MIDDLE EAST
by Jane Knoop
TRUSTING IN HIS TIMING Throughout the spring months, when much of the world was in lockdown and international travel had ground to a halt, Joanna and Luke* were busy planning to leave their London home and set out to serve God in the Middle East.
Global Editor, Jane, asked Joanna what it has been like to pursue this journey in a tumultuous year. Why have they persevered and what has God been teaching them? Isn’t this terrible timing to be thinking about sharing the Gospel overseas?! Looking at it from the outside, yes I guess it is! There is so much unknown! Will there be a second wave? What will the situation be like in the Middle East in a few months? Will our flights be cancelled? But when we look at it from God’s perspective, this is the very time to be taking His love to the least reached. The world has and will always need the message of the good news of Jesus. Take me back to the beginning. How did this all start? Simply, it started with an unsettledness. A restlessness. We knew that God was prompting us to make a change, but we didn’t know what. This began last summer. In time we realised that God was perhaps pushing us to think a bit more proactively about going overseas.
“WE KNOW THAT FOR GOD, PROVIDING FOR US TO GO OVERSEAS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS NOTHING FOR HIM.”
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