Rebekah

Rebekah is serving in a local Bible College, teaching, discipling students, and supporting faculty development.

Highly aware of their place as a minority within a diverse society, the college raises up godly, biblically faithful, and culturally engaged Christians to lead and serve in their churches and communities. After learning the local language,  Rebekah is supporting and enriching this ministry especially in the area of systematic Christian thought in the Reformed tradition.

In her location, clear, faithful, and biblical teaching of Jesus as God’s one true light for the world is seldom heard. In areas of great spiritual and physical need, God’s people here often look inward rather than out to where God is working around them. Rebekah’s role is to equip local leaders, who will serve the church and bring transformation to this community. She does this at the Bible college which is located in a key urban educational centre, through teaching at graduate and post-graduate levels.

Local people group

• Population: 40 million

• Faith backgrounds: >99% majority faith, 0.06% evangelical Christian

Challenges

• Persecution: ranked amongst the top 50 most challenging locations worldwide

• Deep gospel engagement with local issues such as poverty, urbanisation, and the push of technology across local cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic divides "Card carrying" Christians lacking depth of faith, and so seeking comfortable rather than costly discipleship.

Opportunities

• Emerging local leaders who are keen to grow in faith and engage with their communities.

• Working with a church tradition that deeply values Scripture, meditating thoughtfully on life from a Christian perspective, and living out the faith before a watching world.

While embracing her status as a lifelong language and culture learner, Rebekah has transitioned into a faculty role at the college. 

• She is involved with undergraduate and postgraduate students in both the classroom and less formal discipleship contexts. 

• She is developing learning and teaching materials to provide a solid grounding in faithful, biblical, God glorifying Christian theology. 

• She is equipping locals to deeply engage with their context from a Reformed perspective. 

• She is supporting local faculty in their efforts of research and teaching. 

• Rebekah is also an active member of the local community and church.

All this in prayerful dependence on our gracious Father, the reigning Son, and the living Spirit.

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