In the Shadow of the Mosque: Missionaries write letters of thanks to Lottie Moon Contributors for helping them reach the Muslims of South Europe

Dear Family,

Without a doubt Southern Baptist missionaries are the best cared for missionaries in the entire world, and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is a large part of the reason why. Our family would like to say thank you, Southern Baptists, for ALL that you give to this tremendous missions offering. But our family is not the only ones who benefit from what Southern Baptists give through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Our people group benefits as well.

The people we serve are an unreached Muslim people group located in Central and Eastern Europe. Recently Southern Baptist gifts have helped take the Gospel to our people through the massive distribution of the New Testament. Two years ago the translation of the New Testament was completed in our people group’s heart language. Since that time your gifts have helped place God’s Word in nearly 18,000 Muslim homes. You are helping to build a foundation of church planting upon the only source that can serve as a true foundation – The Word of God! You are helping to introduce people to the Gospel who previously had no access to the Gospel.

One Muslim man who was opposed to the giving away of God’s Word to his people said:

“What you are doing is like dropping a bomb among our people. It would be better if you dropped a real bomb because you would only kill maybe 10 people. By giving this book you will kill many Muslims because they will turn to Jesus when they read this book.”

On behalf of our family, our team, and most importantly, our people group – thank You, Southern Baptists, for giving to reach the world with the love of Jesus.

A family in South Europe

Dear Family,

Southern Baptists have sent missionaries to live and work among Albanian Gheg Muslims in Kosovo and Macedonia. Lottie Moon gifts have made it possible for war torn houses to be rebuilt, food to be provided for the homeless/jobless, wood stoves to be given for the harsh winters, and, most importantly, lives to be changed.

Southern Baptist missionaries were one of the first organizations to help during the 1999 war. Out of thousands of refugees, long days organizing food boxes and listening to heart wrenching perils of war, I met a man named Esat. He had been beaten and threatened at gunpoint by the opposition’s special forces. God spared his life. He had a family, children, no money, and one room in a house in Tirana, Albania, where refugees from Kosovo found help from Southern Baptists. Esat volunteered to help in our food warehouse alongside Southern Baptist missionaries and myself. Esat saw a difference in us, a light that he could not explain, which he later shared in his testimony. He could not understand why we would come during war time – out of love. We shared the gospel with him. His life was changed.
Today Esat is an open believer living back home in Kosovo. He is one of many new believers in post war Kosovo. He has Bible study in his home and tells whoever will listen about his Savior.

Thank you, Southern Baptists, for making it possible for many changed lives among the Albanian Ghegs.

Another missionary living in South Europe

Posted Oct 7, 2003

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