Business as Mission

Turkey | OM International

A well known businessman from the village that I had not seen for
a while came in with a friend and said, ‘First we are going to have
coffee and then I want to talk with you.’ After serving the coffee he
motioned to me to sit down.  He then proceeded to show me his
identification card. There, in the space which signifies religion, it read
‘Christian’ instead of ‘Muslim.’

After watching me for two years running my tiny shop, he had noted my honesty and business ethics. Then he changed his religion. He told me not to tell anyone in the village because they would not understand, but asked if I could help him and his friend start a church in the new city where he now lives.  I asked if his friend was also a Christian. He said he wasn’t but that he was working on him!

Pray for the many Turkish cities which still have no church.

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