Myanmar (MNN) — Last Sunday, October 27, marked one year since three rebel groups in Myanmar united to launch an offensive against the ruling junta.
The operation shifted the balance of power in the nation, but there’s still no end in sight to the civil war that began after the 2021 coup. Civilians and targeted ethnic groups continue to suffer greatly. According to a September report, more than 5,300 civilians have been killed and over 3 million displaced since February 2021.
That doesn’t mean things are hopeless. Ed Weaver with Spoken Worldwide offers a snapshot of their team of local Bible translators who live life with resilience.
“They’ve found a safe place to work. It’s out of the reach of the civil war [and] of the devastation that has happened in their community,” Weaver says.
(Photo courtesy of Spoken Worldwide)
He clarifies, “It’s not so much that they are ignoring what goes on to their community. This is a group of young people that have handed out physical resources when various villages were attacked in the civil war. They’ve been praying for them, but they don’t ever stop doing their translation work.”
In one instance, the team needed to record a portion of Scripture.
“They found an abandoned ambulance. They put mattresses in it for soundproofing, and they did their recordings inside this ambulance,” Weaver says.
We can’t name the community they come from for security reasons, but Weaver says it has very few believers. Pray for the translation team to see God’s Word reach their people with salvation in this devastation.
“[Pray] that they can see fruit from the work of their ministry, that they’ll be encouraged by seeing what the Word of God does,” Weaver says, “so that they not only can continue to serve their community and look out for their needs, but to bring the Word of God to them faithfully, consistently.”
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Weaver says, “We’ve got teams around the world — and other ministries do too — that are so committed to the cause that they’re willing to ignore some of their own disadvantages to get the work done so their people can have the Word of God.”
Header photo of Myanmar’s flag is a representative stock photo courtesy of Gu Bra via Pexels.
