Encountering Muslims

Preparing believers for ministry among Muslims

Did you know there are nearly 2 billion Muslims, 87 percent of whom do not personally know a Christian who could share the gospel with them? This makes Muslims the largest unreached religious group in the world!

Yet, as believers struggle to reach out to Muslims, they often lack understanding of Muslim cultures and Islam. Encountering Muslims is a ministry of Pioneers that is filling this gap, offering two programs for equipping Christian leaders and churches to understand Muslims, communicate the gospel effectively, disciple new believers and establish churches in Muslim communities.

This 12-lesson course comes in three formats: traditional in-person classes, online classes and small-group cohorts. These are available for speakers of English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean and Chinese. Once trained, coordinators and instructors can reproduce their own Encountering Muslims courses. Video resources also enable smaller classes and study groups without the cost and logistical hurdles associated with bringing in outside instructors. Over the years, many mission agencies, mission leaders and churches has used the course, which has equipped more than 50,000 people through more than 600 courses in 40 different countries since 1992.

We also offer an eight-lesson Bible study called God’s Heart for Muslims, now available in a growing number of languages both in print and as a free download. Gather with your community to explore the Scriptures and pray together with insight for Muslim peoples around the world. Each lesson contains passages for study, questions for discussion and people groups to pray for. All that’s needed is a copy of the study your Bible and a group to gather with.

To learn more, visit EncounteringMuslims.org.