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The Five World Belief Systems The 10/40 Window is an invisible rectangular area of North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and parts of the former Soviet Union. It is located approximately between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude. Sadly, this needy part of the world is often referred to as the “Resistant Belt” of the Gospel. This region of the world is crowded with two-thirds of the world’s population. Most of the poorest people in the world can be found there. Many live on less than $2.00 a day and have little money for food or health care. Life expectancy is lower than in many...

“I prefer dying to running away” Solomon Ginsburg "Firebrand of Brazil" 1867-1927 Born in Poland to a Jewish Rabbi, Solomon converted to Christ and mentored in London. While studying Isaiah 53, he bought a New Testament and the Savior was revealed. “I realized I must cast my lot with Jesus! I was forgiven and accepted! My load was lifted! My sins were washed away!” Announcing his conversion to his uncle, young Solomon was ultimately cursed, rejected and disinherited by his entire family. Giving testimony to others, particularly Jews, Ginsburg’s testimony reads like that of the Apostle Pau...

Woman, how divine your mission, Here upon our natal sod; Keep—oh, keep the young heart open Always to the breath of God! All true trophies of the ages Are from mother-love impearled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. ~ William Ross Wallace ~

Since there are some people reading this article who will not be familiar with you and your ministry, could you give us some background information about you and your family? Vickie and I met in the sixth grade at Milford Christian Academy (MCA) after Vickie’s family moved to Ohio to join First Baptist Church and enter the Bearing Precious Seed (BPS) ministry. One year after graduation from MCA, we were married and moved to Aiken, SC, where Vickie was originally from. After several years of God working in our hearts, we moved back to Ohio to serve in BPS. For the last 15 years, we have tra...

Since there are some people reading this article who will not be familiar with you and your ministry, could you give us some background information about you and your family? I was born in Cincinnati. I grew up going to church… but I was lost. At the end of my eighth grade year my mom moved our family to Milford; we started attending FBCM shortly thereafter. Dr. Keen was preaching one Sunday night in June of 1998. I heard a clear presentation of the Gospel and I was deeply convicted in my heart. That night, before I went to sleep, I knelt by my bed and asked Jesus Christ to cleanse me of m...

God has given my family and me the privilege of ministering to Muslim peoples. I want to share a few thoughts on witnessing to Muslims and also on the challenges we face in this line of work. What I am about to write comes from our short life experience working among Arabs in North Africa.

Edgar, since there are some reading this article who will not be familiar with you and your ministry, could you give us some background information about you and your family and how the Lord led you to minister in the Middle East? I was born in Beirut, Lebanon and was led to Christ by an Independent Baptist missionary who came from America in the mid-50s. I was seven years old when I got saved. At the age of eleven I surrendered my life to serve the Lord; however, it was not until 1983 when God called me and my wife to leave Toronto, Canada and return to my homeland in order to reach my pe...

Since there are some reading this article who will not be familiar with you and your ministry, could you give us some background information about how the Lord led you to minister in present day Indonesia? I was still in Bible College and praying about where God wanted me to go. I was called to be a missionary at the age of 12. I came home for a school break and a missionary from what was then Dutch New Guinea had a presentation and God let me know at that time that that was where He wanted me to go. Indonesia took over the island from Holland and I was the first missionary to go there und...

Often when we think of unreached people groups, we think of people that live on a different continent in a primitive, technologically undeveloped area. While this can be true, it is not always the case. Aside from finding people from unreached people groups that live close to us, how do we help our young people get involved in the task of reaching unreached people groups? Sometimes we, even unintentionally, excuse ourselves and our young people from the responsibility of reaching unreached people groups because we think that we are incapable of being involved in the work; however that is si...