Source: Open Doors, October 17, 2018<\/p>\n
In 1997, in the midst of a great famine in North Korea, Hea-Woo\u2019s daughter in her mid-twenties starved to death in her own home. Hae-Woo\u2019s husband escaped to China. He found God\u2026 but sadly he was caught by the secret police and six months later died in a North Korean prison camp. Hea-Woo said, \u201cI was shocked to hear that my husband had become a Christian but instinctively I knew he had found the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t too long after this that Hea-Woo herself escaped to China and became a Christian through a series of events similar to those that had influenced her husband\u2019s journey to faith. She was then caught by the secret police, repatriated to North Korea, and placed in a prison camp.<\/p>\n
In one of the darkest places on earth, Hea-Woo chose to do something so radical, and so dangerous, but so Christ-like. In this prison, God gave her a heart to tell her fellow prisoners about Jesus. And so, right there in the middle of a North Korean labor camp, a secret fellowship church began.<\/p>\n
In her words: \u201cThe Bible verses that I\u2019d recall from memory gave the others hope. They also say the Spirit at work in me. I stood out among the other prisoners because I helped them. Sometimes I shared my rice with the sick. Occasionally I washed their clothes, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cGod used me to lead five people to faith. I tried to teach them the little I knew about Jesus. I didn\u2019t have access to a Bible in the camp. But on Sundays and at Christmas, we met together out of the view of the guards. Usually, that was in the toilet. There we held a short service. I taught them the Bible verses and songs that I knew. We sang almost inaudibly so that no one would hear us.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s believers like Hea-Woo who suffer persecution for their faith that brings much-need on real discipleship. On what it means to obediently, selflessly and courageously follow Jesus.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb See also another story from East Asia, Imprisoned Pastors in Myanmar Released on Condition They Stop Praying in Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Open Doors, October 17, 2018 In 1997, in the midst of a great famine in North Korea, Hea-Woo\u2019s daughter in her mid-twenties starved to death in her own home. Hae-Woo\u2019s husband escaped to China. He found God\u2026 but sadly he was caught by the secret police and six months later died in a North … Continue reading NORTH KOREA: A Radical, Dangerous Life<\/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-8172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172","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=8172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}