Wednesday, June 25, 2008

No Words

For all of you who received a text from me today, here is what happened. We went over to visit Kate, the sheiks' wife who if you haven't previously read, we have been developing a pretty good relationship with. She invited us over to meet a few women who were in town from Egypt. From the moment we walked in we were preached at. Imagine an evangelical preacher talking to an atheist. For two hours we were pretty much verbally attacked and the woman just wanted us to say the Shahadah and kept saying how Muslims are the only ones who will enter paradise. She was pretty much degrading Jesus the entire time kept It was the most intense and draining experience of my entire life. I NEVER thought it could be this hard, there are so many natural barriers between Islam and Christianity and pair those with language barriers and barriers we have put up over the years and you get one big mess. Be in continued prayer that we will not be put in that situation again, we are going to inform Sheik Oscar of what happened and tell him and Kate we are not interested in meeting anymore out of town guests who are here specifically to do Islam Evangelism. Pray also that our relationship with Kate will not suffer. Thanks to all who prayed for us today, God was able to provide a way out of the situation.

1 comment:

  1. Marie,

    Sounds like some rough persecution. My prayers are continuing with you and I want to have a nice long summer story exchange very early next semester. Keep the texts coming if you need additional prayer. My internet access is spotty and my laptop broke :(

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