Modern Egyptians are proud of their 5,000-year-old culture. But Egypt is much more than the remains of its past. It is a kaleidoscope of peoples loved by the Lord.
That’s why the peoples of Egypt are the focus of this year’s Day of Prayer and Fasting for World Evangelization June 4. That day Southern Baptists will focus on loving the peoples of Egypt through prayer.
Egyptian Muslims comprise the vast majority of the nation’s more than 76 million people. But the Copts, Egypt’s traditional Orthodox Christians, number at least 8 million — more than 10 percent of the national population. Millions of Bedouin, successors of the Arab conquerors who brought Islam to Egypt, still wander the desert. The Nubians, Beja, Berbers and Domari Gypsies also live in Egypt.
A spiritual revival broke out among Coptic Christians several years ago.
The small community of Egyptian Protestant and evangelical believers (estimated at about half a million) is growing. An increasing number of Muslims are converting. And a spirit of prayer gains momentum yearly.
“We have a tremendous, lay-ledprayer movement in Egypt right now that has just exploded over the last five to seven years,” a Christian worker reported.
“Our goal now is to have a grassroots movement, with grassroots leaders, that becomes a church-planting movement.”
Many strongholds — spiritual, social and cultural — stand between current reality and that future, however.
Pray that every believer will become a disciple-maker and that Egyptian followers of Jesus will unite to spread the gospel. (BP)
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