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The Faris Family David and Sharon Faris

Serving the desert peoples of Chad, Africa

Assemblies of God World Missions

  
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The Lord has provided the monthly support we need! 
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We have seen them with our own eyes:
  • United Nations refugee tents as far as the eye can see...Kounoungo Camp, near Guéréda
  • Women who fled the stability of their village home as it was being attacked by armed men on camels...
  • The family of a rich merchant being devastated by AIDS, one family member at a time...
  • Children running wild through a desert town, their fathers dead in one of the many wars and battles...
  • Death ceremonies for mothers who died giving birth in empty clinics without medicine...
 

Our role in this challenging situation:

a Darfur refugee       After seeing such devastation, we have wondered to ourselves what we would need to face the same challenges our brave friends have faced. What if we had to face such challenges without the Word of God to bring us courage and hope?
       There are many courageous agencies offering food, water, shelter, medicine, education and other assistance to the people caught in the middle of this crisis. We are thankful for their tireless efforts despite amazing challenges.
        God has placed a call in our hearts to bring encouragement and blessing to a desert people of Chad and Sudan. What we have to offer them is on a much deeper level, one which reaches into the very heart of the problem. 

  

What we have been doing:

       Over our past term in Chad, we were able to complete a series of programs which shares some of the stories of the Word of God, and applies the principles of these stories to the troubles which our friends are facing. These programs were broadcast on shortwave radioListening to Sahara Bâ, "Well of the Sahara", FM radio, and distributed as a cassette series, on CD and on the internet. As a result:

  • Influential leaders and their families have had the opportunity to hear encouragement from the Word of God on CD
  • Soldiers have debated the Word of God together as they listened to it on cassette
  • God's message has gone out by shortwave to isolated desert villages that were beyond our reach
  • Families in the capital of Chad have listened to these FM broadcasts in their homes
 

The task awaiting us:

Before we left for furlough, a group of community elders told us,

"We love these radio programs. They are the very first broadcasts in our language, and their message is very important to our community at this time in our history. You need to broadcast these programs on an FM station in our eastern town!"

       The troubled situation in eastern Chad also compelled us to complete a rough draft of the Gospel of Luke into one of the desert languages before the end of our term in Chad. As we prepare to return to Chad, we have the opportunity to revise and publish it. This will give us the opportunity to produce more encouraging radio programs and a new series of programs on cassette and CD. Pray for the people of Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan It will also lay the foundation for us to translate additional books of God's Word into this and other languages of the desert. We are convinced that the Word of God is for everyone, and brings light that will continue to encourage our friends in so many ways.
       God is working in each of our lives, desiring that we would enjoy a personal relationship with Him.  To know more about how God may be working your own life, there are several places on the internet which clearly explain God's Good News.  We invite you to enjoy the blessings we have enjoyed from the eternal truths they contain.

  

Come join our sponsorship team!

       We invite you to join the team of sponsors who are sending us out to bring blessing to the people of the Sahara desert. By supporting us in prayer and with monthly support of five dollars or more, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you are making an eternal impact among the desert peoples.

Friends finding water       Christ has chosen to use His Church to fulfill the Great Commission. And as part of God's Church, we invite you to join us in this exciting task. The Scriptures teach us that those who send us out to the desert peoples of Chad and Sudan are partners together with us.

"So he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are fellow-workers of God, a field of God, and you are a building of God." - I Corinthians 3:5-11, LITV

       If you would like to become part of the team which sends us out, please click on the link below, and fill out the secure form indicating your desire to join us in this exciting task! 

I would like to sponsor the Faris Family 
in their outreach to the Sahara desert!

       We are looking forward to counting you among those who send us out to bring this Living Water to the peoples of the Sahara desert.

  
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