“Do you not
say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I
tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields!
They are ripe for harvest.” John 4:35
Mountain Village Evangelization
During the dry
and hot season, the roads leading up to the
mountainous areas and going into remote
villages, are travelable. This is the time for
evangelistic out-reaches as the mountain
villages are less developed. Sometimes there is
no electricity in those places. In other
villages, solar panels are made available for
charging up batteries. Often those villages are
far away from medical clinics. Schools are
spread thin in these areas. More often, there
will be a small wooden or bamboo shack that
functions as a school with only 1 teacher to
teach all grades. During the times fieldwork
needs to be done the children must give a hand
in the rice fields too. The dry season is the
time that there is no pressing work to be done
on the rice field. Consequently, during dry
seasoneverybody is in the village.
Praise:
- The Lord for the workers that He has sent out in into
His harvest! Praise the Lord for the church
in MH. 5 years ago MP was the first man
that believed in Jesus! Meanwhile he has
passed away, but through his testimony, the
church building pictured above came into
being.
Pray:
- The gospel
will spread further into the yet unreached
Pwo Karen villages.
- For the
conversion of the leaders of Burma. The
Burmese government has released over the
past year thousands of political prisoners,
but according to the most important
opposition party, the National League for
Democracy (NLD) of Aung San Suu Kyi, is
still hostile against any opposition against
the government. Also the house arrest, for
several years now, of Suu Kyi, has not been
lifted.
- That
democracy will soon become a reality in
Burma. In 2003 Khin Nyunt, who was prime
minister at that time, announced the ”road
map to democracy”, that was supposed to lead
to free elections. In October last year he
was put aside by hardliners from the junta,
the military government says to be still
willing to carry out the road map.
