follow you. I want to give my life for something that will last forever. Oh, I delight. I delight to do your will."
And suddenly God showed me what is on his heart, revealing his heart for the lost, and I realised I wanted to give my life to something that would last forever. You know, having a successful career and earning lots of money doesn't have any eternal impact, but sharing our faith and seeing other people come to know God as a saviour does. That has eternal impact, and we are privileged to be able to do that. And so that began my calling to missions. I went to Bible school, worked in South Africa at a church plant in a squatter camp, and worked with street children. All of that prepared me for working overseas.

And then God said, now is the time. So I went to Mozambique in 2000 and joined a Youth for Christ family working there. That's when the floods hit. I don't know if any of you remember, but there were stories on the news about a woman giving birth to a baby in a tree because of the big floods. So we started flood relief, working with the young people affected by the floods in these big camps. And I was leading a team of Mozambicans and South Africans to do this.

And there, at a Bible school where we stopped for the night, I met my wife in the dark. It was pitch black, and we couldn't see each other's faces, but somehow she was drawn to me. I'm not that spiritual. I had to wait until the next day to see her face, and then it was amazing.

God showed me that "This is your wife." Soon, we were talking about life together, and within the year we were married. God was so good to give me a wife with a heart for missions and a love for the people. And we had him in common. I was 28 when I met her, and before that I'd been saying, "God, okay? I need a wife." But somehow God showed me that it's on the mission field that I'd meet my wife, because like-minded people would be there.

She was just volunteering at the Bible school at the time, and now she came full-time to Mozambique. It wasn't the easiest transition for her because I just added her to my life. We thought, "Ah, because we are so in love, there'd be no problems,” but there were. I learned that I needed to be much more caring and take care of her. We hit a bump in the road and went back to South Africa to get counselling and help.

I think the crazy thing is that people often keep going, even when there are problems, too afraid to ask for help. But God helped us find really good counsellors to help us deal with some of the baggage in our lives. You know, I thought I didn't have any baggage, but as soon as you get married, you realise you do. And suddenly, God helped us become stronger and more resilient. And we needed to become like that before we went to the north of Mozambique, where it was really rough, working with Muslims. So Wycliffe approached us while we were in South Africa and said, "Join us." And we went to Mozambique, then to Australia for linguistic training, and then in 2006 went to Mozambique.
And in northern Mozambique, we're asking God, which group do you want us to work with, and where do you want us to work? And he guided us to the Makhuwa-N people, who were nearly 100 per cent Muslim, along the coast of northern Mozambique province. And we didn't know where to go, which village. So we got in the car and travelled south, and asked God, please show us. And then we got to a T-junction in the road, and there was no way further south, and we thought, “What do we do?”

Okay. We turned left towards the coast, and then we saw a small road branching off to the right. We carried on along that road and reached a huge river. It was dry. It was December. It should have been raining, but the river was dry, and we could cross it in our 2 by 4 and keep going into thick bush. Eventually, we reached a small village, and we realised this was where God wanted us to be. God opened the way for us. This was amazing. The chief, or the king, as they call him, welcomed us, and so did the secretary of the area, and they became our cover.

You know, the amazing thing is that one weekend I went to see the king, but he wasn't there, so I asked my carpenter, "Please, where can I stay tonight?" He said, "Oh, yeah, come with me." He took me to his brother-in-law, and I stayed the weekend with him. We became friends. And then, in my broken Makhuwa, I said, "Oh, there are lots of mosquitoes out." He heard "Mosquita" and thought, "Oh, you want to go to the mosque" because that's what it means. So he took me there. I didn't know where I was going. And some people were looking suspiciously at me, saying, "Who's this guy?" Then I realised that the man I was staying with was the wallimu of the whole area, one of the important Muslim leaders there. We had become friends, and suddenly we couldn't be enemies anymore. God just opened the door, opened the way so that we had favour even with the Muslim leaders. It was amazing.

We had a little son who was 1 year old. Now he's 19, and he adapted well, although it was a bit rough at the beginning. We lived in a shell of a house, which was amazing because it had solid walls built by the Portuguese, and I just had to renovate it. But we learned the culture. We studied the culture and the language and began to see how lost the people were and how little light they had. As we studied the culture, we began to see what the people needed. We thought we'd be able to play them Scripture in a related dialect of Makhuwa; we thought they would understand that, but they weren't getting it. So we decided to translate a panorama of Bible stories from Genesis to Revelation.

And as we were choosing stories that would speak to the culture and to the issues in the culture, there were certain things that were like open doors and bridges, which we could build on, because they knew the names of the prophets. So we knew that if we used the Arabic terms for those prophets, like Isa, the stories would be more acceptable. And so we translated the stories that they knew of; well, at least they knew the names of the prophets. And that was like a common ground, which we could build on.

They were fisherman, so they loved the stories of Jesus and the disciples who went fishing. These were ways, bridges we could use. But there were barriers, like they didn't believe in the divinity of Christ. So we would find stories that specifically spoke to that. For example, the story of the healing of the paralytic, where the Pharisees ask, "Who but God can forgive sins?" And there we presented Jesus as the one who can forgive sins. And others, like when Jesus calmed the storm and said, "Be still," and the disciples said, "Who is this? He can speak to the wind and the waves, and they obey.” And so we're showing that Jesus had power over the natural world. And there are many stories that we could tell and translate into Makhuwa-N that spoke to specific needs and broke down some of those barriers or strongholds in people's minds. And as people heard the word of God, they began to realise that what they had been told about errors in the Bible was not true, because God's truth resonated with them, and they began to become more and more open to the gospel and the Scriptures.

And then I met a man called S. He was our first fluent Portuguese-speaking translator. The king and the secretary who actually helped me learn the language, but their Portuguese wasn't very good. And then I learned from S, who was at one of the Bible studies I was leading. We had these listening and discussion groups, and he told me directly, 'You know, your Makhuwa-N is terrible. You need help.'

He came, helped me, and became one of our translators. God provided the people we needed, and he became a follower of Jesus. He was among the first to come to faith in Christ, and he found another man and shared his faith with him. L also became a follower of Jesus. So L, S, and R were the translators.

We continue to translate orally because the Makhuwa-N people are not a book people. They don't read books, and they communicate orally. So we did oral Bible translation, using various techniques to internalise the Scriptures and then speak them from memory, which we recorded. And then, obviously, we checked them for accuracy and had them consultant-checked. Those oral Scriptures became available to the people.

We gave them out on little microSD cards, and they put them into their phones, and they could listen to the Scriptures. And people loved listening to them. And they were on digital players, and they listened on the players and loved them. And soon the Scriptures really had an impact, like one of the Scriptures that meant a lot to team was John 14, where Jesus said to his disciples, "Don't let your heart be troubled. I'm going to prepare a place for you." In my Father's house, there are many rooms, and I'm going to prepare a place for you. And if I go, I'll come back and fetch you to take you to where I am. You know the way. And then Philip said, "We don't know the way." He said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. And you know the Father.” And Thomas said, "We don't know the Father. Show him to us.” He said, “I've lived with you so long. And you don't know me. The Father and I are one.”

That passage speaks of assurance, assurance of salvation. This is something completely new and foreign to Muslims. Then they cannot be sure. Not even Mohammed was sure that he was saved. And the only way to be sure is through jihad, you know, dying fighting for their faith. And now we were, we were sharing the revelation of God that Jesus is going to prepare a place for us, and we'll come back and fetch us. And this was amazing news to them, to know. They could know they were saved. They could know that there's a place in heaven prepared for them. And then there's the truth that Jesus is the only way to the Father, and not good works; nothing can bring us to the Father except going through him. He's the only mediator between God and us.

We study these passages together; when you internalise a passage, you have to discuss it, understand it, and memorise it before you translate it. This oral translation process was very effective for discipleship, and the translators became my disciples. Then, when L tragically lost his daughter to malaria and had to bury her, no one else would because he was a believer. But he used John 14 as a passage and could preach with hope, saying, "My daughter is in the place Jesus has prepared for her." The people were amazed by his hope. His family members were angry with him, saying, "You're following Jesus now, and we're not going to help you with other ceremonies. And if you die, we're not going to bury you.” And he said, "I don't care. You can just leave me there to be eaten by the animals. I don't care because I know my soul will be with God in heaven." He had real hope.
The problem in Islam is fear. The whole religion is based on fear, and now they had a problem because L didn't have fear. And so, persecution only works when there's fear. And we have an amazing gospel where we are drawn to God by his love. And we obey him and worship him because we love him. We love him because he first loved us. We love other people because he first loved us. That draws us to him, and so people who became followers of Jesus began to show real love that others didn't understand.

When we finished translating this 90-story set, we really felt that we needed to get it out to a wider audience. So we created radio dramas based on those stories. And those radio dramas are just basically a question in the culture linked to a story in the Bible on the same theme. And a very simple dialogue between 2 men or women. As the man shares a story, the guy who asked the questions says, “Oh, now I understand,” and he answers his own question. So, so it was a simple way of taking the Scripture and applying it to the culture; to a real need in the culture. And then giving an application.

And so we created these stories and these radio dramas and started broadcasting them on 2 local radio stations. And these People phoned in and, and, and said how much they loved the stories. And I wanted to know where they came from, even though we said clearly it was from the Bible; they thought these were stories from the hadith or something like that. And so, it wasn't something foreign.

You know, the Makhuwa-N people have been exposed to Christianity for over 500 years. The first church built in the Southern Hemisphere was among them, but almost none of them became followers of Jesus. Why? Because it was religion that was presented to them, not the Bible, not real faith. So the Catholic religion for them was almost, in their eyes, idolatry because they were honouring these statues. And so they rejected Christianity, but when they heard the Word of God in their heart language, in their mother tongue, suddenly they became open and receptive to this message and began to understand God's heart.

Another story they love is the story of the prodigal son. For them, God was far, distant and unknowable. But here was a story of a father who embraced his prodigal son, restored him, and showed a love and acceptance they had not known. Suddenly they were coming to know God as a God who loves them and as a father. And so these radio broadcasts went out, and people phoned in and spoke to S and L. They went out and visited them, and started little Discovery Bible study groups amongst them. They were men of peace who called in and asked them to visit, and then those people discovered their friends and family around them and started little Discovery Bible study groups.

We give them a microSD card or a digital audio player and tell them to ask 5 basic questions to help them apply the Scriptures. Like: What did you like about the story? What did you learn about man? What did you learn about God? What difference will the story make in your life? And who else needs to hear the story? Those basic questions help these seekers learn the Bible together. And with Muslims, it's not often a sudden conversion because it takes time for them to understand. As they listened to those stories, their faith grew. The passage we read from Romans 10 says, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ. As they hear the truth of the Word, their faith grows, grows, and eventually they can come to a point where they can change allegiance from Islam to Christianity, not just change allegiance but be strong enough to withstand persecution, because when you're in a little Bible study group, at least you have each other to fall back on when your family reject you or speak badly about you. But so 14 of these little Bible study groups started all along the coast, and S and L would visit them and encourage them as often as they could.

And so, now we can say that many of those people have moved from being seekers to being followers of Jesus. God is at work amongst the Makhuwa-N people. And we've made radio dramas based on every book we've translated: the books of Luke, John and Exodus and broadcast them every day on local radio stations. And so every day, people get a 5- to 10-minute radio drama where they can learn and grow in their faith.

And praise God, I've been able to share this method of creating radio dramas with other translation teams. I've just come back from Mozambique, where I visited 6 other language teams and taught them how to make the Scripture applicable to their culture. One of the participants said to me, "This is amazing. So God's Word can answer any question in my culture. Any question I have." Suddenly God's Word is seen as relevant, speaking to those deep cultural needs that most people don't know there are answers for. But there are real answers. And so I just praise God for the way His Word is having an impact. His Word is powerful and doesn't return void. And so we are privileged to be able to translate it in a way that is culturally acceptable and understandable. That gets beyond the barriers people put up. Because it's oral, it doesn't seem too intimidating, and it somehow gets in through the back door. That's the amazing thing about God's Word and the stories in the Bible: it's not like polemical preaching where you're saying you're wrong, Mohammed is wrong. We just let God's words speak, and then, over time, people's hearts change, and the Holy Spirit uses the Word to transform their hearts and minds. That's what the Bible says: “the truth will set you free” The truth of God's Word has been setting people free from darkness, from fear, from oppression, and it's amazing to be part of that. So I just want to say thank you for your prayers, and it's a privilege to share something of that with you.

That's terrific, isn't it? We can go to a place and think about the culture, but it's the word of God that does it. And that's, you know, we're in this situation here as well, aren't we? We've got to keep learning how to reach people with the word of God; that was really helpful. Thank you very much. I'll ask for anything you've got any questions in a minute, but there is this little leaflet about what you're doing. I think that'll be at the back somewhere, or you're not getting it at the door, or you can stand there, and you can come and ask any questions you want to, or take this little leaflet about Wycliffe translators as well. So that's brilliant. Are there any pressing questions?

Ken, when you came to our hundred, you told a wonderful story about a brother of the man who was sweeping outside. Oh, yes. Yes. So he asked a question, just in case you can't hear it, about a story about a man sweeping outside your house. Yeah.

So while we were translating John 14, Ibrahimu, our worker, was getting closer and closer to our translation office. And he wouldn't want to leave? So we invited him to come and sit with us and listen. And he was so impressed by John 14, which says you can actually be sure you're saved and that Jesus has gone to create a place for you. And so he was so impressed that he actually named his cat, João Quatorze, which means John 14 in Portuguese.

So the Lord uses a cat; it's like the word got out as well. Any other questions? Yep. Really like the sound of the dramas that you do. Yes.
Just an example of 1 of the cultural needs. Okay. So the question is, love the dramas that you're doing. Can you give an idea of the cultural need and then the drama that goes with it?

Okay. For example, 1 of the questions would be, "Oh, I see this brother's fighting conflict in the home." Why, why do some siblings fight? And then, well, I know a story about that. Can I tell you? And I'll tell you a story of Cain and Abel, for example. And then the guy says, well, now I understand: It's because of envy that brothers can fight, have conflict, and even kill each other. And so that's just a very simple example. Many others speak to real cultural needs, like fear, as in the story of the calming of the sea; Someone would say in the drama they are so afraid of a specific thing in the culture. And then the answer would be, "Can I tell you a story from the Bible that may answer your question?" And he tells the story of how Jesus calmed the storm. The asker realised, "Oh, wow. So Jesus has power over even the wind and the waves, and if I fear him, I don't need to fear the world." And, and so there's different ways of linking a specific question in the culture to a story in the Bible, and then applying it to that question.

You were saying that they're about 10 minutes long, did you say? Or was it 5 to 10 minutes?

5 to 10 minutes. Yeah.

Well, we'll definitely be nicking that idea. That's down on the agenda. I can tell you. So our preacher group will be doing that. So thank you for that. Are we there? Any other
questions? Yep.

Maybe just to get practical with a specific prayer request?

Well, yeah, one of the sad things that has happened is that S has just recently died. We suspect poisoning. And so we pray for his family and also for the person who's going to take his place. He had been discipling L,

How old was he?

He was about 55. He discipled L, and then L discipled a guy called D. And D is now taking it further and doing the role of visiting these Bible study groups that S had been visiting and discipling those people.

But, yeah, there is a real danger of persecution in the culture. And so we just pray for God's protection over the translators and especially D now in this new role.

Are you still friends with the big Muslim man that you first met?

No. He's died.

Oh, he's died. Okay. And what about the king?

Yeah. I'm still friends with him. You know, conspiracy theories abound in societies where there's no truth. And so even the king is being accused of bringing cholera to the village and stuff like that. And so there are many accusations, and the whole thing is that the village looks calm and peaceful on the surface. Still, below the surface, people are accusing each other of sorcery and curses, and these curses and counter-curses, and these things are real. They go to the witch doctors and try to take revenge for things that happened. But they will not say anything out loud. They won't fight in public, but they use magic and spiritual means to try and harm each other. That's why the gospel is so powerful, because we can tell a story, like the story of Balaam, who couldn't curse Israel. And God protects his people from these curses. And so the beautiful stories that speak against the lies in the culture and expose them.

And so, yeah, if you could pray for the Makhuwa-N people, many of whom are still in darkness, that they would be transformed as they listen to these radio dramas or join one of these Discovery Bible study groups and grow in their faith.

Thank you. Anything else? Yep. 1 more.

Could you quickly tell us, when you and Corine were here, you told us a story about how having children helped you really embed in that form? Yes. So the question is about you and Corine, your wife, having children and how that helped you embed in the culture. Yeah. So, so we went to the village with a little 1-year-old F. He was an amazing little kid. He adapted well to the culture, and wherever we went, he would open doors for us. You know, I think there's something about being a man. You're kind of seen as a foreigner, but as soon as you have a wife and children, people see you as normal. And so God really opened the way, and Corine had an amazing way of connecting with the women. We had a second child, Fa, while we were there, and she became such a part of the people that she would walk around, and everyone would offer her bread. And then she became so much part of the Makhuwa-N that she would start eating the fish with the head still on. What we basically did was to live life and show them what life can be like as a Christian family. Although we were never a perfect Christian family, to be honest. But there was that common ground the children brought, and they broke the ice.

And so we were able to connect, especially Corine. I'll tell you one more story if we have time. Corine met a woman who had lost 7 children in childbirth. And she felt, “No, this is wrong. Something's wrong here.” This woman was very afraid because she was pregnant and waiting for her next child. And Corine said she's going to sit with her every day and read early in the morning, read the Proverbs that she'd been translating. And every day, she would sit in her little hut and read a proverb, and pray for the woman. But we had to leave to visit another village or area, and when we came back, the child was born already, and Corine went to visit her and felt that the umbilical cord was hot. She knew the child was infected and said to the woman, "Let me take you to the hospital” but she said, “No, we can't; for 7 days, we're not allowed to leave the huts because the child will catch the wind.” Those were the words she used. And so, Corine phoned a friend who recommended which antibiotics to get. And she crushed them up and gave them to the child. And the child lived and was healthy, and it was the first child after the 7 deaths. And it turned out that the mother-in-law used to cut the umbilical cord with a dirty knife.

Much later, when Corine went back and visited that family, this woman was surrounded by these little children. And she said, who are these children? Are they your grandchildren? And she said, no, these are my children. She had had 7 children, all healthy and good. And that was because of just attention and love and teaching them basic hygiene, and the proverbs, reading those proverbs with her in the morning, somehow helped her, and God did a miracle.

And now that's a testimony of how God can change someone's life practically. Brilliant. Thank you, Ken. You can speak to Ken afterwards. He'll have his little leaflets.
That's really helpful. Thank you. Just very briefly, Romans 10:14 says this. How then can they call on the one whom they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the 1 whom they have not heard?

And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent, as it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news'? And the question is, are we going to have beautiful feet? Yes. So Ken and his wife and family have beautiful feet. They really do.

Don't know what their feet are quite like, but they have beautiful feet because beautiful feet are sweaty and gnarled, and they're taking the gospel out to different places. And we've got to be a church like that. We've got to learn to get that gospel and have beautiful feet because how are they going to believe if they haven't heard? We've got to be ever so ever so zealous about getting people to hear in this country. We're in a town in a city where nations come to us.

We've got to welcome nations. We've got to learn how to do the Bible dramas so they understand. We've got a nation full of young people with all kinds of problems that the Bible answers—anxiety, depression, sadness, loneliness. We need to do those stories.

We need to do those stories and get them out and use social media for something decent rather than look at me. I'm now buying some milk at the supermarket, and you can follow me. We need to actually get those out. But also, we need to be sending people out like Ken to other nations.

And that's a burden that we want to have more and more: that the lord would raise up harvesters. We're living in a country where churches are desperate for preachers. There aren't many around, and blokes aren't going into ministry. They're not going into ministry. For lots and lots of reasons, I can give you some of them if you want, but there are lots of reasons.

So we want to train men up. We want to get preachers out. And we want to have preaching here, but we want to send people out into other nations. While we've heard the good news of Jesus, and the good news of Jesus is for all people, for all the earth, your plan is to take that good news to use feet to take this message around the world and preach the gospel. And we thank you for what we've heard about Ken.

And what he's doing there in Mozambique- what a joy it is to hear those stories. You're working amongst Muslims, bringing them to Jesus, and that is such good news. And we want to see that in our own area. We have a mosque. Just up the road with hundreds of Muslims that go every Friday.

And Father, they need Jesus, not Mohammed; they need Jesus in their hearts. They need to know what it is to come and hear the gospel; help us to proclaim this, we pray. Whatever the cost, help us to have feet that are beautiful as we take the message out. And so bless us now. We go in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.