. . . Stories and Pictures from Projects
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A Motherless Ministry: Finding God in Southeast Asia
By Shiloh Lane
Posted Sep 12, 2011
In a Southeast Asian orphanage, a 20-year-old woman stands up. Her muscles are soft from disuse, and her feet wobble on the tile as she steps. She throws her head back and opens her mouth in a silent squeal of joy.
Jessica Newberry, Pleasantview Baptist Church, Derby, Kan., grasps the woman under one arm.
“You can do it, (Rohana),” she says. Rohana Azhar* grins again. She takes another step.
Jessica, 19, tightens her hold. She wishes she could call home and describe Rohana’s wobbles to her mother. But she can’t…
Read the rest of the story here on the ASIASTORIES website:
http://asiastories.com/features/changing-the-world-iwc/
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International World Changers is part of IMB Students, a ministry of the International Mission Board, SBC and provides student groups and individuals with prepackaged international mission opportunities.
