Carole Ward doesn’t run AWAY from danger. She runs TOWARDS it.
Carole Ward is a missionary in the region of the world infamous for being the place where more than half of the world’s terror-related deaths occur: the Sahel region of Africa.
“You can’t live here until you’ve already died,” Carole said. “Once you’ve died to yourself, the devil can’t kill a dead man. Your life isn’t your own. Fear is contagious, but so is faith.”
Carole started in Northern Uganda in the height of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Then she ministered in the civil war of South Sudan. She now works in Chad, subject to the terror of three groups: Al-Qaeda, Isis and Boko Haram.
“My heart is to move farther and farther north into more Islamic darkness with the gospel,” she says. “If we’re not advancing as rapidly as they are, we’ve lost.”
Her father was a missionary in the Philippines who also faced danger. Islamist rebels hunted to kill him, she says. “I grew up in a home that even though Abu Sayyaf was looking for my father’s head for 45 years, he had no fear. He absolutely loved the people that burned the Bibles. He was willing to lay his life down.”
Carole raises up prayer leaders and evangelizers to go to the markets and neighborhoods and preach Jesus. her army doesn’t carry firearms, just the Bible and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Five Boko Haram militants have converted to Christ, she says.
Chad is over half Muslim. Abdoulaye Mayangar is one of the converts. “I was a fervent Muslim. I did not like Christians at all,” he says via translation. “There is hope because many Muslims today in these countries are open to listening to the gospel. God is really working in the Sahel. They are coming to Jesus in large numbers.”
Reporting: CBN.
