She was never voted "most likely to succeed" by her high school classmates. In fact, by the time she completed her high school education, Beth Wanjiru Ngugi was almost 22 years old. Her secondary education had been delayed due to her father's death from cancer when she was 14. When a poor breadwinner dies in Kenya, that is often the end of his children's hope for an education.
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Death seemed near. The famine, exacerbated by North Korea's communist economic policies, continued unabated—and malnutrition was taking its toll. Although her name was Hope, her hopes were fading. She had been crying out to God for help. Where were the answers to her prayers?
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When North Korean Christians are caught crossing the border into China, they are sent back to their home country to be imprisoned or executed […]
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Meet my sweet little friends, Joel and Holly Dear Friends, Let me tell you a great story with a happy ending. It’s about how […]
Read MoreIt’s not only encouraging to hear how you are making a difference in the life of an orphan, but also how our orphans are making […]
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Iranian sisters Marzieh and Maryam, two years after their release from Tehran’s Evin Prison Dear Friends, Looking at the radiant smiles of sisters Marzieh […]
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A young Turkana woman in everyday attire Dear Friends, I don’t know how they survive. But survive they do. At least 250,000 Turkana people […]
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Six months ago, Cyclone Giri swept across the western coast of Myanmar with 155-mph winds, claiming several thousand lives. Now, as our weathered 40-foot cargo boat chugged slowly up the Laymyo River, I was witnessing the cyclone's devastation with my own eyes. Hills, once blanketed with lush tropical vegetation, were scoured clean except for a few battered, solitary trees. The skeletal frames of former homes stood as silent reminders of the storm's raging fury.
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Unless the doctors perform head surgery, he has only a 15% chance to live. That bleak prognosis, sent to me by Heaven's Family national missionary Khamh Thang, chilled my soul. I prayed right then for Van Lal Sawma, a 23-year-old I had never met, but whose desperate situation now gripped my heart.
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Peter Cung is a Heaven's Family-sponsored national missionary. He knows that God has called him to serve his own people in Myanmar. So every day, he ministers to the poor and preaches the gospel, and he often sees people repent and make Jesus their Lord. He knows from experience that not everyone responds to God's invitation the first time, so he is patient.
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