Dear Friend of Remember,

It is hard to stop praising God for the success He poured out on our team while we were in the Middle East! Not only were we kept safe, but we were able to accomplish all of our goals and then some. I cannot think back on the stories we heard and the people we met without my heart breaking all over again, but at the same time I cannot think about the opportunities that we have without incredible excitement.

Thanks to your donations and prayers, we were able to reach out to persecuted believers in very tangible ways. We provided thirty heaters, more than thirty blankets, and other supplies to Iraqi Christians practically exiled in Amman, Jordan, to give them what they need to survive the cold winter. We bought a bed for the young widow of a martyr in Sudan that had no other place to rest after working long hours to feed her four children. And everywhere we went, we were able to minister encouragement to our fellow believers.

We talked to countless people with incredible stories of persecution. In the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan, for instance, we asked a gathering of pastors and church leaders if they had stories of persecution in their own lives—and pastor after pastor after pastor came and told us their stories of fathers and brothers being killed, mothers and sisters abused and left without a provider. We talked to widows, we talked to orphans, and we talked to torture victims, all people who have experienced true, gut-level suffering for holding fast in their beliefs.

Now that we have taken this trip to find the need, our next months will be busy finding ways to meet it. The door has been opened for us; please pray that God would provide resources to enable us to step through and increase our blessing to our brothers and sisters in Christ.

If you would like to see pictures of our trip, follow this link. Also, for the next few weeks I will be talking about what we saw and accomplished on this trip in The Weekly Reminder. To sign up, follow this link.

Yours for the Persecuted Church,

Gabriel J. Waddell, Executive Director

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