CBF Global Missions Embrace the World North Africa
Mar 27, 2015
CBF Global Missions
Embrace the World
North Africa
CBF Global Missions
Our purpose is to introduce people to Jesus by both word and deed, and our primary focus is on some
of the world’s most neglected peoples. This purpose launches us on a journey ministering with and among unreached and marginalized peoples. As we travel, we are committed to collaborating
with churches and Christians to engage in holistic ministries with the most neglected people in a
world without borders.
CBF Offering for Global Missions
The CBF Offering for Global Missions is the primary way CBF field personnel and projects are supported. Through the Offering, CBF churches participate together to do things we could never
do alone.
Offering Goal
This year’s goal for the
Offering for Global Missions is:
$6,100,000
This Offering will support field personnel serving in countries around the world.
Offering Spotlight
Jane and Sam Moras*
North Africa
*For security reasons, names of field personnel have been changed.
Jane and Sam Moras* work in North Africa primarily among the Berber people, the
original inhabitants of North Africa, who are often nomadic or disconnected from the
larger Arab population.
In North Africa – where sharing the gospel in public settings is illegal – Cooperative
Baptist Fellowship field personnel like Jane and her husband, Sam, can’t hand out
Bibles on a street corner, project the Jesus Film on the side of a neighborhood house, or invite people to attend church. But they
can love people.
“Jesus helped others with a hands-on approach. We don’t have to pass out Bibles to teach others about
Jesus. Our call is to love others, take care of the poor, the needy, the widows, the orphans and to
let others see Christ shining through us.”
- Jane
Some of the Moras’ work in North Africa includes:
Purchasing sheep, whose wool provides a much-needed source of income for Berber women.
Partnering with an organization that helps homeless children by providing food and showers and exchanging clean
clothes for dirty.
Giving away medicines in rural villages and helping to ensure people with mobility impairments have
wheelchairs.
Religious freedom is very limited in the region where Jane and Sam work.
Following Christ is a costly decision. Sometimes Christians lose their job or their
family shuns them. Jane and Sam know North Africans who have been imprisoned,
beaten or even raped because they have turned from Islam.
Yet many Christians still meet together in homes, changing locations each week as to not be suspected or caught for meeting as Christians. They sing and worship – but
they do it quietly. They read the Bible, pray and disciple each other.
Jane and Sam have worked with underground churches for years, connecting new believers with indigenous churches,
allowing North Africans to disciple, support and lead their own.
The work in North Africa is directly funded by the CBF Offering for Global Missions.
Without this Offering, the work could not continue.
“Without your participation and support for the Offering for Global Missions, the
opportunity for these people to hear the Gospel message wouldn’t be there. We love the people who are around us. We love our
friends, and we couldn’t do what we do without the Offering. Thank you for your
gifts to the Offering. Thank you for helping us embrace the world.”
- Sam Moras
Give generously to the
This year’s goal for the Offering for Global Missions is:
$6,100,000