A few weeks ago Rachel Goad wrote a blog for us and talked about the Austin Refugees she works with in Austin. She ended the blog with an old hymn and one line has just been stuck in my mind every time I start working on Love For Myanmar ‘stuff’...
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It’s the beginning of spring! A time when we symbolically celebrate new beginnings and welcome the end of winter and the brightening of the world outside (yes, even in Texas!) Suddenly greens seem so much greener and there are wildflowers popping...
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“My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.” – Aung San Suu Kyi ‘The Lady’ of Myanmar. Her story is inspiring, if you don’t know it look it up. We forget that there are people all...
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A nah deh. It’s a phrase in Burmese that loosely translates into ‘I feel something’. Only, this feel isn’t of the good variety. It is used to describe that uncomfortable feeling you get when other people feel bad. Or when you feel bad because you...
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Our guest blogger this week is Director of Myanmar Development Chase Wooldridge. He has spent more than four years with the people of Myanmar helping break boundaries and helping youth discover their inner creativity. After years and hours of...
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Something really awesome about the Non Profit world is the ability to collaborate with local businesses and other NGOs in the area you work. The work pours out into all facets of your life! Recently as collaboration with SCBI International school...
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Land in Myanmar is a premium commodity. In fact owning land at all is rare. Very few citizens actually own the land they live on outright and those that do usually manage this by claiming ‘family land’ and can prove ownership generations back...
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Our guest blogger this week is Julie Christianson. Julie travelled with Love For Myanmar to Myanmar in the summer of 2013. She has many stories from her time there, but this is one of our favorites. Small acts of kindness and faithful service can...
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YOU are our network! There is a lot going on these days in the social media world. From blogs to hashtags to tweets we are inundated with the everyday happenings of the people around us. Do not be fooled by these little virtual worlds that are...
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Check out this snap shot of kids from one of our children’s homes trying on their brand new school uniforms. School uniforms are one of the hidden costs of education in Myanmar (of which there are many), as children must have a uniform in order...
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Our guest blogger this week has lived in Myanmar for almost four years and is the Director of Myanmar Ministries Relations here at LFM. She is also in our first ever LFM quarterly newsletter. Interested in reading more articles like this? You can...
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Well another successful Thanksgiving has come and gone. It was a beautiful day here in Texas and facebook was awash with people posting just how much their cup runneth over. The LFM team in Myanmar was also able to celebrate this year and invite...
Learn more“Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (I Thessalonians 5: 16-18)” The holiday season is officially upon us. We are right in the middle of that three-month stretch...
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Daw Roi Taung grew up an orphan. Having no family she was forced to get work very young in a house as a servant. She had no formal education and no idea what it meant to have a family. When she grew up she got married and had children of her own...
Learn moreWe officially formed our 501(c)3 organization under the name The Burma Connection in 2008. Under this name we have fully supported five Christian orphanages, started a neighborhood learning center and three micro finance teams, worked with the...
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