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Former Muslim baptizes believers on same Libyan beach where ISIS beheaded Christians
December 10, 2015 - Godreports
By Peter Wooding
baptism (left) ISIS leads Coptic Christians to their beheading on Libyan beach (right)
After coming to Christ through Leading The Way’s television
broadcasts and on-the-ground follow-up, Muslim convert Shahid has
started a significant church-planting network across North Africa and
Europe.
Shahid has even baptized several new believers on the same shores
where the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, beheaded 21 Coptic
Christians—and his story has now gone viral with over 2 million views on
social media.
After becoming disillusioned with Islam, Shahid came across THE
KINGDOM SAT, Leading The Way’s 24/7 satellite TV channel in the Muslim
world, while flipping through the channels.
Shahid explains: “After watching the channel day after day, I wrote
to Leading The Way, and a man corresponded with me for over two years,
answering my questions about Jesus the Messiah.”
Shahid later travelled to Jordan, where he connected with a member of Leading The Way’s follow-up team.
“Through his teaching,” Shahid said, “I accepted Jesus as my Lord and
Savior. For three months I stayed in Jordan, where I studied the Bible
and was baptized. Then I left to serve the Lord back in Libya.”
Soon after Shahid left Jordan, Leading The Way lost contact with him.
After two months of silence, they learned that Shahid’s own father,
angered over his son’s conversion, had reported him to the government,
and then the Libyan border guards had intercepted him.
When Leading The Way located Shahid, the young man was in a refugee
camp in Turkey, where two Muslims had tried to murder him. They asked
him, “Why did they want to kill you?” Shahid replied, “I couldn’t keep
my mouth shut. I had to share Jesus with others!”
Today Shahid continues to share about Jesus through planting churches
and discipling Muslim converts. He is even using the funds from his own
business to support other persecuted believers and pay the rent for the
churches he has planted.
There are many testimonies like Shahid’s coming out of the Muslim
world as Leading The Way’s broadcasts, follow-up teams and Help The
Persecuted ministry continue to impact hundreds of thousands of lives
for Christ.
Leading The Way broadcasts the Gospel into the region 24/7 and has on the ground teams working to build the local church.
To find out more go to: www.ltw.org Source: Godreports
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