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…

It had been 11 years. Born and raised in East Africa, a young couple, Marcus and Maria, were carrying a burning zeal for the Lord. For the past 11 years, they had been teaching young adults to pray, preach, and worship across the Middle East. Yet, the feeling persisted that they were running the race alone…

…This story begins in a very dark moment of the past…in memories held within the very cobblestone streets of one of the oldest neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia: Shockoe Bottom, formerly the epicenter of America’s domestic slave trade. But it doesn’t end there…

“Do you know what this means?” asked the pastor. “Do you know what you are getting into?”

Emir knew he could see clearly. There was no longer a blurriness in the focus of his lens. He shared that he had been reading and thinking about this for a while, and he was sure…

Sophia, a teacher in the worship track at the MAPS Global School, leads the students on stage in stewarding the presence of the Lord. However, this wasn’t always the case. This is Sophia’s story.

In the Fall of 2022, Mercy was at the end of her rope. A dance major, she had dedicated more than a decade of her life to the art of dance, and she was about to go into her senior year of college. But now, everything in her life seemed to be falling apart.