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Chinese College Students Get Saved At Our Student Camp

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310SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Every year, we host 2 college student camps at a resort on the outskirts of the city. It’s what we like to call our “big net” where we gather students from our 5 weekly English Corners and pour into their lives relationally, emotionally and spiritually. This year the theme…

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Persecution And Interrogation After Seeing Breakthrough Among Unreached People

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384SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “They beat him up! They kicked him,” they cried. We held each others’ shoulders in sadness. “They beat up our beloved brother!” Our van bumped along the winding dirt paths leading up to an unreached people group that we have been targeting for almost 10 years. The banana plantations…

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In The Heart Of These Valleys Lies A Dragon

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288SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Spiraling down the terraces of banana plantations, tail coiled around the unsuspecting homes of spiritually and physically impoverished families, claws bearing into the hot soil, head peering through the misty mountains, in the heart of these valleys lies a dragon. Head peering through the misty mountains, in the heart…

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His Rifle Dug Into My Left Rib Cage

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315SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List 7:30 P.M., lovely, cramped motorcycle ride back to a small town in China. Me and a couple locals packed onto a bike. The sun was lowering along with the temperature and humidity. It had been a rather hot day in a mountainous region. My heart was overwhelmed with thankfulness…

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