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    • Our Story
    • Our Dream & Values
    • Our Strategy
    • Our Beliefs
    • Our locations >
      • Los Angeles, USA
      • Lebanon >
        • HK Donation Info
        • Financial Report
  • Disciple Making Movements
    • What is DMM?
    • 3 Objectives
    • building blocks
    • How Do I Start?
    • How is DMM different?
  • Training & Coaching
  • Resources
    • Training Videos
    • Testimonies
    • Download Material >
      • English
      • 中文
    • Audios Teachings >
      • Bible
      • Family & Relationship
      • HDR Training
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通告:如果您是在香港的弟兄姊妹並希望在奉獻上與我們同工,我們己更新了在香港的奉獻途徑,請按以下連結了解最新的資訊。

香港奉獻最新資訊

We are very thankful for your partnership in prayer and financial support.  For 2020 & 2021 Financial Reports for our Lebanon Mission, please click below.
感謝您在禱告和奉獻上與我們同工,我們已準備了黎巴嫩宣教工作的2020及2021財政報告給您參考,請按以下連結:

Financial Report 財政報告
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Lebanon

is a sovereign nation in the Middle East with Syria to its north and east, Israel to its south, and the Mediterranean Sea to its west. The capital of Lebanon is Beirut, once called "the Paris of the Middle East."

Lebanon is the smallest recognized country on the entire mainland Asian continent. ​It has an area of only 10,452 sq. km, which is about 39 times smaller than the state of California. The population of Lebanese nationals in Lebanon is around 4 million.

More than 2,000,000 Syrian Refugees are in Lebanon

In the last 6 years, Lebanon has received over 2 million refugees*  from the neighboring war-torn country called Syria.  As you can imagine, such a large number of refugees would bring a very serious humanitarian crisis to Lebanon.

​According to a ​UN assessment in 2016, 93% of the Syrian refugee population was estimated to have some degree of food insecurity.  Among the surveyed children of primary school age (6 to 14 years), 48% were found to be out of school, with the highest rate of out-of-school children found in the Beqaa (70% not attending). These rates are significantly higher among children of secondary school age (15 to 17 years): 84% of children of this age group are out of school.

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​Syrian refugees in Lebanon are in desperate need of food, medical care, education, jobs, winter kits, etc.


*this is a
 higher but more accurate estimate than the official government published number of 1.3 million because many refugees chose not to register with the government.

"What is happening right now is something that we could only dream of in the past!"

- a Lebanese Christian friend & former national director of World Vision in Lebanon

Sadly, the war in Syria has caused much suffering to many people and the situation looks gloomy from a humanitarian standpoint. However, an amazing spiritual phenomenon is happening at the same time. Since almost all of the refugees were brought up in a conservative religious environment, if there has been no war most of them would never have the chance nor the interest to know the truth about Jesus Christ. However, the trauma of war and the ongoing difficult living condition have made their hands wide open to receive Christian help and their hearts to receive Jesus’ love.
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​More amazingly, by divine providence Lebanon has been the only country in the Middle East with a Christian president as required by its own constitution since 1943. At the same time, Lebanon has the most religiously diverse society of all states within the Middle East and is the most open country in the Middle East for sharing the good news.

"When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” (Matthew 9:36)

​Lebanon has become both a physical and spiritual refuge for millions of refugees to find a temporary and eternal home.   


The Story of Laila

A Muslim Background lady who saw Jesus in her dream

I met Laila* in my first visit to Lebanon back in March 2017. In a sunny afternoon, I followed a local pastor for a routine pastoral visit to Laila’s makeshift home in a farm. When we arrived, Laila and her two teenage daughters were just taking a break from the hard labor in which they worked for 10 hours a day for a mere daily wage of $6.

On that day, there was something very special that Laila couldn’t wait to tell the pastor once she saw him. Even though I didn’t understand any Arabic word that she spoke, i could see the joy and excitement on her face as she recounted the spiritual experience she had just 10 days ago. She shared how Jesus visited her in a dream after she cried out to Him for protecting her son from an adversary who was planning to kill him. Laila said that when she saw Jesus, all her fear was gone, and peace and joy completely filled her heart.

This is just one example out of hundreds or even thousands of true stories of Muslims encountering Jesus in the midst of their struggles. From the mouth of our Arab Christian friend, what is happening right now is something that they could only dream of in the past. What we are currently seeing in the Middle East is a once-in-a-lifetime golden opportunity to share Jesus’ love with millions of Muslims with results that were never seen before.

*Laila is not her real name because we have to conceal her identity for her safety and the identity of those who minister to her.

We believe that we are now in a divine moment and place in the history of the Middle East where millions of lives are about to be transformed in ways never seen before.


Our Mission

to share the love of Jesus Christ to the Syrian refugees in words & in actions

Our mission focus:
  • 500,000+ Syrian refugees living in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon near the border of Syria.
  • More than 50% of these refugees are children and 70-84% of them are without education at this moment.
  • More than 85% of these refugees were born and raised in a conservative Muslim environment. Most of them have never heard the gospel presented to them.
  • Their urgent needs are food, medical care, education, jobs, winter kids, etc.

​Our ministries include:
  1. starting a House of Prayer with local brothers and sisters,
  2. providing practical helps to Syrian refugees,
  3. seeing a spiritual movement among the refugees

Your Partnership

The opportunities are here.  The needs are great.  The harvest is ripe.   The workers are few.  The time is now.


We really appreciate and sincerely ask for your partnership to bring Jesus' love to so many who have never experienced it before.


In Ecclesiastes 4:12, the Scripture says that "though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."  We know very well that the task in front of us is too big and too challenging for anyone to do it alone.  Therefore, we sincerely ask you to consider becoming our partners in this once-in-a-lifetime endeavor.  
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There are two important ways you can partner with us:
1. As our intercessors, you will  
  • receive regular prayer updates through email, video, or social media,
  • pray with us on the phone or online regularly. ​

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2. As our sponsors, you can ​ 
  • ​support our ongoing mission work every month for 12 months.
  • The monthly fund of US$5,000/month is for
    • refugee ministries,
    • disciple making,
    • house of prayer development,
    • and living expenses.  
    • This fund will be used for ministries that may include but not limited to giving refugees helps or supplies for their urgent needs, providing practical or livelihood training to improve their chance of employment, and creating micro-businesses or projects for sustainable financial development for refugees.   
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*Please type "Lebanon Missions" in the "Note for Specific Donation Category" box .
A refugee family's makeshift shelter.
A worn-out sofa is all the furniture they have.
The living condition of most refugees is very low in hygiene.
Many refugee children would help their mother to do housework while their father goes out to look for work as day laborer,
This refugee girl had 3rd degree burnt all over her body from a refugee camp fire.
Christian ministries are taking the lead to provide education to refugee children.
More than 30 refugee children cramped into a small van to go to school.
Currently, the refugee camps in Lebanon are still open to Christian ministries to visit and help.
More than 50% of refugees are children.
Our team prayed for a Muslim lady in her own camp.
70-84% refugee children in the Beqaa Valley are without education at this moment.
We visited a refugee family at their makeshift home in a farm where they work for many hours a day for only $6.
We shared the story of Jesus with a refugee family.
We went to the refugee camp to visit the friends and relatives of a Muslim background brother.
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