PETR JASEK: Imprisoned With ISIS
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 30 May 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In 2015, Petr Jasek traveled to Khartoum, Sudan, to meet with pastors and other Christians to evaluate how The Voice of the Martyrs—a ministry Petr has served with since 2002—could help and encourage persecuted Sudanese believers.
Petr was arrested at the airport on his way out of the country, charged with espionage and other crimes and sentenced to life in prison before the Czech government negotiated his release.
The story of Petr's imprisonment—and the ministry God allowed him inside—is told in a brand new book, Imprisoned with ISIS: Faith in the Face of Evil. You'll receive a copy of this outstanding book for free when you make a donation to VOM here.
Listen as Petr shares his story and updates listeners on his current ministry around the world.
Petr first told his story to VOM Radio listeners just nine days after his release. You can hear that conversation—recorded in Prague—here.
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| 0:00.0 | Peter Yassick was placed in prison in Sudan after going to the country to encourage church leaders there. |
| 0:08.4 | When he first arrived in prison, he woke up fighting discouragement every day. |
| 0:14.0 | But then he started looking at the prison as a mission field, |
| 0:19.0 | praying for fellow prisoners and preaching the gospel of Christ to them. |
| 0:25.0 | When he did that, things began to change. |
| 0:28.6 | Since the moment I started to preach all mornings, sadnesses, you know, and all these worries in the morning disappeared. |
| 0:37.0 | And every morning after this first sermon in Ahuda Chippel became a joyful morning when I was able not only to pray for my family |
| 0:46.6 | but also to pray for my fellow prisoners, you know, sitting on the ground, you know, around me and shivering and praying for them that the Lord also would |
| 0:58.1 | speak to their hearts even or would drag them to the chapel so that they could hear the gospel there. |
| 1:08.2 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 1:11.4 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent |
| 1:15.3 | them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's words came true in the life of the |
| 1:19.8 | Apostles and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 1:25.0 | Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. |
| 1:30.0 | Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. |
| 1:33.0 | Welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Todd Nettleton in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. |
| 1:38.0 | Our guest today is in Prague, Czech Republic. |
| 1:41.0 | If you've listened to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio for a long time |
| 1:44.5 | you'll remember in 2017 I went to Prague to interview Peter Yossick just nine days |
| 1:51.6 | after his release from prison in Sudan. |
| 1:55.0 | We aired that interview. |
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