Dream seminar attracts crowd

A WEC church planting team recently hosted a seminar on dreams in a Middle Eastern city.  Recognising the fascination of dream interpretation in much of folk Islam, the team invited an author on dreams according to the Pentateuch, Psalms and the New Testament to speak.  Following the presentation a local believer bravely shared her story.

“When my husband became a follower of Jesus I was scared, confused and utterly devastated” Ayse began. “I couldn't see why he would want to become one of 'them', the ones that people warn you about.  I didn't know what the consequences were going to be.”   Because she loved her husband, she decided to try to read to understand what her husband had done.  One evening, overwhelmed by fear and distress, she put her hand over the book she had begun to read about Jesus' life and cried out to God, "Please, I'm so confused. I’m enveloped in darkness.  If what this book says is true, show me just a little bit of light".

That night, as she slept Ayse had a vivid dream in which her normally dark apartment was flooded with a glorious light that went through the whole house, penetrating even herself.  Feeling great peace, she knew that this was God's answer and immediately woke her husband to tell him. That night she joined her husband in the family of God.  Ayse’s story isn’t unique.  In fact roughly a quarter of all Muslim background believers testify to a vivid dream or vision as a major catalyst to their conversion.

New Zealander Kathy commented that despite heavy police presence and last minute permissions, the seminar was well received.  “Many new relationships and conversations with people in the community have resulted.”  Each of the attendees took a complimentary book, New Testament and Jesus film.