The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. The stories in the 2013 Mission Yearbook were gathered around the question of Jesus to his disciples, “How many loaves have you?” from Mark 6:38. The book is filled with stories of God’s abundance in the face of overwhelming needs and a scarcity of resources.Today in the Mission Yearbook: October 31, 2013
SYRIA - Syria has always been a puzzle to the household of God, ever since the Almighty coined its capital, Damascus, “the city of my joy!” (Jer. 49:25 KJV).In its modern history, the government of Syria allied itself with two anti-Western powers: the Soviet Union, from 1956 until the fall of the U.S.S.R.; and Iran, from 1979 until present. Yet during these two periods, and because of its secular type of government, the people of Syria enjoyed a religious freedom unmatched elsewhere in the Arab world. Churches flourished. The hand of God used that very setup—though an unfavorable geopolitical reality for the West—to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ beyond the Iron Curtain and through the even tougher curtain of the Ayatollah’s Iran. During the U.S.S.R. era, Russian military and their families bought tens of thousands of Russian-language Bibles from the Bible Society bookstores across Syria. These bookstores have also helped meet the demands of Iranian tourists and visitors for Persian Bibles.
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