IRAN: Former Taliban Executioner Finds Peace

Source: Mission Network News, September 12, 2018

Nazanin Baghestani, the program response supervisor for Mohabat TV, a ministry of Heart4Iran, shares how one night their team received a notable call. The man on the other end of the line wanted more information about Jesus. He told them he used to execute people as a member of the Taliban. He was restless and couldn’t sleep. He would wake with nightmares and couldn’t breathe.

“It took awhile for him to actually realize that Jesus could help him,” Baghestani explains. “This was hard for him to understand. So while we’d talked with him [and] counseled him [he needed more time]. And eventually one night, after we’d prayed and talked with him and read the Word, he slept. And that night he said ‘that was the first night I could sleep in peace.’ And so he found himself actually trying to forgive himself.”

The former Taliban member was excited and continued talking with the counselors and team members at Mohabat TV. Now Baghestani says he is a changed person. Thanks to Jesus’ redemptive work, this man is experiencing freedom in Christ and peace from his sins.

The story is incredible, but it is not the only one.

» Read more.

» See also a report from another broadcast ministry, SAT-7, telling the story of a transformed man, now a pastor, whom God has used to create their first discipleship series for Tajik viewers. (I like the part about the Korean Tae Kwando instructor!)

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