2019 2nd Quarter Newsletter

NEWS FROM ASAP MINISTRIES—ADVOCATES FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS AND THE PERSECUTED

SECOND QUARTER 2019

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Refuge and Relief

FEATURE STORY

Refuge and Relief

BY BILL WELLS & BRENDA KIŠ

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t is February 2014 in Pakistan. Mr. and Mrs. Mazari* anxiously explore ways to escape the persecution their family has faced because of their Christian faith. Today is the day. They, their two sons, and two daughters make their way to Bangkok, Thailand, where they hope to find refuge and relief. Instead, new hardships await.

After nearly a year of living in Bangkok, the older son and his mother are caught and placed in detention. Even though they are registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), they are now caught up in Thailand’s recent crackdown on asylum seekers in its urban centers. Immigration raids and detention create fear and send refugee families into hiding.

Four years later, the son is still detained. His mother has been released on bail and then put in detention again in October 2018. Though the family expects to be resettled in Canada soon, they have serious needs. Unable to work, they cannot support themselves, buy food, or access healthcare services. Enter BRAP. ASAP’s new Bangkok Refugee Assistance Project (BRAP) was established specifically to help families like the Mazaris.

Since September 2018, BRAP has been providing the Mazari family with basic food support, monthly rental assistance until their resettlement, guidance in obtaining medical

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check-ups and health education, and seeking ways to reunite the family before they transition to Canada. The older daughter has expressed on several occasions how vital BRAP’s assistance is and how much they appreciate the support, prayers, and ministry of this project.

Begun as a cooperative with another Adventist organization, BRAP is meeting the urgent physical needs of people in distress. Bi-weekly food rations, housing support, and clothing allow recipients to survive with some dignity. Medical staff from local Adventist churches offer assistance for health needs with funding from BRAP. Schoolage children are sponsored so they can continue their education while they await the next step in their journey to freedom. In addition, BRAP offers a financial subsidy for passport renewal and immigration-related legal fees. Most importantly, BRAP provides spiritual support and Bible studies to these beleaguered families. BRAP’s principle of disinterested benevolence means that there is no discrimination of persons or conditions to receive service.

Atif* is the adult son of Papa Sayed* and Mama Soraya,* who are very close to the Adventist church community in Bangkok. They, too, fled Pakistan, seeking refuge. Both parents received refugee status and retirement visas in order to stay legally in Thailand. However, Atif and his family were not so fortunate. With no visa or UNHCR

Refugee Status Certificate, they have struggled to find a way forward. Atif left his country with a strong constitution.

But recently he has been struggling with a health issue that causes anemia. Part of the problem relates to his povertystricken diet. BRAP has provided a variety of nutritious foods to help treat his anemia and blood loss. In addition, BRAP is exploring the possibility of a medical procedure or blood transfusion for him.

One of Atif’s daughters, Maryam*, is able to attend an Adventist school, thanks to BRAP. During the immigration crackdown, she could not go to school for more than a month for fear of being caught. She missed her friends, teachers, and opportunities to learn. During her time of hiding, a teacher and the BRAP coordinator visited the family regularly, bringing with them all that Maryam needed in order to continue studying at home. The teachers and principal collected food items and an envelope of money to give to the family while they patiently waited for a safe way to resume taking Maryam to school. Finally, as of December, she was back in the classroom, diligently studying to stay caught up.

As we reflect on the last few months, it is with great joy that ASAP Ministries sees God’s goodness in an outpouring of support for the BRAP initiative. Many families have been helped through a most trying time thanks to ASAP donors.

And because of BRAP’s outreach, its influence continues to grow. Community Bible-study groups serving Pakistanis are meeting regularly in two refugee-dense areas. Thank you for praying for these refugees and the ministry of BRAP!

ASAP Partnering with ALC to Help Syrian Refugees When two of Nadia’s* three children started school at the Adventist Learning Center (ALC) in Lebanon in 2013, the teachers noticed how invested she was in their education. When her youngest child started school in 2016, Nadia came to ALC daily to learn and to help both students and teachers. The staff saw that though she lacked a teaching degree, she had the ability, compassion, and classroom management skills to teach effectively. In 2018, Nadia, a refugee herself, became a teacher!

ALC is now in its sixth year of operation, and although some of the refugee families it serves have returned to Syria, the school has continued to grow and now serves 115 students. Thanks to the generous gifts of ASAP supporters, twenty-nine second- and fourth-graders from twenty Syrian refugee families are receiving a quality Christian education at ALC. Last summer the school also held a mentoring program for eleven students who, due to displacement, had fallen behind in their education. These students were able to strengthen their skills in math, Arabic, and English and are doing much better in their classes.

Refugee needs are increasing as we see an enormous displacement of people around the world. Thank you for interceding for these precious children of God during their time of need through your prayers and financial support of ASAP’s refugee ministry!

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From Stress to Peace

BY BRENDA KIŠ

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ultilingual 35-year-old ASAP missionary Abigail Oanh* has been church planting in a closed country for five years now and also works with five groups, teaching people to read and write.

She has had to bear up under repeated attacks by Satan, who wants to stop her work.

When her brother accepted the Sabbath truth, his wife left him. Devastated, he eventually remarried and started a church group deep in the jungle. When their father died, this brother encouraged Abigail. Then he was arrested for teaching the Bible to people in a new group. But, of course, the authorities would not admit they had arrested him for his Christian work. During a devastating war, some local people had cooperated with the U.S. government against the local government, so her brother was accused of being associated with that group.

In prison he was crammed into a small, completely dark cell already occupied by other prisoners. In these prisons, when someone is accused and doesn’t accept the accusation, they are beaten. Once a day, prisoners are taken outside to work.

They receive only dry, crusty rice to eat. It is such a difficult experience that when people are released, they don’t want to talk about it. Knowing how her brother must be suffering, Abigail and the other believers fasted and prayed, insisting that he was not guilty. Then the authorities shifted tactics and accused him of trying to farm a field illegally. Even though he had been working in that field for eight years already without a problem, and even though others who worked there were not arrested, her brother was imprisoned for a total of six months! During that time, he continued to work for God, witnessing to fellow inmates, two of whom accepted Christ. Also, during that time, his pregnant wife gave birth. But because there was no midwife or hospital nearby, the baby died.

Poor Abigail was overwhelmed with everything that was happening: the death of her father, her brother in prison, the burial of her brother’s child, and caring for her sister-in-law plus some other family members and a woman who had lost her husband and couldn’t work anymore. All this in addition to her regular work of caring for all her literacy groups and house churches! To compound matters, an influential

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believer began to spread lies about Abigail and another pastor. Many of the members stopped coming to church, which greatly discouraged her.

But God is gracious, and He reminded Abigail of His promises in Ps. 23 and Phil. 4:13. When she sensed that she was about to fall apart, she spent more time in prayer. When she feels like giving up, she resolves not to leave God’s work but to persevere. “The best way is to surrender to Him and follow His plan,” she states.

“I’m never going to look back….” Right now she is studying with fifty-two people who are preparing for baptism. Please pray for Abigail in the extreme challenges she faces.

Support “God's Work in Dangerous, Oppressive Places.” Visit our website to learn more about our new Team GWIDOP initiative!

PROJECT FEATURE

New Training Center in Thailand

BY JULIA O’CAREY

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SAP Ministries faces an exciting opportunity to begin a quality training program in Thailand for our ethnic missionaries. The Thailand Adventist Mission and ASAP leaders together saw the need for more comprehensive training for ASAP church planters and medical missionaries. God has graciously provided a beautiful training center in Ayuthaya, Thailand, through Thailand Adventist Mission. They have renovated this former home of the Griswold family who served in Thailand. And ASAP has committed to fundraise for the dormitory and classrooms to be built next to the current training center which now functions as an ASAP church plant.

We plan to use the space for short-term training of missionaries from Southeast Asia throughout the year and add a more extensive vocational missionary training program to empower tent maker missionaries. Through this extended training, these tent makers will become more self-reliant. Why a tent-making program? Church planters, especially in closed countries, find it challenging to move around to plant churches in unreached areas. They need a “disguise”, a reason to enter these villages without being viewed with suspicion. Having a profession will cut down on the level of persecution and harassment from government officials.

Pr. Ruangwit and Pr. Juhn Cadiente will oversee the program.

ASAP workers in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand will come to sharpen their skills both in a vocation and in giving Bible studies and planting a church. After training, ASAP will offer

seed money to provide necessary equipment and tools to start up their businesses.

ASAP plans to start with four occupations which have repeat customers, such as barbers/hair beauticians, motorcycle repairmen, cell phone repairmen, agricultural workers (so they can sell their products in the market). ASAP has hired a special projects coordinator who is stationed in the field to oversee this project and ensure its success.

Make sure to watch the 60-second Mission Matters video to see the beautiful location of this property. The first step will require $140,000 to build the dormitory and classrooms.

So far, God has provided $50,000 for this. Would you like to strengthen the work of ASAP by supporting this new program?

Scan this QR code with your smart phone to watch a 60-second Mission Matters video about this project.

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REACH THE WORLD NEXT DOOR

I’m not sure what I expected when I walked into a refugee apartment complex in Houston. About 50 children were running around, laughing and yelling with their friends, as 20 or so moms watched and chatted together. Most of the kids weren’t quite as standoffish as the first little boy I met. They flocked around our team, trying to peer into boxes to see what we had brought for their families.

Settling most of the children onto a tarp on the ground, we started the program. They loved the songs we sang with them.

Though there were some language barriers, we talked about making healthy food choices, told the story of Daniel and the lions’ den, set up a little store with toy money to teach them about financial responsibility and give them a chance to practice the lesson, acted out a skit, sang more songs, and finally prayed.

GYC Post Conference participants present a skit for refugee children.

GYC Post Conference Participants Reach the World Next Door

BY AUSTIN BATES

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ollowing the recent GYC conference in Houston, Texas, Reach the World Next Door (RWND) partnered with GYC and the Texas Conference to organize a unique mission trip. From January 1–6, 2019, over fifty young adults and RWND staff participated in cross-cultural missions training and outreach to refugee communities in Houston. Austin Bates, a high school senior, shares his experience below.

“What are you doing?” My short answer would have been, “I’m carrying a heavy box, breathing hard, and complaining a little in my head that we’re getting started late.” Instead, I looked around to find the owner of the question. There he was, perched atop the metal cage surrounding a soft drink machine. He peered down at me with as much judgment as his eight-year-old eyes could muster. “There’s going to be a fun program over by the picnic area,” I said. “It would be cool if you came!” He didn’t seem very impressed, but he jumped down from his loft to join the steady stream of children flowing into the picnic area.

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Following the program, we began distributing family care kits donated by Adventist Community Services and GYC supporters.

They contained clothing, toys, hygiene items, and cleaning supplies. Suddenly, the atmosphere changed into a Middle Eastern market as moms traded with each other for the items they wanted. The full van and trailer load we’d brought was gone in about 30 minutes!

I’ll never know the full impact we had on those children and their parents. I live in North Carolina, a four-hour flight from Houston. What I do know is what I saw on those kids’ faces as we showed them Jesus’ love, and the appreciation those moms showed for the kits we shared. I saw need, community, and love.

Those adorable kids who hugged me as I left blessed me just as much as I’d tried to bless them. Now, I’m considering going back to Houston to serve those same children for a longer period of time. And I’m even more focused and intentional about serving the community right around me. Nothing is worth more than sharing my Jesus!

And my new little friend? He gave me a hug as I left.

Austin Bates

HELPING HANDS

RMES Gives

Left to right: Mrs. Kelly's fourth grade class; Chris Davisson, RMES teacher, with Pr. Saeng Saengthip, ASAP Associate Director, and Amy Montevilla, ASAP Treasurer/HR Director

BY BRENDA KIŠ

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hen Collene Kelly, fourth-grade teacher at Ruth Murdoch Elementary School (RMES) in Berrien Springs, Michigan, invited Julia O’Carey, ASAP director, to present for school assembly in November 2018, she started something she didn’t anticipate. At the assembly, Julia and Gem Castor, ASAP prayer coordinator, shared wonderful stories of God’s work in Asia. Two stories, in particular, caught everyone’s attention.

Government officials in a closed country made several attempts to get rid of the Seventh-day Adventist sign on the side of a church. While a man attempted to efface the words one sunny day, lightning came out of nowhere and struck his ladder.

Another time the scaffolding collapsed. And a third attempt was foiled when bushes were planted so that they would grow and cover the letters. Instead, they provided a beautiful underscore by only growing to the bottom of the words!

Elsewhere, a little girl, punished for not coming to school on Sabbath, was forced to stand barefoot on the prickly peeling of the stinky durian fruit. To help RMES students understand what that was like, Julia brought a durian peeling for them to stand on. They also got to taste the fruit and decide which side of the debate they favor: it’s wonderful or it’s horrible!

When the students got back to class, their minds were in high gear. The fourth graders started fundraising by donating their allowances, doing home chores for pay, baking treats to sell, or asking their parents to give. A grandma made grapevine

wreaths to sell. One student had collected cans and bottles all summer to buy a gymnastic scarf. But after hearing the school presentation, she made a sacrificial gift instead. Over $300 came from these fourth-grade efforts, providing a goat for a poor family, fifty Bible readers, and supplies for cancer patients!

Junior high students got involved, too. When they couldn’t locate any local children in need of gifts, they invited ASAP to their annual Christmas party. Seven representatives from ASAP presented about projects, told more stories, and participated in games and skits. One student was called to the front of the room while his teacher, Chris Davisson, explained that this boy’s uncle, a member of the Indonesian government, had recently come to the U.S. for U.N. meetings.

He had requested that his nephew be allowed to accompany him to New York City. When the student returned, he had some large bills to put into the Christmas party collection jar, and that started everyone else on a journey of generosity!

ASAP received a check for nearly $1,000 from these students who had also found creative ways to support their persecuted brothers and sisters overseas.

Find creative ideas to engage kids with missions in the Take Action section of our website.

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EXCITING EVANGELISM

Multiplying Hmong Disciples

BY JOHN PRESS

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e need a pastor. Will you help us?” Pastor Chanchai Kiatyanyong heard the question over and over as he visited Hmong Adventist groups around the U.S. following the 2015 General Conference Session. After four decades of service as a church planter, teacher, pastor, and administrator for Thailand Adventist Mission (TAM), he might have suggested that his petitioners find someone else. Instead Pr. Chanchai prayed about their request. In May 2018, God opened the way for him to return through ASAP as the Hmong Ministries Coordinator for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America.

Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pr. Chanchai quickly discovered that reaching the Hmong would not be easy.

“There are so many Hmong people in Milwaukee, but they are so busy,” he laments. Many work twelve or fourteen hours per day to support their families, leaving little time for fellowship or Bible study. But God inspired Pr. Chanchai with a new strategy for multiplying disciples in the Hmong community.

Shifting tactics, he began visiting the sick and elderly. “I will reach this group,” he decided. “Then, I will reach their children.”

Soon, Pr. Chanchai learned of a former church member who was gravely ill. They had met forty years earlier in a Thai refugee camp, where the man was a church elder, but he had left the church after immigrating to the United States.

Pr. Chanchai drove 100 miles to Appleton to visit him. They spent hours talking, singing, reading the Bible, and praying.

After their visit, Pr. Chanchai received a call from one of the man’s children. They had been planning their father’s funeral, but now he seemed to be recovering! Pr. Chanchai continued to visit and pray with the man. Though indifferent at first, his children eventually warmed to Pr. Chanchai. “They see that God is real because He is helping their father to get strong,” says Pr. Chanchai, who is currently conducting Bible studies in their home.

Two hours away in Green Bay, Pr. Chanchai leads another Bible study in a unique setting. Last summer, an Adventist farmer heard about his ministry and invited him to give Bible studies to the Hmong workers at his farm. So, once a week Pr. Chanchai travels to Green Bay. At 10:00 A.M., work on the farm stops and the workers gather under a large tree where they sing and study together for an hour. Pr. Chanchai also visits

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their homes, and during the winter months, he calls and prays with them. He hopes to plant a Hmong congregation in Green Bay soon.

The congregations Pr. Chanchai serves in Milwaukee and Madison are growing, too. Shortly after arriving in Wisconsin, he held an evangelistic series. Among the attendees were nine Hmong young people, mostly from other denominational backgrounds. Pr. Chanchai invited them to his home for Bible

MEET OUR WORKERS

Meet Navy

BY BRENDA KIŠ

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ambodian medical missionary Navy Math currently serves as worship leader of two groups and is part of a partner project with Adventist Frontier Missions. Working among the Cham people, an unreached Muslim ethnic minority, Navy has befriended the local village leader, an imam, who accepted an Arabic Bible from Navy. In addition, Navy is friends with the hakam, who is above the imam, and the hakam seeks Navy’s advice.

How did 34-year-old Navy get to this point of influence?

When he was in seventh grade, he started going to church with ASAP church planter Soam Sovannak, hiding this activity from his Muslim family. By the time he was 23, Navy was ready to launch out on his own and applied for a passport to go to Thailand and work. While waiting for his passport, he decided to visit his village. One night while he was sleeping, he suddenly opened his eyes and saw his uncle, who was angry with him for leaving the family faith, standing at the foot of Navy’s bed, smiling. His hair was unusually long. When the uncle climbed onto Navy’s legs, Navy realized that this was an evil spirit. He cried out to Allah, but nothing happened. He cried out to Mohammed,

but the spirit didn’t leave. Then he remembered the story of Jesus who calmed the storm and cried out to Him three times. The spirit disappeared!

Again, he had a similar experience at his workplace in Malaysia. After Navy called on Jesus, the spirit departed.

Now Navy was ready to completely commit his life to Jesus.

Knowing his uncle liked to listen to English songs, Navy found religious songs on YouTube and shared them with him. As he listened, the Holy Spirit spoke to his heart and today Uncle is a baptized believer! We look forward to more fruit from Navy’s partnership with Heaven.

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studies. For several months they met each Monday for five hours. First his wife taught the young people how to make Thai vegetarian meals. Then they ate and studied the Bible together. This February six of the young people were baptized, and a seventh plans to get baptized soon.

But perhaps the greatest joy of Pr. Chanchai’s first year of ministry in Wisconsin has unfolded in a retirement community in Sheboygan. Many years ago, while his parents were living in northern Laos, they adopted a young orphan girl. She got married and moved away before Pr. Chanchai was born. They had lost touch until Pr. Chanchai learned she was living in Sheboygan and battling cancer. He and his wife began visiting every week to pray with his sister, give her massages, and study the Bible with her. Soon her health began to improve, and her friends took notice. “Everyone was surprised that she recovered,” reports Pr. Chanchai. She told them it was because her brother came to pray and study with her. Now, several residents of the retirement community have joined the weekly Bible studies. “We were apart our whole lives,” says Pr.

Chanchai, “Now, God has given us time to spend together and share our testimony!”

Please pray that God will continue using Pr. Chanchai as he reaches out to the Hmong in North America. There are other Hmong Adventist groups in California, North Carolina, and elsewhere who will also benefit from his compassionate, visionary spiritual leadership.

Pray for the faithful laborers lifting up Christ among the Hmong in North America.

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IN GRATITUDE IN HONOR OF ALWAYS JESUS, John 5:23, by Wyman Kingsley • CALEB, ENOCH, AND TORI HALL, by Kristy Hall • DANIEL MANZANO, by Daniel & Rose Manzano DR. DEXTER BEARY, by Clint and Sandy Washam • DR. RICHARD I. CLARK, MISSIONARY TO NEPAL (1967-1976), by Richard and Virginia Clark JEFFREY GATES, by Jeffrey and Caroline Gates • JESUS CHRIST, by Ellen Martijn • JUDY AITKEN, by Eletha Brewer • MICHAEL NELSON, by Tyson Hall • MOTHER JUDY, by Mura M. Gittens • NORMAN TREMPER, by Norman and Dolores Tremper • PR. NOVELLA SMITH, by Elaine HudsonHines • SHARON LYNCH, by Eldon and Sharon Lynch • TODD MARTELL,

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Chung; Ken and Miriam Henson; Kimneang Horm Lim; Kit Watts; Lauri Wood; Lois Ritchie-Ritter; Marilee and Garwin McNeilus; Mark and Lydie Regazzi; Mary Lou Peckham; Max and Carolyn Hammonds; Paul and Ruth Watson; Peter and Jacoba Van Bemmelen; Robert and Madeline Johnston; Robert and Sehee Myaing; Russ and Patt Wilson; Samuth and Anh Kim; Sanga Saengthip; Sopheavy Ly and Sovanvichi Vong; Steve and Nancy Chang; Thomas and Shelley Kanomata; Victoria Berecz; Wayne and Kathleen Morris; William and Valerie Bogues; Winston and Jeanie Craig • MARILYN KOHL, by Harlin and Shirley Carey • LARRY MCCOY, by Nancy McCoy • Lily Busch (my grandmother), by Nickie Busch • LISA DEBOOY, by David and Ruth DeBooy • MY FATHER-INLAW, RIM PHAN, by Michael Vuthy Sarunn • MY HUSBAND, HARRY E. OLSON, by Janet Olson • MY MOTHER, by Donald and Ellen M. Amador • OUR PARENTS, JAMES AND JEAN GALBRAITH, MARION AND LUCILLE PIERCE, by James and Sue Pierce • PR. STEPHEN THID,

by John and Ashley Press • TRAVON DAVIS, by Shetia Davis • TREVOR HAREWOOD, by Cipriani Davis • WHITNEY WATSON, by Rahel Hartman

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by Charis McLarty • FOR GOD’S PROVIDENCE OF PROVIDING WORK IN OUR FAMILY DURING A DIFFICULT TIME, by Christopher and Heidi Donavan • GREAT FAMILY, by Kevin and Teresa Jepson • HUDSON REEVES, by Joseph and Ruthie Reeves • JADELYN RICE, by Joshua Rice • JERRY, by Robyn Reid • JESUS CHRIST, by Allen Elliott; Dillon Flannery-Valadez; Norman and Dolores Tremper; Stuart Hollingsead; Valery and Johanna Loumber • KHAMPHO OHNO, by Anna Ursales • MOTHER JUDY, BY G. Maria George • PATRICIA JOHNSON, by Walter Johnson • QETYRAH, JAILA, ALLIYAH AND JAZLYNN, by Debra and So Oung • ROBERT MCCOY, by Ericka Quesada • THE GOODNESS OF GOD,

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MULTIPLY DISCIPLES AMONG THE HMONG

SUPPORT YOUTH EVANGELISTS IN THAILAND

There are more than 300,000 Hmong people living in the United States. Support ASAP church planter Pr. Chanchai Kiatyanyong as he ministers to them and trains Adventist Hmong congregations to reach their communities for Christ.

A new program to reach villagers in rural Thailand is using local Adventist young people to reach others in their country.

You can encourage this pioneer effort by funding those who already know the culture!

$3,200/MONTH (ANY AMOUNT APPRECIATED)

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SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH THE ROHINGYA OF MYANMAR

BRING THE BIBLE TO LIFE FOR VIETNAMESE CHILDREN

Over one million displaced Rohingya live on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar. Help train ethnic missionaries to bring food, healing, and the everlasting gospel to these predominantly Muslim refugees.

Children and parents from unreached people groups in Vietnam love My Bible First lessons because they are written in a simple, interesting way that brings Bible stories to life. Assist ASAP in translating and printing them for house churches.

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$1/LESSON QUARTERLY (5,000 NEEDED)

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