Burma – Stories from Asia

Testimonies from the field: Rebuking the Insects

My name is “J”. I am 36 years old and have two daughters and one son. We had believed in Buddhism all our lives. My husband is a farmer and we all work together on the farm. On our farm we grow flowers, mainly: roses, daisies and broccoli vegetables. We sell our produce at a market seven miles away.

Last year some National Pioneers came to our farm telling us the good news. All our family were very glad to hear this good news. We renounced our former gods and worshipping Buddha. Then we believed in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, even though some our neighbours criticized us strongly. Continue reading “Testimonies from the field: Rebuking the Insects”

The Legacy of Missions in SE Asia

This is a brief history of the Morse family’s involvement in missions in SE Asia. It is extracted from the newsletter of Bobby and Tassanee Morse whu currently serve in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Their ministry includes a hostel for tribal children attending school in Chiang Mai and a media ministry in Thailand, Burma and China. Bobby Morse is a 3rd generation missionary of the Morse Family legacy. Continue reading “The Legacy of Missions in SE Asia”

The Spirit Tree

“We have come to tell you about the living God, who made heaven and earth and your buffalo and your people. This is a God who loves you. We’ve come to tell you about this God.”

Let me tell you a story about what happened to some of our evangelists. Two of them took off for a remote village in the mountains near the border. When they arrived, they met with a village elder andtold him why they had come. They said, “We have come to tell you about the living God, who made heaven and earth and your buffalo and your people. This is a God who loves you. We’ve come to tell you about this God.”
The village elder looked and them, and he said,

The Headhunter

The people of our country had a significant segment that were headhunters. In fact, they were headhunting up into the 1970s and even beyond. In a village just a couple of years ago we saw seven human heads, some with flesh still on them. So in isolated places this still goes on, but as a general rule that practice has been done away with.

_1790800″ src=”https://asiastories.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/460_17908001.jpg?w=150″ alt=”460>_1790800″ width=”82″ height=”82″>The people of our country had a significant segment that were headhunters. In fact, they were headhunting up into the 1970s and even beyond. In a village just a couple of years ago we saw seven human heads, some with flesh still Continue reading “The Headhunter”

The Buddhist Monk and Jesus

“I’d been a Buddhist monk for more than 24 years. When I was just a young boy, my parents couldn’t feed me, and so they put me in the monastery. It’s the only life I’ve ever known. One morning, I was walking outside carrying my little food basket. I guess I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing because I stepped off the curb of the street, into the path of a car. It hit me, and it threw me up over the windshield and out into the street.”

460>_1078505 “I’d been a Buddhist monk for more than 24 years. When I was just a young boy, my parents couldn’t feed me, and so they put me in the monastery. It’s the only life I’ve ever known. One morning, I was walkingoutside carrying my little food basket. I guess I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing because I stepped off the curb of the street, into the path of a car. It hit me, and it threw me up over the windshield and out into the street.”

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