Pray For the World: Northern Africa and the Middle EastShembull

Some people who live in remote, isolated, or even closed areas have yet to hear the gospel. It seems impossible that the good news can penetrate these barriers, but God is faithful. In the Horn of Africa, millions of people live in rural villages that are a half-day’s walk, or more, from the nearest paved road. There, the gospel is spread through written form, radio, solar-powered recording devices, cell phone memory cards, oral storytelling, and showings of the Jesus film. In Northern Africa, following the Arab Spring, some, but not all, closed countries have become open to the gospel. One country in particular is home to more than one million Arabs who have never heard the gospel and have no witness among them. Recently, this country has opened its borders to outsiders so that they can come to give aid to their hurting people.

Pray that the gospel would continue to overcome physical barriers. Ask that many will go with a helping hand and words of truth to Northern African countries open to receiving help.