Source: International Mission Board, October 2, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When an older Muslim man grabbed her hand, Jackie Lewis was shocked. Muslim men do not customarily touch women who are not close relatives, especially young, single women like Lewis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man pointed to a set of rocks arranged across the floor of the classroom. Each rock represented a different story from the Bible. They had just finished hearing the story concerning Isaiah\u2019s prophecy of the coming Savior and stopped for a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAre you going to tell us the story of the Savior next?\u201d he asked eagerly and pointed to the rock representing the Exodus story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis promise in Isaiah is the same thing Moses said,\u201d the man continued. \u201c\u2018Watch and wait for the Lord to save you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man\u2014a Muslim with close connections to the mosque in his community and a history of running Christians out of his village\u2014is part of an IMB language preservation project called Story One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the rest of the article<\/a> to learn about the group of older men helping Lewis and other IMB missionaries select the Bible stories they want to record for their people. This effort simultaneously honors and helps preserve their tribal languages and brings gospel access to remote areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We love to see people cut off from the gospel gain access. But the renewal of those who had turned away is encouraging too! Read an article claiming a Christian revival is underway in Britain<\/a> (The Spectator).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: International Mission Board, October 2, 2024 When an older Muslim man grabbed her hand, Jackie Lewis was shocked. Muslim men do not customarily touch women who are not close relatives, especially young, single women like Lewis. The man pointed to a set of rocks arranged across the floor of the classroom. Each rock represented … Continue reading Uganda: Waiting for the Story of the Savior<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13329,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}