“Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to them.” To the exiles, it is the promise of their return home. But it is not only the promise of what God will do—it is spoken in the imperative, indicating what God’s people must do.

Enduring Love is raising up Arab Christian leaders to bring God’s message of hope and love through a variety of community-based programs.

Please keep Dan and me in your prayers while we meet with students and share our ministry stories and tools  at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut, LEBANON. 

Melanie Baggao of Placentia, California, was commissioned to serve with American Baptist International Ministries (IM) in the Middle East. Baggao is IM’s third global worker to be serving in this part of the world. She departed for her field of service on October 21, 2015.

In the middle of a field of blueberries, I thought about the new place God is calling us to be His hands and feet.

With a warm smile and a winsome personality, Sashi is part of a large invisible cohort of more than 300,000 ‘Maids’ (domestic workers), labouring in Lebanese homes.