Sadar* is working as a Bible Worker in Bangladesh, taking care of a small congregation. Sadar noticed that one family, who had accepted Jesus and joined his church, had stopped coming regularly. So, he decided to visit them and encourage them to come again. One family member named Pamir*, Sadar learned, had not accepted Jesus and did not like his relatives going to church. The family wanted to come and worship Jesus with fellow believers, but he prevented them from going.

After watching the construction of their new classroom building–and helping build it by carrying sand, hammering rocks, etc.–for more than a year, the Manipur School students are excited to study in the first two classrooms! The children's Sabbath school class was the first to use the new classrooms, and now the tenth-grade students are using them for their studies.

How do we react when someone is unkind to us, when they yell in our faces and spew hatred at us? Do we respond with kindness? Or do we retaliate? Our human nature demands we fight back, but that is not God’s way. He knows that while we may feel better in the moment, we often make things worse in the long run. Still, responding to our enemies God’s way isn’t easy, and many professed Christians fail to do so when a crisis hits.

My name is Vasudev, and I come from a Hindu family. I am married with two children, a son and a daughter. When my daughter, Asmita, was born, we were so happy. Our home was peaceful; our crops were growing well. We felt that Lakhsmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and beauty, had been born into our house, incarnated in our baby girl.