Source: Mission Network News, August 19, 2025
The situation continues to get worse, yet hope remains. People are turning to the Lord as they encounter the peace only he can offer.
“One of the guys that I work with, who was an imam [and] became a Christian, he says, ‘In my lifetime, I never believed that I would see a Muslim come to know Christ. And then in the space of a year, I’m seeing them lead 50 to Christ,” [says John, a gospel worker].
With help from John’s ministry, new believers from Muslim-majority Sudan learn how to share Jesus and start churches.
“We have about 26 teams: 15 are inside Sudan, and 11 are in refugee points outside Sudan. They’re all leaders we have trained at our school; [350] Muslim-background believers from 65 tribes,” John says.
“We’ve been working in Darfur for a long time. Many of the house churches that were underground in Darfur are displaced, and they’re now in Chad.”
While church planting is the believers’ primary focus, they offer limited aid whenever possible.
“We’ve given them training; we try to give some support,” John says. “We did a feeding program in Chad, just the 100 most vulnerable in three camps. We were able to feed for two months and give tarps for shelter. That’s all we could do.”
In recent weeks, the leaders held biblical trauma healing workshops, and 150 Muslims came to the Lord. “Satan wants hope to be contraband, because it is hope that removes the control of the enemy; it removes their power over a person’s life,” John says.
Also from MNN, read about Dodi, an Indonesian church planter choosing to work in Aceh, a field considered “100% Muslim.”