• “Rajesh comes from a broken family; his father is an alcoholic and lives with another woman. Rajesh lives part-time with his mother, who works as a cook and struggles to support her family. He has a congenital eyesight problem, which hinders his ability to see and walk. - - But thanks to monthly sponsorship and the care provided at a children’s home run by HB’s local missionaries, Rajesh is thriving. With physical therapy and corrective shoes, he is able to walk and play normally with other children. He excels in school, receives a healthy diet, loves the Lord, and shares his faith with his classmates.” - - // Read our July blog, “Giving Diversely”, to read about Rajesh in India, Myia in Myanmar, and the community of Gopalpur in Bangladesh, and how you impact all three when you give to Harvest Bridge. ~ Link in Profile~ // 📸: @bc_serna #HarvestBridge #ThursdayThoughts #LoveYourNeighbor
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    “Rajesh comes from a broken family; his father is an alcoholic and lives with another woman. Rajesh lives part-time with his mother, who works as a cook and struggles to support her family. He has a congenital eyesight problem, which hinders his ability to see and walk. - - But thanks to monthly sponsorship and the care provided at a children’s home run by HB’s local missionaries, Rajesh is thriving. With physical therapy and corrective shoes, he is able to walk and play normally with other children. He excels in school, receives a healthy diet, loves the Lord, and shares his faith with his classmates.” - - // Read our July blog, “Giving Diversely”, to read about Rajesh in India, Myia in Myanmar, and the community of Gopalpur in Bangladesh, and how you impact all three when you give to Harvest Bridge. ~ Link in Profile~ // 📸: @bc_serna #HarvestBridge #ThursdayThoughts #LoveYourNeighbor
  • Some convicting words of wisdom from one of our Pakistani pastors, Khalid*: “I have received persecution from some people saying that I meet sinners and sit and eat with them, but I tell them that Jesus chose sinners, and then He was with them and this gave Him the opportunity to share the gospel with them. If we keep ourselves away, then they will continue to fall into sin and never come back to the house of God. Not only people in Pakistan, but every person in the churches around the world need to understand this. We are so much busy in our own holiness and spirituality that we start disliking or hating the sinners. - - I conduct regular outreaches to people in entertainment. I take small groups to see a stage drama where there are a lot of actors, dancers, and other entertainment related people present. We focus on building relationships and giving the Good News. We have a principle of learning and relating. - - Society does not like these people very much, but the Bible says we have to save the sinner. If we don’t get to know them or if we don’t give them the opportunity to hear the gospel they will never come to the Lord. So we are trying to share the love of Christ with them and share the good news. Today in Pakistan we see people in the churches talking so much about Hollywood, Bollywood, and other industries. We like them, we dislike them, we criticize them, but at the end of the day who tries to reach them with the gospel if we think what they are doing is wrong?” // *Name changed for safety #HarvestBridge #JesusChangesEverything #LoveDoes
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    Some convicting words of wisdom from one of our Pakistani pastors, Khalid*: “I have received persecution from some people saying that I meet sinners and sit and eat with them, but I tell them that Jesus chose sinners, and then He was with them and this gave Him the opportunity to share the gospel with them. If we keep ourselves away, then they will continue to fall into sin and never come back to the house of God. Not only people in Pakistan, but every person in the churches around the world need to understand this. We are so much busy in our own holiness and spirituality that we start disliking or hating the sinners. - - I conduct regular outreaches to people in entertainment. I take small groups to see a stage drama where there are a lot of actors, dancers, and other entertainment related people present. We focus on building relationships and giving the Good News. We have a principle of learning and relating. - - Society does not like these people very much, but the Bible says we have to save the sinner. If we don’t get to know them or if we don’t give them the opportunity to hear the gospel they will never come to the Lord. So we are trying to share the love of Christ with them and share the good news. Today in Pakistan we see people in the churches talking so much about Hollywood, Bollywood, and other industries. We like them, we dislike them, we criticize them, but at the end of the day who tries to reach them with the gospel if we think what they are doing is wrong?” // *Name changed for safety #HarvestBridge #JesusChangesEverything #LoveDoes
  • “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.” ~ Mother Teresa // #HarvestBridge #PrayerChangesThings #FridayFeeling
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    “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.” ~ Mother Teresa // #HarvestBridge #PrayerChangesThings #FridayFeeling
  • For our missionaries, and those they disciple, the most difficult persecution often comes from relatives. - - Tandin* in Bhutan: “A Buddhist man, Norbu*, asked us for prayers. He was sick and was taken to the hospital and many witch doctors and others tried to heal him, but failed. He came by himself and asked me to pray for him. He began to feel better. But the Buddhist relatives came and forcefully made him do many rituals and took him away from the faith forcefully. They have also warned me not to visit him.” - - Will you pray for Norbu to begin a relationship with Jesus, despite set backs? Pray for his family that they too will encounter Jesus in a powerful way? And pray that Tandin and other Christians in Bhutan will continue to be bold in proclaiming the love of Jesus. // *Name changed for safety #HarvestBridge #PersecutedChurch #TestimonyTuesday
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    For our missionaries, and those they disciple, the most difficult persecution often comes from relatives. - - Tandin* in Bhutan: “A Buddhist man, Norbu*, asked us for prayers. He was sick and was taken to the hospital and many witch doctors and others tried to heal him, but failed. He came by himself and asked me to pray for him. He began to feel better. But the Buddhist relatives came and forcefully made him do many rituals and took him away from the faith forcefully. They have also warned me not to visit him.” - - Will you pray for Norbu to begin a relationship with Jesus, despite set backs? Pray for his family that they too will encounter Jesus in a powerful way? And pray that Tandin and other Christians in Bhutan will continue to be bold in proclaiming the love of Jesus. // *Name changed for safety #HarvestBridge #PersecutedChurch #TestimonyTuesday
  • Suresh* in Bangladesh shares how a mugging was used for good: “In this duration, I and my wife were returning home from my father in law’s house by bicycle, and it was a little late. When we were taking a turn beside a mango garden it was so dark, we could not see anything. My wife was sitting behind me on my cycle and was saying that this area was not a secure place, it was a fearful place. As she said this, there were three people who came towards us and stood with some homemade weapons. - - They told us to give what we had, but we told them we had nothing with us except a bag, and in it was a Holy Bible. We said they could take it. The head robber became angry and threw the bag with the Bible and took our bicycle and told us to go straight toward our home, telling us not to say anything to anyone. But we told them that without our bicycle we could not go to other places to preach. And they became so angry to hear this. - - Finally one of the robbers told us to take the bicycle back because this man had one time heard about the Gospel and love of Jesus. That’s why he called us and returned our bicycle for the Lord. So, this is so glorious that for the Lord we were able to give a little touch of the Gospel to the robber who can be changed through the Good News.” // *Name changed for safety #HarvestBridge #JesusChangesEverything #GoodNewsFeed
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    Suresh* in Bangladesh shares how a mugging was used for good: “In this duration, I and my wife were returning home from my father in law’s house by bicycle, and it was a little late. When we were taking a turn beside a mango garden it was so dark, we could not see anything. My wife was sitting behind me on my cycle and was saying that this area was not a secure place, it was a fearful place. As she said this, there were three people who came towards us and stood with some homemade weapons. - - They told us to give what we had, but we told them we had nothing with us except a bag, and in it was a Holy Bible. We said they could take it. The head robber became angry and threw the bag with the Bible and took our bicycle and told us to go straight toward our home, telling us not to say anything to anyone. But we told them that without our bicycle we could not go to other places to preach. And they became so angry to hear this. - - Finally one of the robbers told us to take the bicycle back because this man had one time heard about the Gospel and love of Jesus. That’s why he called us and returned our bicycle for the Lord. So, this is so glorious that for the Lord we were able to give a little touch of the Gospel to the robber who can be changed through the Good News.” // *Name changed for safety #HarvestBridge #JesusChangesEverything #GoodNewsFeed
  • We are so thankful for ministry tools like the @jesusfilm! // Shaima* in Pakistan shares how she has seen God work as people see the Gospel play out on screen: - - “During the last six months we showed the Jesus movie once a month. People learned about Jesus through the film. After the movie we asked people questions and then they asked us questions which we answered. Through this movie mission God has brought many people towards Jesus. Those who never knew about Jesus came to know about Him. And those who had doubts, those doubts were cleared. People built their faith in the Lord by seeing the miracles in the movie. This program worked very well.” // *Name changed for safety #HarvestBridge #JesusChangesEverything #TestimonyTuesday
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    We are so thankful for ministry tools like the @jesusfilm! // Shaima* in Pakistan shares how she has seen God work as people see the Gospel play out on screen: - - “During the last six months we showed the Jesus movie once a month. People learned about Jesus through the film. After the movie we asked people questions and then they asked us questions which we answered. Through this movie mission God has brought many people towards Jesus. Those who never knew about Jesus came to know about Him. And those who had doubts, those doubts were cleared. People built their faith in the Lord by seeing the miracles in the movie. This program worked very well.” // *Name changed for safety #HarvestBridge #JesusChangesEverything #TestimonyTuesday
  • “Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot // #HarvestBridge #JesusLovesYou #FridayFeeling // 📸: @bc_serna
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    “Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot // #HarvestBridge #JesusLovesYou #FridayFeeling // 📸: @bc_serna
  • Read our June newsletter as our director of mobilization reflects on her five years with @harvest_bridge ~Link in Profile~ - - “Tears have come while holding hands in prayer with a young pastor who was recently released from prison, having been arrested for his faith in Myanmar (Burma)… And when sitting with Maloti*, the elderly widow of one of our missionaries in India, who has continued in her husband's work despite her grief and many obstacles. - - There has been joy in joining countless prayer and praise meetings with South Asian women, where we worshipped together as sisters in Christ… And joy in reading through thousands of testimonies of former Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists experiencing new life in Jesus.” // Read the rest! ~ Link in Profile~ #HarvestBridge #WednesdayWisdom #JesusChangesEverything
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    Read our June newsletter as our director of mobilization reflects on her five years with @harvest_bridge ~Link in Profile~ - - “Tears have come while holding hands in prayer with a young pastor who was recently released from prison, having been arrested for his faith in Myanmar (Burma)… And when sitting with Maloti*, the elderly widow of one of our missionaries in India, who has continued in her husband's work despite her grief and many obstacles. - - There has been joy in joining countless prayer and praise meetings with South Asian women, where we worshipped together as sisters in Christ… And joy in reading through thousands of testimonies of former Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists experiencing new life in Jesus.” // Read the rest! ~ Link in Profile~ #HarvestBridge #WednesdayWisdom #JesusChangesEverything
  • #InternationalWidowsDay “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” ~ James 1:27 - - Read how our women’s empowerment programs are benefiting widows and their families! ~Link in Profile~ // #HarvestBridge #StrongWomen #GritAndVirtue
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    #InternationalWidowsDay “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” ~ James 1:27 - - Read how our women’s empowerment programs are benefiting widows and their families! ~Link in Profile~ // #HarvestBridge #StrongWomen #GritAndVirtue