Barnabas Hope organizes AFM’s Tentmaker Ministries. He guides and supports people who wish to use their business or educational talents to witness in countries where direct evangelism is not allowed. Previously, Barnabas and Esther Hope served as missionaries to the people of Turkey.
Barnabas & Esther Hope
Career Missionaries since 2004, currently servings as AFM’s Tentmaker Ministries Coordinator. Previously, Barnabas and Esther Hope served as missionaries to the people of Turkey.
Frontier Stories
The Tricky Teacher
Nasreddin Hodja, the tricky teacher, is a much-loved philosopher from Turkish history. Lovingly depicted riding his donkey backwards, he lived about eight hundred years ago in Antalya.
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Barnabas & Esther Hope
April 01 2008, 8:50 pm | Comments 0
The Power of the Dog
Only a half-fallen fence stood between the tender skin of my family and the fierce Kangal.
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Barnabas & Esther Hope
March 01 2008, 9:48 pm | Comments 0
Words
Words. Thousands of gooey vowel-loaded words crackling with strange consonant combinations and lashed together with suffixes and conjugations. That is the stuff a missionary needs. Words that shock people, stop people and stir people.
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Barnabas & Esther Hope
January 01 2008, 9:45 pm | Comments 0
Harkan
Without a knock, I let myself into Harkan’s tiny apartment and sat down across from him. My Turkish Pentecostal friend, a convert from Islam of eight years, was so absorbed in his book that he hardly noticed me for a minute.
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Barnabas & Esther Hope
December 01 2007, 9:44 pm | Comments 0
An Angel’s Visit
Nine years ago, Harkan’s Turkish family chased him out of the house with a gun when they discovered him reading the New Testament. Now, in his mid 20s, Harkan is wholeheartedly following Jesus. He leads a lonely life.
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Barnabas & Esther Hope
November 01 2007, 8:43 pm | Comments 0