News Beirut, Lebanon: Church Workers Serve non-Christian Students

by Melanie Wixwat, Middle East and North Africa Union, courtesy Adventist News Network

“Any day doing this is better than a day in the office,” said a member of the Middle East and North Africa Union (MENA) staff, after spending a day in community service at Mouseitbeh Adventist Secondary School (MASS) in West Beirut, Lebanon. He had just spent the day telling stories to students as he visited them in their classrooms.

Mouseitbeh school was established in 1929 as the first Adventist school in Lebanon. It began on one floor of a building and expanded to include two buildings that now house its 700 students, from pre-school to grade 12. The academic program, where 99.9 percent of its students are from a Muslim background, is one of the best among the Evangelical schools in Lebanon.

School principal, Elias Choufani, tells how during the civil war the school was occupied several times by different armed parties, but never shut its doors. “We serve in an area where the war made strong demographic changes. Our beloved students are now mostly non-Christians” he said. “The trust we received from parents and the community kept us working with full and promising potentials”.

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