About Call of Love Ministries
Samya Johnson grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.
War has a way of making entire groups of people feel like enemies.
Some of Samya's friends and neighbors were killed by Muslims. Her family suffered through years of violence. She herself survived circumstances that could have taken her life.
Resentment would have been understandable.
Instead, something changed.
During her college years, Samya began wrestling with the bitterness she carried. By 1989, she believed God was leading her toward the very people she had once feared.
Muslims were no longer simply "the other side."
They were people Jesus loved.
And they needed to hear about Him.
That conviction eventually became Call of Love Ministries.
Love Doesn't Mean Avoiding Difficult Conversations
Call of Love's approach contains a tension.
The ministry wants Christians to genuinely love Muslims while also being willing to disagree with Islamic theology.
For Call of Love, those aren't contradictions.
A Christian can respect a Muslim neighbor as a person created by God, develop a real friendship with them, listen carefully to what they believe, and still explain why Christianity makes different claims about Jesus, salvation, Scripture, and God.
That requires more than enthusiasm.
It requires preparation.
Many Christians have never read enough about Islam to understand what their Muslim neighbor believes. They may feel intimidated when questions arise about the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the reliability of the Bible, or the crucifixion.
Call of Love tries to replace that uncertainty with understanding.
Equip the Christian Across the Street
Not everyone needs to move to the Middle East to participate in Muslim evangelism.
For many Christians, the mission field has already moved into their neighborhood.
A Muslim family may live down the street.
A coworker may observe Ramadan.
An international student may come from a country where Christians have little opportunity to openly share the Gospel.
The first step doesn't have to be a debate.
It can begin with friendship.
Call of Love equips churches and individual Christians through workshops, courses, books, articles, apologetics resources, and practical evangelism training.
Christians can learn about Islamic beliefs while becoming better prepared to explain their own.
The objective isn't simply knowing more about Islam.
It's becoming ready for a meaningful conversation about Jesus.
Then Reach Places the Missionary Cannot Easily Go
The challenge becomes very different in countries where openly preaching Christianity is dangerous or heavily restricted.
A missionary can't simply establish a church on every corner.
Call of Love turned to technology.
Its Arabic media work initially used platforms such as YouTube, but online content could be reported, suspended, or blocked.
Then an opportunity appeared in 2017.
The ministry could lease a satellite frequency capable of broadcasting across the Arab world.
It would cost $16,000 every month.
Call of Love moved forward.
Glory TV was born.
Christian programming could now travel across national borders through satellite dishes already sitting on rooftops throughout the region.
A government could make missionary access difficult.
A television signal could still enter the home.
Don't Stop When Someone Responds
Broadcasting the Gospel creates another responsibility.
What happens when someone believes it?
A Muslim-background believer may face circumstances unfamiliar to many Western Christians.
Following Jesus could damage family relationships.
A spouse may not understand.
Friends may disappear.
In some places, openly attending a church may create serious risk.
A person can come to faith in Christ and suddenly become deeply isolated.
Call of Love realized evangelism couldn't end with conversion.
Someone needed to walk with the new believer afterward.
Build a Church Where There May Be No Safe Church
That realization eventually contributed to Redeemed Church.
The idea accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Church buildings around the world temporarily closed, and Mike and Samya experienced something that made them think differently about persecuted believers.
Isolation was temporary for them.
For Christians living secretly in certain Islamic contexts, isolation could be normal life.
So the ministry developed a secure online Arabic church.
Muslim-background believers who cannot safely participate in a local congregation can worship with other Christians, receive biblical teaching, ask questions, pray together, and develop relationships with other believers.
A phone or computer becomes a doorway into Christian community.
For someone who thought they were following Jesus alone, discovering other believers can change everything.
Let Questions Become Relationships
Glory TV isn't simply broadcasting programs and hoping someone watches.
Contact information appears with the programming.
A viewer who is curious can reach out.
The ministry's Arabic-speaking team can answer questions and continue the conversation privately.
Someone may begin cautiously.
They want to know what Christians believe about Jesus.
Then they ask about the Bible.
The conversation continues.
If they decide to follow Christ, the relationship doesn't disappear.
Team members can begin walking through Scripture with them, helping them understand salvation and introducing them to discipleship and Christian fellowship.
Media creates the introduction.
People do the ministry.
Support the Cost of Following Jesus
For some converts, persecution isn't theoretical.
Leaving Islam can affect housing, family relationships, employment, finances, and personal safety.
Call of Love therefore extends beyond evangelism and Bible teaching.
Its support for persecuted believers can include practical assistance such as food, shelter, medical help, crisis counseling, and spiritual support.
That's an important part of the ministry's philosophy.
If a Christian encourages someone to follow Jesus despite the cost, that believer shouldn't simply be abandoned when the cost arrives.
The Church becomes family.
Multiply Rather Than Merely Add
Call of Love's vision goes beyond accumulating individual conversion stories.
It wants Muslim-background believers themselves to become disciples who make disciples.
Someone watches Glory TV.
A conversation begins.
They encounter Jesus.
They grow through biblical discipleship.
They become part of Christian fellowship.
Then eventually they share Christ with someone else.
Perhaps a sibling.
A friend.
A coworker.
Another Muslim asking the same questions they once asked.
The person who was reached becomes someone who reaches.
That's how Call of Love envisions a multiplication movement developing inside places where traditional missionary work can be extraordinarily difficult.
Love Moves Toward the Person Fear Pushes Away
The story eventually returns to Samya.
A young woman growing up amid war had reasons to keep Muslims at a distance.
Her Christian calling moved her in the opposite direction.
That same decision sits in front of the churches Call of Love now equips.
It's easy to talk about Islam from a distance.
It's harder to know the Muslim family next door.
It's easy to fear what you don't understand.
It's harder to learn, listen, build a friendship, and explain what you believe with both conviction and compassion.
Call of Love believes Christians are called to do the harder thing.
Move closer.
Learn.
Love.
And when the opportunity comes, tell them about Jesus.
At the heart of Call of Love Ministries is the conviction that Muslims are not people Christians should fear, avoid, or merely argue about—they are people Jesus loves and people who need the Gospel. From satellite television entering homes across the Arab world to private conversations with spiritually curious Muslims, secure online fellowship for persecuted converts, practical support for believers under pressure, and training that prepares Western Christians to reach Muslim neighbors, Call of Love connects evangelism with discipleship. The goal is not simply to broadcast a Christian message into the Muslim world. It is to see Muslims encounter Christ, grow as His disciples, find Christian community, and eventually carry the Gospel to others themselves.
