Bills and debt collectors cling to Naaman’s neck like a strangling noose.  With $28,000 owed and only earning $1,250 a month (not to mention the money he is expected to send home to family), the future looks bleak for Naaman.

Remember Mohammed, the young married engineer that Brad had met.  Mohammed found a temporary job but had to work 7 days a week for 12 hours a day because it was a special project. 

Mark moved to Dubai from New Zealand in developmental projects. He was chasing after the thrills and allure of a city where he could work hard to be successful and then spend a lot of his earnings on different drugs, drinking and clubs.

Thank you for choosing to pray for the peoples of the UAE. We know God hears and is moving in the hearts of those who live in the UAE.

It is hot in the UAE! The average high temperature this week is 108F with a heat index of 118F+. The birds sit in the shade and pant…

Soon will begin the Festival of the Sacrifice (Eid Al-Adha) mimicking Father Abraham as Muslims around the world will sacrifice an animal and give the meat to the ”poor”.  In the one-day period millions of animals will be slaughtered around the world. 

There are images that are hard to forget when you live here. One that has been seared into my memory is the buses full of laborers. As I travel to work in early mornings in the humid heat of summer, I pass bus after bus of workers. I sit sweating in a car with air conditioning blasting as I pass buses full of men, with windows down, the stifling hot wind of summer their only air conditioning.