Source: Christian Aid Mission, January 2022
Since the February 1, 2021 military coup that plunged the country of Myanmar into chaos, hundreds of civilians have been killed in random violence even as COVID-19 raged. Among victims of the virus were many Christian workers. A native ministry leader said that from May to August alone, 413 Christian evangelists and other workers with various ministry organizations died from the pandemic.
One of the native missionaries nearly died from COVID-19 in July, and since then he and his wife have planted a church, the leader said.
“He and his wife brought non-Christians and conducted salvation Bible training at his house five times in October and November,” the leader said. “He baptized 23 people, and they all joined the church.”
Another local missionary who works among devout Buddhists invited non-Christians to his house every weekend for dinner, where he taught them about Christ.
“In the month of November, he reached 48 people with the Good News, and 14 of them accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord. Halleluiah!” the leader said. “He said that if he’s not telling the Good News, he is not able to sleep or eat.”
Such gospel advance took place at a time when pandemic lockdowns and military conflict made going out of one’s house unthinkable in many areas.
See also The Tearful Struggle to Heal Battered Burma (also from CAM, via Mission Network News).