Dear Friends,
We hope to have our annual report out and into your hands in February. We hope this update finds you well and content in Jesus.
We can often give the impression that the work is always going forward and there are few problems. That is far from true and we are in a continuous battle. With that in mind pray for the following situation in Istanbul which, unfortunately, isn’t all that unusual:
One of the key guys we were working with in our neighbourhood in Istanbul, a BCC contact, who was baptized and had house meetings for the last three years took a job under a very strict Muslim patron. It seems that over the last year he has steadily distanced himself from us and succumbed to pressure to go to the mosque and act like a Muslim again. It has been a huge loss for our work and personally painful as we have invested so much relationally into him, his wife (who treated us warmly but never professed Christ), and his daughters. We are still praying for reconciliation, between him and God and between him and us, and we are trying to re-orient ourselves in ministry after losing this key household as a base of ministry outreach.
Here are some statistics for 2011:
From 3 of our websites:
Knowing God (www.allahitanimak.jesus.net)
186,000 visits, 1,700 form filled
The Bible (www.kutsalkitap.org)
404,000 pages viewed, 215,400 visits
Answering Islam (www.islamacevap.net)
57,700 pages viewed, 26,300 visits
And live chats and Facebook members...
live chats in 2011 : 2,406
Facebook in 2011 : 14,500 new fans
Please pray for all these many seeds that have planted through the world of electronic media and communication.
Blessings,
From the BCC Team