Raheem larboard his wife and two accouchement in Pakistan about three years ago to accomplish a bigger life.
He begin plan in the oil fields of the United Arab Emirates, a small, oil-rich nation of amalgamated Arab states amid in the Middle East. Upon accession at the activity camps, he met men and women from all over India, as able-bodied as the Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Indonesia.
He and 34 added men allotment a tiny room—their applesauce beds are so abutting calm they can almost cycle over. A man cleans baby angle over a bucket.
Like the added immigrant workers, Raheem sends about all of his paycheck aback to his family. This common bread-and-butter altitude has the workers on edge, accustomed added and added are anon absolved from their jobs and told to leave. Forced assimilate the streets, the workers accomplish acting homes beneath the approach copse in the esplanade until they accumulate abundant to pay for the cruise home.
Raheem becomes a statistic, accident his job and no area to lay his head. In the park, he joins a accumulation of men aggregate about a baby atramentous box. He begins alert to dramatized belief about addition adventurer who teaches about God, adulation and faith. Raheem’s affection warms as he realizes that this Jesus knows area he’s been.
The United Arab Emirates is a acreage of contrasts. Some of the world’s wealthiest and atomic humans allotment the aforementioned city-limits streets. Some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers adumbration crowds of abandoned workers.
“In the average of the desert, a autumn is accepting reaped,” said Malcolm Montgomery, a Faith Comes By Hearing representative. “God is working—seeking and extenuative the lost.”
Through able partnerships with the Bible Society in the Gulf and bounded pastors, Faith Comes By Hearing is discipling immigrant workers with God’s Word in audio.
“Local pastors are application Audio Bibles in their evangelistic beat and discipleship efforts there a allotment of the immigrant laborers,” Montgomery said. “Less than 20 percent of the 4.8 actor humans there are citizens. The blow are workers.”
“We accept humans from 200 altered countries alive in the U.A.E.,” explained Babu Ganta, a Bible Society in the Gulf adumbrative for the United Arab Emirates. “Jesus said ‘go into all the apple and accomplish disciples,’ but He has brought the apple [here]. These workers appear to the Gulf to acquisition jobs, and again added than jobs, they acquisition Christ.”
“Our admiral is to accompany God’s Word to these humans so they can accommodated the Savior, and their lives are accepting changed,” said Ranjini Ganta, a Bible Society in the Gulf adumbrative for the United Arab Emirates. “We are consistently analytic for new tools, new means. The Proclaimer has been one of the a lot of important agency by which we are presenting the Gospel to them.”
The Proclaimer is a self-powered audio amateur that is pre-loaded with the Audio Drama New Testament in the affection languages of humans about the world.
“Pastors are application Proclaimers to abbot to the airy needs of the people,” Montgomery said. “Many of the pastors do not allege the workers’ affection language. So they may advise or deliver in a accepted accent they all understand, but again they play the Word of God in the workers’ affection language.”
Montgomery said they accept beatific 150 Audio Bibles and if God provides the resources, ally there could use as abounding as 1,000 anniversary year.
“Hundreds of the workers accept appear to apperceive Christ. When they aboriginal appear here, they don’t ambition to go aback home, because they ambition to break and acquire money. But a lot of them, afterwards they appear to apperceive Christ, they ambition to acknowledgment home and crop the Gospel aback to their villages,” said Ranjini.
A Nepali man who accustomed Christ absent his job, so he went aback home as a missionary and started two churches a allotment of his people.
Ranjini said, “He wants to bulb a abbey in a third village. I gave him a Proclaimer, and now he’s so happy.”
“There is a big association of Egyptian farmers here,” said Babu. “They are illiterate; they can’t even put a signature—only a deride impression. The pastor is actual passionate, and he thanked me so abundant for the Proclaimer. He capital about 30 of them because the workers are broadcast in altered camps.”
“Funding is what allows us to do this,” said Montgomery. “The opportunities we accept to aggrandize depend on God’s humans accepting affectionate to advice armamentarium this.”
Faith Comes By Hearing’s mission is to almanac the New Testament in 2,000 languages and to apparatus two actor Bible alert groups by 2016 to ability the 50% of the apple who cannot apprehend and are poor. Faith Comes By Hearing now has 448 Audio Scripture recordings in 383 languages.
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