See God’s amazing power through GFA’s reports from the mission field. Several field reporters cover multiple countries in South Asia to bring you news, inspirational stories and prayer requests that will enrich your life.
Life is not easy for the women of Asia, but there are dedicated Gospel for Asia supported women missionaries who reach into the lives of hurting women and bring them from despair to the Hope of Jesus.
The question lingered in the air. Should Sanjaya’s parents burn incense to their gods, or pray to the Lord? They knew their daughter’s life hung in the balance. A Difficult Journey Sanjaya was only fifteen when the demons first attacked her, and her health quickly went downhill. She suffered for two years as the condition worsened. Her frightened parents called [...] Read more »
Lalasa grew up devoted to worshiping many gods and goddesses. She had heard the Good News and believed in Jesus but wasn’t growing stronger in her faith because she was still practicing some of her old religious traditions. The turning point in Lalasa’s life and relationship with Jesus came when she married Mardev, a pastor who encouraged her and showed [...] Read more »
At the end of her life, with her children grown and years of hard work to her credit, a South Asian widow rarely receives the love and respect usually reserved for elders. Because of her husband’s death, she is seen as a curse, and her grown children often ignore her needs. Realizing the unique pain this causes, Pastor Barnabas’s fellowship [...] Read more »
How would she care for her children? How would she provide for their needs? Would she be forced to beg? Or worse? As Taanusiya processed the news of her husband’s sudden death, she didn’t have time to block the onslaught of questions. Today Vadiraj had died, but tomorrow their two young children would still need to eat. With no close [...] Read more »
The 65-year-old woman lay still in the small bed. Nabanipa had been confined there for three days and still no one had come. Sickness robbed her of strength, and the elderly widow had no way of going out to beg for food as she normally would. She waited anxiously, hoping someone would stop in to check on her, but not [...] Read more »
A Gospel for Asia Women’s Fellowship organized a literacy class to teach and encourage women how to read and write. Twenty-nine women from five local churches attended the class. One woman named Neela, 40, said she lived in shame among her neighbors because she was illiterate. “In my life, I have never been to school and never had the chance [...] Read more »
Nadia sat outside her home crying bitterly. Her youngest son had malaria, and there was nothing she could do to help him. She helplessly looked on as her little boy kept getting worse and worse. The tears she shed that night wouldn’t stop. A Women’s Fellowship member of the local Gospel for Asia-supported church heard the desperate sobs of the [...] Read more »
Disgraced. Disregarded. And sometimes considered cursed by the gods—this is the life of South Asia’s disabled people. According to statistics from The World Bank, India alone has between 40 to 80 million people living with disabilities, and at least one in 12 households has a member with a disability. When the International Day of Persons with Disabilities rolled around on [...] Read more »
It didn’t seem fair to Tamasi. She loved her baby daughter and thought she’d get to see her take her first steps, graduate high school, get married and have children of her own. She wanted to spend years and years seeing her little one grow up. Instead, she and her husband were only given five short months to shower love [...] Read more »