FiRE 102 – June Issue Now Available!

Resilient faith headlines this edition as Pastor Rabindra reports explosive growth in Nepal—34 new church plants since 2022, with believers standing firm despite anti-conversion laws, earthquakes and floods.

Follow our six-member AFA team on their April/May mission tour to Sabah, Nepal and Medan: scholarships at Sabah Theological Seminary, vibrant new congregations in Kathmandu, and a colourful graduation concert at Manna School—now educating more than 200 children.

Also inside: a call to serve Vietnam’s remote H’Mong churches, Liberia’s 500-acre Kolonta farm and Pastor Vai’s inspiring graduation, plus an urgent appeal for victims of the 7.7-magnitude Myanmar earthquake. Thank you for praying, giving and going—together we keep hope alive across Asia and Africa.

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From little things, big things GROW! - June Newsletter

If Pastor August had not become involved in helping the decimated populations in East Timor and Banda Aceh in 2003-2004, the Asia Focus that we know today would not have had its inception. Pastor August did this with faith, and a conviction for social justice, that has led to incredible growth and impact today. God has multiplied the AFA outreach in amazing ways that I’m sure Pastor August would have never dreamt of. Small (and large!) acts of generosity, done with a sincere heart, can set change in motion and over time, move the proverbial ‘mountains’.

In this issue, we look at some of the small beginnings which have created big changes currently in the lives of hundreds of people in South East Asia and Africa. These articles are only a sample of what God has multiplied out from the faithfulness of the supporters of Asia Focus. We may feel insignificant or doubt our ability to actually make a difference for God’s Kingdom when the needs are so enormous. As I so often remind myself: “God’s got it. He’s the Master Gardener and our little seeds of faith contain the potential for towering trees.”

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GOD’S GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU AND ME

In 2003, I was converted in a refugee camp in Laine, in the south of Guinea, by the message of a preacher there. The message was from Acts 4:12: “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under Heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”  It is only by having faith in Jesus Christ as the true Son of God that we can be saved.

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President's Annual Report 2018

2018 was as eventful, wonderful as well as stressful as every other year if not more so – with plenty of drama and pain mixed in as well. Overall the number of donors and interest in AFA keeps growing. But like the LCA itself, we are also suffering from the effects of a declining church as people age and die or join other churches and stop to support Lutheran-based mission work.

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