North Africans/Middle Easterners, Northern France

The pattern hardly ever changes. Each Saturday, a man named Hamza wakes up after a long week of cooking in a local restaurant and makes his way to meet a believer for coffee. Each encounter smells the same: instant coffee and hot chocolate. Each week, he comes to share a cup of coffee and to hear the gospel preached to him. Hamza claims that he is far from surrendering to Jesus as his Lord, but he also expresses that he wants to, yet feels unable. Hamza says, “The cost is high for me.” However, he keeps coming back to hear about Jesus from the Bible. Recently, a family member passed away, and Hamza has begun asking what the Bible says about those who leave this stage of life and enter eternity. Pray that he will be comforted by God in this stage of loss. The Bible says: “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field” (Matthew 13:44 ESV). Pray that Hamza will see Christ as his precious treasure.