Encourage Those Enduring Many Trials

A young girl named Rumana, living in a predominantly Muslim village in Bangladesh, is experiencing firsthand what it means to pay the price of following Jesus.

Open Doors tells her story — one of rejection, bullying, and immense pressure on her entire family because of their faith in Christ. Rumana says:

“I don’t have any friends in school because I’m a Christian and my parents are also Christian. If I sit with them, their parents scold them saying, ‘She is a Christian. You can’t mingle with them because [Christians] are bad.’ My teachers [also] scold them saying, ‘Don’t mingle with the Christian. We will teach her but you don’t mingle with her. If you mingle with her, you might also become a Christian.’ So that’s why I don’t hang out with anybody. I’m just alone.” 

But you know, 9-year-old Rumana is NOT alone.

Through your support of Liberty Relief International, you are ministering to Rumana and her family … encouraging and loving them through their struggles.

Persecution is often terrifying and dangerous. But you give persecuted men, women, and children help and hope — tangibly and spiritually — as they live for Jesus among neighbors who wish them harm.

And while Rumana does her best to tune the opposition out, she is also strong and wise beyond her years:

“They can say bad things,” Rumana says. “I have no problem with that because I have Jesus Christ with me.”

Please pray for Rumana and her family today … for their physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being … that God would continue to be their Source of strength and safety.

And please give generously as local Christ-centered partners reach out to families like this one daily on your behalf, comforting and uplifting the oppressed in Jesus’ name.

Thank you!

In His service,

Mat Staver