The Silas Project Worker Testimonies, Bookmarks, Other Websites, and Legal Information

Supported Worker Bookmarks and Testimonies
If you are interested, please browse the testimonies of supported workers below and print out a bookmark as a reminder of each worker for whom you intend to pray. These documents open as PDFs in new windows. You will find all the latest Silas news on our Blog Page. Please also view the reduced size trailer of our 15-minute audio visual Silas presentation - opens in a new window. If you would like a DVD of the complete presentation for private showing, please contact us.

Print a prayer summary bookmark for Ahmet and Cigdem. Ahmet is the pastor of the church in Diyarbakir. View Ahmet's detailed testimony. The family are in the process of moving to a new flat in a district better for young children because their present neighbourhood has become associated with drug dealing and violence. The fellowship in Diyarbakir will be continuing to give to meet the cost of the flat and all the needs that the move will give rise to.

Print a prayer summary bookmark for Hamdullah and Elmas. Hamdullah is the leader of the church in Antakya (Antioch). View Hamdullah and Elmas' detailed testimony - recounted by Elmas.

Print a prayer summary bookmark for Kaan and Alexandra. Kaan is the leader of the Besiktas church in Istanbul. View Kaan's detailed testimony.

Print a prayer summary bookmark for Gul. Gul ministers through counselling and visiting in her Izmir fellowship. View Gul's detailed testimony. Gul's church has just bought better accommodation for the fellowship and other congregations in Izmir to use. Work is now under way to make the space suitable for use - it is the top floor of an existing building.

Other Websites
See below for a summary of some other Christian organisations known to us that are actively involved in Turkey (each website opens in a new window).

www.aslanvideo.co.uk - Aslan Video focuses on publishing Turkish Christian videos and DVDs in Turkey.

www.loveturkey.org - Love Turkey focuses on outreach activities in Turkey, particularly encouraging Christians to go and work in Turkey.

www.om.org - Operation Mobilisation is active in outreach work in Turkey, particularly through the TACO (Turkey Afri-Asia Creative Outreach) programme.

www.barnabasfund.org - Although the main focus of the Barnabas Fund is Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, it is also active in Turkey in projects as diverse as assisting church reconstruction and sponsoring Christian TV programmes.

www.biblesociety.org - The Bible Society has been operating in Turkey for almost 200 years. It maintains bookshops in Istanbul and Adana (the latter with the support of the local church), and sponsors bookshops in Ankara, Izmir, and Mardin, It also distributes Bibles through a network of commercial bookshops and secular book fairs. The Bible was first translated into old Turkish (i.e. Ottoman Arabic script) in 1666 by order of the Sultan - at the request of Dutch Ambassador. A Latin script (i.e. modern Turkish) New Testament was published in 1941, a fully-revised contemporary New Turkish Translation of the whole Bible in 2001, and a Kurdish New Testament in 2005. A Kurdish Old Testament and a Turkish website (www.kitabimukaddes.com) are currently under way, with the book of Psalms appearing this year (2008).

www.partnersintl.org - Partners International is active in church planting and church coordination work in Turkey, particularly via the Istanbul Protestant Church Foundation (IPCF).

Legal Information
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