An Interview with ‘Rebekah,’ an ICC-Supported Missionary in Somaliland

Summary

The article presents an interview with “Rebekah,” a Kenyan missionary supported by International Christian Concern (ICC) who serves with a team in Somaliland. She says she arrived on November 21, 2021, after seven years of ministry among Somalis in northern Kenya. According to her account, sharing the gospel in Somaliland is illegal or severely restricted, and Christian converts may face family rejection, imprisonment, displacement, or death. She describes working primarily with women and children, building relationships before discussing Christianity, and dealing with visa difficulties and a brief detention over alleged proselytizing. Rebekah says she has seen Somalis profess faith in Jesus, receive healing, and experience deliverance, and reports personally leading one woman to faith and witnessing her baptism. She attributes the ministry’s progress partly to ICC financial support, which has funded language classes and hospitality. She asks readers to pray for salvation, religious freedom, courage among local believers, and additional missionaries. The interview also contrasts Somaliland with Somalia, describing Somaliland as more peaceful and lacking an al-Shabab presence, while emphasizing its international nonrecognition and economic isolation. The article is primarily a ministry testimony and fundraising appeal; most descriptions of conditions and outcomes are based on Rebekah’s testimony rather than independently documented evidence.