One man’s amazing journey to faith Jouma Khalil is a Kurdish Syrian, which was once nearly synonymous with being a Muslim. As a...

A little church in Istanbul is filled with Kurdish Syrians. Some lost their homes in bombings, others through mistreatment, and each fled to Turkey seeking asylum. But in Turkey, they found less than open arms. Marginalized and persecuted, they live in constant fear that the police will stop them on the street or break into their churches. Without the proper documents, they will be deported back to Syria. This church’s fear was realized just before Christmas 2023 when police

Heart Bible for the Nations in action While he was visiting Kurdistan, JP Lindsey met a young refugee who had never heard the gospel before. The woman, an 18-year-old soccer player, had joined the Kurdish paramilitary because of the oppression she faced as a Kurdish woman who believed in the “wrong kind” of Islam. Before talking to JP, she didn’t know anything about Jesus. All she knew was that she didn’t like religion. “Well, you're in luck,” JP told her, “because Jesus didn

God works despite closed doors for OneWay missionary Five months after losing his wife and ministry partner to cancer, OneWay missionary JP Lindsey returned to Kurdistan, the country where he and Sarah dreamed of serving together. Not only does JP’s life look different without his wife, but the area where they planned to serve together has been decimated. While JP and Sarah fought cancer in the U.S., Iran launched drone attacks on Kurdish refugees. The refugees whom Sarah a