VANCOUVER – A newly evangelized man was so passionate to share Jesus Christ that he soon ended up in jail in a Muslim-majority country. But even in jail he led people to Christ and soon the team of ex-prisoners reached 10,000 people with the Gospel.
Missionary Trevor Larson, who helped the passionate evangelist he called Wahid to exponentially plant churches, shared the story at Missions Fest 2018 in Vancouver on Saturday, as he made the point that to do mission properly one needs to think of God as a fruit lover.
Larson, who has spent the last 25 years in an undisclosed Asian country and coaches mission teams how to multiply discipleship movements in Unreached People Groups, shared about Wahid and how he mentored him.
“He (Wahid) ended up in jail,” Larson said. But God was still at work. In jail, Wahid was able to earn an administrative position that put him in a place to share the Gospel with other inmates.
“In 2007, 86 people had heard the Gospel through him and 66 accepted Jesus,” Larson said.
About 12 of those inmates met up with Wahid following their release, and together they cultivated a plan to spread the Gospel to others in neighbouring…
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