Your gift will fund specialized training for personnel to learn skills that raise their ability to mitigate the risks they face to an acceptable level and provide equipment for them so that they may maintain their ministries in locations with high threat and stress environments. This specialized training will enable field personnel to continue to engage lostness, overcome obstacles, and live in the most challenging places. They will no longer be just surviving but thriving. Your partnership with this opportunity will advance the spread of the gospel by enabling Christian workers to reside in communities where the unreached peoples of North Africa and the Middle East need to hear the Word and see it lived out.
Personal protection training offers confidence. The first half of 2023 has been filled with trainings that have empowered NAME personnel to proclaim the gospel boldly. At the beginning of the year, a family on our team traveled to three cities in South Asia, where they taught personal-protection training to 48 women and their daughters.
Preparation equips for the Task. In addition to the personal protection training, your generosity has provided numerous other training opportunities for long-term workers. This past month our team traveled to a NAME country and educated adults in crisis and risk management. We also visited multiple ministry and house locations and completed security assessments on those properties.
Thank you for your generosity and prayers. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness. 
Security Training
Because of your generosity, we have trained 21 new personnel through two-and-a-half-day seminars over the past six months. We teach important security principles that empower them to live on the mission field and reach the people to whom God has called them. In addition, we have given more advanced security training to six adults and their children who were experiencing a unique security situation. They now have more skills and tools so they can continue to minister where they live and share Christ with some of the least reached.
Prayer Requests
Pray for these 21 new long-term workers who have moved to minister around the world. Pray that they will boldly proclaim the gospel. Pray specifically that the six recently trained families will persevere in reaching people in their region even as they are under elevated risk.
Thank you for your generosity as we strive to share the gospel to the ends of the earth even in hostile and high-risk environments. 
North Africa and the Middle East is consistently thrust into the international news as it develops into one of the world’s most enigmatic-but-influential global regions. Vast economic development typifies its urban centers, offering creative business opportunities for entrepreneurs.
Religious life permeates every society here, whether its residents are Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. Though Christianity began in this cradle of civilization, it is sometimes difficult to know if the church exists. Cities that birthed the gospel now house ornate mosques, temples, and skyscrapers. Thankfully, the church is experiencing a captivating resurgence among this region's 520 unengaged and unreached people groups.
Millions of refugees live here, displaced by war, famine, oppression, or poverty. Many are open to the gospel, seeking an anchor amid the upheaval of their lives. Pray for Christian workers as they share the hope of the gospel during this unprecedented spiritual openness.