
A burden to pray
Beth has just been accepted to serve with AIM. She shares why she feels called to a creative access location and her burden to pray.

Beth has just been accepted to serve with AIM. She shares why she feels called to a creative access location and her burden to pray.

Thereโs a massive desire to learn English among young people in many creative access nations. Could you come and help and speak words of life?

โI met Jesus on the TVโ. Samara smiles at my confusion. โOne day, I was flicking through the TV channels looking for something to watch. I found this man talking about religion in Arabic. But this wasnโt Islam. He was talking about Jesus.

The area where two of our workers are based – once a stronghold of the early church and pivotal to the development of Christianity – was overrun by the Arab conquest of North Africa. Find out more here…

There are many expressions of Islam, reflected across Muslim believers from different countries and cultures. Even within the two main branches, Sunni and Shiโa, there can be differences in beliefs and practices. But all Muslims share some core beliefs, the five pillars of Islam, outlining general rules for living.

There is often a necessity for church planting in creative access areas to look different from what we might be used to. We asked a member of a team in North Africa what church planting might look like for them, and how they maintain their relationship with God in a spiritually isolating area.