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Contents

4-5 Cold Water Stories The moving story of young Soddii,

reached by one of our teams in Thailand

6-9 Joining the Family Introducing our brand new resource

for helping believers from Muslim backgrounds feel welcome in your church

10-11 Extract from Joining the Family Five tips to help your church start

welcoming believers from Muslim backgrounds today

12-13 GB Team News How Interserve partners across

England and Wales are serving migrants on the move

14-15 Dispatches More stories from the front lines of

the Interserve world

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Half a billion people now live outside their birth country and ‘migration’ – economic and otherwise – has become the latest cross-cultural mission frontier, right here in Europe. The debate rages in the media every day: Are Western values under threat? How many more people should be allowed in before Europe sinks? Does Britain want to be part of the EU at all any more?

All this contributes to a crisis of confidence in the gospel in a confusing multicultural society where we are uncomfortable about asserting evangelical faith for fear of a politically correct reaction. The net result is a desperate need for clarity about the gospel and where to find help to share it across cultures – especially among Muslim people.

Into this malaise come three ground-breaking resources, drawing on the wisdom of Interserve team members gained over many years. Together they form a powerful trilogy of training materials created to serve the local church for Christian witness to Muslim people:

– Friendship First – has already helped thousands of Christians to discuss the good news with Muslim friends

– Come Follow Me – written to help disciple believers from Muslim backgrounds and also successfully in use for several years, and now

– Joining the Family – a brand new resource designed to help churches receive believers in Jesus from Muslim backgrounds

This issue of GO features an insight into this excellent latest addition to the series. As well as moving personal stories of real believers from a Muslim background, there is also a practical extract from the resource to give you a flavour. In our changing landscape, the church needs to be equipped to reach out to and disciple those from many different backgrounds. Interserve now exists to resource the local church to do just that.

Steve Bell, National Director

The new frontier

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‘As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country ‘ Prov.25:25

Cold Water Stories

A confident smileA year ago we met a 20-year-old young man from Burma called Soddii at the Thoo Mweh Khee refugee school, write Matt and Bronwen Coe. We noticed that he had

severe squints in both eyes and saw how this was causing a real lack of confidence in him.

We found out about his story: Soddii grew up in a very poor ethnic minority family in Burma. When he was two he became very ill and the family couldn’t afford medical help, so his eyes were both damaged as a result. As he grew older and became more aware of how he looked, he was filled with shame because he thought he was so ugly. A few years later he was forced to flee from his homeland before the Burmese army could forcibly recruit him. He ended up at the refugee school where we met him, aged 18.

After we developed a relationship with him and asked about his situation, we asked if he wanted to see a doctor about the severe squints in both eyes and he said ‘yes’. This was the first time he had ever had the opportunity to see a doctor. So after the necessary paperwork, we brought him to Chiangmai. He came along with a friend who we also discovered needed four oral surgeries due to a huge abscess in his mouth.

A month after his first ride on an escalator and elevator to see an eye specialist, Soddii had a 100% successful surgery. He is a changed young man. ‘I was so shy with my friends and teachers,’ he writes. ‘Because of my eye problems, I could not look at their face… This year I am so happy because I have no eye problems. Because of this blessing, I can really start to study again!’

Brandon, his head teacher at the Thoo Mweh Khee refugee school adds, ‘Before the surgery I can’t remember him ever speaking in class, let alone taking a leadership position, but recently in my class he has presented half a dozen times and he’s even preached in church. It is amazing!’

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Soddii told us before the surgery he never smiled as he hated the way he looked. Now he is always smiling! He is so grateful to God, and has even started calling us his ‘Western Parents’!

Thank you for those who financially supported these surgeries and for those who support us so that we can continue to remain here and help boys like Soddii.

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1/6 of the population of Indonesia lives below the poverty line. Pray God would provide their every need. #365prayer

Unless there is the element of extreme #risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for #faith

God carried out the ultimate #missiontrip by coming to earth to save us #faith

Now is the best time for ‘ordinary’ Christians to humbly discuss good news with ‘ordinary’ Muslims.

‘The people God uses don’t have to know a lot of things, or have a lot of things – they just have to need him a lot.’ @JSBBible #discipleship

There are many opportunities that you could be getting involved in! interserve.org.uk/i-want-go

If you would be interested in helping young people like Soddii, why not consider teaching with his school for a year? Find out more at www.thoomwehkheeschool.org or turn to the back page to contact our team for many more great opportunities.

TIM GREEN & ROXY

WELCOMING CHRIST’S FOLLOWERS OF MUSLIM BACKGROUND INTO HIS COMMUNITY

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TIM GREEN & ROXY

WELCOMING CHRIST’S FOLLOWERS OF MUSLIM BACKGROUND INTO HIS COMMUNITY

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The opportunity has never been so great for the church to offer a warm welcome to people of Muslim backgrounds. ‘Joining the Family’ is an exciting new course and book designed to help. Authors Tim Green and Roxy explain more.

more accessible to Muslims, and as the first converts in each ethnic group pave the way for others to follow. Moreover, the atrocities of Islamic State (ISIS) bring embarrassment to many Muslims and cause some to question their faith.

Much depends on the prayers of Christians, and their response to the Muslims in their midst - including the latest influx of a million Middle Eastern refugees to Europe. Will they recoil in fear or reach out in love?

Thirty years ago, I (Tim) used to work in a factory near Manchester, in the north of England. Most of my workmates, and nearly all the neighbours where I lived, were Muslim. Some Christian friends and I used to meet to pray for them to find Christ. At that time there was little response. Today, the situation is starting to change in that town. It is similar in other places across the North of England. Revd Phil Rawlings, convenor of the Joining the Family initiative, recalls how he noticed the change:

‘In November 2012, in Manchester, a young Muslim lad walked into the Cathedral and asked, “How do I become a Christian?” That same weekend a Saudi woman walked into a local church asking the same, and a young Somali lad who had befriended a Christian, was so impressed with him that he asked the same question. Since then I’ve come across a number of similar situations across the city, indeed across the country. It got me thinking, “How well prepared is the church for the harvest that God is bringing?” For what may be a trickle at the moment, God willing, will become a stream, then a river and even a flood.’

This image reminds me of what a veteran missionary to the Arab world told me many

Tim Green has been an Interserve partner for the last 28 years and has many friends who are Christ’s followers of Muslim background. Roxy has been a believer for over 20 years and comes from a Muslim background.

One evening this week, Farida (not her real name) wept her heart out as she met with my wife and me (Tim). Farida

and her husband had asked us to go and pray with them. For eight long years they have been living in a foreign country, waiting for their case of citizenship to be decided. Two years before that they were on the run in Pakistan, fleeing Farida’s father who wanted to kill her because, in his eyes, she had disgraced him terribly by abandoning Islam and marrying a Christian.

Yet, surprisingly, Farida’s tears were not tears of pain; they were tears of gratitude. ‘Thank you so much for my Christian family,’ she sobbed in prayer. ‘Thank you for this brother and sister in Christ who came to be with me tonight. Thank you for my husband who supports me so much and cares for me so tenderly. Thank you for all Christ’s followers who have been so good to me in this land. Thank you, thank you, thank you!’

Farida hasn’t seen her birth family for a decade, and that hurts. But she has gained another family in Christ here in the UK: her church. And wherever she finally settles, she will find another branch of that family there, too. We must pray they understand her needs and can love her like their own flesh and blood.

Muslims finding JesusIn previous generations Farida’s story would have been unusual. Not so today, when more Muslim people than ever are choosing to follow Jesus Christ. This is a well-founded claim. Admittedly the trend is uneven, with some ethnic groups turning to Christ in greater numbers than others, and with conversion in the other direction – towards Islam – also taking place. Nevertheless, the trend is unmistakable, and will probably gather pace as the internet makes the gospel

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years ago. He described how river beds in the Arabian desert stay dry for months or even years on end. But just occasionally it rains hard, and then flash-floods rush down in torrents through the river beds. But if there is no dam to catch the water, it all runs to waste and in no time it has vanished again. Then the missionary turned to me and predicted, ‘The rains are on the way, and Muslims will turn to Jesus in floods. But will we catch the precious water? It’s time to build those dams!’

His prediction all those years ago is beginning to come true. So now is the time to build the dams, not later when it might be too late. Now is the time for Christ’s followers to understand, love and equip these new believers of Muslim background. This task is not about inanimate things like water and concrete dams, nor even about trends and strategies, but it’s about people. Our job is not finished as soon as a Muslim becomes a believer in Jesus – God is entrusting to us these precious brothers and sisters in Christ to become part of the family. Some of them will join our established churches, others will form their own witnessing fellowships, but either way they are our family members. And they need our family love.

What is Joining the Family?I’ve described the need and now I want to tell you more about Joining the Family, an initiative to help Western churches to understand, love, equip and learn from Christ’s followers of Muslim heritage. This vision was expressed at a consultation in Britain in 2013 and was taken forward by a core group comprising some Christians of Muslim background and Christian leaders with long experience in this field.

The core group developed a set of resources in partnership with Interserve and Carfax Media, with additional valuable help from Elam Ministries and the Mahabba network. The resources include a video-based discussion course, seminar materials and a website as well as a book. The book may be read alongside the course or separately. It builds on the course material but goes into greater depth. We believe that the resource will enable the church

to welcome, support and enjoy having believers from Muslim backgrounds in their family.

The course prioritises the voices of believers of Muslim heritage. In the video clips they give the main input, and are frequently quoted in the book. The whole church has much to learn from them. Believers from Muslim backgrounds will enrich the church in their approach to life and their belief in God.

Joining The Family is a new 6 week video course and book for churches that equips them to welcome believers from Muslim backgrounds into their congregations. Much of this article and the extract starting overleaf is taken from the book, which delves deeper into the topic. The materials will be available to buy in April 2016. Visit the website for more information: www.joiningthefamily.org

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My local church here in Britain is my family. I was just accepted. It was as if I had a brother, I had a sister, I had a mother, I had a father. And recently I found that I have mothers I have fathers, I have brothers, I have sisters, I have nephews, I have nieces to whom I’m not related by blood but because of the relationship that has developed between us.I have these two families on my phone – their numbers are ‘Family House 1’ and ‘Family House 2’. I have lived with these two families for two years each without paying rent. I have eaten their food; I come in and the food is on the table, I just eat, and I go to sleep. I met them in the church and they have really, really encouraged me. This has become my home. I have really found so much love. It has been awesome.I have a list of what people have bought for me, physical things: cash, foodstuffs, clothes. Practically people showed me so much love. People came to visit, not just once, not just twice, but it kept going until I was on my feet again. They never left me. I remember sometimes feeling I was so low, and I thought, ‘Why am I

here?’ And I would wake up in the morning and under my pillow was a note, maybe with money, saying ‘Sis, it’s going to be okay, don’t worry, God loves you.’ And that really meant a lot to me. This family, they lived in a two-bedroom house. They had two sons so the husband and wife and two children stayed in one room, and they gave me the other to stay in. I just don’t understand that kind of love!And on my birthday, the other family that I stayed with came to their house. Both families woke me up early in the morning, together, at 6am, they were waking me up and saying ‘Happy Birthday’ and all the children were singing ‘Happy Birthday’ and it was just too much love, too much love, and it can only be Jesus!

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‘This has become my home.’Taken from the Joining the Family video, here is one believer from a Muslim background speaking about her inspiring and beautiful experience of church as her family.

The person depicted in the picture is a model.

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P ractically speaking, it is not possible for all church members to be fully available to Believer from Muslim Backgrounds (BMB)

from Monday to Saturday. And not all are called to it. It’s helpful to distinguish between what we may call the ‘close family’ of a few people who take on this deep commitment, and the ‘wider family’ who may only meet the believer at church but should still know how to make them welcome. Elsewhere in Joining the Family we explore the ‘closer family’ role in more depth. Meanwhile for the ‘wider family’ members of a local church, here are five suggestions.

1 Learn how to welcome people

The British aren’t always good talking to strangers – in fact, we were taught as children not to do so! Even as adults we may feel shy to approach someone of a different culture. Even if your friend’s English language is limited, they can still show you their family’s photos on their mobile phone. Or try learning to say ‘hello’ or

How can churches practically welcome believers from Muslim backgrounds? In this extract from the new book, Tim Green and Roxy share five tips

Welcome new believers from Muslim Backgrounds

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put on a pedestal. They may enjoy this flattery for a while, but it can be spiritually unhelpful if it makes them feel they are more important than other Christians; and the higher the pedestal, the greater the fall. Also, this trophy syndrome separates BMB friends out as being different. Eventually they tire of being treated like an ‘exhibit’ or always being asked to give their ‘testimony’. They may sense that church members are more interested in their story than in them as people. ‘I just want to fit in, to be treated as normal,’ Ali said.

So, when you meet a former Muslim at church, don’t ask their testimony straightaway. First, get to know them as a friend. In due course they will probably be glad to tell you how they came to faith in Christ.

5 Keep careful confidentiality

We know believers who were hurt when church members treated their story as public property. They had told their testimony in private to person A, who then shared it with person B, and so on till eventually a stranger would come up congratulate the believer on their wonderful conversion. ‘And how do you know that?’ they felt like responding, ‘It’s my story, my life – why should the whole world know?’ Also, if the story spreads out to the Muslim community, the believer will be labelled as an ‘apostate’, potentially making life difficult for them or at least constraining their witness. Every BMB friend should be free to choose their own time and way to speak to their Muslim community as we explore elsewhere in Joining the Family.

So be sensitive and, if your BMB friend has entrusted their precious story with you, ask their permission before passing it on to another person. Or better still, introduce them so that they can tell the story themselves, in their own way, if they wish.

‘thank you’ in their language. It’s a great way to affirm them.

Remember, love covers a multitude of cultural blunders. A BMB friend coming to your church won’t expect you to know all about their culture. They will expect not to be left standing all on their own at the end of the service waiting for someone to talk with them. So just say hello. Just be human.

2 Introduce them to your circle

We naturally gravitate to chat with our own group of friends after church services. There’s nothing wrong with that but it can be incredibly isolating for a newcomer who has not yet broken into any circle. Elsewhere in Joining the Family we tell the story of Ali who used to feel excluded, always hovering on the outside of the cliques. What eventually helped him was a person called James who intentionally drew Ali into his own conversation circles. In this way James’ friends became Ali’s friends too, until Ali could go up and chat with them even when James wasn’t there.

3 Invite the person to your home

One BMB friend who had been attending a church for nine months was asked how many of the houses of church members he had visited. ‘Not one’, he replied. But hospitality need not be elaborate. It might just be a cup of tea. It’s stepping over the threshold and into someone’s home that counts for most.

4 Don’t treat BMBs as ‘trophies’

We call it the ‘trophy syndrome’ when someone who came from Islam is treated as unique and

FROM MULLAH TO MANCHESTERA first-hand account of a Muslim convert from Iran

My name is Amir, born in Iran and originally from the Kurdish ethnic area. I was raised as a Sunni Muslim – that was how I described myself, at least.

Around the age of 18, I decided to leave my home country. Many people my age made the same decision, but my reasons were different to most of them. I wanted to experience a new world, get a good education and have a chance to develop my life in better conditions. In Iran I would have had to live a religious life based on Islam. I did not want this way of life.

I arrived in the UK in 2010, with nothing to do, no work, no college and nobody

to contact. After two or three months I met a man from Iran, who had recently become a Christian. One day he invited me to a church in Manchester. I went along because I was glad to have something to do. Everything in church was new for me. I heard different things to what I was used to hearing from the Mullahs in the Mosque.

In the church I was surprised to find other Iranian people, some people from Afghanistan, and some Kurdish like me. The reason why so many Iranian Shia Muslims are converting to Christianity is because they are unhappy and tired of all the laws and commands of Islam and the book of Quran. As they hear the good news of Jesus in church, many of them are coming to faith. Many are also finding generous offers of help from people in churches. As a result some of them get

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for Jihad. There is much inequality and discrimination between man and women, treating women as a second class, and more. But in the Bible we just read about forgiveness, equality and love and without insulting any others religious.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell my story.

The person in the picture is a model.

leave to remain in this country as refugees, which I describe as a gift from our Lord Jesus.

For me, a special thing about my new faith is our Holy Book, the Bible. It’s completely different to the Quran and other religious books. In the Quran you find too many unreasonable and inhumane commands such as cutting hands off of thieves; stoning; and ordering people

Interfaith illuminationFrom an Interserve partner in a Scottish city

In October I was invited to speak at a Muslim-Christian Dialogue evening at a Scottish University on the topic ‘Who is Jesus?’ I was delighted that two Muslim men we are getting to know were able to travel with us and attend the meeting. It’s always a tad intimidating when your fellow interlocutor appears in Islamic scholarly attire, but thankfully the tone of the evening was good and it was an opportunity to talk about the uniqueness

of Isa al Masih and to leave people with the implications of his uniqueness.

Our Muslim friends enjoyed the evening and one later told us he didn’t agree with everything the Muslim speaker said and found the case for the uniqueness of Jesus convincing. Of course he may have just been being polite, but we’ll take the encouragements wherever we find them! The other is very keen to replicate similar meetings here in his city. Please pray with us that we would be discerning about the role interfaith events like this are to play in our work.

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Into the unknownFarzin stared at the floor of the church hall with eyes glazed over, cup in hand (two teabags, four sugars).

The words slowly spilled out in broken English. He had just spent the last of that fortnight’s money on antibiotics when his caseworker called and he found out the bad news: ‘They move me again. I have to be ready tomorrow morning. He not explain why.’

For Farzin, moving means leaving his only near-culture friend and finding his way in yet another new neighbourhood – his fourth since arriving here in Australia three years ago.

Then came an email from his family in his home country. Farzin’s parents, who are strict in their faith, have found out that he has become a Christian believer and want nothing more to do with him. He blinks back tears. I ask what he will do now. The cup quivers. ‘I don’t know. I don’t know.’

Steam fogs the windows as we open the crockpots and serve up. Farzin, along with four other asylum seekers and two international students, has joined us to mark Persian New Year. There is red wine, kebabs, and even our feeble attempt at Persian rice. Many hours of comparing cultures and our experiences of faith follow.

Farzin is quiet – this is meant to be a time when the pain of the old year is forgotten. But tonight there is little chance of that. None of us know what might happen to him tomorrow, or the day after. But, as he left that evening, leftovers in hand, he smiled and embraced us.

‘Thank you,’ he whispered. ‘Thanks, God, for you, my family.’

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Keeping it simple A few days ago I was in the dining room having breakfast with the kids, writes Mike in Pakistan. I had managed to make the toast before the regular 8am power cut, so all the kids got their first choice: toast with honey for Ben, toast with jam for Sophie, and toast with butter for Jack. Sophie sat there munching away and then said, matter-of-factly, ‘I had a dream of Jesus last night. He was wearing a white dress with a red belt, and he was smiling’. She paused and took another mouthful. ‘Also, he had hair like a girl.’

We complicate our faith so much! I’m on a panel tasked with finding a new pastor for an international church here and one candidate wrote that his most important theological beliefs were eschatology, the role of women in the church, and how elders should manage a church. I find myself supremely unconcerned with any of them, with any area of doctrine save one: the unique beauty and worthiness of Christ. It is good to take a step back from our work in Pakistan and remember the Galilean carpenter in whose name, and for whose glory, all of this is done. Even if he does have long hair.

Recommended reading: new booksMirpuri Stories Volume 2 by Judy Bartlett – £6.99 +p&pFollowing the great success of Mirpuri Stories, this second volume comprises a collection of valuable and often moving insights into lives of Pakistani families from the Mirpur area of Azad Kashmir. These true stories reflect the joys and issues faced by individuals from this hospitable and accepting community.

‘This book represents an intimate insight - from behind closed doors - into one of the largest South Asian community groups in this country. I have seen first-hand how the author has earned the right and respect of this community over many years. Her reflections help us to enter the world, which few know much about. A thoroughly good, informative and inspiring read’ – Steve Bell.

The Caliphate by Sean Oliver-Dee – £9.99 +p&p‘Caliph’ was the title given to the leaders of the Muslim world who followed Muhammad himself. Although formally abolished in 1924, the Caliphate is today an aspiration for Muslim extremist groups like Islamic State, al-Qa’ida and Hizb ut-Tahrir, symbolising for them the re-birth and re-unification of Muslim power.

This new book in the ‘Handy Books on Religion in World Affairs’ series was written primarily for journalists, but it is highly recommended for the general reader seeking to understand the history and meaning behind the term ‘The Caliphate’.

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