Tass Saada, Once an Arafat Man, coming to The Bridge!!

Tass Saada will be appearing at The Bridge Community Church www.bridgelife360.com on July 15.  We are partnering with our friends Mike Harrison and Parkland Chapel of Farmington to make this happen.

The following are excerpts from the foreword by Joel Rosenberg of the Joshua Fund to Tass's book Once an Arafat Man that will be available for signed purchase at the event:

Tass Saada was a killer.
Tass and his closest friends murdered Jews in Israel. They murdered civilians and soldiers alike. They attacked Christians in Jordan. Sometimes they tossed hand grenades at their homes. Sometimes they strafed God-fearing homes with machine gun fire. They once tried to assassinate the crown prince of an Arab country. They nearly succeeded. And they did all of this willingly. They did so eagerly. Tass certainly did.  His nickname was was once Jazzar --- "butcher."  It was a moniker he relished.
He was raised in a world of radical Islam and by his teenage years Tass was a cauldron of seething, roiling hatred.  His family was close to the Saudi royal family.  He once met Osama bin Laden.  He became personal friends with Yassar Arafat, a man he once regarded as a hero, and happily killed in his name.

If the story ended there, we would obviously hesitate to bring Tass to The Bridge and into our homes.  But it doesn't end there.  More from the foreword:

In his amazing grace, God gave Tass Saada a second act. And a third.
....a story of a violent revolutionary who was radically transformed one day by the power of the Holy Spirit and became a man of peace.  At its core, Tass's story is a story of the greatness of our great God. It is the story of a man who fell in love with a Savior who loves Arabs as well as Jews....  His love is so amazing , so divine that he actually offers all of us -- Jew and Gentile alike -- the free gift of salvation through the death and resurrection of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. He wants to adopt us.... He wants to bless us. He wants to take care of us. He wants to heal us and make us like him. And, then he wants to empower us to be a blessing to others.  Tass said yes to that love, and he was changed forever.

Tass will tell us about sharing the Gospel with Yasser Arafat, and even about sharing the Gospel with his parents and brothers, AS THEY WERE ACTIVELY TRYING TO KILL HIM.  The stories of Arabs and Jews who were both violently trying to kill each other before salvation that now hug and work together for the glory of Christ will bring you to your knees.  We will hear of huge amounts of Muslim conversions in the Middle East.  And, we will hear how we need to actively support and pray for folks like Tass and his ministry partners who are actively carrying out the Great Commission in a hostile, still deadly, environment.  It takes great courage to bring the Gospel and to plant churches in the middle of the Muslim world.  I love it.

The is easily the greatest conversion story that I have ever been around, and it just keeps bringing great Kingdom fruit. Folks who attend that love Jesus will be blessed, but I believe that God will do great work in the hearts of unbelievers if they will hear the Gospel from this man.
July 15 at The Bridge.  An evening that I don't think we will soon forget.  Put it on your calendar and invite all that you know.