Planting a Church Among the Bedouins
by Peter Nessem

I grew up in a rural city in the Delta of Egypt with believing parents. After my father passed away, I moved with my family to live in the city of Alexandria.
In 2007, I went to a camp and made the decision to follow Jesus that day. After I finished my university studies, I had a successful job for nine years until the Lord called me to leave work and go to ministry full- time. It was the biggest challenge because it was a difficult choice, especially since my wedding was so close. I struggled to become full time in ministry, but after submitting to the voice of the Lord, I left work and got married.
After five months of marriage, the Lord put on my heart the provinces and deprived places that have not yet been reached with the message of the Gospel. Today we are writing to you from the city of Marsa Matrouh—the desert of northwest Egypt near the Libyan border, where the Bedouins live who have not yet received the Gospel message, and where there are no churches except for the Orthodox church.
We are here for the local church seeking to serve the Bedouin and the Christian families here. We are working on helping them in different ways and methods and building relationships with them. God also gave us a team of Christians who became believers after the divine journey. This team works in many fields and places among the Bedouins and has daily contact with them, yet we seek to deliver the gospel to them.
We look forward to seeing the Bedouins follow Christ, and for the Church to be a beacon amid the darkness here. I invite you to pray for us.

Peter and Renat serve in Egypt where their greatest hope is to reach the Bedouins and Berbers, and to see believers from these ethnicities who have come to plant a strong local church with believers who are ready to go out into the community and carry out various activities to reach people who do not yet know Christ.