The Launch - Jordan
(Live updates and testimonies below!)
Bringing the Gospel Into the Middle East (June 21 - July 8)
This summer, I have the opportunity to spend three weeks in Jordan participating in “The Launch Middle East” — an immersive missions intensive focused on worship, discipleship, evangelism, and serving local communities throughout the region.
Our team will live in close community while partnering with local believers, engaging villages with the Gospel, serving the church, and learning how to communicate and minister effectively across cultures. The heart behind this trip is simple: to love people well and make Jesus known.
Jordan sits in one of the most spiritually and politically significant regions in the world. This experience will not only deepen my understanding of the Middle East and its people, but also strengthen the long-term calling I feel toward reconciliation, ministry, and peacebuilding in the region.
What We’ll Be Doing
Worship & prayer gatherings
Outreach in local villages
Serving and encouraging the local church
Cultural and language immersion
Training in communication, unity, and conflict resolution
Building relationships with people throughout the region
Financial Goal
The total cost for this trip is approximately $3,000, which includes:
International airfare to the Middle East: $1,200–1,600
In-country housing, meals, transportation, and ministry expenses: ~$1,500
Any support given helps make this mission possible and directly contributes to ministry efforts on the ground.
How You Can Partner
Pray
Pray for safety, wisdom, humility, and meaningful opportunities to serve and encourage people throughout the region.
Give
If you feel led to financially support this trip, every contribution — large or small — helps make this possible.
Share
Sharing this page with friends, family, or communities who care about missions and the Middle East is also a huge encouragement.
Not only is this trip a deeply full-circle experience for me personally, but it also further strengthens and confirms the calling I feel toward the Middle East and the people who call this region home. The local leaders facilitating this trip, Daniel and his wife Lydia, carry a sincere apostolic and pastoral heart for Jordan and the surrounding region. As meaningful as the trip itself will be, one of the greatest gifts is the opportunity to build genuine relationship and trust with resident Jordanian leaders who have faithfully devoted their lives to serving their communities and advancing the Gospel in the Middle East.
I believe these relationships will become meaningful and lasting connections as I continue to pursue long-term work throughout the region. In addition, two dear friends whom I previously served alongside in Israel will also be part of this Launch team, making this experience even more personal and significant to me. There are several deeply meaningful factors surrounding this trip that make it feel profoundly anchoring and closely connected to the future I believe God is continuing to unfold.
Some photos from my first trip to Jordan back in the summer of 2012 (14 years ago)!
CURRENT UPDATES
After arriving in Ajloun, the village where our team has been living, from Amman, the capital city of Jordan where I landed, the Lord impressed a powerful message upon my heart from 2 Corinthians 5:16.
Paul exhorts the church in Corinth to "regard no one according to the flesh anymore." Because Christ died for all, we are no longer to define people by their humanity—their faults, brokenness, or even their sin. As ministers of reconciliation, we are called to see every person as an image bearer of God for whom Christ willingly shed His blood.
As I meditated on this passage, I sensed the Lord asking me, "Do you see Me in these people?"
Just two verses earlier, Paul writes, "For the love of Christ compels us." It is this love that compels us to proclaim reconciliation through the cross, inviting people back into relationship with the Father. These words continued to stir in my heart throughout the week.
Nearly a week before I had the opportunity to preach this message, a pastor from a nearby village visited our team at our base in Ajloun. As we prayed together, he looked at me and asked, "Son, what is your name?" After I introduced myself, he began to prophesy over me:
"You will preach to the Muslims. You are called to preach to the sons of Ishmael. There is a special anointing on your life to share the gospel. I don't know whether you have ancestors from this land, but God is going to use you in signs and wonders among these people."
There was much more that he shared, but I received his words as a gracious confirmation from the Lord that this region of the world holds a special place in the calling He has placed on my life.
Then, this past Sunday, I had the privilege of preaching this message to a local congregation.
The message was received with tremendous encouragement, and the pastors shared that they believed it was a timely word from the Lord for their community. In the honor-and-shame culture of the Middle East, many believers shrink back from the places God has called them because of condemnation over their shortcomings. Yet the gospel declares that we are no longer defined by our failures, but by Christ's finished work on the cross.
Following the service, our team had the opportunity to pray and minister to everyone in the room. One young man named Mo stood patiently in line, waiting to receive prayer. When his turn finally came, he shared that he had left Islam about a year ago and had been searching for the truth ever since. His decision created deep division within his family, who ultimately disowned him for rejecting the teachings of Islam.
With tears in his eyes, he said, "I've never experienced love like this anywhere in my life," referring to the love he had encountered in the church. Then he quietly added, "I know Islam is not the way."
After spending several minutes sharing the gospel with him, I asked, "Are you ready to make Jesus the Lord and Savior of your life?"
With tears streaming down his face, he answered, "Yes."
As I led him in confession, repentance, and surrender to Jesus, I could almost see the weight lifting from his shoulders. The sincerity of his prayers and the humility of his heart were unmistakable. I then prayed for him to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
When he opened his eyes, he told me that the back pain he had been experiencing was completely gone and that the heaviness in his chest had disappeared. The joy and peace on his face were undeniable. Jesus had set him free.
This past Thursday, Mo and I met for coffee to get to know one another better and to discuss some of his lingering questions about the Scriptures, the divinity of Jesus, and what it truly means to live as a Christian. It was a rich time together, and I look forward to continuing to walk alongside him as he grows in his faith.
Since that coffee meeting, I've also had the privilege of sitting down with nearly a dozen young men who have left Islam to follow Jesus. Together we've opened the Scriptures, wrestled through their questions, and sought the Lord for what He desires to speak over their lives. It has been an incredible honor not only to pour into them through God's Word, but also to partner with the Holy Spirit in prophesying over their futures and encouraging them in the calling God has placed on their lives.
It has been a tremendous privilege to be here in Jordan.
More than ever, I know the Lord has called me to the Middle East, and I am filled with gratitude for your prayers, generosity, and partnership that made this trip possible. Amman is only an hour and a half from Jerusalem, and I'm believing the Lord will continue to open the borders for me to travel freely throughout the region—discipling and strengthening the Body of Christ while seeing many more Muslims surrender their lives to Jesus.
Thank you for faithfully praying, giving, and believing alongside me. Your partnership is bearing fruit, and together we share in the joy of seeing lives reconciled to the Father through Jesus Christ.
God bless you from Jordan!
