East Asia

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Praise God that their younger daughter is excelling in school and loves to be involved in drama and plays. Praise God that their older daughter loves chorus and is excited to be involved in the Cru High School ministry.

Pray for Susan's parents as her father slips further into Alzheimers. Pray for the Gibsons as they look for a house to buy. Pray for Steve has he spearheads CRU’s virtual ‘care communities’ for workers in Muslim areas.

East Asia Steve and Susan Gibson are currently in Florida near their sending agency's headquarters. They had been in an East Asian country that is hostile to the Gospel, and were notified in May of 2016 that their visa was not being renewed, and that they needed to leave the country by mid-June. They thank everyone for standing with them as they said their goodbyes to their adopted home in East Asia. God blessed them through this difficult transition, and is filling them with hope for what he has planned for the future. Steve is from Virginia and became a Christian at the age of 20. Afterward he began ministering to international students on campus, and God stirred in his heart the desire to pray for the millions of Asian people lost without the Lord. Steve, along with Susan, who is from Atlanta, joined Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU), and for 17 years lived and worked in a remote part of East Asia closed to the Gospel. The region has many unreached people and no established church. The Gibsons have two daughters who were both born in East Asia. They built the underground Christian church among the majority ethnic group, teaching them to reach out to minority groups with the message of the Gospel. They and their staff worked in many different ways, including ministering at universities in five key cities; training leaders; helping young professionals get involved in the church and witness to families and co-workers; and planting the

church where it doesn’t exist.

Steve traveled to Richmond, VA for a weekend early this month to take part in a training for the "Al Massira" video series. "Al Massira" means "the road" or "the journey" in Arabic, and is a tool we used in East Asia to share the gospel with Muslims who we already had developed relationships with. Steve hopes to use this tool here in the US with Muslims, and will continue to promote this tool among Muslim-focused workers around the world. Pray for Steve and the care team as they minister to staff who are struggling in their marriages. Pray for their staff care team as they follow-up with CRU’s mid-term campus missionaries in Spain and Thailand. Pray for the Gibsons’ decisions about their future.