“This is what it is all unto,” thought Gerald to himself.

The screen in front of him lit up with faces from multiple continents. “This is how we know we are doing our jobs. This is something I have read and sung and prayed to the Lord for, for years.”

On a summer day 2,000 years ago, Jesus first shared the Sermon on the Mount. Those words, still living and active, have echoed through the centuries. Fifteen years ago, they pierced the heart of a young Muslim man in the Middle East for the first time.

It was a normal day in 2025. The smell of freshly roasted coffee was in the air as Marissa, far from her home in Africa, bounced between customers in an Arab Gulf coffee shop. Although Marissa had braved the unknown to come to the Gulf for work opportunities, her life had been gripped by fear in other areas…

In the arid Arab Gulf, sprawling living quarters are filled with underpaid migrant workers far from home. Amid the small, crowded rooms and the pain of missing loved ones, something deep is happening. A fountain of hope has begun to quench the thirst and fill the emptiness of their long, laborious days…

The atmosphere felt eerie as Ibrahim observed the man on the hospital bed. It was his friend and former manager from the bank, Abdel. Abdel’s eyes remained closed. He was brain dead. As Ibrahim lifted his gaze, he realized that the expressions of the nurses in the room were twisted with a look of pure evil. Each of them appeared to have Abdel’s face…