"Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth?"

Most of my meetings are at the Nazareth Baptist School, established in 1937.

I am writing from Nazareth, Israel where Jesus grew up. Nazareth is the largest predominately-Arab city in Israel. Approximately 1% of them would consider themselves to be born-again or "evangelical". Someone once said about Jesus, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" (John 1:46). Would you pray now that reproducible churches of gospel-centered families would come out of Nazareth into Galilee, the Holy Land, and throughout the Middle East?

Thanks for praying for my family while I was away. We video chat daily while I am away or else I miss too much happening there. Thanks also for praying for the 5 North African brothers whom I met with at a conference at the beginning of this trip. I am seeing God's hand of grace in each one of those Kingdom-building relationships. Brothers from Morocco have invited me to promote biblical parenting there. They asked if I would speak at a gathering of parents from their network of churches. I suggested that they identify several couples that I could invest in over the next few years who would eventually begin modeling, promoting, and teaching biblical parenting in their churches themselves. Would you join me in asking for wisdom regarding the timing of when to begin visiting new countries? I also have been invited by a house church planter in northern Iraq to train Syrian and Iraqi parents who are new believers.