14Jan
Celebrating 2016—A Look Back
As a quick look back at 2016, I want you to see what an incredible year of opportunity it was to serve our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ.
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01Jan
A Blessed Cell
A dark, solitary cell; food through a hatch—for 23 years. That’s the reward Wang Mingdao received from the Chinese government for telling others about the love of Jesus. But Wang was not alone.
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01Oct
Where do you flee when it seems the whole world hates you?
Where do you flee when it seems the whole world hates you? That’s the question that several million Syrian Christians have had to ask themselves during the chaos of Syria’s civil war and the subsequent barbaric rise of ISIS.
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22Sep
Returning to Darkness
Far off the busy South Korean streets, our small Heaven's Family team quietly sits opposite Hana, a North Korean escapee who met with us to tell her story. Hana absent-mindedly fidgets with the scarf around her neck as she sits awkwardly, visibly uncomfortable. The scarf is much too warm for this late-spring rendezvous, but very effective for covering her secret—a secret we are about to learn.
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22Aug
Nowhere to Lay His Head
When a young Muslim named Ezekiel accepted the gift of a New Testament, he could never have imagined how drastically his life would change.
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14Jul
Against All He’d Learned
Elias had no reason to have hope. His family had been trapped in a Syrian war zone, cut off from supplies and forced to eat leaves, twigs and grass to survive. Elias watched as bomb fragments tore through his oldest son's body, killing him.
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21Jun
Breaking the Incommunicado
Living in silence. That's what life is like in North Korea. As the rest of the world advances leaps and bounds in communication technology, that silence is becoming increasingly stark. It remains a bit of a mystery how this 'Hermit Kingdom' can continue to severely limit the flow of information across its nonporous borders.
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12May
Beaten by His Family
Kuwat knelt in his prison room, exhausted from the beating he had just received. This was not the first time his blood had been shed for Christ his Lord, but it was the first time he'd been beaten by his own family.
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09May
A Light in the Darkness [Ben’s 3rd Blog from the Korean Peninsula]
Today I stood in front of a hero whose acts of courage most will never know. To hear Nari's story is rare outside of her inner circle. It's a circle of trusted people, and I have only been invited after years of building a relationship with her.
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