Dear Friend…
Within hours, the year 2024 will come to a close. It’s been another challenging year for all of us. Yet, one thing we know… God is still in control. We have seen God at work changing lives through various ministry projects that have empowered them to commit their lives to God! Thank you to our many partners and friends for all your prayers and support…
During this Christmas and New Year’s season, we urgently need to support several of our national workers and partners. Some are living in countries where the inflation rate is five to ten times what we are experiencing here in Canada and the USA. Would you help support a national worker by giving $50 a month to help? $25 will support some workers for half a month.
Our ministry to women in the Muslim world urgently needs support; during our recent women’s empowerment conference, with upwards of 400 women attending, we could not cover the entire budget and are now running a deficit. Many of these women come from an impoverished background. Our workers are pleading with us for our assistance to help them in their time of financial need.
The need for Bibles is increasing by the month! People are hungry for God’s Word. One of our Bible partners is preparing to distribute 500,000 Bibles in a major Asian nation. Pray for them and for us so that we can help be a part of the harvest.
I also know that other areas of Asia are desperate to have a copy of God’s Word, like Esther!
BUDDHIST DYING FROM COVID PRAYS TO GOD
“I am Naw Esther P., and 56 years old. i am from a very remote village in Myanmar. I was a Buddhist worshipper, because my parents and grandparents are Buddhists. Some of our relatives are Chrisitians, but all our family lines are Buddhist.
I accepted Christ in 2021during the covid pandemic. I got covid and I came very close to dying.
I was really afraid to die, there I challenged the Christian God.
I said, ‘If you are really the living God and able to heal me from covid, I will believe, accept and serve you until I die.’ These were very short words to God. After three days, I was healed and from that time I decided to accept Jesus Christ
My parents invited the pastor and the pastor shared about Jesus the whole day. On that day, I confessed my sins to Christ and accepted Him as my personal Saviour and Lord. Not only me, but my parents and my three brothers and their whole families also accepted Christ the same day.
After I accepted Christ I shared the gospel to all my relatives, those who are Buddhists, and I also visited other villages. I am so happy and as I promised God, now I have decided to follow and serve the Lord until my last minute of my life
After I accepted Christ, I would like to read the Bible, but there are no Burmese Bibles in our village. Our Karen pastor has a Sqaw Karen Bible, but I don’t understand the Sqaw Karen language, because our family never used the Karen Language at home. I was praying to get a Burmese Bible, but there is no way to get Burmese Bible in our area.
Fortunately, I attended a Bible training in Luikhu Church, and they were freely distributing Burmeses Bibles, as provided by AsiaLink’s Bible Partner, and they gave me one. When I received it, I couldn’t express my words of thanks to those who donated these to us.
I would like to thank all the sponsors and workers who worked hard to provide these Bibles. Without your help I would never be able to get Burmese Bible on my own, and I would not know more about God and His teachings. Now, I am reading my Bibles every day. Thanks to you all!
You can still make a last-minute gift for one of our ministry projects listed below…. Help make an impact in someone’s life who has been waiting, praying to have their own Bible.
To donate, call our AsiaLink office on this last day of 2024 at (519) 624 – 0223 and leave your name and phone number or make a donation online. Thank you for being an answer to someone’s prayer! To donate, call our AsiaLink office on this last day of 2022 at (519) 624 – 0223 or make a donation below.
You can help be an answer to someone’s prayer by standing in the gap for them! Why not partner with AsiaLink to see God at work. In order to save costs – please make a bank e-transfer – just email your gift to info@asialinkministries.org
HERE ARE PROJECTS THAT YOU CAN IMPACT BY YOUR YEAR- END DONATION!
WHERE MOST NEEDED…
Enables and equips AsiaLink with the resources to respond to urgent needs and to fulfill our mission of ministering in Asia. By donating to this fund you strengthen those areas of ministry that are underfunded and in need.
BIBLES FOR ASIA…
One of AsiaLink’s partners in Asia specializes in printing and distributing Bibles and other resources for many ethnic groups throughout Asia who have been denied access to God’s Word for years, even decades. In some cases, Bibles are no longer in print or are too expensive to purchase. We often hear of whole villages where even the pastor has no Bible. In other instances, God’s Word has not been translated into the language of the people group, Each Bible costs an average of $4.50 to print and deliver. Will you invest in helping us provide the word of God into the various languages of people groups that have not heard God’s word in their own language?
ACTION
AsiaLink seeks to live out the power of Jesus by blessing the poor and needy through food and medical relief, education and vocational training. Whether with refugees, children, victims of trafficking or other marginalised groups, we long to display the love of God to those in need.
WORKERS FUND…
This fund assists evangelists, church planters and workers throughout Asia who are hampered from fulfilling the call of God on their life by a lack of finances. You can help support one of these dedicated workers by giving $50 a month.
BIBLES FOR CHINA…
With the continued and rapid growth of China’s persecuted church the need for Bibles remains ever present. Each Bible costs $3.30 to print and deliver inside China.
BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL…
One of the most effective and secure ways for evangelizing in the Muslim world is through our Correspondence School. Each lesson helps introduce a Biblical understanding of the need of making a commitment to follow Christ. $21 will enable one student to complete the entire 7 courses and discover God’s purpose for their life.
WOMEN’S MINISTRY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD…
In order to elevate woman from a Biblical perspective AsiaLink hosts several conferences a year to minister and empower women with the message of Christ. To sponsor a women to attend is just $3.75. To sponsor an entire conference for 400 to 600 women is approximately $2,400.
APOLOGETIC SEMINARS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD…
Christian young people living in a Muslim society are under extreme pressure to give up their Christian faith. For over 10 years AsiaLink has challenged Christian and Muslim young adults with the unique claims of Christ by utilizing gifted apologetic speakers and conferences. A gift of $100 by 24 people would sponsor one of these powerful conferences.
TORTURED FOR CHRIST FUND…
Throughout Asia Christians are often the number one target for beatings, arrest, torture and imprisonment. This fund assists those Christian workers or their families who are suffering as a result of the abuse they have had to endure. A gift of $35 a month will help support them while they heal.