Ramzi grew up in a Christian family in Bethlehem, but after a lot of his friends and family members got shot and killed in an outbreak of violence, he turned his back on anything to do with Christianity.

“I said, ‘Where is your protection, God? Are you there? Are you hearing us? We are persecuted.’ So I left faith because I found he’s not hearing me, he’s not real,” Ramzi said.

But later, he said with a smile, “He called me again.”

Ramzi dared God to stop him if He was real, and moments later he had a bad car accident.

“I started to realize that He is real and I am one of his sheep. I am the lost lamb and He found me, He wanted me to go back to him and serve him.”

So Ramzi went back.

Now he serves as a youth minister at a local Baptist church and is finishing up a degree in theology. His heart is for the people who need Christ right there in the Savior’s birthplace.

“It is very special (to live in Bethlehem),” Ramzi said. “I hope the people here, the Christians, will keep remembering that, keep teaching that for their kids, that Jesus our Savior, He was born here in Bethlehem where we are standing now.”

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