It's frustrating to share the gospel with people who you may never see again. I struggle with this in today's episode as we drive from Kobane and do a kid's program. Plus, the church finds fertile ground in blood-soaked soil.

If you ever wondered what Leningrad looked like after the Siege in 1944, Kobane today will give you a good idea. After a brutal 5-month siege, under shelling by ISIS, Kobane eventually drove off the invaders and saved what was left of their city. Today they are rebuilding, but there are plenty of reminders of the horrors of war.

Ayn Issa is a hotly contested piece of real estate in Northern Syria. The Turks, Russians, Syrians, and Kurds all have forces there. Walk down main street with me and buy some Falafel.

There are hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people in Syria, one of the missions of the Free Burma Rangers is to take them help, hope and love. We visited one IDP camp near Raqqa that held thousands of refugees who are in a precarious position about the coming winter. We brought them food, love and did a good life club for the kids!

In a place often associated with some of the most vile acts humans have ever perpetrated on one another, an Armenian Catholic Church is rebuilt from the ashes of destruction. A very special day indeed.

Did you know there are many Armenians in Syria? They came there fleeing the Armenian Genocide, and many were sheltered by the Syrians there. For generations there have been many Christians in Raqqa, but most were driven out during the occupation by ISIS. Commander Aram Hanna is Armenian on his mother's side, and speaks proudly about the contributions Armenians have made to the culture and the fight against ISIS.

Today we drive to Raqqa, the city once known as the capital of the ISIS caliphate.  The US-backed SDF Forces drove ISIS out in 2017, but nearly destroyed the little that was left of the city in the process.  Upon entering the city, we go for a walk around the central market at night.  Probably not the safest thing we've done this week.  Don't miss the amazing interview with a young man who survived the ISIS occupation at the end!

Ali Medina, who participated in some of the most harrowing combat in the fight against ISIS as a member of the Special Operations community, tells about his experience here, especially interesting since he is Syrian by birth.

We witnessed the Free Syrian Army, backed by Turkey, shelling Christian villages in Northern Syria, then spoke with some of those affected.

We are staying near an old ISIS torture house. See what that looks like now. Plus, Turkey is drying up the rivers to drive out the region's last remaining Christians.