During a relief mission, one of our team members asked to be baptized.
His name is Saw Hser Wah (“Sweet White”) and he was an animist from the
Toungoo area of the Karen State. He joined one of the FBR teams this year
as a communications specialist. As you know, we have people of many faiths
on our teams and all are welcome. In the Karen area most team members
are Christians but not all. We had just held a meeting with our headquarters
team and the team Hser Wah is on and they volunteered to go on a mission
to a particularly dangerous area.
Hser Wah came up to us and said, “Tomorrow we set out on a new mission
and maybe I will die. If I die, I do not know what will happen to me.
I want to give my life to God and be baptized because if I do so, even
if I die, I know I will be with God. Please, if you have time, baptize
me.”
Hser Wah was baptized in a stream at a fork in the trail where our teams
were heading west and his team was heading north. The local people, all
IDPs—some animist and some Christian—joined in the service. We thanked
God and one month later met up with Hser Wah and his team again.
He said, “See I am still alive and now that I belong to God I am not
afraid but I am also in no hurry to die either!”
Fleeing Burma Army
attacks. Jan 07.
Medics in Karen State
treating a teenager who stepped on a Burma Army landmine. The boy
survived. Dec 06.
Shan relief-team medic treating a Shan displaced
woman. Sept 07.
Arakan relief team with displaced people in
western Burma.
Lahu relief team gives medical treatment to
displaced villagers.
Two relief-team members who died during 2006-2007
Lee Reh, who was captured, tortured and killed in April 2007 by
the Burma Army during a relief mission to help the internally displaced.
Chit Doh, a Karenni relief-team leader who
became sick and died this past year.
