They’ve now been serving in their country for over a decade. Nearly nine years ago, they planted a church that has 26 members with four deacons and two elders.
Imagine the closest hospital isn’t just an ambulance ride away from your home. It’s a trek that requires multiple days and a 12-hour car ride on bumpy roads.
Tutoring centers are ubiquitous in South Asia, according to Crawford Kaiser, International Mission Board missionary. “It’s a bunch of local folks trying to provide tutoring,” he explained with a smile.
Sometimes it takes two hours just to get groceries. A doctor’s visit will most likely require Google Translate at some point. Air pollution skyrockets during winter months. Language learning is not for the faint of heart.
Eight women from Union Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Kingston, Tennessee, felt God stirring their hearts to make hundreds of fried pies to support International Mission Board missionaries.
“Are good works enough to go to heaven?” the social media post read. Some believers in Southeast Asia posted the question on a Christian social media page they ran at the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting for Muslims.
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