Max spends 2 days a week using his English to serve at a Baptist School.
What do you think of when you hear "Beirut"? For many of us growing up in the 80s, we think of the 16 year-long civil war in Lebanon that killed 150,000 people. However, Lebanon now has the highest Human Development Index and GDP per capita in the Arab world, other than the oil-rich Persian Gulf countries. It is the only Arab nation that allows freedom of choice regarding religion. While one-third of the country would consider themselves "Christian", less than 1% would consider themselves "evangelical", meaning that salvation is by grace through faith in Christ alone.
I will visit Beirut for 10 days at the end of this month. I will meet with Arab pastors as well as a few Westerners involved in ministry, primarily to discuss how to promote biblical parenting. Would you ask God to use these meetings to clarify my role in training parents, as well as to strengthen Lebanese evangelical families?
Also please pray for our church here in Jordan as we make decisions regarding eldership, teaching, reproducibility, etc. Please also continue to pray for my pastor friend's relationship with his wife. Pray that both of them would be humble and clear-minded and that some older sisters in Christ would speak the truth in love to her.
