So Frontline Fridays have been pretty silent for a couple weeks. To be accurate, the entire Cucumbers and Tomatoes blog has been. 

It wasn’t because we lacked stuff to share. It was… Well, I need to know I can trust you with this…we launched a brand new iGo Global website about 2 weeks ago. Before you go all tweet happy and tell your friends/followers/twitterers, the new website is still sort of a secret. You can go look at it if you want to, so the secret is technically out; but the truth is that we still have a couple bugs we are working on before we make a big iGosian deal about it to the masses. 

Consider yourself an official insider right now. Congrats and welcome. 

Now back to our regularly scheduled blog post program, aka Frontline Friday. Today’s update is from our Super Summer Global Xtreme team currently serving in the Middle East. Pray for them as they serve on the edge of the front lines. 

During Base Camp, we talked about a concept called Ancient Work, which is the idea that Father has been working in the places we visit long before we get there and will continue working long after we leave. It’s incredibly humbling to be able to join in his work. Though we’ve only been here in Q (their city) a few days, it’s already evident that Father has been working on people’s hearts here in amazing ways.

One of the main things we’ve done over the past three days is visit refugee families in their homes. The culture here is very relational, and one of the best ways to reach people with the truth is to build lasting relationships with them. These families are beyond kind and generous to us. Even though they have nothing, they give everything they have. As we eat with them, they share their stories with us: stories of war, terror, heartbreak, and loss. They have been through unspeakable things, and many are open to hearing the truth.

We visited one family today for the first time. The worker who took us there (A) had met the father (Ah) in a supermarket a few weeks ago. A has visited most of the families we’ve visited many times before we came, but this was his first time in Ah’s home as well. Ah and his wife, H, welcomed us with smiles. They have one young son named S, and a daughter on the way.

We sat down on the couches, which had been donated to them by a local family. H immediately served us very sweet and hot tea as is customary here. They shared with us how they fled three years ago with only the clothes on their backs, after narrowly escaping a bombing of their home. They are thankful for their lives and the two children they now have, but they long to return to their home country.

After hearing their story, A began to ask them more questions. Ah asked if we were followers of JC, saying that he could see something different in the way we treated his family and the way followers of Is treated them. Soon the conversation turned to the Word, and to my surprise, Ah went into another room and returned with a copy. It had been given to him by a local woman when he asked for his own copy so he could read and study it. That was seven months ago, and he has already read many of the stories.

We were all so excited to see that Father had already been working on his heart, preparing him to hear the truth from A and the fellowship. Sadly, he told us that the crisis in his home country has made it difficult for him to focus on the truth in the Word. His heart is beginning to soften towards the truth, but there is still a battle being fought for his mind. Please pr that Ah and H would continue to thirst after the truth, and that Father would continue to reveal himself to them through the Word. We are visiting them again on Wednesday, so please also pr that we would be able to have more good conversations with them.

Thanks for praying for these specific requests. Please remember to pray for our teams in Spain and Northern Africa as well. Currently, our iGo crew is setting up for Base Camp here in Oklahoma. We will be training the GO Students team along with a church youth group from San Antonio this weekend and send them to Spain on Monday.