A City on a Hill

Hi friends! Thanks for your ongoing prayers for our ministry. The month of Ramadan has been more difficult, as we have had fewer refugees coming and a sense that Muslims are more closed off to the gospel as they seek to please Allah through their own efforts.

Last week on the Night of Power, the most important night of Ramadan, my husband and I walked to the vineyards pictured above to pray for Muslims in the camp and worldwide. We stopped to pray by a little hut on a hill, literally a "resting place" in German. As we prayed, we watched the valley below be covered in darkness as a storm rolled in. But we were up on the hill, in the resting place, surrounded in light. Sometimes it feels like that here, that we are a city on a hill surrounded in darkness. Please pray that we can keep reflecting the light of Jesus into the storm. We see His light entering that darkness. 

Wednesday night during the Farsi discussion group, I was praying for two men who had come for the first time. They looked angry and closed, but as I prayed, I saw the Lord softening their hearts. Eventually, one of them said, "I have heard the stories of the Bible, but I want to know who this Jesus is." Our Farsi translator read to them from Colossians 1 and Philippians 2. They came back the next night and watched a film about Jesus. Please pray that they accept Him for who He really is.
~Stephanie Seep