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The Table PodcastLiving and Ministering in the Middle EastAnna:One of them after 15 years praying for him, he came to know Jesuspersonally. And it was interesting. It happened after September9/11, September 11, when people became interested in knowingabout, "Who are those Muslims? Why are they doing this to us?"One lady approached my brother. He happened to come to the US,and she approached my brother and found out more information –and, especially, he was a Muslim and he left still his family in theMiddle East, and she was asking him questions. But at the end ofher conversation, she offered to pray for him. She said, "Can I prayfor you?" And she ended her prayer in Jesus' name.That made my brother give me a call and ask me, "I have a ladywho did this. I want to know, is this lady, does she have the samefaith as you are?" I said, "Next time you meet her, ask her, 'Are youborn again?'"And from that, it opened tremendous conversation between mybrother and I, where it was every day for hours. My brother becamevery interested and kept asking questions. Three months later, heprayed to trust Jesus with me on the phone, and it was like thegreatest miracle for me that I saw happening, because I thought,"From all people, that God is using me with my brother, that theywere rejecting to hear me."They were rejecting me because of what I had done, embracing – itwas a shame to them. It was like they were embarrassed. Peopleasked, "Oh, your sister is a Christian," so they were embarrassedculturally. And then they would not listen to a woman.So for me when I saw that, I saw how the Lord honored the prayersof many people where I was asking them always pray for myfamily, pray for them. And the Lord just opened his eyes. And oneday after three months on the phone I was talking to him, he said,"I got it, I got it, I got it! Now I know why God has to come in theflesh to save us." And he was just jumping up and down and wasvery vocal about his faith.Darrell Bock:That's an incredible story, a great story. Fikret, I'm going to turn toyou now and talk about the incident that I want you to describe.Anna has described how death can be threatened, but in fact,oftentimes, death does come as a result of persecution. Share yourinvolvement in an event that actually many Americans do knowabout, because it did actually make the news here. Tell the story ofthe missionaries who were slain in Eastern Turkey a few years ago.3 of 14