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July 19, 2018
People with cancer in Vietnam are not suffering through their painful treatments in clean hospitals with meals provided. From Hanoi in the north to Ho Chi Minh City in the south, cancer patients eat only what their families bring to dirt-laden hospitals that are so overcrowded that the sick are often lying in the hallways. To these people go native missionaries who bring the hope of Christ to people in physical, emotional and spiritual agony.
July 12, 2018
After shelling in Aleppo, Syria wiped out her entire community, destroying her home and killing relatives outside of her immediate family, Jana lived in depression for five years as a refugee in Lebanon. Jana and her husband had never lacked anything in the life that was shattered in Aleppo, but in Lebanon they struggled to keep their five children fed and clothed. When a friend brought Jana to a prayer meeting at a church established by native missionaries, it did not solve all her problems. But she did gain a new perspective when she gave her life to Christ.
July 5, 2018
As a girl in a poor village in Ukraine who struggled in school, Maria had tried in vain to make her mother – the director of the area school – proud. Now she was pregnant and unmarried. Nevermind that the pregnancy was the result of rape. Maria’s mother could only think about family disgrace and insisted on an abortion. Maria wanted to put the baby up for adoption. Her life had not been kind to her, and she didn’t want to bring the baby into it.
June 28, 2018
The young father and his family spent two years in a camp for the displaced in Iraq after Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists took over his town, burned his house and blew up his liquor shop. Like many in the camps, when ISIS was finally defeated, Zain found his hometown and his house in ruins. He saw no choice but to rebuild from the ashes. Native missionaries who had given his family critical aid in the Erbil camp came alongside him, providing basic supplies for rebuilding and helping to paint his house.
June 21, 2018
A Jewish follower of Christ doing street evangelism as a native missionary to his own people in Israel was unable to strike up a conversation with a married couple, but they did accept his book about prophecy in the Book of Isaiah’s chapter 53. A few days later they called him, asking for more literature on the subject. “The couple was involved in Jewish religion studies and believed in God,” said the evangelist, Jacob. “I tried to point to the sinfulness of man and to the true meaning of the sacrifices in the Law…”
June 14, 2018
At a school in Jordan run by a native ministry, an 8-year-old girl from Mosul, Iraq became terrified every time her father took her to class. School workers were used to seeing refugees traumatized from Islamic State atrocities in Iraq, but they were baffled at Miriam’s shrieks of fear every time her father brought her to school. Miriam’s mother had her hands full with a younger child and a baby, but she had to bring Miriam to school, as it was the only way the girl could arrive calm enough to learn. Except that she didn’t learn.
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