Tajikistan
From Cast Out to Sent Out: How a Central Asian Seamstress Is Threading the Gospel Through Her Community
Cast out by her family for her faith, Fatima returned with a transformed heart. Discover how this Central Asian seamstress is using her sewing machine as a powerful tool for gospel ministry. “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” – Hebrews 10:24 In 2018, a young woman in Central Asia watched a friend’s life come undone – and then quietly, miraculously, come back together. Her friend had lived hard. By his own account, there was no sin he had not tried. And then he met Jesus, and the change was not the polished, gradual respectability of a man cleaning up his act. It was a shattering. A reordering. The kind of transformation that makes the people around you stop and stare. Fatima* stared. “I want to believe in a God who can change a life like that,” she told him. Not…
Fearless Faith: Christian Leaders in Tajikistan
“Evangelical churches in our country are not very numerous, but we aspire to impact our society and we are grateful to School Without Walls for their help in this,” shared Arash (name changed), a national School Without Walls (SWW) coordinator for Tajikistan, speaking to 80 young Next Generation Christian leaders at a Next Generation Professional Leaders Initiative (NGPLI) conference last week. Tajikistan is over 90% Muslim, and Christians who openly share their faith risk persecution from their families, in the educational system, and from employers. Therefore, the goal of the conference was to pass on a vision of influential Christianity to these young Tajik Christians and to inspire and teach them how to be witnesses for Christ and transform their society through treating their workplace as a mission field. Bahram (name changed), a university student, shared how the conference’s message impacted him: “It’s not easy being a Christian in our…