JOEL 2 GENERATION

I have recently heard some of the most recent stories coming out of Yemen about the growing church there.  It is so much different today than when we lived there briefly back in the 90's and even when we made several ministry trips in the early 2000s. Today Yemen is a war-torn nation where all of the missionaries had to leave several years ago.  A small, struggling underground church existed when the Christian missionaries were forced to leave as Yemen descended into a cruel civil war.  Tens of thousands have died, countless more have suffered, but in the midst of all of the chaos and evil, a move of God has begun that is nothing short of a miracle of miracles.  I heard from several sources who are closely connected with what is happening in Yemen that today there are several thousand believers and that that number is growing.  It is all Yemenis reaching Yemenis!  The most conservative estimates are that there are 2500 believers at this point and one source told me that

While I visited a community center for Syrian refugees near the Syrian border in Lebanon we were asked by our host to deliver a wheelchair to a Syrian muslim family whose 17 year-old son had been paralyzed from the waist down for 6 years.  The Syrian refugee who took us to the house was the boy's cousin.  On the way, he told me that he had begun reading and memorizing the Bible in Arabic for a week and that every night since he began reading he had been having spiritual dreams about following Jesus.   A team of 3 were with me for this visit.  One of them had been healed of paralysis himself so we thought it would be great to have him share his miraculous testimony and to help us pray with the teenager.  When we walked into the home, the boy was lying in a corner looking almost comatose.  So we explained to his muslim mother what we wanted to do.  He shared his testimony and I translated as the only Arabic speaker on our team.  We asked if w