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August 30, 2018
Deborah was only 14 years old when her parents gave her as a wife to a man she didn’t want to marry in exchange for a horse. This practice was not uncommon in her impoverished region of the Philippines. Drug trafficking was also common, and her husband tried to overcome poverty by selling methamphetamine known as shabu.
August 23, 2018
The Lord told a native missionary to erect a church building in southern India, which he obediently did. By the next day, villagers had destroyed it. The missionary had come to a village where no one knew Christ. God had told him that He desired a church building there, however, under the philosophy, “If you build it, people will come to Christ.”
August 16, 2018
More than two centuries of foreign missionary efforts in Liberia did not reach tribes in the thick jungle of the interior, with its predators and disease, and it wasn’t easy for a native ministry either. But 27 native missionaries recently got into a large canoe at 10 p.m. to paddle for nearly three hours, arriving at a village where the gospel had never been proclaimed.
August 9, 2018
A village strongman in a remote area of northeastern Paraguay told a native missionary that he would kill him if he continued talking with people about Jesus. No Protestant missionary had ever gone there before Oscar. The strongman, Gonzalo, told Oscar the Christians were causing division in the community.
August 2, 2018
One of the things Nurul most disliked about the home for widows in Indonesia was the joy an elderly Christian woman there exuded. The 68-year-old Muslim could not stand that another widow, Amelia, could sing and smile so much in the home for widows and orphans. Besides having no money, Amelia had no children or other relatives to care for her, Nurul thought; was she demented?
July 26, 2018
Kaipo had fled his native Laos after his father called police to arrest him for becoming a Christian. Taking refuge at a native Lao ministry on the other side of the border with Thailand, he asked its director whether he should return home. The 17-year-old’s father, an influential witchdoctor in the village, had thrown Kaipo and all his belongings out of their house after learning that he had left their ancestral rituals.
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