Ramadan saw an exciting time for Mahabba as many were drawn together to pray for Muslims.
This month we look back at some what was happening and consider how we can keep praying in the coming weeks and months.
The Islamic month of Ramadan runs from 10 March to 8 April this year (2024). Ramadan is a great time to start conversations with Muslim friends and colleagues and to focus on praying for Muslims in our local community and across the UK. These next few weeks are full of opportunities!
Did you know that we have a Mahabba prayer group just for millennials? It was launched in January. It is for anyone aged between 18-40. This month we’ll learn a little more about the group and the volunteer who leads it as well as looking at the Support Circle and inviting you to be part of our face to face – virtually.
We’re excited to tell you about a Mahabba event that happened in Croydon last weekend called the Hope Event. This regular gathering is designed for people to bring a friend from another faith background. This time they had an African theme, celebrating God’s diversity and creativity. We also want to highlight some of the other things that Mahabba is involved in such as Millennial and Juma prayers.
We hope that you were one of the many who joined our bi-annual prayer meeting last Friday. It was an encouraging time with music, testimony and prayer. Have you ever wondered what the Mahabba circles are all about? They’re part of our vision of being a grassroots organisation.
As restrictions lift and doors reopen, we look towards a summer full of fresh opportunity to reconnect with Muslim friends and neighbours.
But sharing the Gospel with Muslim people can often feel intimidating and out of reach.
Mahabba is all about equipping you to answer those tough questions and confidently share the good news with Muslims wherever you are.
This month we highlight a new book by Robert Scott and an exciting upcoming event with Dr Karamat Iqbal in conversation with Dr Canon Andrew Smith.
Whilst some may be looking forward to a haircut this coming Monday, there is a much greater significance to the date for Muslims as Ramadan begins!
Check out the fantastic resources available to equip you to engage with Muslims during this Ramadan. And why not join us in praying together over this month - online and through our Instagram account!
Do we see the opportunities to build friendships and share faith with our Muslim colleagues?
Wherever we work and for however much of our week, the workplace can be a context where we spend a huge amount of our time. And it can be a great place to build relationships with Muslims.
This month’s update shares John’s incredible story, of how his workplace became the context for growing friendships, learning hospitality and sharing faith with Muslims.
Making friends with Muslims can feel challenging for Christians … but in a lockdown, it might seem impossible!
This month we look at how the Friendship First course is helping Christians to know how to engage in friendship with Muslims and how online technology can actually help us be better equipped in these times.
As we leave behind a year like no other, and enter another lockdown, all too familiar, what are we holding onto in this season?
This month’s Network Update brings a message from Steve Bell, one of Mahabba’s founding members, with a word of encouragement that Mahabba’s vital work continues to be relevant in these times.
Ramadan and Eid are over but prayer continues. How will it keep going and growing for you locally? Encouraging Prayer is one reason Mahabba exists. This month we’re sharing some fresh encouragements for prayer in the form of resources and opportunities to join in praying together, along with one group’s exciting story.
We’re facing the realities and uncertainties of the current situation but we look to him with eyes of faith. Even when we don’t see it he’s working - may we be ready to join him in the new thing he’s doing (Is 43:19). Continuing the theme of last month’s update, here from across the network are more possibilities emerging and initiatives being taken.
This Christmas and always – let’s model in our witness, the creative tension between the Great Command of Christ to ‘love’ our neighbour (i.e. grace, Mt.22:39), and the Great Commission of Christ to ‘proclaim the good news about Jesus’ whole life’ (i.e. truth, Mt.28:19) – i.e. not just his last three days.
Together we are a network, not an organisation or agency. We are connected by a shared purpose - our vision and values. Thriving networks relate, share and learn from one another. Creativity and initiatives come from all parts of the network and benefit the whole. Networks reproduce - each new group enriches and adds value for every other group and the network as a whole.
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