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Hope For Turkey: Converging Worlds Posted: 26 Feb 2014 01:00 AM PST Village women bake their bread over an open fire.  Farmers work their land with hand-made tools.  Shepherds graze their sheep, and a wedding party dances to the pounding of a large drum and the squeal of a small reed instrument. This portrait depicts the core of Anatolian culture, a simple rural life fraught with struggles and filled with blessings: A person is born, nursed and weaned.  At age six he is circumcised and starts attending the village elementary school.  In his teen years he learns to till the land and shepherd sheep.  After completing his military service he comes back to marry (preferably a distant relative), build a house and raise a family.  His own children are married off at a young age, and then he savors those latter years when he can work less, enjoy his grandchildren, and stroll slowly through the village to be greeted with tokens of honor.  And then when he dies he is buried in the cemetery field outside the village—entering an eternity without Christ. Just hours away, in the sprawling capital city of Ankara (population: 6,000,000), lives a world of contrasts… Continue reading HERE. Remember to check back in here at the Secret Church blog as well as at HopeForTurkey.com, as we learn more about the Secret Church 14 prayer focus together.

Why Hope For Turkey? Posted: 25 Feb 2014 06:48 AM PST The below post was originally published on the Hope for Turkey blog. Be sure to visit there regularly over the next few months to learn about the Secret Church prayer focus in-depth. People travel from all over the world to visit Turkey. They come to enjoy the rich culture and to experience its significant history. It is a history of glorious civilizations marked by art, architecture, philosophy and the rise and fall of great empires. With a population of over 75 million people, Turkey finds itself the geographic bridge between the Eastern and Western worlds. Today, less than 0.1% of people in Turkey are evangelical. Few of the 73 million Muslims have ever truly heard the gospel. For them to be Turkish is to be a Muslim, even if only nominally so. Those who do become followers of Christ do so under the assumption that because of Christ they will face persecution from their families, friends and local officials. But despite these difficulties there remains a faithful Church willing to persevere no matter the cost. HopeForTurkey.com is a site created to mobilize the global Church to pray for the peoples of Turkey and join together to see the gospel spread in the land where the Church once flourished. Read about the history of Turkey, her people, and how the gospel is spreading. But don't stop there. The hope is that readers will be compelled to pray and join in the work as they learn more about Turkey.

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