ICC Note:

In the midst of the horrors of war, Pastor Edward Awabdeh refuses to leave Syria and abandon the churches and Christians there. He states that the challenges of injury, death, and Christian genocide grow the strength of the congregations as well as keeping their minds on eternal rewards. Regardless of the nightmare facing Syria, people continue to come to Christ showing the need for Christian guidance to remain in the war zone.

3/28/2017 Syria (Conservative Review) – Pastor Edward Awabdeh has been leading souls to Christ in Syria for over a decade, even through the worst of his country’s catastrophic civil war.

“It’s so painful to see the degree of evil that’s taken place in my country,” Awabdeh says, lamenting what has become of Syria. But his faith has not only grown in response, it has helped him make sense of the disaster.

Awabdeh oversees Alliance Church and around 20 other congregations in Syria, according to a story at the U.K. Express last year, where his congregation has endured not only the horrors of the country’s civil war, but the encroaching presence of ISIS in the region.

When your mission field is a literal warzone and your congregants under constant threat of becoming casualties, carrying out the great commission is a daunting task.

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