ISIS and the Worship Leader| by Craig Borlase| Weareworship.com
There’s nothing all that remarkable about a worship leader calling people to the church to pray about some difficult times that the city is facing. Unless the church happens to be in Iraq. And unless those difficult times are the result of ISIS. It all happened back in the summer of 2014. Janin, the worship leader at a small city church, had watched in horror as ISIS turned their sights on Mosul, the ancient Iraqi city formerly known as Nineveh. Like everybody else in his congregation he knew what the extremists were capable of, especially when it came to Christians. Still, Iraqi troops were in position throughout the city. Having lost Fallujah and Ramadi, the Iraqi army was desperate not to give yet more ground to ISIS, and so had pumped 30,000 soldiers into Mosul. With just 1,500 ISIS fighters heading their way, the odds looked good for Janin and his church. But fanatics never seem to pay much respect to overwhelming odds, and as the battle began, Janin and his congregation pr
