In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." The leaders who serve the Church of the Nazarene in the Middle East today are living witnesses to those mentors who obeyed the words of the apostle Paul to Timothy: "And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others." Lindell R. Browning traces the fruit of the labor of the Church of the Nazarene from the dream that originated in 1918 of taking Christ to the Middle East and grew into a healthy, strong, indigenous church.