Philippines
"In 1991, my colleague and close friend, John Speers, was visiting in Mindanao seeking to better learn a Muslim dialect. With him were his lovely, musically gifted wife and two children, ages 4 and 2. John was one of the most intelligent and spiritually sensitive missionaries I have ever known. At 5:15 p.m., as John was returning from a language learning walk about, a Muslim came up behind him and, using a home- made pistol, exploded a bullet inside John's brain. Entry into heaven was immediate. The story has been told and retold. If an American could so love Filipino Muslims that he would die for them, then how much greater is the responsibility of local believers to engage in a loving witness to the Sons of Ishmael. John's impact has been greater in death than even in life."
(Phil Parshall; Muslim Evangelism Mobilizing the national church EMQ Jan 2001)
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