Why North Africa?

Richard Bearce* is a medical worker in northern Africa. Aim International asked him 'Why do you bother?' 

This is what he said: 

As I wander down the crowded alley of our 1,000 year old city, each one unknowingly headed for a Christ-less eternity.  Islam, some consider the world’s fastest growing religion, is rapidly spreading through Africa; dominating the lives of millions in North Africa. Should we care? As I consider my life and my call, it is easy to ask "Why me? Why bother? Do they really listen or even care? Why risk my life or the lives of my kids?" If you discovered the cure for the most deadly disease of our day would you quietly sit back in your sterile home and only inoculate your family and close friends? That would be absurd, downright selfish. I would quickly publish my findings and get the medicine to as many people as possible: share the good news. Why me? Why bother? I have perhaps the most amazing cure ever, the cure of death. Jesus Christ is the only way for life everlasting. Do I sit quietly? No. I must share the good news with everyone. If I truly believe that Jesus is the only way, how can I sit back and let my neighbors, my friends, Muslims, and Hindus, head down the road ending in destruction? There is equality in lostness but inequality in opportunity. Those who do not believe in Jesus are all lost. However, those living in some parts of the world have more opportunity to hear. But there are areas in my country that have never had the opportunity to hear the name of Jesus in their own language. This is why we come. God has called us to be light in this dark world. 

* Not his real name