“I used to be glad once they mentioned to me, “Allow us to go to the home of the Lord!”
Psalm 122:1
Three years in the past, a church of latest believers found the price for following Christ.
They have been crushed. Their church broken. Their adversaries have been their neighbors.
“They have been attempting to cease folks from coming to our Savior Lord Jesus Christ,” mentioned Chakma. He’s a frontrunner on this small church in an remoted forest.
The excellent news is that God’s church is rising even in far-flung and hostile locations. However when you think about what these Christians are enduring, it’s extraordinary that they continue to be steadfast of their religion. One trait of Christianity is that persecution grows the church in sudden methods.
Their bruises are an affidavit of their religion in God. Their church, rebuilt with help from you and others to Christian Freedom Worldwide, is an affidavit of God’s church caring for each other.
Their story is beneath. Briefly, Chakma’s church in Naniar village was attacked by militant Buddhists. The lads have been threatened with demise, the ladies and kids have been brutally crushed, and their church was broken.
The objective of the attackers is to pressure Christians to disclaim Christ. The techniques are:
- Beat and humiliate them into submission.
- Steal their items and deny the power to work and supply for his or her households.
- Stop them from gathering collectively to worship or be a lightweight in the neighborhood.
The Christians fled to Christian Freedom Worldwide’s shelter the place they discovered safety and restoration. Our director negotiated with village leaders and so they have been allowed to return to their properties.
However there was one situation: they might not rebuild their church. Then got here a second restriction: they might not transfer about, which means they might not work.
Since then, Christian Freedom Worldwide (CFI) is supplying meals and requirements for the households each month. We’re additionally coaching up a younger man to be their pastor.
This yr, lastly, village leaders allowed the Christians to rebuild their church. God heard our prayers and adjusted the hearts of the leaders.
With their labor and your items to CFI, the church was rebuilt. In Could, the Naniar Christians celebrated the opening of their new constructing.
However in August, Buddhist activists once more threatened the Christians. Half of the households fled to CFI’s shelter whereas others stay to guard their church and houses.
The Christians wish to keep in Naniar to be a lightweight of Christ to their village. Their church is an affidavit that God heals the damaged. Their constructing is a logo that they’re part of God’s international church and a reminder that you just and different Christians are serving to Christians.
In the end, we’re following the instance of the early church after we look after struggling believers. Paul wrote in his epistles about Gentile Christians donating to Jewish Christians. Giving to distant believers is a robust technique to unify and develop the church.
Once we assist persecuted Christians, the worldwide church grows in unity and religion.
Will you:
* Pray for ‘each day bread’ for Christians and the power to fulfill and worship collectively.
* Pray for adversaries, like Naniar’s neighbors, to be reworked by God’s grace.
Naniar Christians are resolved to comply with Jesus. However Chakma and different Christians should not meant to do that alone. Your month-to-month reward will present shelters, meals, Bible coaching and different sensible assist to persecuted Christians as collectively we reside for Christ.
Thanks! Your assist at present will present Naniar and different persecuted Christians with fundamental wants as they reside for Christ – and join us collectively as one physique in Christ.
A Damaged Church Grows
A church of latest believers in Naniar, a small village deep in a forest, shortly grew.
“I realized from the Bible that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sin. If anybody believes in Him, they’ll get everlasting peace and life,” mentioned one believer.
The excellent news unfold. “Many have been coming to Christ” mentioned Chakma, a church chief, and so they couldn’t slot in his house. “In 2021, we constructed a church home.”
Months later Buddhist activists violently attacked them. “They have been attempting to cease folks from coming to our Savior Lord Jesus Christ,” Chakma mentioned.
The Buddhists have been incited by a monk who mentioned the church made the village unholy and soiled. Armed with weapons, “they shouted at us to revert to our previous faith. If we didn’t, us males could be brutally killed and our households couldn’t reside within the village.”
The lads bumped into the forest. The Buddhists broke into their homes and beat the ladies and kids. Their properties have been looted. Their church was broken.
They lived in terror for weeks. “Most days we didn’t have something to eat. All of us have been ravenous. It is rather onerous to explain that painful story of our hardships,” Chakma mentioned.
CFI’s coworker introduced meals to the households. “With out this assist we may die from being starved,” Chakma mentioned. “We prayed and cried to the Lord to guard us, assist us to rebuild the church home. Earlier than leaving, [CFI’s coworker] inspired us to face firmly in Christ.”
After one other assault, the households escaped to CFI’s shelter the place they stayed for months.
“I can’t however consider in Jesus Christ and worship Him. Even when I die for my religion in Jesus Christ, I cannot return to Buddhism.” A Naniar Christian
CFI’s director negotiated with village leaders. The believers have been allowed to return however forbidden from rebuilding the church or transferring freely, which meant they might not work.
Since that point, CFI has supplied meals, college charges, and requirements for the households. Pastors should not allowed to go to the village, so CFI is offering Bible coaching and housing for Tabil, a younger man within the church. On Christmas in 2022, the Christians gathered of their damaged church to rejoice God coming into our damaged world.
Greater than two years after the assaults, village leaders lastly permitted the Christians to rebuild their church. Due to God for altering their hearts!
Naniar Christians supplied the labor and CFI supplied the provides. It was difficult to get supplies to this remoted village. The dust path that winds up hills is simply vast sufficient for strolling or motorbikes and turns into thick with mud within the wet season.
In Could, Naniar Christians celebrated the opening of their new church. It stands as an affidavit that God restores the damaged and is rising His church.
Chakma mentioned, “We pray to God that the [Buddhists] really feel the blessing of this church and be made holy by the Holy Spirit to allow them to come to our solely Savior, Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Thanks who helped us to rebuild this church.”
But Once more
In August, Buddhist activists threatened the Christians once more. Half of the households fled to CFI’s shelter. Others stay to take care of a presence and shield their newly rebuilt church.
They’re dwelling their religion within the presence of their enemies. They’re strengthened with assist and encouragement from CFI.
On the time of publication, the church nonetheless stands.
Why We Want a Church
Tabil was chosen by the Naniar church to organize to be their pastor. The 22-year-old has completed a theology course and is coaching to share the Gospel with illiterate folks.
He despatched this message from inside their rebuilt church:
Why is the Church Home essential for us?
We as Christian believers can not exist with out praising and worshiping God. It’s powerfully efficient after we worship and pray collectively within the church. The church is a holy home of God the place our brothers and sisters in Christ come collectively to glorify our God. That’s the reason we predict the church is essential within the lifetime of a believer.
What’s our mission and imaginative and prescient with Church Home?
Our imaginative and prescient for this church is to ship the phrase of the Lord to the misplaced sheep on this village, to allow them to know the Lord, to win them to Christ, to bless the village by means of this church.
We wish to see modifications on this village in order that we will win these misplaced youngsters and glorify God, regardless of what number of obstacles, struggles, sufferings, persecutions come earlier than us. Could folks obtain God’s blessings by means of this church. Could these misplaced youngsters know and perceive God.
We thank God for blessing us with an attractive church by means of CFI. We’re nonetheless receiving God’s blessings by means of CFI. Together with your assist and help, we’re nonetheless okay in lots of troublesome conditions.
Particular because of [CFI’s director]. God is blessing us loads by means of him. Via him God gave us an attractive church home. Now we will sing, reward and worship God soulfully and for His functions.
Thanks to CFI’s members who work tirelessly and are nonetheless by our facet. We pray to God that you could be stand by the facet of many extra believers sooner or later.
Could God bless you at all times
“You may have been by our facet with the blessings of God and we hope that you can be by our facet sooner or later and in our happiness and disappointment.” Tabil
“I used to be glad once they mentioned to me, “Allow us to go to the home of the Lord!”
Psalm 122:1
Three years in the past, a church of latest believers found the price for following Christ.
They have been crushed. Their church broken. Their adversaries have been their neighbors.
“They have been attempting to cease folks from coming to our Savior Lord Jesus Christ,” mentioned Chakma. He’s a frontrunner on this small church in an remoted forest.
The excellent news is that God’s church is rising even in far-flung and hostile locations. However when you think about what these Christians are enduring, it’s extraordinary that they continue to be steadfast of their religion. One trait of Christianity is that persecution grows the church in sudden methods.
Their bruises are an affidavit of their religion in God. Their church, rebuilt with help from you and others to Christian Freedom Worldwide, is an affidavit of God’s church caring for each other.
Their story is beneath. Briefly, Chakma’s church in Naniar village was attacked by militant Buddhists. The lads have been threatened with demise, the ladies and kids have been brutally crushed, and their church was broken.
The objective of the attackers is to pressure Christians to disclaim Christ. The techniques are:
- Beat and humiliate them into submission.
- Steal their items and deny the power to work and supply for his or her households.
- Stop them from gathering collectively to worship or be a lightweight in the neighborhood.
The Christians fled to Christian Freedom Worldwide’s shelter the place they discovered safety and restoration. Our director negotiated with village leaders and so they have been allowed to return to their properties.
However there was one situation: they might not rebuild their church. Then got here a second restriction: they might not transfer about, which means they might not work.
Since then, Christian Freedom Worldwide (CFI) is supplying meals and requirements for the households each month. We’re additionally coaching up a younger man to be their pastor.
This yr, lastly, village leaders allowed the Christians to rebuild their church. God heard our prayers and adjusted the hearts of the leaders.
With their labor and your items to CFI, the church was rebuilt. In Could, the Naniar Christians celebrated the opening of their new constructing.
However in August, Buddhist activists once more threatened the Christians. Half of the households fled to CFI’s shelter whereas others stay to guard their church and houses.
The Christians wish to keep in Naniar to be a lightweight of Christ to their village. Their church is an affidavit that God heals the damaged. Their constructing is a logo that they’re part of God’s international church and a reminder that you just and different Christians are serving to Christians.
In the end, we’re following the instance of the early church after we look after struggling believers. Paul wrote in his epistles about Gentile Christians donating to Jewish Christians. Giving to distant believers is a robust technique to unify and develop the church.
Once we assist persecuted Christians, the worldwide church grows in unity and religion.
Will you:
* Pray for ‘each day bread’ for Christians and the power to fulfill and worship collectively.
* Pray for adversaries, like Naniar’s neighbors, to be reworked by God’s grace.
Naniar Christians are resolved to comply with Jesus. However Chakma and different Christians should not meant to do that alone. Your month-to-month reward will present shelters, meals, Bible coaching and different sensible assist to persecuted Christians as collectively we reside for Christ.
Thanks! Your assist at present will present Naniar and different persecuted Christians with fundamental wants as they reside for Christ – and join us collectively as one physique in Christ.
A Damaged Church Grows
A church of latest believers in Naniar, a small village deep in a forest, shortly grew.
“I realized from the Bible that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sin. If anybody believes in Him, they’ll get everlasting peace and life,” mentioned one believer.
The excellent news unfold. “Many have been coming to Christ” mentioned Chakma, a church chief, and so they couldn’t slot in his house. “In 2021, we constructed a church home.”
Months later Buddhist activists violently attacked them. “They have been attempting to cease folks from coming to our Savior Lord Jesus Christ,” Chakma mentioned.
The Buddhists have been incited by a monk who mentioned the church made the village unholy and soiled. Armed with weapons, “they shouted at us to revert to our previous faith. If we didn’t, us males could be brutally killed and our households couldn’t reside within the village.”
The lads bumped into the forest. The Buddhists broke into their homes and beat the ladies and kids. Their properties have been looted. Their church was broken.
They lived in terror for weeks. “Most days we didn’t have something to eat. All of us have been ravenous. It is rather onerous to explain that painful story of our hardships,” Chakma mentioned.
CFI’s coworker introduced meals to the households. “With out this assist we may die from being starved,” Chakma mentioned. “We prayed and cried to the Lord to guard us, assist us to rebuild the church home. Earlier than leaving, [CFI’s coworker] inspired us to face firmly in Christ.”
After one other assault, the households escaped to CFI’s shelter the place they stayed for months.
“I can’t however consider in Jesus Christ and worship Him. Even when I die for my religion in Jesus Christ, I cannot return to Buddhism.” A Naniar Christian
CFI’s director negotiated with village leaders. The believers have been allowed to return however forbidden from rebuilding the church or transferring freely, which meant they might not work.
Since that point, CFI has supplied meals, college charges, and requirements for the households. Pastors should not allowed to go to the village, so CFI is offering Bible coaching and housing for Tabil, a younger man within the church. On Christmas in 2022, the Christians gathered of their damaged church to rejoice God coming into our damaged world.
Greater than two years after the assaults, village leaders lastly permitted the Christians to rebuild their church. Due to God for altering their hearts!
Naniar Christians supplied the labor and CFI supplied the provides. It was difficult to get supplies to this remoted village. The dust path that winds up hills is simply vast sufficient for strolling or motorbikes and turns into thick with mud within the wet season.
In Could, Naniar Christians celebrated the opening of their new church. It stands as an affidavit that God restores the damaged and is rising His church.
Chakma mentioned, “We pray to God that the [Buddhists] really feel the blessing of this church and be made holy by the Holy Spirit to allow them to come to our solely Savior, Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Thanks who helped us to rebuild this church.”
But Once more
In August, Buddhist activists threatened the Christians once more. Half of the households fled to CFI’s shelter. Others stay to take care of a presence and shield their newly rebuilt church.
They’re dwelling their religion within the presence of their enemies. They’re strengthened with assist and encouragement from CFI.
On the time of publication, the church nonetheless stands.
Why We Want a Church
Tabil was chosen by the Naniar church to organize to be their pastor. The 22-year-old has completed a theology course and is coaching to share the Gospel with illiterate folks.
He despatched this message from inside their rebuilt church:
Why is the Church Home essential for us?
We as Christian believers can not exist with out praising and worshiping God. It’s powerfully efficient after we worship and pray collectively within the church. The church is a holy home of God the place our brothers and sisters in Christ come collectively to glorify our God. That’s the reason we predict the church is essential within the lifetime of a believer.
What’s our mission and imaginative and prescient with Church Home?
Our imaginative and prescient for this church is to ship the phrase of the Lord to the misplaced sheep on this village, to allow them to know the Lord, to win them to Christ, to bless the village by means of this church.
We wish to see modifications on this village in order that we will win these misplaced youngsters and glorify God, regardless of what number of obstacles, struggles, sufferings, persecutions come earlier than us. Could folks obtain God’s blessings by means of this church. Could these misplaced youngsters know and perceive God.
We thank God for blessing us with an attractive church by means of CFI. We’re nonetheless receiving God’s blessings by means of CFI. Together with your assist and help, we’re nonetheless okay in lots of troublesome conditions.
Particular because of [CFI’s director]. God is blessing us loads by means of him. Via him God gave us an attractive church home. Now we will sing, reward and worship God soulfully and for His functions.
Thanks to CFI’s members who work tirelessly and are nonetheless by our facet. We pray to God that you could be stand by the facet of many extra believers sooner or later.
Could God bless you at all times
“You may have been by our facet with the blessings of God and we hope that you can be by our facet sooner or later and in our happiness and disappointment.” Tabil
“I used to be glad once they mentioned to me, “Allow us to go to the home of the Lord!”
Psalm 122:1
Three years in the past, a church of latest believers found the price for following Christ.
They have been crushed. Their church broken. Their adversaries have been their neighbors.
“They have been attempting to cease folks from coming to our Savior Lord Jesus Christ,” mentioned Chakma. He’s a frontrunner on this small church in an remoted forest.
The excellent news is that God’s church is rising even in far-flung and hostile locations. However when you think about what these Christians are enduring, it’s extraordinary that they continue to be steadfast of their religion. One trait of Christianity is that persecution grows the church in sudden methods.
Their bruises are an affidavit of their religion in God. Their church, rebuilt with help from you and others to Christian Freedom Worldwide, is an affidavit of God’s church caring for each other.
Their story is beneath. Briefly, Chakma’s church in Naniar village was attacked by militant Buddhists. The lads have been threatened with demise, the ladies and kids have been brutally crushed, and their church was broken.
The objective of the attackers is to pressure Christians to disclaim Christ. The techniques are:
- Beat and humiliate them into submission.
- Steal their items and deny the power to work and supply for his or her households.
- Stop them from gathering collectively to worship or be a lightweight in the neighborhood.
The Christians fled to Christian Freedom Worldwide’s shelter the place they discovered safety and restoration. Our director negotiated with village leaders and so they have been allowed to return to their properties.
However there was one situation: they might not rebuild their church. Then got here a second restriction: they might not transfer about, which means they might not work.
Since then, Christian Freedom Worldwide (CFI) is supplying meals and requirements for the households each month. We’re additionally coaching up a younger man to be their pastor.
This yr, lastly, village leaders allowed the Christians to rebuild their church. God heard our prayers and adjusted the hearts of the leaders.
With their labor and your items to CFI, the church was rebuilt. In Could, the Naniar Christians celebrated the opening of their new constructing.
However in August, Buddhist activists once more threatened the Christians. Half of the households fled to CFI’s shelter whereas others stay to guard their church and houses.
The Christians wish to keep in Naniar to be a lightweight of Christ to their village. Their church is an affidavit that God heals the damaged. Their constructing is a logo that they’re part of God’s international church and a reminder that you just and different Christians are serving to Christians.
In the end, we’re following the instance of the early church after we look after struggling believers. Paul wrote in his epistles about Gentile Christians donating to Jewish Christians. Giving to distant believers is a robust technique to unify and develop the church.
Once we assist persecuted Christians, the worldwide church grows in unity and religion.
Will you:
* Pray for ‘each day bread’ for Christians and the power to fulfill and worship collectively.
* Pray for adversaries, like Naniar’s neighbors, to be reworked by God’s grace.
Naniar Christians are resolved to comply with Jesus. However Chakma and different Christians should not meant to do that alone. Your month-to-month reward will present shelters, meals, Bible coaching and different sensible assist to persecuted Christians as collectively we reside for Christ.
Thanks! Your assist at present will present Naniar and different persecuted Christians with fundamental wants as they reside for Christ – and join us collectively as one physique in Christ.
A Damaged Church Grows
A church of latest believers in Naniar, a small village deep in a forest, shortly grew.
“I realized from the Bible that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sin. If anybody believes in Him, they’ll get everlasting peace and life,” mentioned one believer.
The excellent news unfold. “Many have been coming to Christ” mentioned Chakma, a church chief, and so they couldn’t slot in his house. “In 2021, we constructed a church home.”
Months later Buddhist activists violently attacked them. “They have been attempting to cease folks from coming to our Savior Lord Jesus Christ,” Chakma mentioned.
The Buddhists have been incited by a monk who mentioned the church made the village unholy and soiled. Armed with weapons, “they shouted at us to revert to our previous faith. If we didn’t, us males could be brutally killed and our households couldn’t reside within the village.”
The lads bumped into the forest. The Buddhists broke into their homes and beat the ladies and kids. Their properties have been looted. Their church was broken.
They lived in terror for weeks. “Most days we didn’t have something to eat. All of us have been ravenous. It is rather onerous to explain that painful story of our hardships,” Chakma mentioned.
CFI’s coworker introduced meals to the households. “With out this assist we may die from being starved,” Chakma mentioned. “We prayed and cried to the Lord to guard us, assist us to rebuild the church home. Earlier than leaving, [CFI’s coworker] inspired us to face firmly in Christ.”
After one other assault, the households escaped to CFI’s shelter the place they stayed for months.
“I can’t however consider in Jesus Christ and worship Him. Even when I die for my religion in Jesus Christ, I cannot return to Buddhism.” A Naniar Christian
CFI’s director negotiated with village leaders. The believers have been allowed to return however forbidden from rebuilding the church or transferring freely, which meant they might not work.
Since that point, CFI has supplied meals, college charges, and requirements for the households. Pastors should not allowed to go to the village, so CFI is offering Bible coaching and housing for Tabil, a younger man within the church. On Christmas in 2022, the Christians gathered of their damaged church to rejoice God coming into our damaged world.
Greater than two years after the assaults, village leaders lastly permitted the Christians to rebuild their church. Due to God for altering their hearts!
Naniar Christians supplied the labor and CFI supplied the provides. It was difficult to get supplies to this remoted village. The dust path that winds up hills is simply vast sufficient for strolling or motorbikes and turns into thick with mud within the wet season.
In Could, Naniar Christians celebrated the opening of their new church. It stands as an affidavit that God restores the damaged and is rising His church.
Chakma mentioned, “We pray to God that the [Buddhists] really feel the blessing of this church and be made holy by the Holy Spirit to allow them to come to our solely Savior, Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Thanks who helped us to rebuild this church.”
But Once more
In August, Buddhist activists threatened the Christians once more. Half of the households fled to CFI’s shelter. Others stay to take care of a presence and shield their newly rebuilt church.
They’re dwelling their religion within the presence of their enemies. They’re strengthened with assist and encouragement from CFI.
On the time of publication, the church nonetheless stands.
Why We Want a Church
Tabil was chosen by the Naniar church to organize to be their pastor. The 22-year-old has completed a theology course and is coaching to share the Gospel with illiterate folks.
He despatched this message from inside their rebuilt church:
Why is the Church Home essential for us?
We as Christian believers can not exist with out praising and worshiping God. It’s powerfully efficient after we worship and pray collectively within the church. The church is a holy home of God the place our brothers and sisters in Christ come collectively to glorify our God. That’s the reason we predict the church is essential within the lifetime of a believer.
What’s our mission and imaginative and prescient with Church Home?
Our imaginative and prescient for this church is to ship the phrase of the Lord to the misplaced sheep on this village, to allow them to know the Lord, to win them to Christ, to bless the village by means of this church.
We wish to see modifications on this village in order that we will win these misplaced youngsters and glorify God, regardless of what number of obstacles, struggles, sufferings, persecutions come earlier than us. Could folks obtain God’s blessings by means of this church. Could these misplaced youngsters know and perceive God.
We thank God for blessing us with an attractive church by means of CFI. We’re nonetheless receiving God’s blessings by means of CFI. Together with your assist and help, we’re nonetheless okay in lots of troublesome conditions.
Particular because of [CFI’s director]. God is blessing us loads by means of him. Via him God gave us an attractive church home. Now we will sing, reward and worship God soulfully and for His functions.
Thanks to CFI’s members who work tirelessly and are nonetheless by our facet. We pray to God that you could be stand by the facet of many extra believers sooner or later.
Could God bless you at all times
“You may have been by our facet with the blessings of God and we hope that you can be by our facet sooner or later and in our happiness and disappointment.” Tabil
“I used to be glad once they mentioned to me, “Allow us to go to the home of the Lord!”
Psalm 122:1
Three years in the past, a church of latest believers found the price for following Christ.
They have been crushed. Their church broken. Their adversaries have been their neighbors.
“They have been attempting to cease folks from coming to our Savior Lord Jesus Christ,” mentioned Chakma. He’s a frontrunner on this small church in an remoted forest.
The excellent news is that God’s church is rising even in far-flung and hostile locations. However when you think about what these Christians are enduring, it’s extraordinary that they continue to be steadfast of their religion. One trait of Christianity is that persecution grows the church in sudden methods.
Their bruises are an affidavit of their religion in God. Their church, rebuilt with help from you and others to Christian Freedom Worldwide, is an affidavit of God’s church caring for each other.
Their story is beneath. Briefly, Chakma’s church in Naniar village was attacked by militant Buddhists. The lads have been threatened with demise, the ladies and kids have been brutally crushed, and their church was broken.
The objective of the attackers is to pressure Christians to disclaim Christ. The techniques are:
- Beat and humiliate them into submission.
- Steal their items and deny the power to work and supply for his or her households.
- Stop them from gathering collectively to worship or be a lightweight in the neighborhood.
The Christians fled to Christian Freedom Worldwide’s shelter the place they discovered safety and restoration. Our director negotiated with village leaders and so they have been allowed to return to their properties.
However there was one situation: they might not rebuild their church. Then got here a second restriction: they might not transfer about, which means they might not work.
Since then, Christian Freedom Worldwide (CFI) is supplying meals and requirements for the households each month. We’re additionally coaching up a younger man to be their pastor.
This yr, lastly, village leaders allowed the Christians to rebuild their church. God heard our prayers and adjusted the hearts of the leaders.
With their labor and your items to CFI, the church was rebuilt. In Could, the Naniar Christians celebrated the opening of their new constructing.
However in August, Buddhist activists once more threatened the Christians. Half of the households fled to CFI’s shelter whereas others stay to guard their church and houses.
The Christians wish to keep in Naniar to be a lightweight of Christ to their village. Their church is an affidavit that God heals the damaged. Their constructing is a logo that they’re part of God’s international church and a reminder that you just and different Christians are serving to Christians.
In the end, we’re following the instance of the early church after we look after struggling believers. Paul wrote in his epistles about Gentile Christians donating to Jewish Christians. Giving to distant believers is a robust technique to unify and develop the church.
Once we assist persecuted Christians, the worldwide church grows in unity and religion.
Will you:
* Pray for ‘each day bread’ for Christians and the power to fulfill and worship collectively.
* Pray for adversaries, like Naniar’s neighbors, to be reworked by God’s grace.
Naniar Christians are resolved to comply with Jesus. However Chakma and different Christians should not meant to do that alone. Your month-to-month reward will present shelters, meals, Bible coaching and different sensible assist to persecuted Christians as collectively we reside for Christ.
Thanks! Your assist at present will present Naniar and different persecuted Christians with fundamental wants as they reside for Christ – and join us collectively as one physique in Christ.
A Damaged Church Grows
A church of latest believers in Naniar, a small village deep in a forest, shortly grew.
“I realized from the Bible that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sin. If anybody believes in Him, they’ll get everlasting peace and life,” mentioned one believer.
The excellent news unfold. “Many have been coming to Christ” mentioned Chakma, a church chief, and so they couldn’t slot in his house. “In 2021, we constructed a church home.”
Months later Buddhist activists violently attacked them. “They have been attempting to cease folks from coming to our Savior Lord Jesus Christ,” Chakma mentioned.
The Buddhists have been incited by a monk who mentioned the church made the village unholy and soiled. Armed with weapons, “they shouted at us to revert to our previous faith. If we didn’t, us males could be brutally killed and our households couldn’t reside within the village.”
The lads bumped into the forest. The Buddhists broke into their homes and beat the ladies and kids. Their properties have been looted. Their church was broken.
They lived in terror for weeks. “Most days we didn’t have something to eat. All of us have been ravenous. It is rather onerous to explain that painful story of our hardships,” Chakma mentioned.
CFI’s coworker introduced meals to the households. “With out this assist we may die from being starved,” Chakma mentioned. “We prayed and cried to the Lord to guard us, assist us to rebuild the church home. Earlier than leaving, [CFI’s coworker] inspired us to face firmly in Christ.”
After one other assault, the households escaped to CFI’s shelter the place they stayed for months.
“I can’t however consider in Jesus Christ and worship Him. Even when I die for my religion in Jesus Christ, I cannot return to Buddhism.” A Naniar Christian
CFI’s director negotiated with village leaders. The believers have been allowed to return however forbidden from rebuilding the church or transferring freely, which meant they might not work.
Since that point, CFI has supplied meals, college charges, and requirements for the households. Pastors should not allowed to go to the village, so CFI is offering Bible coaching and housing for Tabil, a younger man within the church. On Christmas in 2022, the Christians gathered of their damaged church to rejoice God coming into our damaged world.
Greater than two years after the assaults, village leaders lastly permitted the Christians to rebuild their church. Due to God for altering their hearts!
Naniar Christians supplied the labor and CFI supplied the provides. It was difficult to get supplies to this remoted village. The dust path that winds up hills is simply vast sufficient for strolling or motorbikes and turns into thick with mud within the wet season.
In Could, Naniar Christians celebrated the opening of their new church. It stands as an affidavit that God restores the damaged and is rising His church.
Chakma mentioned, “We pray to God that the [Buddhists] really feel the blessing of this church and be made holy by the Holy Spirit to allow them to come to our solely Savior, Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Thanks who helped us to rebuild this church.”
But Once more
In August, Buddhist activists threatened the Christians once more. Half of the households fled to CFI’s shelter. Others stay to take care of a presence and shield their newly rebuilt church.
They’re dwelling their religion within the presence of their enemies. They’re strengthened with assist and encouragement from CFI.
On the time of publication, the church nonetheless stands.
Why We Want a Church
Tabil was chosen by the Naniar church to organize to be their pastor. The 22-year-old has completed a theology course and is coaching to share the Gospel with illiterate folks.
He despatched this message from inside their rebuilt church:
Why is the Church Home essential for us?
We as Christian believers can not exist with out praising and worshiping God. It’s powerfully efficient after we worship and pray collectively within the church. The church is a holy home of God the place our brothers and sisters in Christ come collectively to glorify our God. That’s the reason we predict the church is essential within the lifetime of a believer.
What’s our mission and imaginative and prescient with Church Home?
Our imaginative and prescient for this church is to ship the phrase of the Lord to the misplaced sheep on this village, to allow them to know the Lord, to win them to Christ, to bless the village by means of this church.
We wish to see modifications on this village in order that we will win these misplaced youngsters and glorify God, regardless of what number of obstacles, struggles, sufferings, persecutions come earlier than us. Could folks obtain God’s blessings by means of this church. Could these misplaced youngsters know and perceive God.
We thank God for blessing us with an attractive church by means of CFI. We’re nonetheless receiving God’s blessings by means of CFI. Together with your assist and help, we’re nonetheless okay in lots of troublesome conditions.
Particular because of [CFI’s director]. God is blessing us loads by means of him. Via him God gave us an attractive church home. Now we will sing, reward and worship God soulfully and for His functions.
Thanks to CFI’s members who work tirelessly and are nonetheless by our facet. We pray to God that you could be stand by the facet of many extra believers sooner or later.
Could God bless you at all times
“You may have been by our facet with the blessings of God and we hope that you can be by our facet sooner or later and in our happiness and disappointment.” Tabil
