Praise the Lord! We met the $180,000 matching gift opportunity!

The merger of Arab World Ministries with Pioneers offers enormous potential to reach Muslims in the heartland of Islam. And friends of Arab World Ministries—now Pioneers' Arab World Region—have offered to match, on a dollar for dollar basis, all gifts made to the Maarifa Media Matching Project!

Through the Maarifa Media Matching Project, Arab Muslims will have access to the gospel message—and a wide range of Christian resources—via the internet.

Maarifa, meaning "knowledge" in Arabic, is a website for Muslim seekers and new believers from a Muslim background. Found at www.maarifa.org, the purpose of Maarifa is to present the Good News of the Gospel to young Arab Muslims, to answer seekers' questions about Jesus Christ and faith in Him, to disciple new believers in their own environment, and to encourage them to find fellowship with other believers from a Muslim background.

Response to Maarifa is strong. Total visits have risen from 38,702 in the 4th quarter of 2008 to 141,300 in the 2nd quarter of 2010. Young Arab Muslims are not only exposed to relevant Christian content, but can access a wide range of resources: legally downloadable Christian books, the Old and New Testaments in Arabic, Christian music from across the Arab world, and more.

The Maarifa site encourages direct interaction. As Muslims and new believers make contact with Maarifa, all new and continuing conversations are tracked through the Global Response Management System, a contact management system serving Pioneers and a growing number of media ministries. The Global Response Management System also enables media contacts to be referred, when ready, to on-field missionaries and national workers.

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17, NKJV)