“Were you scared moving here?” we ask Jonas. “Yeah, a little,” the smiling young man answers, and then relates the story of his transition from his predominantly Christian island in East Indonesia to this hard-core, widely-feared Islamic island of Madura. I’m on Madura today with a short term team from a church in Boston, and we’re being introduced to the staff of an English center which is led by my friend Charles from California. A few years ago he and his family formed a team from the church they served in nearby Surabaya and moved across the Madura Strait to reach Muslim people with the good news of Jesus and to help serve them practically by teaching English. Jonas was one of the first to volunteer for the team and now works in the English center.
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