Re a c h i n g
MBB
Farmers
i n Asi a
By M*
Missionary in Asia
One Mission Society
is also much more family and community
focused than in the West. Therefore, our
ministry approach seeks to provide practical help to communities, specifically
cooperatives of rice farmers.
The foundational vision for this ministry is to build Christ’s body of believers,
without walls, by building holistic relationships in villages throughout the region.
Local leaders are identified and trained to
oversee the believers in their village or region. These leaders are interwoven into a
regional network of leadership for mutual
support and accountability, with the goal
of each village being self-supporting and
self-propagating.
Drawing from my background in agribusiness, God has helped me identify a
way to strengthen the local farmers’ businesses while at the same time strengthening their family and work relationships.
We do this by applying biblical principles
and providing an appropriate and reproducible approach that can be used to impact the whole region.
We are in the process of helping the
first cooperative establish a mechanical
I was sharing with some
Muslim-background believers (MBBs)
recently about the importance of building
a bridge to reach their Muslim family and
friends. We looked at Surah 3:42–55 in
the Quran and saw how it presents Isa, or
Jesus, as more than just another prophet.
Using this passage from their own
Quran, we can quickly see if they are “persons of peace” within whom our Father
is already working. From there, we lead
them across a bridge into a fuller understanding of who Isa is and what he has
done for them through the Injil (Gospels).
This approach meets these friends at
a point of “felt need,” which is to know
what the Quran teaches about how to
get t