Many Muslim women care about their communities. This has propelled some of them to faith in Jesus. In him they have seen a righteous citizen, a just man. Since Muslim women are diverse, others have come to faith in other ways: through reading Scripture, through dreams, visions, exorcisms, or healings, through Christian friends, through awareness of Jesus' affirmation of women, through an assurance of heaven, through emotional healing from dysfunctional relationships or through a joint family decision.
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