Three of the Akha woman on the journey to the Christian training center. Their face are obscured for security purposes.
Earlier in 2022, Biblia Global funded the printing and delivery of 10,000 Akha Bibles in the old Akha dialect that the majority of Akha read and write in. This was the second printing of the full Akha Bible we have helped print, the first being in 2019. While the current distribution is ongoing and we will be sharing more pictures and testimonies at a later date, one encouraging story of Akha Christians whom these Bibles have gone to deserves to be told now.
Four young Akha women from a closed SE Asian Country decided to follow Jesus and become Christians. We don’t mention this country for security purposes. As a result of their decision, they were kicked out of their village and disowned by their families. One of our in-country partners arraigned for these young women to take part in a 6-week training course in sewing, hair dressing, farming, and animal raising as a way to learn vocational skills to support themselves financially down the road.
The Akha woman receiving their Akha Bibles.
As a part of this training school, these four Akha woman would be able to take part in daily fellowship and Bible devotions and learn how to lead worship. Upon graduation, they were hired on for another 6-week term to help at the school and to give them continued time to be established in their faith and earn funds to support themselves. A Biblia Global courier team recently got to meet these girls in person and bring in several dozen Akha Bibles for these woman and for the other Akha believers who are coming to Christ in this country. How amazing it is to see God working in these, and other Christian men and women's lives, and to be able to bring them their first copy of the Bible in their heart language! Each believer that receives a Bible - funded by you our donor - whether brought in by a Biblia Global courier team or through other methods has equally compelling stories that we will get to hear one day when we reach heaven. These Bibles are not just going to random people, but brothers and sister in Christ whose lives are being radically changed by the living God.
The Akha woman receiving their Akha Bibles.
We look forward to sharing more stories of the Akha receiving God's Word in future newsletters.
Another contact from this same closed SE Asian country has requested 2,000 Bibles per year for the next three years in another language for a total of 6,200 Bibles specifically for pastors. We provided 600 of these same Bibles in 2019. Please pray God will meet the financial need for us to provide God's Word for the servants of the church in this place over the next three years.
Another set of contacts in a closed SE Asian Country requested 100 Blue Hmong Bibles this month which will be delivered in 2023. All these Bible projects are funded by our generous donors who give to the Bibles for Asia Project and the General Fund.