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FAQs

What is Middle East Bible Outreach?
Middle East Bible Outreach (MEBO) is a 501(c)(3) organization, that partners with the Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development (LSESD) that seeks to serve the church in Lebanon and the Arab World through spiritual, educational and social development. MEBO supports LSESD by building partnerships with North American churches, ministries and individuals who desire to make a significant impact for Christ in the Middle East and North Africa.

How can Churches, ministries and individuals partner with MEBO?
Partnerships are possible through participating on short-term mission projects, financial giving, prayer, and being an advocate for the work taking place through our ministries.

How can I partner with MEBO through short-term mission projects?
Churches partner through sending short-term teams to participate in children's camps that are held throughout the country during the year. Each year eight to ten camps are organized ministering to children from Christian homes, Muslim homes, orphans, and special needs children.

What are the ministries MEBO supports in Lebanon?
MEBO supports the Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development, and the ministries that serve under its umbrella including the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Institute of Middle East Studies, the Beirut Baptist School, Dar Manhal Al Hayat Christian publishing house, Baptist Children and Youth Ministry, and LSESD's community relief and development track.

How will my financial giving be used to support the ministry in Lebanon?
You may designate your gifts to support the ministry or project of your choice.

What percentage of my financial gifts are used to support the ministry in Lebanon?
MEBO supports ABTS scholarships and all other projects with eighty-five percent of all designated funds received.

How is MEBO strengthening the church in the Middle East and North Africa?
MEBO strengthens the church by contributing towards:

  • Training in Lebanon of Arab women and men from different countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa who then go back to their home countries and get involved in diverse ministries including planting solid biblically based churches.
  • Development of much needed Christian resources – Evangelism, Christian living, Leadership, Management, Theology... - that address the diverse needs of the growing Arab church in the Middle East and North Africa.
  • Sharing the message of Christ through children's camps and activities that are spiritual and recreational in nature.
  • The establishment of platforms for Christian witness and ministry that address diverse community needs.
  • The enhancement of Evangelical education amidst a majority non-Christian context.

What makes the ministry in Lebanon strategic?
Lebanon's geographic position and its religious freedom render the country a center for Christian ministries serving the Middle East North Africa region. Building on that, the Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development (LSESD) is also strategically positioned to fulfill its mission to serve the Church in the region through diverse ministries that serve under its umbrella and which address a wide range of the identified and felt Church and community needs.

How does MEBO reach Arabs for Christ?
MEBO invests in the equipping of leaders who themselves set out to make a difference in their respective countries that extend from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.

MEBO also invests, through the Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development, in platforms for Christian witness and ministry such as the Beirut Baptist School where 94% of the student body is non-Christian; the GateWay Bookstore, children's camps, and the Middle East Conference that brings Muslims and Christians together for dialogue every year.

How is this ministry making an impact in the Middle East and North Africa?
Through our ministry partners in Lebanon thousands hear the gospel for the first time every year and trained nationals work with their own countrymen and women to build an indigenous grass roots effort to make Christ known.

As a result, Arab women and men are being equipped to better serve Him; work is in process to make available important Christian titles in the Arabic language for the Church; more children are drawing closer to a saving knowledge of Jesus; more youths are being mobilized to serve Him; new ministry opportunities are being pursued that address diverse educational, social, health… needs.

The train has left the station, but the needs are tremendous and the journey ahead is a long one yet bearing in mind that the Arab countries will be home to 395 million people by 2015 (compared to 317 million in 2007; and 150 million in 1980) [U N D P's Arab Human Development Report 2009].