Even at his young age of 23, Gospel for Asia Pastor Sujin has already faced opposition and dangerous threats in his labor for the Lord. And he has proven to be an effective worker in ministry among the unreached.
It has been nearly a year since Sujin began sharing the love of Christ in one area of India. Through his evangelistic outreach, 20 new believers now meet regularly for worship. He recently started a GFA home Bible school as well, where he began to pour his life into five men who had heard God’s call for ministry.
Two weeks ago, he led two teams of students for outreach in the surrounding community. Suddenly a radical anti-Christian group approached one of the teams and began to attack the students, beating them severely and demanding they not tell anyone else about Jesus.
When the pastor heard what was going on, he rushed over and rescued the students from further harm. But through threats and intimidation, members of the radical group had collected information from the students—now they knew the location of the home Bible school. Later they stormed the pastor’s home, demanding that he and the students leave the area immediately. Fearing for their lives, three of the students fled.
The other two students stayed, despite the opposition. Tragically, the father of one of the remaining students was brutally beaten by the anti-Christian group and had to be admitted into a hospital. Because of this incident, one more student left the home Bible school.
Now just one brother remains with the pastor—and he is frightened by the persecutors’ threats. Pray for God’s peace to reign in this situation and that His matchless comfort will rest upon Pastor Sujin and this student. Pray for the other students’ soon and safe return to the ministry where God has placed them. Lift the persecutors to the Lord, that their hearts would be changed and they would find salvation in Him.
In many such instances of persecution, the Lord has done “exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20, NKJV). We are so thankful for His hand at work, and we know He is mightily using your prayers as you partner with us on behalf of Asia.