Captives

We were reminded recently that many people we work with are spiritual captives. We are now visiting a school once a week to teach a class and have lunch with various students in order to build relationships. We were sharing with a class of seniors, and the students had been asked to introduce themselves, tell where they are from, and share any needs that their home villages have. As we went around the room, students shared about the need for better roads, higher-quality education, and improved agricultural methods, all of which are very important. However, what one student named Joe shared deeply touched us. Joe is a 17 year old from a town home to the Black Water Tibetans. He told us that many in his town and surrounding villages are alcoholics, and that this alcoholism is destroying families and perpetuating the cycle of poverty among this Tibetan people group. He shared that he truly hoped that someone could go and help these people.

As we listened to Joe, our hearts were burdened as we thought of an entire people group who are enslaved to the enemy, with no hope of escape. Our hearts were broken for this 17 year old boy who already carries such a heavy burden, not just for his family, but for his town and the Black Water Tibetan people.

Even now, as we think of the Black Water Tibetans and other Tibetan people groups like them, we are both grateful and overwhelmed that the Lord has anointed us to bring good news to the afflicted, to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners.

- Anonymous, Asia

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