Single Mother No Longer ‘a Burden’

WILLS POINT, TX – Discover how compassion from a GFA World missionary transformed a rejected woman’s life, revealing Christ’s love and providing new hope.

Ria and her two friends had been walking for more than six miles when Ria noticed a woman sitting beneath a tree.

“She looked frail, as if she had been ill for a long time,” Ria remembers. “Her two big eyes looked beautiful but grim. Suddenly, the Lord’s compassion overflowed deep inside my heart for her.”

Ria and her friends decided to rest by the tree. As they sat down, the woman stood up to leave, but an inner compulsion told Ria—aGFA missionary—to seize a God-given opportunity. She asked the woman to stay.

Always a Burden?

Nishi was a burden—or at least she felt like one. Her in-laws had rejected her, and now her brothers were becoming frustrated too.

At age 6, Nishi had lost her mother, and two years later her father died. When she was only 16, her brothers arranged her wedding. Then, four months after the wedding, Nishi’s husband left to find work in another country…

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