A LITTLE DYNAMO
In a country of great turmoil, our national leader is a dynamo for the Lord. He has an intense desire to share his newly found faith with his extended family and old classmates from grade school days on up through his university years. He believes that each of these contacts of years gone by create divine appointments.
Rami had been a small, but very bright boy. Because he distinguished himself with excellent grades, he was promoted on a number of occasions to larger schools with more prestigious professors to foster the development of his agile mind. This happened throughout his educational experience. Everywhere he went his classmates loved him because he would help them excel as well, as he explained the lessons to them and drilled them before exams.
When Rami was between the ages of 9 and 12 his father was the leader of the local mosque. He permitted his son, even at 9 years of age, to lead out in public prayers. By the time he was 12, Rami preached on Fridays while his dad was away on business trips. From 12 to 14 years old he became an apprentice to a roving Sharia law judge. The judge gave him a prominent role – opening meetings and even at weddings he functioned as an assistant to the judge. This gave Rami a special legal status and great credibility as he began his witnessing as a new follower of Jesus. Because of being promoted from school to school he had many friends. All of these contacts he viewed as candidates for the Kingdom of God.
His system was a one-on-one approach. First he would give his compelling testimony of a changed life to the two closest friends from a certain school. When they caught the fire for Jesus, the new nucleus would branch out to the wider circle of old friends from that school. When a believer group was thriving in that area, Rami would move on to the two best friends from the next school.
Rami now humbly claims 350 old classmates as active believers in Jesus. He gives all the glory to his Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, Who commissioned each of us to be His witnesses at home and to the ends of the world in the power with which He invests us. May Rami’s tribe increase!
