Episode 0036 Season 3 Roula Karkafi on serving in Lebanon and MENA Area

Welcome to Episode 0036 Season 3 of the FOUR12 Canada Podcast!

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I am excited to bring you an interview with Roula Karkafi! Roula is a busy woman! Together with her husband Bechara Karkafi (a recent podcast guest!), she serves with a humanitarian ministry in Lebanon and supports church planting efforts among Arabic people here in Canada.

In this episode, we chat about her experience as a prison chaplain in Lebanon, and outreach to Syrian refugees in Lebanon through the Clementia Life Centre.  Listen as she encourages volunteers to find their place to serve.

 

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PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

 Ministry Areas

• Four areas of service/ministry circles
• Humanitarian ministry
• Leadership and training to equip and train leaders
• Church planting and discipleship making movement
• On the way - a mission academy, to equip national missionaries in the Middle East and Africa

 Prison Ministry

• Started as a prison chaplain
• Became the area director for this ministry in Pakistan, Sudan, Egypt and Lebanon, and now looking at Turkey
• Extended ministry outside of prison walls to reach the families of inmates
• So important in Lebanon to serve inmates from different backgrounds and sharing the gospel freely
• They offer a trauma healing program

Clementia Life Centre

• 2014 started as a school to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon
• It's more than teaching - changed the 'L' from 'Learning' to 'Life'
• CLC offers food, social support, trauma healing, and have partnered with local agency to protect kids from abuse
• started with 15 kids and now over 100
• Courses include Bible, math, English and Arabic, and science, for ages 5 to 14
• Working in offering vocational training to 14+ 

Volunteers

• Church members serve in the this ministry among Syrian refugees
• It's a ministry, not a job, and blessed to have others onboard

Bread for All

• Launched early among Syrian refugee communities 
• Beyond a local problem due to the economic crisis for everyone
• An opportunity to give them food and share the gospel of Jesus Christ
• Families are referred and by word of mouth
• It was hard to reach the Catholic Maronites in Lebanon, this ministry has provided away for them to reach them

In Canada

• Part of Fellowship International
• Supporting church planting and follow up
• Planting new churches

 To Those Who Are Serving 

• The field is plentiful and the workers are few
• It can be sad and overwhelming
• There are many opportunities, ask God what his plan is for us
• Encourage every person to find a spot in ministry and you will benefit from it

Thanks for listening! We hope this episode has equipped you for greater influence through serving. We don’t want you to miss a single episode, so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Help us reach more people by writing a review on the Apple podcast app and other podcast apps that you use. The FOUR12 Canada podcast is a ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ontario. Explore everything FOUR12 Canada at four12.ca. Thanks for spending some time with us. See you next time!

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Up Next Season 3 Episode 0037 : Fanny Stewart on

the Importance of Finding Nourishment

in God's Word