By Carolyn Watkins For the first time in the seven-year history of the Austin Karen Baptist Church, a young man from our congregation is attending a four-year university! After a successful high school football experience at Austin High School...
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Back in 2008 I was working for another nonprofit serving in another hemisphere but based Georgetown, Texas, right in the heart of Texas. While employed at this nonprofit I had the great fortune of engaging with Reed Iwami, a man of exceptional...
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Sweat ran in rivulets down my back as we walked through the dusty streets of a place whose name I did not catch. “This is a buddhist village. These are buddhist people,” my new friend and host for the next few days, Elijah, told me. “We are here...
Learn moreA report from Love For Myanmar’s, Elisha Sanga. Elisha is LFM’s Neighborhood Learning Center Coordinator. He and his wife, Christina started the school about ten years ago following their graduation from seminary. This is a place in...
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By Gary Watkins, Co-Founder of Love For Myanmar Sunday, November 8 will be bookmarked- one way or another- as an important page in the continuing story of Myanmar’s journey towards democracy. Since 2010, the nominally civilian government...
Learn more The plane touched down in this humid, bustling part of the world. It was a trip I had prepared for logistically. I had traveled around the world in mission response, serving in India, South Africa, all over Central America and numerous other...
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The Game, written by LFM mission team member Lucas Crockett. The sky is bright yet overcast. A large hill or a small mountain rises just above the palm trees and other tropical trees in the background. Just below the trees rest several houses...
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We are delighted to share with you a recent mission team participant’s experience of his trip in his own words. Meet 2015 Team Member Charly Skaggs Matthew 5: 15-16 15. nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the...
Learn more2015 Mission Team member Brand Perkins shares his thoughts, observations and personal message about his recent trip to Myanmar – his first trip abroad: The Land of Gold, I pray will become the Land of God. Thursday morning I boarded the...
Learn morePRAYER WORKS! As the team continues to prepare for the trip into Myanmar, it is important to recognize the spiritual preparation essential to the success of achieving God’s Will for the country as well as for the members of the team. Please...
Learn moreDuring their first visit to Myanmar as tourists back in 2004, Reed and Glenna Iwami experienced an awakening to the needs of the beautiful people of country. It was then that Love For Myanmar got its start. In this visit they fell in love with...
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A blog post by mission team member Rachel Goad. When asked to write something for this blog about the time I spent in Myanmar last summer, I excitedly opened my notebook to begin writing about all the many things I observed when I was there. ...
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