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Marriage and the Bible

Posted: 10 May 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Throughout May, we'll be reposting information and stories from  HopeForTurkey.com  to guide your prayers as we focus on praying for the Peoples of Turkey this month.  Join us  in praying for this spiritually dark area of the world, and as you do, be sure to take advantage of the  31-day prayer guide .

In January of last year, one of our first English students, a Turk named Sevinc, called and asked my husband and me to be witnesses at her wedding. We were confused. "Wedding? We thought you and Mikail were already married," we replied. Mikail and Sevinc had been married a couple of years earlier at a mosque, but they were not officially married in our country, Bulgaria. They asked us to stand as their witnesses, she explained, "because we want to have a marriage like yours." We were greatly humbled by this statement, not realizing that they had been watching our lives so closely.

Giving Bibles as wedding gifts to our students is our custom, but normally they are not well-received… READ MORE

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