I want to share some very recent testimonies I have received from Khamh, our very good friend in Myanmar. The Heaven’s Family Food Fund is making a great difference in the lives of poor believers there. Even though I had to postpone my December 2009 trip to Myanmar in order to take care of some pressing ministry issues in Kenya, I still arranged for an emergency food distribution of $1,000 USD there. So far, Khamh has been able to help twenty-five poor families with large bags of rice. The testimonies below each photo are Khamh’s own words. Thank you for helping us to make a difference!

The young man in the first photo is from “_______” village of Inle Lake area. He came to faith in Christ through our Youth retreat program this month. He was too happy when we gave him a bag of rice, and as he ran to his home with a bag of rice, he fell off from the tiny bamboo bridge with his rice. He could not give me a smile as I took his picture because his rice bag fell deep below 15ft and he and his family have to eat wet rice that for a day. Wet rice or soaked rice smell very bad.

The man whose photo is taken on the boat is from “_______” village. He is a native missionary in Inle lake area. His father cast him out from home on the day he became a Christian. He does not have a home, and his earning can’t just support renting a house. That’s the reason I took his photo on a boat. He stays with believers for a month in one family and then moves to another. He will be sharing his rice with several families.

The young lady in the photo is from “_______” village. She is a high School student in Nyaung Shwe town, a seven miles journey from her home. She doesn’t have an engine on her boat, so she has to row with a hand paddle fourteen miles each day. She is a real hard working lady who also is very active in church youth activities. Sadly, her parents are not Christians yet.

The woman in the photo is from “_______” village of Inle Lake. She also is a new believer who came to her faith in our Lord Jesus last year, and she has never missed any conference or training or seminar from the day she became Christian. She works as a day worker in a paddy field and gets 500 kyats a day, which is equivalent to 50 cents of a US Dollar. The Lord’s prayer “give us today our daily bread” may not be necessary in the United States, but in the lives of these people, the prayer is so necessary. They do need our intensive care in their journey to a mature Christian life. Please remember them in your prayers.

Chuck King
Food Fund Director
Heaven’s Family

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The testimonies below, from Rwanda, summarize the wonderful effect that our biosand filters are having to improve the lives of our poor brethren overseas. The demand for these filters is so great that I am devoting as much time as I can to training new teams in several nations to provide this biosand filter technology. I am so grateful for those who are partnering with us as we continue to serve the Lord and His people. So please enjoy reading some of the fruit of our labor together. God bless you!

Gakusi Innocent

From Gakusi Innocent:

“I am so grateful to the generous people who thought about us and assisted us in giving us filters. In this area we found the problem of water since we were born. We were just wondering when and how this situation would come to end. Our children were dying very often and we always believed they were given poison. But since January this year after I received a filter I didn’t pay any more visit to the hospital. Myself, my wife and our children are in good health since then. I was spending about 12,000 FRW (11 USD) each month at the hospital. And now I have used this money to buy a she goat which is going to produce and help me in the daily needs. Now I’m very happy for the good health of my family.”

Uwase Josiane

From Uwase Josiane:

“I am so grateful that since I got a biosand filter my family’s health improved so much. We had never had the privilege to get safe drinking water. Now my children are no longer frequently like they used to be. Every month I was taking them to the Health Center either for diarrhea or other diseases related to unclean water. Myself I was frequently suffering from abdominal pain but now I have none. And due to that situation of frequent visits to the doctor, poverty was becoming so severe in my house. We thank the servants of God who thought about us. May the Lord bless their source of income so that other people who are having the same problem I was going through may also be reached and receive a filter because it has been a great answer for us. May God bless you abundantly.”

Thanks once again on behalf of the families of Innocent and Uwase, and the many other families like them who are benefitting from your compassion.

In Christ,

Chuck King

Safe Water Fund Director

Heaven’s Family

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We recently received some encouraging testimonies from several people in Myanmar (all of whom live in the region where Cyclone Nargis made landfall) who were blessed to receive their own copies of the Bible as the result of contributions to the Bibles for Believers Fund. The first testimony is especially moving as it is from an older woman who had been Buddhist her entire life until one of our partners put the Word of God in her hands. We hope you are blessed as we share them with you.

Khin Myat

My name is Khin Myat of Bawing village and I was a Buddhist. There are some Christians in our village, but I never made fellowship or friends with Christians. I knew nothing about Christianity or Jesus before. When Nargis destroyed all the houses on May 3, 2008, everyone was so upset and disappointed. No food, no extra clothes and no shelters. We were like animals having nothing.

After the next two or three days later, some people rushed to our village. They were strangers to the villages. And they comforted us, talked to us with big smiling faces and encouraged us with great words. And they gave us rice, water, clothes, roofing sheets of plastic and some medicines. They really loved us! They have great sympathy for us! Since then, I was wondering and thinking about who they were, why did they love us so much! Many things ran into my heart. They gave us supports in respective of race or religion, equally as us. One of my friends told me that, “These people came from a very far place, they are Christians, Jesus is their God.”

Since then, I had a burning desire to know about Jesus and Christianity. Then I approached a Christian and asked him everything what I wanted to know. He explained me many things and finally he told me this: “If you really want to know about Jesus, please read the Christian Holy Bible.” That is a big problem for me. No Bible is left in our village, no money for buying it, and no where to go to get. At that very time some people from Love in Action Ministry came our village again and this time they gave us the most precious and the most I need–that is the Christian Holy Bible.

Since then, I studied it carefully and now I know who is Jesus – and I am now His child. I had accepted Jesus as my Lord and savior.

I Thank God.

Naw Phaw Shi

My name is Naw Phaw Shi of Taphian village. In the time of Nargis on May 3, 2008, I lost all my possess things. Nothing was left. Among many properties that were lost, losing the Holy Bible made me most grieved, it was the greatest loss for me. While I was very sad praying for a new Bible, the angel of the Lord sent the workers of Love in Action Ministry to our village. Oh how precious is the gift that I received from them- THE HOLY BIBLE! It gave me strength, happiness and hope. The most precious heritage for me!

Ma Ma Win and Tun Tun

My name is Ma Ma Win (pictured left) from Simma Village. I was just a new Christian and I did not trust the Lord whole heartedly. But when Nargis beated me, then I cried out to the Lord to help me. While I am so discouraged and disappointed, I received a beautiful Bible from Love in Action Ministry. I read it continuously for one week with prayers. At last, the Lord answered my prayer and then I received joy and peace to the Lord. Now I am very happy, as being a child of God. Jesus is now my personal friend of mine and I have no fear any more, even Nargis can’t beat me again.”

“My name is Miss Tun Tun (pictured right) of Apyauk Village from the Irrawaddy region. I never heard about Jesus or Christianity. One day, I received a Bible and a tract from Love in Action Ministry and I read it. It caught me so deeply and I read it for ten days non-stop. One day some thing happened in my heart which is so strange for me. I went to my best friend Sister Ma Ma Win for a bible discussion, which really touched me. It was about the prodigal son. When the days went by, at last, I came to know that I am no longer a prodigal daughter. Because now I am a daughter of King of kings and Lord of lords. Jesus cleanses me of all my sins. So I must receive Jesus faithfully unto death. The world may hate me, punish me, but I will never turn back.

On behalf of these and others like them, thank you so much.

In Christ,

Emily Growden

Director, Bibles for Believers Fund

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