MIDDLE EAST: Healings, Dreams & God's Love Drawing Refugees to Christ

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🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes and their countries amidst war and upheaval in the Middle East. Pastor Abraham and Sara are living as representatives of God's love to displaced people in the Middle East. The ministry can be messy and difficult, yet they persist in demonstrating love in practical ways. And they are seeing great fruit for their ministry.

Abraham and Sara will share how one woman—the widow of an imam—had heard all kinds of negative things about Christians. But when she came to the church, she found something very different: people who loved her and helped her. Listen to hear the story of how God answered the woman's prayer within 24 hours, and how a dream led her to commit her life to Jesus.

Leaving Islam behind to follow Jesus comes with a cost, though. Abraham and Sara will also share what Christian persecution looks like in the region, including pressure from families or tribes as well as Islamists or government authorities.

"We are planting seeds," Sara says, "we are the tools for His Kingdom."

Pray for Abraham & Sara's ministry as they serve lost and forgotten people in the Middle East and seek to reveal Christ's love for them.

The International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians (IDOP) is only a few weeks away. The Voice of the Martyrs offers resources to help you and your church pray for persecuted Christians on November 2—and throughout the year. Be sure to watch the new short film telling the story of ongoing persecution in Democratic Republic of Congo—and how God is bringing healing to Christians who've suffered attacks and trauma. Access all the IDOP resources here.

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0:00.0	A church in the Middle East decided to open their doors to refugees.
0:05.0	Pastor Abraham tells us this was a huge inconvenience for the church.
0:10.2	But Jesus loved us when we were unlovable, and he called this church to love refugees.
0:19.4	Every week they fight.
0:27.6	They steal, they break things, they take things from toilet, from anything they see, they took it. And instead of taking one food package, they want to take two or they want to steal the other, unfortunately.
0:34.6	But take around two years, two years to start to see the change in their life.
0:43.1	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world
0:48.9	would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's words came true in the life of the apostles, and they're still coming true today
0:57.7	in the lives of his followers around the world.
1:00.3	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help.
1:05.0	Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network.
1:08.0	Welcome again to The Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
1:10.0	My name is Todd Nettleton, and we are in the
1:11.9	studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with two guests, and we're going to give each of them one name,
1:17.8	and it's not their real name. So you'll understand that as we talk about what they do as ministers
1:22.7	of the gospel in the Middle East, but we have Pastor Abraham and Sister Sara with us today. Welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
1:31.0	Oh, thank you very much for the invitation. We appreciate it. We are very excited to have you here. Let me ask you
1:39.2	about ministry in the Middle East because we think of, you know, as we think across the Middle East,
1:44.4	there's different levels of restriction, different levels of pressure, different levels of violence,
1:49.6	even.
1:50.5	What is it like to be a pastor in a very Muslim context where you know you could be targets?
1:58.7	It's not easy to be a pastor and minister in middle east because of
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