MIDDLE EAST: "Recovery is a Man Named Jesus"
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 30 April 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Joe and Dawn are back on VOM Radio share what the Lord has been doing through their discipleship training and Bible smuggling ministry in the Middle East. They will also share how God opened a new door to ministry among women trapped in prostitution.
Joe and Dawn are involved in Bible delivery to persecuted Christians in Iran. Believers targeted by the Iranian regime face the challenging choice to flee the country or stay, knowing they could be imprisoned for their faith. A Christian sister has recently begun a two-year prison sentence, yet she reported to prison excited about the ministry opportunities God had prepared for her in prison.
In spite of so much Christian persecution, thousands of Iranians are choosing to follow Christ. Joe says that for many of them, "Islam is getting old." It is exciting for Joe and Dawn to be involved in the great harvest of church growth happening among people of the Middle East.
There are also burdens Joe and Dawn carry as they labor in this ministry work. Listen to hear how they choose to give their anxieties to the Lord each day, and how they think about raising their children in a "dangerous" part of the world. They will share some of the key lessons they want their children to notice in their lives and in God's work around them.
Last time they visited VOM Radio, Joe shared his testimony of how he met Jesus as a prisoner through God's Word, and how his life was completely changed. Listen here as he tells how God transformed him from a prisoner and criminal into a committed follower of Christ.
Joe and Dawn will also encourage you to pray for open doors to deliver Bibles across all parts of Iran, and for their family during a season of rest and Sabbath with the Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | Joe and Don have been involved in Bible smuggling in the Middle East for years. |
| 0:04.7 | They had a heart to reach out to women in the region trapped in prostitution, |
| 0:10.3 | but they weren't quite sure how to connect. Then they started discipling a woman who was a new |
| 0:16.8 | believer in Christ. God had saved her out of a life of prostitution. She really began to |
| 0:24.7 | say, hey, this is who I was and I want to go back and I want to share the gospel. |
| 0:32.7 | And immediately God began to bear fruit and she's got tattoos, you know, and she's like, so |
| 0:39.0 | they come in and they see me and they can't believe that God could love someone with my past, |
| 0:46.5 | with my tattoos, with my pink hair. But I'm like, yeah! |
| 0:50.8 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the |
| 0:58.0 | world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the |
| 1:04.2 | life of the apostles and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around |
| 1:08.8 | the world. Join host Todd Netletons. We hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help |
| 1:14.5 | right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:19.6 | My name is Todd Netletons and we're in the studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma with two |
| 1:25.6 | first name only guests and we've actually had them here before. We call them Joe and Don. They |
| 1:32.3 | are serving the Lord in the Middle East. They are especially involved in delivering |
| 1:36.8 | Bibles into a very closed country in the Middle East. We will talk more about that. Joe and Don, |
| 1:43.5 | welcome back to Voice of the Martyrs Radio. Thank you. And I want to encourage you if |
| 1:49.3 | you are listening to go back to our archives at vioameradio.net and listen to our first conversation |
| 1:55.6 | with Joe and Don. One part of that conversation, Joe talked about his own testimony as a former |
| 2:01.9 | criminal, someone who was a prisoner because of his crimes. Now risking going to prison to deliver |
| 2:08.6 | the Bible into hostile and restricted nations. So I want to encourage you again, vioameradio.net. You |
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