Mara Vision Outreach

Musaab* and Me

Musaab clicked on our add for Bible studies several months ago. Now he has twice hosted our student on mission trips and has brought them to speak to schools, villages, and even a madrasa. He is learning quickly and wrote me yesterday that he praises God for the chance to spend time with our youthful witnesses.

Termites and Needs

When we printed our Ministry of Healing books last year, we looked forward to putting them into thousands of homes.

But when I opened the storage to fetch some boxes for a canvassing campaign, I was greeted by a distressing sight: termites had attacked the inventory. Boxes were falling apart and books had tunnels and pits and termite scat.

I began the laborious process of cleaning the covers and sorting out the damaged ones, and killing termites.

While I was working, a local man stopped to ask me what I was doing. I explained that "poka" (Bangla for "bugs") had caused havoc.

Now please understand that giving a Christian book to a Muslim is not always easy. Individuals are suspicious. Why would you give it for free? What is your agenda?

But when I said to my Inquisitor that I could not sell these damaged books and asked if he would like one of them, he gladly took it.

And that pattern continued over and over! The blessed Termites made it easy to give away books. And the poka had not eaten deep into the books, so only the margin was corrupted. The legible part was potent still.

So I thank God for the "poka."

Melissa Das will be one of the first graduates of our mission training program. She wanted to attend a school of the prophets since before BE WELL existed, and since it started she has been a constant force to promote a knowledge of the present truth in Bangladesh. Recently she has accepted responsibility as the school registrar and youth camp coordinator, jobs reserved for capable and faithful persons of experience.