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Gospel for Asia Builds a Way to the Other Side of the Showers

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January 07, 2020
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Discussing a story far too common to those in the grips of extreme poverty, and the tangible examples of God's love: tin sheets, protection from rain.
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WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA, www.gfa.org) – Discussing Saju and Aasia’s story, one far too common to those in the grips of extreme poverty, and the tangible examples of God’s love: tin sheets, protection from rain.

Drip-drop. A rain shower patters the roof.

Drip-drop. Raindrops leak through holes in the tattered roof, falling on the inhabitants: a middle-aged couple, their children and grandchildren.

Drip-drop. Raindrops soak the family’s clothes, bedding and dry rations.

Drip-drop. The family flees to sleep under a leak-free roof.

Drip. Shame. Drop. Discouragement.

Rain keeps falling through the roof—the roof the family can never afford to adequately repair. And the waters rise.

Drowning in Hopeless Poverty

This is Saju and Aasia’s story—at least part of it. Like many others in their community, they struggled to feed their family by working the land. In a rural area with no industry, people work in agriculture, but roughly half don’t own land. They labor eight hours a day in other people’s fields to earn approximately $1.50 USD.

Exhausted and hopeless, many men numb themselves with alcohol and gambling, wasting their meager earnings and leaving their wives and children malnourished. Illiterate themselves, they never imagine sending their children for higher education.

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