Welcome to Episode 0036 Season 3 of the FOUR12 Canada Podcast!
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I am excited to bring you an interview with Roula Karkafi! Roula is a busy woman! Together with her husband Bechara Karkafi (a recent podcast guest!), she serves with a humanitarian ministry in Lebanon and supports church planting efforts among Arabic people here in Canada.
In this episode, we chat about her experience as a prison chaplain in Lebanon, and outreach to Syrian refugees in Lebanon through the Clementia Life Centre. Listen as she encourages volunteers to find their place to serve.
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Missions Conference at Faith
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
Ministry Areas
- Four areas of service/ministry circles
- Humanitarian ministry
- Leadership and training to equip and train leaders
- Church planting and discipleship making movement
- On the way - a mission academy, to equip national missionaries in the Middle East and Africa
Prison Ministry
- Started as a prison chaplain
- Became the area director for this ministry in Pakistan, Sudan, Egypt and Lebanon, and now looking at Turkey
- Extended ministry outside of prison walls to reach the families of inmates
- So important in Lebanon to serve inmates from different backgrounds and sharing the gospel freely
- They offer a trauma healing program
Clementia Life Centre
- 2014 started as a school to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon
- It's more than teaching - changed the 'L' from 'Learning' to 'Life'
- CLC offers food, social support, trauma healing, and have partnered with local agency to protect kids from abuse
- started with 15 kids and now over 100
- Courses include Bible, math, English and Arabic, and science, for ages 5 to 14
- Working in offering vocational training to 14+
Volunteers
- Church members serve in the this ministry among Syrian refugees
- It's a ministry, not a job, and blessed to have others onboard
Bread for All
- Launched early among Syrian refugee communities
- Beyond a local problem due to the economic crisis for everyone
- An opportunity to give them food and share the gospel of Jesus Christ
- Families are referred and by word of mouth
- It was hard to reach the Catholic Maronites in Lebanon, this ministry has provided away for them to reach them
In Canada
- Part of Fellowship International
- Supporting church planting and follow up
- Planting new churches
To Those Who Are Serving
- The field is plentiful and the workers are few
- It can be sad and overwhelming
- There are many opportunities, ask God what his plan is for us
- Encourage every person to find a spot in ministry and you will benefit from it
Thanks for listening! We hope this episode has equipped you for greater influence through serving. We don’t want you to miss a single episode, so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Help us reach more people by writing a review on the Apple podcast app and other podcast apps that you use. The FOUR12 Canada podcast is a ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ontario. Explore everything FOUR12 Canada at four12.ca. Thanks for spending some time with us. See you next time!
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Up Next Season 3 Episode 0037 : Fanny Stewart on
the Importance of Finding Nourishment
in God's Word