Heather Bellamy spoke with Gordon Hickson of Mahabba Network.

Gordon: There's a huge amount of inter-faith across Europe, but inter-faith is not really concerned about people changing faith; it's more about community cohesion.

A lot of our inter-faith dialogue doesn't even enter the arena of the fact that we are both evangelistic-type organisations. There is a Muslim/Christian forum that have created a set of guidelines where Muslims and Christians understand each other and there are rules and regulations where we've agreed together that we can both continue to talk to each other about our faith, without offending each other.

But sadly, I would say that there's very little understanding in the inter-faith world of dealing with conversion. I think it's tended to be a bit of a no no. They tend to feel, 'We really don't want to go there because it's very threatening to the other community.'

Heather: Moving on to a totally different subject, the Government has recently ended the scheme bringing child refugees to Britain, having taken just 350 of the promised 3000, what`s your opinion of that?

Gordon: Well I don't want to be seen to get involved within the political arena, but on a human level it's really sad when there are children who are neglected; who've been broken out of families; just left in the whole migrant melt-down. It's really sad when nations can't look after them.

I salute Germany for the stance that they took. There has to be a compassion, but there also has to be a wisdom. There are ways of incorporating these people in to our culture and community, but if we don't act in a wise way, we can end up actually creating an environment that is very conducive to a very strong right-wing growing up, which becomes very nationalistic and aggressive. For instance, in Germany there's a strong right-wing growing up because they've had 1.2 million come in and they're finding it very difficult to cope. All the young German girls have been given pepper spray because they're terrified of being physically, or sexually abused. That's probably as far as I would want to go on that.

Heather: Finally, what are your hopes for the future in relation to the Mahabba Network, for the Church and Muslims?

Gordon: I didn't really choose to set-up Mahabba, I was hijacked into doing this. It was never my agenda. So I believe this is a God thing. I believe that God has a plan in this age, in our age, to reveal His love to millions and millions of precious Muslims.

I think that Mahabba is part of that. It's only a part of it though and my dream is that over the coming years millions of precious Muslims will have Jesus unveiled to them and they'll come to a living encounter with God through their faith in Jesus. That has happened phenomenally over the last two years. If you read the book by David Garrison, Wind in the House of Islam, it talks about how suddenly as we stepped into this new century, there has been movement after movement of God all around the world, of God unveiling Jesus to literally millions of Muslims.

There is a move all round the world of Muslims coming to Christ that's not talked about much. We mainly hear the media talking about the terrorism and the atrocities, but there's a completely other story where literally millions of Muslims are having encounters with Jesus in dreams, in visions and many have been healed as they've cry out to God for help. They've had an encounter with Him.

I do believe that Mahabba is part of that. I believe that Mahabba is not an organisation, it's just a viral movement of prayer and love that I believe will keep on spreading. It's already spread into Europe and into other many other countries, just in four years, so I do believe it's a God thing and that something is happening.