Source: Asia Harvest Newsletter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Christian hosts took us to a slum where a tin door to a run-down shack opened in front of us. When we stepped inside, it was as though we had passed through a portal and entered another dimension, a heavenly one\u2014a world where Jesus reigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a church meeting of Burmese children deep in the heart of the slums, providing a ray of hope to penetrate the darkness many were living in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among these bare-footed believers, we were slightly embarrassed to be the only ones with socks and shoes. But that didn\u2019t bother these children whose eyes remained closed with tears streaming down their faces as their attention was fully on their Savior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This experience was repeated at each of the centers we visited. Healings and deliverance from demons, drugs, and crime were commonplace. Most of the gatherings consisted of believers who had come to Christ within the past few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Former] prostitutes sat shoulder-to-shoulder with former murderers and gang members whose tattoos told the tale of their past, but who had now found redemption and cleansing through the blood of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best part of this story is that it is not transpiring based on the efforts of a single ministry, but rather through a sovereign move of the Spirit of God that is sweeping across this vast land\u2014a move that is finally penetrating the poorest and hardest demographic in Myanmar: the 50 million ethnic Burmese people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the original article<\/a> It includes more stories and pictures and reports that more than 6,000 Burmese have come to Christ through a ministry Asia Harvest reports in Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more encouragement about what God is doing among indigenous ministries in Asia, treat yourself to something from the Asia Harvest bookstore<\/a>\u2014including whole volumes about the growth of the church in each Province of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also an overview of the situation in Myanmar and how to pray<\/a> (INcontext International).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Asia Harvest Newsletter Our Christian hosts took us to a slum where a tin door to a run-down shack opened in front of us. When we stepped inside, it was as though we had passed through a portal and entered another dimension, a heavenly one\u2014a world where Jesus reigns. It was a church meeting … Continue reading Myanmar: Revival in the Midst of War and Suffering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13111,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions\/13111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}