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Ramadan – A Burden or a Blessing?
Though Ramadan is past, I wanted to take a minute to reflect on it and consider the lessons we can learn from it as well. Gotquestions.org says that “Ramadan is a holy month in the religion of Islam and is marked by a time of required fasting. Observance of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars…
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100%
Praise God, we just reached 100% of our monthly support through God’s gracious provision and your abundant generosity. God is good and we thank Him and in thanking Him, we thank you – through whom God has graciously provided for us to continue in this ministry to reach internationals and refugees with the message and…
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Gospel Bracelet Gift
God is always working and He graciously invites us into His work – through children to adults! Friday before we Easter, we were blessed to have friends over from Malaysia and India. The young man from India is not a Christian but had a lot of good questions after attending the Good Friday service. Questions…
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Bibles In Farsi, Spanish and English
One of the great blessings that we have been able to experience is seeing some of the people receive their first Bible – especially when it is in their native language. Last week we had a dear student who, despite the rest of the family not wanting a Bible, this student wanted one. She was…
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Across the Middle East In a Week
I would have told you a year ago that I would not be able to have the privilege to visit with people from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. When my family and I went to Wildwood and other Toledo area Metro Parks, I would pray and wonder how we could share the love…
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Her Smiles Pointed to Jesus
A few weeks ago, a few students from the Middle East (we will call Mara and Ahmed) were leaving and talking about how on of the students (we will call Abby) from South America is always smiling. Overhearing their conversation, I joined in asked them if they knew why Abby was smiling. They shook their…
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Help Needed for Lifesaving Relocation of Families
We have all heard of the war in Ukraine and seen the pictures on the news, but have you heard that not only does Toledo have families from Ukraine today, but that we have the privilege of building friendships with some of these dear families here at WFI. They are very kind but also very…
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Praising God for His Provision
We wanted to give you and update on our support raising and share a praise for God’s provision. Firstly, we rejoice and praise the Lord that we have reached just over 50% of our support raising goals. We are committed to trusting God and looking to Him to work in the right hearts of people,…
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The Toledo Zoo Lights Update
For those of you who were aware of God’s blessing to us through providing a 100 tickets to the Toledo Zoo and praying for us, thank you! Praise the Lord, about 70 students, staff and volunteers came out for a wonderful time of friendship, fellowship, practicing English, sharing about Christmas, weaving gospel threads into our…
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The Call of Parents – of Us
The following is a personal reflection on parenting from Isaiah 6 after the Chicago Chinese Christian Conference, I hope it is a blessing to you. ——- In the 13th year of parenting, of a messy home, of chaos and failures, trials and tears, regrets and broken dreams…in that year, I saw the Lord, seated on…
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