Every month, Heaven’s Family helps far more people than we could ever highlight in our bi-monthly newsletter. For that reason, this page contains additional photos and stories of some of the “least of these” among our spiritual family whom we’ve recently been blessed to serve.
Dear Friends, Because we’ve got so much ministry going on in Myanmar (Burma), I’ve spent 31 of my last 46 days on two trips there. I’m now on my way home from the second trip, during which my youngest daughter, Elisabeth, and I served […]
Dear Friends, I just returned from Myanmar, where I visited all 38 of the Orphan’s Tear-sponsored orphanages there. It was wonderful to be with the children again and meet with all the directors individually to discuss moving forward with our Foster Care Initiative. All of […]
Charles Mithowa laid his head on the the table in front of me and began to weep. It was a warm African night in the city of Blantyre, Malawi, and we were sitting together in a small restaurant. He didn't receive our news well. Charles had been anxiously awaiting our arrival since early morning, and now it was past 9 p.m. After months of anticipating our visit to his Bible school for a day of teaching, we were all deeply disappointed by the likelihood that we wouldn't even get to meet his students. We were more than twelve hours behind schedule because the rickety truck we were traveling in broke down, and we were now stranded in Blantyre. Not knowing what to do next, we listened across the table as Charles, now composed, told us his story.
We've got to bring Sadiqul back to his senses, his brothers agreed as they hatched a plan to ambush and beat him. The memory of their mother's tears at the recent news of Sadiqul's conversion to Christ was still fresh, fanning the flames of their anger. Hoping to bring him back to the fold of Islam, they were determined to give him a beating he would never forget.
Her son had been tormented for years. She had taken him to Hindu temples for prayer and to witch doctors for deliverance, but to no avail. With nothing to lose, she decided to take him to the Christians—who make up a small minority of India's population. She visited a church pastored by Jnanadas Pushpan.
She doesn't look like someone who would fearlessly take on one of the most hostile regimes on the planet. She's a grandmother who loves Jesus...and who frequently crosses China's border into North Korea. Each time, she clandestinely smuggles in enough food to feed large numbers of Christian families. She is the answer to their prayers. All of them are suffering severe food shortages under the despotic rule of a megalomaniac dictator named Kim Jong Il.
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