A Fountain of Hope
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. This fountain has started small, and begun to well up, touching their homelands and families. Gage, a missionary with MAPS Global’s Arab Gulf Missions Base, who has done extensive ministry work in the “labor camps,” shared how this fountain began.
In 2020, a migrant worker named Anand had a dream. “He asked his roommate, ‘What does this dream mean that I had about this man in white that appeared over the ocean waves? I was about to be drowned by the crashing waves and he appeared above the waves and said, ‘Don’t be afraid. You have a beautiful future,” said Gage. This experience, along with discipleship, was the beginning of the fountain of hope breaking forth in the camps. Anand became a believer and started sharing his faith with others, who, in turn, shared with others.
“It started with a true, bona fide miracle,” said Gage. “Then a friend of a friend introduced me to [Anand]. So I got to disciple him.” Anand comes from a region in South Asia that has more people groups unreached by the Gospel than the rest of the world combined. His salvation, however, was only the beginning of the spread of the Gospel among desolate migrant workers in the camps of the Arab Gulf. Gage shared how he was also able to meet and disciple many others in the camps from the same region. This past year, in 2025, he has seen five of these former Hindus choose to follow Jesus and be baptized. Three were baptized in the Spring, one in the Fall, and one in the cold of winter. As the fountain of hope continues to grow and spread, Gage shared how it is touching the homelands of those in the labor camps.
One of the men, Rohan, who was a part of Gage’s discipleship group, went back to his homeland for a break. He then sent Gage a video. “It kind of pans around and he has a laptop set up with a speaker we had given him…He was showing the Jesus film, actually, to people in his village. Then, a month later…he sent me a video really out of nowhere of him baptizing two people in his area! The big thing you can see from that is that what happens [here] has a big ability to impact the rest of the nations. It demonstrates the capability of this city to be a gateway city. What happens here will touch the ends of the earth,” said Gage.
In another story, Gage shared that a young man named Dev, whom Gage baptized in October, had messaged his Hindu mother back in his homeland and shared that he had become a Christian. Dev was able to share with his mother what he was learning about Jesus. In response to this news, his mother got connected with a Christian fellowship 30 minutes from her and started to attend the meetings with her sister.
“These stories illustrate the capability of the city to affect the rest of the area,” said Gage.
Thus, the hope that has entered the labor camps of the Arab Gulf has gone from a small fountain to a powerful geyser, reaching nations far away with the liberating message of the Gospel. The men in these stories have gone from parched and hopeless to drenched and saturated with the very fountain of hope itself. As the fountain flows, MAPS Global missionaries in the Arab Gulf continue to disciple migrant workers in the Arab Gulf who are reaching their own people with the Gospel of truth!