Every month, Heaven’s Family helps far more people than we could ever highlight in our bi-monthly newsletter. For that reason, this page contains additional photos and stories of some of the “least of these” among our spiritual family whom we’ve recently been blessed to serve.
"Many will be dead the next time I visit," John Siam lamented. "My burden for them is so great, I pray for them with tears. Prisoners are open and hungry to hear Jesus' words of life, but if I cannot at least bring them a Bible, what good am I in this world?"
"I was a slave!" he said, and everyone in our circle laughed. They had been taking turns sharing how their lives had been impacted by their recently received micro-loans. Kenyan pastor Elijah Muyekho continued to tell his story with vigor: "I worked for a man who owned a rock quarry. I used a hammer and chisel all day long. My job was to break huge rocks and chisel them into rectangular blocks that are used to construct walls and buildings. On an average day, I made about a dollar."
"God, if you are there, can you end my suffering?" That was the anguished cry of 20-year-old Miriam Nduwimana of Burundi, East Africa. She had endured almost unimaginable suffering. It began two years earlier when Burundi was embroiled in bloody tribal warfare. Miriam and her two younger sisters witnessed the slaughter of their other family members. They survived their nation's holocaust by fleeing to neighboring DR Congo.
When Ben and Sarah (at left), a young couple from Wisconsin, told us 18 months ago that they wanted to support a National Missionary through Heaven's Family, neither they, nor we, could have foreseen the eternal consequences of their decision.
Indigenous church planting is just as much a way of life for these believers as is agriculture I’ve spent my last two days in Burundi personally visiting Heaven’s Family beneficiaries, which include widows, former drug addicts, handicapped Christians and Christian leaders. It has been two […]
Naitonal Missionary Sylvestre Nsengiyumva I asked Sylvestre Nsengiyumva how many people he had killed when he was a rebel soldier. He hung his head and told me, “I don’t want to say or guess. Too many.” Sylvestre had been telling me his life story. He […]
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