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#59: Where the Gospel Meets Conflict

Love Thy Neighborhood

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Why Yaseem Named His Son Issa

Less and his team are sitting in a hut with the girl's father. Yaseem is an elder in the village. He says to this little four or five year old boy, you know, shoe the animal out of the house. Issa is the Arabic word for Jesus. And so we parked up at that and he said, so why did you name your son, Issa? Why did you name him after after Jesus?

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