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Soon after they became front-line workers for God’s kingdom, Paing and his wife, Thun, decided to rent a house in a Buddhist village in Myanmar. They wanted to establish deeper relationships with the villagers so they’d have more opportunities to share the gospel. One day, Paing, a former Buddhist monk, baptized two families that he and Thun had led to Christ. By that evening, news of the baptisms had spread throughout the village. And after nightfall, more than 100 people descended on Paing’s rental house with axes, stones and slingshots. Thankfully, Paing and his family were not home during the attack. Angry villagers broke down their doors, smashed windows, and destroyed the family’s Bibles and Christian books. Although some of the people baptized that day were injured in the attack, they decided they were ready to die for Jesus.
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Following the attack, a Buddhist monk in the village forced Paing’s family out of their rental home because of their Christian activity. So Paing, determined to continue teaching the new Christians and to help plant a church in the village, sold his motorcycle and used the money to build a small bamboo house on the edge of town. After several years of persistent work, Paing and Thun had led 31 people to Christ. And when two of these believers graduated from Bible college, they took over Paing’s evangelism and discipleship work in the village. Paing then asked God to show him how to take the gospel even farther in Myanmar. And God answered his prayers in a specific way, restoring what Paing had given up.
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