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Quotes from the Field “I want to believe. I want what you have.” – *Muhsin, a Middle Eastern Arab Muslim, to a Global Gates missionary “It’s good to meet you. I have heard from my colleagues that you are nice and love to discuss stories about ancient history and your faith.” – *Assad, a Middle Eastern Arab…

The Houston Summer Internship is an accessible approach to exposing and empowering those interested in pursuing outreach and possible field work. Interns form a team reaching out to various unreached people groups in Houston. Experienced missionaries provide structured training and coaching throughout the summer. The Houston Summer internship catalyzes interns to develop the core competencies…

Upgnorthamerica.com is a new Kingdom resource that serves the people of God in helping to educate, equip, empower, and mobilize them to not only pray for the world’s least-reached populations in our midst but to also create awareness of high Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and Jewish concentrations in need of gospel engagement. Given the recent…

On day 3 of Ramadan, we pray for the Rohingya people. The Rohingya live in squalor. They have experienced much loss and pain, and are in desperate need of hope. Go to globalgates.info/30days to learn how you can get your copy of the “30 Days Muslim World Prayer Guide” to continue praying with us this…

The most strategic evangelists among unreached people groups are believers who come from those very groups that we are trying to reach (former Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists). Some from these groups are approaching Global Gates to serve as missionaries. However, it has proven difficult for these effective evangelists to raise funds. Unlike western missionaries,…

Dear Friend, Several of your Global Gates missionaries and Pathways Texas interns recently returned from a multi-week mission trip to South Asia and the Middle East, where they saw God do more than they asked or imagined.  *Sarah, a young missionary, had a recurring vision of a woman crying by a body of water throughout…

The past three decades have seen more Muslims come to faith in Jesus Christ than at any other time in history. It’s no coincidence that it was also 30 years ago that the Christian world began partnering together in a concert of prayer called “30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World”. Prayer is the…

Do you have a God-sized vision for God’s mission? Are you completely depending on God? Have you surrendered everything to God? Do you have a Kingdom mindset? Or, are you leaning on your own understanding and trusting in your own strength?  Commit your ways to the Lord, seek God’s face, abide in God, be in…

Are you willing to put yourself out there? Like really willing to step out of your comfort zone, and meet your Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and Jewish neighbors where they’re at?  Are you willing to listen, hear their stories, and do your best to empathize and relate to them?  Are you willing to humble yourself…