Jul 18, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
When the pastor began to weep, Cade Jefferson, the leader of VOM's work in the Middle East and North Africa, wasn't quite sure how to respond. He had just explained to the pastor how The Voice of the…
Cade JeffersonGuest
Todd NettletonHost
No, if you're from the Philippines or you're from Africa or like you have no protection that you're going to do whatever and you may not even have your passport, your employer may have your passport.
So the boldness of that and the understanding of the risk I just hope that our listeners can really pray for brothers and sisters in Saudi and other parts of the Arabian Peninsula.
As we think through those different sections of Middle East and North Africa, are there different ways that we should be praying for gospel workers, for local Christians, for the church more broadly in those different areas? Because obviously there's different challenges.
A big thing, and this is what I hear oftentimes from the leaders in North Africa, is for unity.
For the Levant, the churches and the ministries there are mature and are developed, which is such a beautiful thing, especially when you're thinking about the whole region, but a prayer for boldness and of continual reaching out.
The national churches like with studies and Emiratis, that's small and that's There's a distinction for the governments there.
No, if you're from the Philippines or you're from Africa or like you have no protection that you're going to do whatever and you may not even have your passport, your employer may have your passport.
So the boldness of that and the understanding of the risk I just hope that our listeners can really pray for brothers and sisters in Saudi and other parts of the Arabian Peninsula.
As we think through those different sections of Middle East and North Africa, are there different ways that we should be praying for gospel workers, for local Christians, for the church more broadly in those different areas? Because obviously there's different challenges.
A big thing, and this is what I hear oftentimes from the leaders in North Africa, is for unity.
For the Levant, the churches and the ministries there are mature and are developed, which is such a beautiful thing, especially when you're thinking about the whole region, but a prayer for boldness and of continual reaching out.
The national churches like with studies and Emiratis, that's small and that's There's a distinction for the governments there.
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