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July 2022: The Reunion

After 2 1/2 years of a pandemic, with all communication with our leaders in Asia being through messaging and video calls, I’ve been able to take two trips to visit our leaders since March. One to Chennai, India in April, and the other to multiple parts of Nepal and Bangladesh in June. Honestly, it was […]

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June 2022 Update

Rebuild . Restore . Renew Dear friends and supporters, We are launching our 2022 Summer Match starting on Sunday. This year, a generous supporter is matching up to $40,000 raised. That means $80,000 can be raised between July 3 and August 14! After two very difficult years full of Covid deaths, illness, war, natural disasters, […]

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May 2022 – Being a Neighbor

Hearing God’s voice and Responding to others’ “A miracle that I witnessed in the last six months was in the life of an old woman named Junu, aged 58. Junu was also my neighbour. She was very nosy and talkative, but whenever I talked to her about the Gospel or my testimony, she’d get really […]

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Myanmar: A year under the military coup

A TIMELINE February 1 is the one year mark of the military coup which overthrew the democratically elected government in 2021. This newsletter contains the timeline of some of the many events that took place with Harvest Bridge’s network in Myanmar. 2021 – 2022 Myanmar Timeline: A year under the military coup through the eyes […]

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December 2021: Glory to God & Peace on Earth

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! As it may be for you, December is the busiest time of the year for most of our leaders. In some cases, this year’s celebrations and outreaches will be a welcome return to traditions that could not take place in the same way in 2020. In Bhutan, for example, […]

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November Update – Nepal + Tibet

Our newsletter this month highlights some key stories, reports and prayer requests from Nepal + Tibet, followed by a focus piece on the persecuted church. Country update: “Nepal experienced a lot of bad things all at once. Floods, landslides and uprising corona cases made the whole situation in the country very dangerous” -Manav* COVID-19 These […]

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Frank Duda (1945 – 2021)

Honoring the life and legacy of one of our founding Board Members “On October 7th, 2021 one of our long-time board members went to be with his Lord. Frank Thomas Duda, Jr., Ph.D., age 76, of Grove City, Pennsylvania. He was born in Pittsburgh on March 21, 1945. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering […]

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October 2021 Myanmar Updates

#prayformyanmar #justiceformyanmar Treasures in jars of clay We are witnessing many incidents unfolding in Myanmar. Over the past several months, we have received the very sad news of some of our leaders who lost their lives and others who have lost their loved ones to Covid.  This is Pastor Aung’s* update: “The past six months […]

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Baptisms in Bangladesh – September 2021 Update

So much is happening in all of our ministries, both in terms of the ministries themselves and the challenges impacting them – Covid, flooding, and the civil/defense war in Myanmar are all playing major roles right now. We are hoping to have individual country prayer and update pages here on our website soon, so that you […]

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Myanmar (Burma) Coup Updates

In the early hours of Monday, February 1st, the Myanmar (Burma) military staged a coup and seized power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically elected leaders. Both of our country directors – Pastors Pan* and Thang* – and other pastors were concerned that this would happen, as the military-backed party had been […]