Care for Missionaries
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Respond to the unprecedented opportunities to serve the spiritual needs of people in Northern Africa and the Middle East.
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About This Project
Geopolitical turmoil has presented unprecedented opportunities to serve the spiritual needs of the peoples of Northern Africa and the Middle East. Many people of the region are open to the gospel for the first time. However, the same crises that are creating ministry opportunities also affect the ability of Christian workers to live in many of these areas due to increased danger and threats.
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.
Why direct giving matters
Giving directly to a missionary team helps fund the specific, on-the-ground needs your missionaries care deeply about—needs that aren't covered by CP and LMCO alone.
Thank you so much for your generosity to this ministry and the North African and Middle Eastern (NAME) people God calls us to reach with the gospel. Your prayers and sacrificial giving support specialized training for our long-term workers so they can mitigate the risks they face and provide equipment for them so that they may maintain their ministries in locations with high-threat and stress environments. This specialized training enables field personnel to continue to engage lostness, overcome obstacles, and live in the most challenging places.
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.
Over the past two months, we have led 17 adults in advanced-level security training. These sessions give them the ability to thrive in more high-stress and hostile environments throughout the North African Middle East region. In the next two months, we will train 34 more adults. Without your financial backing support and prayers, this project would not exist.
Currently, we offer the training only two to four times a year with a limit of 24 participants per session. Throughout each course, we encourage participants to offer feedback so that we can tailor the sessions to meet real-time needs. One field team that went through the training together experienced a security incident just a few months after their training. They provided the following feedback:
“We are so thankful for the security training and support we received. The trainings were extremely useful and timely. Going through that training with our teammates, we were better prepared to address serious tribal conflict/sectarian violence occurring in our town just last week.”
We have hundreds of students on a waiting list, hoping to receive the training soon. We prioritize those with the highest need as well as their availability to attend. Please continue to pray with us that we will properly prioritize the waiting list of personnel. We desire to provide our personnel with the skills they need to live in a high-risk area so that they can continue to reach their people group(s) with the gospel. Please pray that they will be able to live in these hostile and high-stress places in such a way that they are not just surviving but their ministries thrive.
Thank you for your generosity as we strive to share the gospel to the ends of the earth. As Psalms 22:27 says,
“All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.”
In the next five years, a globalization goal of all IMB workers is to mobilize 500 local believers to become global missionary partners serving on IMB teams.
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