Burma Earthquake: When God Acts Beforehand
In March, an enormous earthquake hit Burma and Thailand. Over 5,400 folks have been killed and 11,400 injured. However the toll might have been larger with casualties from our faculty if God had not led and supplied for us to behave one 12 months earlier than.
About 50 college students and employees dwell at Victory Bible Academy in Thailand. They arrive from Burma to be discipled, skilled, and ready to minister to each the persecuted and their persecutors.
The college was in-built 2004 in a village on the border of Burma. It’s a refuge from Burma’s conflict, but at occasions bullets and blasts – and earthquakes – cross the border.
Final 12 months, out of warning, we determined to dismantle a 3-story tall concrete water tower that was a part of the unique construction. This big undertaking took weeks. A particular present was given to cowl the prices and construct a classroom as a replacement. Thank God for folks with the foresight to see a necessity earlier than it turns into a catastrophe!
If the concrete water tower had not been eliminated, it might have come crashing down within the earthquake. It might have destroyed the kitchen and cafeteria and broken the boys’s dorm and the household quarters for our head trainer.
However the actual tragedy would have been the lives misplaced. Our college students, employees, and their youngsters have been spared, due to God’s main and cautious consideration to make our faculty a secure place of refuge and studying.
Have you ever ever lived via a catastrophe and instantly realized that God had acted beforehand to guard you? That occurred at our faculty for persecuted Christians.
God is gracious! As an alternative of rummaging via rubble to search out trapped folks at our faculty, our groups have been free to exit to assist others. They delivered water, consolation, and prayers to aged and susceptible folks. They contacted graduates of Victory in Burma, the place the earthquake hit hardest, and despatched support.
Would you thank God with us? Victory Bible Academy endured some harm all through the buildings and grounds from the earthquake. The repairs have grow to be a coaching floor for college students to study handyman abilities from employed contractors.
Proper now, new college students are touring via Burma to reach for the brand new college 12 months. However army preventing on the border and destruction from the earthquake make this a problem.
Will you pray for:
- Secure journey via army checkpoints on all of the routes to our faculty.
- Our college students to see how God is working via the turmoil and grow to be highly effective ministers of God’s grace to persecuted folks and people nonetheless affected by the earthquake.
- Victory Bible Academy to be ready – spiritually and bodily – for each problem that can come.
“The phrases ‘as soon as extra’ signify the removing of what could be shaken – that’s, created issues – in order that the unshakable could stay.” Hebrews 12: 2
