VietnamMy grandfather had an amazing memory. When other members of his family came to join him in rural Gansu province, he taught us about Christ from the fragments of verses he learned from a pastor.In 1995 my grandfather gathered us all together. He said he had bad...
(This story is taken from a fantastic biography about Brother Andrew, called The Narrow Road)One year after he joined us, Marcus too got married. So now we were seven: Corrie and I, Rolf and Elena, Marcus and Paula, and bachelor Hans. Then Klaas and Eduard and their...
ChinaZhemin married his sweetheart at the age of twenty, and two years later she was pregnant. He was a teacher in school but made a strong profession of faith, which made him a target of the authorities. One day he read Luke 14:26, where Jesus said, "If anyone comes...
(This story is taken from a fantastic biography about Brother Andrew, called The Narrow Road)There is a Roman Catholic priest in Rumania whom we have been helping to buy Bibles and other supplies for years. On his last trip home from Vienna, his car loaded with...
(This story is taken from a fantastic biography about Brother Andrew, called The Narrow Road)It was on one of these trips that year that the courageous little car engine breathed its last.It happened in West Germany. I was on my way home from a trip to East Germany...
Southern SudanMaktu, a Moro Christian, testified about the truth of Hebrews 13:5: "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." He was caught by government forces in 1996 and thrown into prison. It is not clear if it was because of his Christian beliefs or...
VietnamSeveral years ago Tung was known as the "great persecutor" by local Christians in the central Vietnamese town where he lived. The Communist police officer had earned his infamous name because of his reputation for harassing house-church Christians.Tung had...