Beth has the joy of reaching out to many with the love of Jesus through language teaching and daily befriending in North Africa. Amy, one of the first friends Beth made almost 9 years ago, has invited her to stay with her family for a while during Ramadan. Please pray for good, meaningful conversations and for the salvation of her family. Beth has also recently been comforting a handful of her students who have wept in her office because they have lost loved ones. Mourning is discouraged because life is believed to be a test, and you must accept whatever God gives you. Pray for those who mourn, that they would know God’s comfort and the promise that He is close to the broken-hearted.

In a creative access location, Beth* has the joy of reaching out to many with the love of Jesus through language teaching and daily befriending. A recent family bereavement has given cause for reflection on the difference that being a follower of Jesus makes to grieving. In her region of North Africa, typical prayers which are said when someone dies are completely empty of hope. In fact, grieving is not encouraged because life is seen as a test and everything, no matter how awful, must be responded to with ‘praise god’. Pray for Beth* to be able to convey that although death and grief are awful, knowing that Jesus promises to be with us in the darkest valley brings such comfort and hope. Continue to ask that Jesus would open the eyes of the blind, unstop the ears of the deaf, and that the people of this land might know deep love, deep peace, deep rest and deep joy because they know Him.

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