A Profit-Making Nonprofit

01Jul

A Profit-Making Nonprofit

In April's e-teaching I shot a sacred cow about tithing to the local church. I pulled the trigger with fear and trepidation. My fears, however, proved to be baseless, as most of the feedback I received was very positive. We emailed that e-teaching to 9,000 subscribers. We also posted it on our website here, where about 4,500 people have since read it. 888 Facebook subscribers "liked" it and 529 of them "shared" it. That made it our most popular e-teaching ever.

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01Jun

Why Did You Become An Infidel?

Jafer told me of his own lifelong spiritual journey. At age 22, he was reading a Bible that had been given to him, comparing Jesus' teaching with what Mohamed taught in the Quran. Because Islam "ran through his veins" as he put it, he suffered great internal conflict, to the point that, one day, he tossed both the Bible and Quran and cried out to God, tearing his clothes and pulling his hair. Jafer told me, "I was beating on the refrigerator, the stove and on the walls and pointing my finger to God and crying out to Him: 'Where are You? How can I find You? How can I find the truth?'"

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01May

Tithing to the Local Church?

God knows I love pastors. I was a pastor, off and on, for about twenty years. I've spoken to thousands of pastors around the world and expended myself on their behalf. I know something about the challenges they face. But sometimes they say things that I'm certain they will one day regret.

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09Mar

Beauty in the Eyes of the Beholder [David’s 7th and Final Blog from Myanmar]

Yesterday our motorcycles took us along more jungle paths to find two villages that have never welcomed white-skinned people: Upper Chai and Lower Chai, both in the middle of nowhere, consisting of 40 and 60 families respectively. These are some of the poorest villages which I've yet visited. Talking to the elders of Upper Chai, I learned that there are 10 village children living in orphanages hundreds of miles away, and 9 of those 10 have one living parent; the remaining child's parents are both alive.

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06Mar

Bogged Down in Upper Saidu [David’s 6th Photo Blog from Myanmar]

A recently-cut dirt road made it possible for us to travel 3 hours to Upper Saidu, another remote village in Southern Chin State of about 35 families. But Stephen had not been feeling well since the night before, so he spent our first full day in Upper Saidu sleeping and recovering.

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03Mar

Dancing with Cho Yainians [David’s 5th Photo Blog from Myanmar]

When the dirt road ended today, Stephen and I once again jumped on motorcycles whose fearless, young drivers took us on a deep descent into a distant valley, across a river on a swaying suspension bridge, and up a narrow ridge. As the day waned, 180 citizens of Cho Yain Village were waiting on a hand-dug soccer field to welcome us, many of whom were dressed in their tribe's traditional clothing, ready to dance.

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02Mar

Today I Almost Kicked a Secret Policeman [David’s 4th Photo Blog from Myanmar]

Today didn't go exactly as planned. I don't think there are any level roads in Chin State—you are either going up or down a mountain. For some reason, none of the roads follow the gentle slopes of the rivers. And the four-wheel drive vehicle we've rented, an older Pajero, apparently hasn't been used for some time for what it was built for.

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26Feb

Jumping Good News [David’s 3rd Photo Blog from Myanmar]

Through the monthly gifts of sponsors in Texas, Florida, New Jersey and California, Heaven's Family has been supporting the church-planting ministry of Stephen Paing Bu since 2010. We've also provided him with a motorcycle that has enabled him to extend his reach to more unreached villages.

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25Feb

Tattooed Ladies [David’s 2nd Photo Blog from Myanmar]

Our first stop here in southern Chin State is the town of Kamplet, and waiting for us upon our arrival were two indigenous missionaries whom Heaven's Family has supported for a number of years. One of them is Stephen Paing Bu, who was born in a remote village in this region. He is working in a total of 30 villages, most of which are (or were) predominantly Buddhist or animist. Stephen is truly reaching the unreached.

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