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Helping
FRONT LINE MISSIONARIES
is our PASSION!
Are
you one of those missionaries like me, who prayed for M u s l i m s, but
knew very little about them? You went to the mission field, not even
assigned to work in M u s l i m ministries and yet found yourself among them...
with no formal training to share your faith? You found little help and
resources were difficult to find? If this describes you, the I s a
Project CD was designed with
you in mind.
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In
1976, I arrived to my first missionary assignment in Africa. My job was in
literature work. I was living in a village environment where my back yard
ended in the village.
Soon,
I became very aware of the I s l a m i c community round about me. In the
villages, the shops, the stores, the fishermen . . . everywhere there were
M u s l i m s. I found myself
woefully ignorant of I s l a m and of M u s l i m s in general.
As
I shared my faith with my new friends, I was opposed by their doctrine -
sometimes familiar, most often bitter. I felt shamed at my
ignorance of their faith and not being able to give an answer for the
reason of the hope that was in me. I was also frustrated as to how my lack
of understanding of their culture and religion kept me from making friends
easily.
I
turned to other missionaries and tried to find materials locally available
to enlighten me of my new found friends and their faith. Very little was
available on M u s l i m resources. So few in fact, that I became very
frustrated. In 1977 I prayed a prayer in frustration. I asked God to give
me the desire of my heart. I wanted to do everything I could to see that
others would not share the same disappointment and frustrations I
did.
Since
that time, many things have changed. Far more is now available for M
u s l i m ministry resources. Books, booklets, tracts, audio tape,
and now, videotape. There are many excellent organizations devoting time,
energy, and funds addressing those needs. We wish to partner with their
vision as they donate the use of their resources through our CD
Missions
by Modem International has been raised up for this purpose; to serve as a
conduit where so many, who have developed excellent resources, now have a
way of getting those helps into the hands of the people who need them most
and into the hearts who are the most resistant.
About
five years ago, while doing postgraduate studies in California, I made a
proposal for this CD project and others outlined in the projects
area of this site. We are now preparing our 4th version for
distribution.
With joy, we have been watching God supply our needs and we continue to
depend on Him to provide. Hundreds of CDs have been distributed and we are
preparing more to ship at this time.
Please
pray
and partner with us to reach M u s l i m s for Christ. Help support this
ministry by giving
so the CDs can be produced and sent to our missionaries who need it
most... and free of charge.
Gifts
are tax deductible and all proceeds go directly to this ministry and NOT
to the personal support of any individual or mission agency. This is a
joint effort by more than 40 members worldwide and several mission
agencies are participating.
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