Source: Frontiers UK, August 8, 2025
Growing up in northeast Iraq, Kojin was surrounded by a 100% Muslim population. There wasn’t a single follower of Christ.
He read the Quran several times, trying to convince himself that it came from God and that it would be a sin to question its teachings. But in his heart, he couldn’t accept that as true. He understood that ideas have consequences, and it was not possible for him to accept the consequences of this book as divine.
For a while, he tried to be an atheist and freethinker, but he couldn’t sustain that approach. Several times, drawn by fear and conscious of the supernatural, he tried again to faithfully practice the Islamic religion. One day, in the window of a bookstore, he saw a little book titled The Gospel According to Luke. The bookstore owners had only one copy, so they offered to let him pay a daily fee to borrow it. He read it in a single day and loved it.
Desperate to know more about Jesus, Kojin searched. But he found no further information anywhere.
“When I took the book back to the bookstore,” he said, “I asked them if they had any other books about Christ. They said, ‘No, that’s all we have.’”
A few years later, Kojin finally met some followers of Jesus, people who had been discipled by our team. After that, everything changed—not just for him, but for the many people in his region that he eventually led to the Lord. Read the full story. It also describes the great progress made in engaging unengaged Muslim groups since the Vision 5:9 campaign was launched in 2001. Frontiers is now focusing on 100 priority groups, with a growing number of its new teams going to those groups each year.