Adventist Southeast Asia Projects
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. 2 CORINTHIANS 9:8
LIVE WITH NO REGRETS: Die
(Phil. 1:21, Gal. 5:24)
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in the Lord
(Proverbs 3:5,6) Let
the Holy Spirit Guide You (Psalm 32:8, Romans 8:14)
No Regrets
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BY SAM NGALA
“We are admonished to redeem the time. But time squandered can never be recovered. We cannot call back even one moment. The only way in which we can redeem our time is by making the most of that which remains, by being co-workers with God in His great plan of redemption.” Christ’s Object Lessons, page 342
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wo-hundred years ago missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson left Salem, Massachusetts for the mission field fully aware that they may never see their homeland again. When in Burma (also known as Myanmar), it took Adoniram over three years spending twelve hours daily to learn the language fluently. It took six years before the first Burmese convert was baptized and ten years of labor for Judson to see eighteen converts. When the Anglo-Burmese War broke out in 1824, Adoniram was accused of being a spy because he spoke English. During the twenty long months in prison, he was half-starved, iron-fettered, sometimes bound and suspended by his mangled feet with only head and shoulders touching the ground. Not only that, Adoniram lost some of his children and his first wife Ann and later, his second wife, Sarah, to illness and fatigue. The spread of the gospel of Christ often comes at a great personal loss; however, Adoniram Judson gave of himself to God’s cause with no regrets. *Names changed for the safety of God’s servant.
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In 2008, God opened the way for ASAP to begin sponsoring national missionaries in Burma. As a supporting ministry to the church, these national workers labor directly under the supervision and care of a district Adventist church pastor. We here at ASAP witness time and again the sacrifice each missionary makes for the cause. As you will see from two of their stories below, they give and give of themselves. Hla Nwe*, a national missionary, and her husband serve among the animist Lahu and Akkha people groups who together number 500,000. Because of her witness through the classes she teaches and her warm, friendly approach, children and their parents have decided to follow Jesus as their Savior. Hla Nwe faces trials on a daily basis. The village where she and her family live is located in the path of conflict where fighting between the central government and ethnic army can erupt at any time. One night at 11:00 a Shan army unit charged through her village. She had to flee into the jungle and hide all night. As she huddled in the bushes with
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