Myanmar News
Periodically, Love for Myanmar shares news from Myanmar as well as updates on our various ministries. You can also visit our Facebook page by clicking on the icon at the top of each page to stay informed on our activities. If you are interested in receiving these periodic updates, you can subscribe here.
10 Reasons You’re My Hero
Thanksgiving is just a few days away and I was thinking about all the reasons I’m thankful for you this year. Our mission is to encourage, equip...
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A Trip to the Hospital
Early one Monday morning in 2004, our housekeeper’s husband knocked on the door and told us the night before she had suffered a heart attack. She...
Learn moreMoney Changers in Myanmar
I wrote this in 2004 when our family lived in Myanmar… Money changers are an indispensable evil in Myanmar. The official bank change rate...
Learn moreLanguage Learning in Myanmar
One Friday afternoon, I traveled downtown Yangon to purchase an electronic adapter. Weaving through the throng of sweaty shoppers, sidewalk...
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Bridges and Human Sacrifice
The following story may seem like an urban legend, but it is not. It has been verified by reliable sources and represents a window into the...
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Martyrs in Myanmar
After our family moved to Myanmar in 2003, we were struck by how every major governmental agency – health, education, finance – had languished...
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Victories and Challenges
-This is a message from Ruby, Gilbert’s wife, to everyone who partners with Love for Myanmar. Originally written in Burmese, it was translated by...
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The Power of Prayer
I’m currently in Myanmar enjoying meeting old friends, training people how to follow Jesus, and ministering to the orphans and other less...
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The Problem with Karma
I remember when we first got to Myanmar in 2003. It was a different country back then – karma had made it a country that time had forgotten...
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Which Path is Right?
Everyone has some type of belief about how they can live a better life now, in the future, and for eternity. In Myanmar, the majority culture...
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Our vision is a sustainable church-planting movement led by Burmese believers. Our core strategy is to teach the seven-step strategy of Jesus to...
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What is Love for Myanmar up to these days?
The Joshua Project estimates that there are one-hundred and forty-six people groups in Myanmar, forty-nine of which are less than 2% evangelical...
Learn moreExpect great things from God; attempt great things for God
“Expect great things from God: attempt great things for God.” – William Carey, Father of Modern Missions Most people agree that we need to share...
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Bring Healing and the Good News
In Luke 10, Jesus tells his followers to bring healing and share the good news wherever they go. People don’t care what you know, until they know...
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Help Us Help Them
Orphans in Myanmar have little hope. They fall easy prey to ruthless people who exploit them for forced labor or the sex trade. The Bible says in...
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We Can Serve in Word and Deed
The following letter was recently provided by Isaac Nun Hmung regarding one of his seminary students in Myanmar. We felt it a compelling...
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A Dream of School
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...
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Why It Matters
Back in 2008 I was working for another nonprofit serving in another hemisphere but based Georgetown, Texas, right in the heart of Texas. While...
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A Journey Into Myanmar by Madison Simmons
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...
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A report from Love For Myanmar’s, Elisha Sanga. Elisha is LFM’s Neighborhood Learning Center Coordinator. He and his wife, Christina...
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What Truly Matters?
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...
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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...
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The Game
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...
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Mission Team Member Experience: Charly Skaggs
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...
Learn moreThe Land of Gold: A Myanmar Experience
2015 Mission Team member Brand Perkins shares his thoughts, observations and personal message about his recent trip to Myanmar – his first...
Learn morePrayer Works!
PRAYER WORKS! As the team continues to prepare for the trip into Myanmar, it is important to recognize the spiritual preparation essential to the...
Learn moreMoving Us Ever Forward
During their first visit to Myanmar as tourists back in 2004, Reed and Glenna Iwami experienced an awakening to the needs of the beautiful people...
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A Light in Myanmar
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...
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During a trip to Myanmar in the Spring of 2014, LFM’s founders and spouses were led to a leprosy hospital in Mawlamyine located in the Mon...
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Post 3 – Thoughts and Reflection of the United States by Myanmar Native Chin Chin
In our final post in this series, Love For Myanmar presents conversations with Myanmar Native, Chin Chin, and her orientation with life in the...
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