Yemenis coming to Christ IN YEMEN

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 some even estimate that the number could be as high as 10,000.  

Regardless of what the actual numbers are, this is one of the greatest mission field reports you will hear anywhere in the world at this time.  Most have no idea.  It reminds me of what happened in China when all the missionaries were kicked out during the Boxer Rebellion.  What happened in the wake of that, was that the Church exploded in China in what can only be described as arguably the greatest expansion and growth of Christianity in all of Church History.  Pray that what is happening in Yemen will literally result in hundreds of thousands of Yemenis coming to Christ.  Yemen is a desperate Islamic nation of more than 28 million people who have been locked in the darkness of Islam for 1400 years.  And the light of Christ is growing like at no time since the Muslim faith forcibly took over that region in the 7th and 8th centuries!