EthiopiaI was born into a family who practiced witchcraft, and they dedicated me to an evil spirit. One night an evil spirit came to me where I was sleeping and insisted that I should kill myself. Then I saw a vision that looked like a fire that came from heaven. I...
VietnamIn his home in central Vietnam, Nam Loc shared the Gospel one-on-one to every villager. His witness won thousands of people to Christ. It also earned the wrath of his detractors, who conspired with police authorities in filing trumped-up charges against him....
(This story is taken from a fantastic biography about Brother Andrew, called The Narrow Road)Joppie arrived on the fourth of June, 1959. He was born at home, as I had been, and I was with Corrie the whole time, just as Papa had seen all of us into the world.And with...
ChinaMr. and Mrs. Sun were peasants in rural Anhui province. Too poor to make their home out of bricks, they lived in a woodand-mud shed. They farmed some thin fingers of land that stubbornly yielded millet beans and turnips, though rarely enough to feed them fully....
(This story is taken from a fantastic biography about Brother Andrew, called The Narrow Road. This part of the story happened in Russia.)We took just one of the Bibles, locked the car, and left the campsite. It was Thursday night: the night of the midweek service at...
GuatemalaOnce I was preaching in Guatemala in a certain area of strong traditional belief. There was intense pressure against believers-so much so that no evangelical was allowed into the area to preach. We were often attacked with stones and expelled from the areas...
ChinaThey came as she was speaking.Public Security Bureau officials swooped in as Sarah Yang, a female house-church leader, finished expounding her text to her congregation. She was whisked out into the bitter cold. It was December 1998 in northeast China. She...