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Heat. Hot water. Lights. Electricity—don’t we take it for granted when we lose it, even for an hour?
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.
Heat. Hot water. Lights. Electricity—don’t we take it for granted when we lose it, even for an hour?
Father Victor Masangano, an Episcopalian priest in the rural Malawi village of Nangombe, was an "early adopter” of our Farming God’s Way program. That took courage, because the traditional agricultural methods in Malawi are well-entrenched. Everyone in the rural areas farms, and everyone has been farming the same way for as long as anyone can remember. Anyone who does anything different raises eyebrows. And Farming God’s Way puts a whole new culture into agri-culture.
Imagine with me... You’re a poor Christian living in Pakistan. You are in a terrible accident and desperately need medical attention. The ambulance, however, refuses to help you. Why? They say something like,You’re a Christian—and poor—you're not worth our time or effort. Sadly enough, your next stop might just be the morgue.
I’d be willing to bet that something Jesus said in His Sermon on the Mount has very little relevance to most everyone who is reading this blog. Here it is: Do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink (Matt. 6:25).
Just how powerful is God’s Word? Let me share a testimony from Myanmar that resulted from New Testaments that you helped provide.
If you ever travel in rural, sub-Saharan Africa, you’ll soon notice that every piece of land that isn’t vertical is being used for farming. 70% of Africans are farmers.