Since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to increasing hostilities in the Middle East, media outlets have featured stories of tankers set ablaze, supply chain disruptions, and skyrocketing oil prices. Those are real stories with real consequences for individuals, families, and businesses around the world.

But they aren’t the only stories that need to be told.

Because the ships aren’t ghost ships. Each vessel is staffed by individuals with families – even children – at home. These civilian seafarers, many with no military training, boarded the ships and set on their journey as if it were any other ordinary trip. They didn’t know more than a month later they’d be forced to drop anchor on the front line of a geopolitical confrontation in which they are powerless.

Arabic New Testament in the Kuwaiti Dialect: One-of-a-Kind Project

Did you know that the Arabian Gulf is home to approximately 4-5 million Christians?! While most are expatriates, Kuwait has a small but vibrant native Christian community. What makes this community so uniquely strategic is its natural access to local non-Christians. As Kuwaiti citizens, they live and work among friends, neighbors, and colleagues who have often never encountered the message of Jesus in a personal or understandable way.