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Perils of the Mission Field

I want to thank each of you for your powerful and sincere praying that has caused us to be able to return home once again from the mission field safe and alive. Throughout the New Testament, those who carried the Gospel were often in great danger and serious peril and it is recorded that the other believers were together praying for their safety and deliverance.

This particular trip was filled with many uncertainties and quite honestly, great and fearful dangers were all around. Deep inside the stronghold of Islam, we found ourselves surrounded by true haters of the Cross. While I was speaking about the love of Christ and the miracles we have seen Him do, hundreds of Muslim men and women began screaming out against us. As they pressed in toward us, fists clinched and waving in the air, our hired driver called for peace and calm. Suddenly, a man struck him across the face for trying to help us! Our driver instructed us to run to the car and get inside. Within minutes, the car was surrounded by a huge angry mob that begin rocking the car back and forth. I thought they were going to flip it over! Many of them jumped up and down on the hood and roof, which was beginning to bend in from the weight of them all. We were finally able to drive away and get back to the little hotel we were staying in.

The next morning, village leaders with two policemen came to the hotel and began to question me about what I was doing in their country. They constantly screamed and threatened me with jail. They confiscated my passport and told me I was in serious trouble with their government under Islamic law. This went on for more than two hours that morning.They left and then returned late that evening with some other officials for another hour or so of the same kind of questions and threats. While I was in the lobby with them, someone went into my room and searched for whatever they could find to use against me.

The next day we found out that all of our e-mails and phone calls were being monitored. There were always two or three men following me from a distance everywhere I went. Through it all, and in spite of it all, the Gospel net was cast over their entire village and there is nothing the devil can do to ever change that! We were able to leave the country and return home all because of the Grace of God and His people praying for us so often.

We will continue to penetrate the areas of the world that have the least amount of Gospel! Yes, it can get dangerous at times but, did not our Lord pay a much higher price so...."the world through Him might be saved!"

Thank you again for your wonderful concern and burden for missions! Every dollar spent and every danger-filled minute is worth it all! Jesus is quickly gathering His great harvest and you are a vital part of it all!

Your Partners for Souls,
Kelvin & Anita McDaniel

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