Please pray for the believers in Imu’ village, just next to us. We thank God for their faith and that their lives are reflecting that they worship God above all else. However that has come at a cost. At first it was threatening, then “fining” them saucepans, clothes, and chickens but twice recently they have been beaten. Their main offense has been refusing to go collect bamboo for the landlord and refusing some of the ceremonies associated with their age group (all cultural practices that don’t honor God). They respond with compassion to their persecutors asking God to, “Forgive them, because they don’t know what they are doing”, and they pray their persecutors, like Saul/Paul, will also encounter Christ. Pray that people would see Christ in our brothers! Pray that these faithful brothers would heal from their injuries and their hearts would be strengthened.
