St.Francis Magazine

Religions and mission in the Arab world

SEPTEMBER 2008: Vivienne Stacey

This issue of our magazine is fully focused on Ms Vivienne Stacey, a lifelong missionary in the Muslim World. You will find her major writings in this issue on our frontpage. If you click the button Vivienne Stacey you find many other articles by her hand; we will continue to upload new articles there, so keep coming back!

This week we received the news that our sister Shirley Madany has passed away; her husband, Rev. Bassam Madany, regularly contributes to our magazine. We wish him comfort of God in the certainty that his beloved wife is now with our Lord. Let us pray for Bassam.

We have also made dozens of articles by Bassam and Shirley Madany available in the past weeks. Under the button Madany's you find them.

Please let us know how we can improve St Francis Magazine so that it serves your needs in mission in the Arab World!

Rev Dr John Stringer

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Bassam Madany and Shirley Madany-Dann

The Rev. Bassam Madany (b. 1928) and his wife Shirley Madany-Dann went as missionaries to Syria in 1953, and they have served in mission to the Arab World since then. In 1958, Bassam became the Arab radio minister of the Back to God Hour (BTGH), and since then no single radio producer has had so much impact with his Christian Arabic radio programs.

Here we collect the writings of Bassam and Shirley, to honor them and their lifelong ministry. Shirley passed away to be with her Lord on 24 August 2008. We pray for Bassam, that he will experience the comfort of the the Lord. HERE you can find a book review Shirley wrote in 1970, giving some nice glimpes into her younger years!

We place their articles here as much as possible in historical sequence. The Madany’s have also maintained two websites where many other articles of them can be found. We would hope for some integration of all these! Look at THIS website or THIS one.

1950s-1960s

The Correspondence of John Calvin, Bassam Madany, 1950-1
The Foreign Broadcasts of the Back to God Hour, Bassam M. Madany, 1964
The Christian Witness, Shirley Madany, Seniors, September 1965
The Arab World, Shirley Madany, Seniors, September 1965
Hear o Israel, Shirley Madany, Lansing (Ill) Library Talk, November 1965
Tribute to Peter Eldersveld, Shirley Madany, Seniors, February 1966

1970s

How Books can Influence one's life, Shirley Madany, April 1970
How is your Imagination? Shirley Madany, The Young Calvinist, 1970
From Mecca, Shirley Madany, The Banner, June 1971
Christian Witness to Muslims in the Arab World, Bassam Madany, Reformed Bible College, Sept 1972
Hold your Head up High, Shirley Madany, The Banner, June 1974
Islam and Muslims in the World Today, Bassam Madany, 1976
What is behind the Conflict in Lebanon? Bassam Madany, Christian Herald, June 1977
Journey to Tunisia, Shirley Madany, Missionary Monthly, February 1978
Immunity, Shirley Madany, Outlook, May 1978
Daily Preaching the Word, Shirley Madany, The Banner, June 1978
The Christian in a Muslim Society, Bassam Madany, Reformed Bible College, Spring-Summer 1978
Private Interpretation and Continuing Revelation, Shirley Madany, November 1978
Christianity in the Arab World, Bassam Madany, Eternity, 1979
What do you say to 120 million Muslims? Bassam Madany, Eternity, March 1979