Mike Kuhn - March 2021 Update
Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC)
Mike Kuhn currently serves in the International Theological Education Network as a specialist and consultant. Mike’s ministry focus is discipleship and spiritual formation among both Arab Christians and those who have come to Christ from a non-Christian background. Read more about Mike’s work in the following update:
Greetings, friends!
Steph and I are grateful for your concern and prayers for us. Here are a few items that occupy our prayers over the next months. Thanks for sharing with us in your prayers.
As we feel the COVID cloud beginning to lift, opportunities for travel and ministry are becoming frequent. I spoke recently in Memphis, TN, and Ephrata WA. We hope that international travel will return soon.
We praise God that my book Finding Hagar is in the last phases of publication in Arabic. Please pray for communication with the publisher in Beirut. We hope the book will help Arab people understand and embrace the blessing of God given through Hagar but especially through Christ, the seed of Abraham. Think about what it would mean to realize that your lineage and heritage are not cursed but blessed, not excluded, but included as a recipient of God’s love.
We're also grateful that Langham Partnership (UK) has agreed to publish my book titled In Quest of the Rock: Peter's Transformative Journey with Jesus. The book is about how Jesus formed Peter spiritually. It weaves together a lot of the lessons learned in walking with Muslim background believers and some of the courses I taught in Lebanon. One of the lessons that come out repeatedly in Peter’s life was how important it was to release his assumptions in order to receive the new thing Jesus was leading him into. Sometimes, as you recall, Peter had to let go of his own nationalistic expectations (Mt. 16 and Acts 10). Please pray for a good publishing and editing process and that the book will bear fruit to God's glory.
The partnership between ITEN of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and Sudan is progressing nicely. The plan is to launch a leadership training project using a curriculum from the Lebanese seminary (ABTS) where I taught previously. If all goes well, the course will begin in early April. Pray for recruiting the right students, good communication between me and our Sudanese partner, and God's hand of blessing on this training course.
My better half, Stephanie, is now working part-time at a local "Title 1" school. The school has a large number of international students. Steph thoroughly enjoys helping kids in their reading to bring them up to the level of their class. She has just started, so your prayers are appreciated.
Finally, check out a blog piece I wrote about mission in the Middle East:
https://abtslebanon.org/2021/03/11/rethinking-christian-mission-witness-in-the-middle-east/. It will give you an idea of the values we try to implement as we serve in the Middle East.
Thanks for your concern and special thanks to The Outreach Foundation for this partnership. Grateful to God for all of you!
Mike Kuhn
email: mike@globexing.com
Read more about Mike Kuhn’s ministry HERE.
THE NEED
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