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While we were preparing this issue of Harvest, I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude that God has chosen SIM, our partner ministries, and faithful friends as a channel to fulfill the promises of salvation and redemption He made through the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah begins the sixty-first chapter by . . .
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| Sharing spiritual love frees people from superstitions rooted in a lifetime of failure and ignorance. |
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For years, Abul Barik and his family scraped by, weighed down physically and spiritually by the crushing poverty that enslaves millions of Bangladeshis in ignorance and humiliation.
But Abul's life began to change when he turned to the Kushtia Community Development Program (CDP). The CDP literacy course taught him to read and write, and then the livestock program gave him a calf, which he raised and sold at the local market. After repaying the CDP for the calf, Abul used the profit to begin a small livestock operation.
Another farming family in Kushtia, Sufia and her husband, Kolil, also turned to the CDP after living for years in the weeds of hopelessness that grew from one season of failure after another.
CDP staff taught them how to cultivate their fields and plant seeds that would grow in the region's soil. When the harvest arrived, they found their small farm producing enough food to not only feed themselves but also, for the first time, to sell for income at the market.
By providing families like Abul's and Sufia's with
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Christ-centered education, the CDP is teaching them to care for themselves, build stronger and more prosperous communities, and share the eternal love that freed them of the superstitions they'd once clung to so tightly.
Please pray for SIM and Bangladeshi staff as they spread the truth of the gospel by leading spiritually faithful programs for literacy, cooperative savings, mother-and-child health, and sustainable agricultural development.
Project 98226
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