Stories of DMS's HC Leaders

Sister Red

I am red. I am a Buddhist (Theravada) who follows the teachings of the Buddha. In 2001, at the age of 31, her husband died. I wanted to know where his soul would go after his body was cremated. Where is my soul when I die? I studied a lot of traditional Buddhist concepts. According to the Buddha's teachings, if you do not practice Dharma based on the Four Noble Truths, you will return to the 31 cycles. As I grew older, I became more religious. I also realized that you cannot change a person's mind. So, I studied the Buddha's teachings a lot. According to the Dharma of the Buddha, if you do not practice meditation, you must live in 31 realms. I tried to escape but to no avail. If so, day and night I was trying to escape. In 2004, my father introduced me to Ko Ba Saw Phyu, and I had to make religious friends in both Buddhism and Christianity in Burma. We need to understand each other's dharma. Since then, the Bibles have been understood by comparing them to Buddhism. Buddhism and Christianity; salvation, repent, the death and resurrection of Jesus (from the yellow book written and published by my father). Since then, while studying the Bible with them, I have come to believe that only God's love changes. My father and Mr. Jay helped me understand that "everyone truly repents of their sins and follows the path of Christ, and Christ will save you. In 2007, I told them that I repented all my sins and was ready to be baptized by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They teach me to understand grace of God, you must understand life of Jesus who is the image of God; the suffering and the death of Jesus, his teachings, his preaching, his healings, his making wonders, and miracles and raising the dead_ No sinner deserves salvation to heaven by His own good deed. Every believer is saved to Heave only by grace of God. This is my body, and my blood and with-it God makes his agreement with you. It will be poured out so that many people will have their sins forgiven. We must understand what salvation by Jesus. (1)About Salvation (Salvation in lifetime and salvation after death) in the future First, we must understand what salvation by Jesus means, to understand the nature of Salvation, we must read the following chapters and verses, …(a). One Coin (Luke15:8-10), One Sheep (Matt18:12-14), The Lost Son (Luke15:11-31), Lazarus and rice man ( Luke16:19-31), Text collector Zacchaeus ( Luke19:1-10), Blessings and troubles (Mark 5:1-12) in these stories, Jesus said, “ I don’t come to invite good people to be my followers, I come to invite the sinners. Healthy people don’t need the doctor, but sick people do. As you have read the above-mentioned stories, I am sure that you already understand the nature of salvation. When preaching about salvation, Jesus always emphasized on the lost ones. Of course, sinners need grace of God to get to Heaven. If you keep connection with Jesus like a tree-trunk and its branches, you would be saved to Heaven by grace of God. Man of peace do not understand how they would be saved after their death. So, they need to understand the following stories given below, Matt22:30-32 When God raise people, they will be like brothers and sisters and not marry each other. They will be like angels in Heaven. Matt13:44 Hidden treasure, it tells us about the nature of Kingdom of Heaven. (2) About Faith (Our ’faith means the builders: (Luke6:46-49), James 2:14-18 Faith is work (3)About Repentance (By now we know Jesus, the Son of God. We know the life of Jesus and His suffering and His death on the cross. We understand Lord Supper. Jesus is holy and hundred percent innocent, but He was killed on the cross by sinners. It is terrible sin against God. All the sins against Jesus. These sins make us repent: Men are sinners. Before becoming followers of Jesus, we repent of the sins against Jesus. This is the first step of a sinner. If we do not think that killing Jesus is a terrible sin. It means our people do not repent. Luke 23:40-42 As Jesus was nailed to cross. One of the two criminals repents. We use their literature and culture separately for "Buddhists" because we need to understand and accept that "Jesus " is God. And then we are talking about Death and Resurrection. We are using a way of multiplication of sharing good news. We have our own way by sharing methods. Teaching Buddhist to the Buddhism and then coming the follower of Jesus. Different and similarity between Jesus’s and Buddha ‘teachings. We have five fingers as below, A.Find new area B.Find men of peace C.Make disciples. D.Harvest field E.Training key person 2010 to 2022, We found DMS Association ( Dahma Make Swe means who living with God) since 2016. Our vision is to multiply not only the gospel but radically obedient disciples of the Jesus. Let become the believers of Christ from the Buddhist Environment. Our mission is preaching as a facilitator to love Jesus. I have over 26,511 House churches by multiplication method, 9 shepherds and 7 coach, in 134.000 believers in Myanmar. (52) villages in Irrawaddy Division, (9) Townships in Rakhine state, (2) Townships in Bago and Shan State, (2) Townships in Karen State, (1) Township in Mon State, (1) Township in Bangladesh, (1) Township in Sri Lanka citizens and Burmese citizens who arrived in Thailand were given home church advanced training. The main concern that Rohimger are listening and repeating the bible into their network. (The religious trainings I attended are T4T (2020) held in Mae Sot, Mr. Jay (Discipleship trainings), Major Tun Kyaw Oo (religious trainings) Online Bible College, Diploma (OBC3178) Overall Bible Correspondent (Myanmar) 2019. My Future Plans House Churches multiplication is our strategy. We are still seeking thousands of baptisms happen and the Lord moving in hearts across this nation.

House Churches Total - 26,511
Total Believers - 134.000

Sarah

My name is Sarah. My hometown is the most special city where Burmese people have come to worship the five Buddha statues for many years. They are called the Inthar people who live in the beautiful lake. My profession is travelling agency business. In 2015, when I was pregnant with my second daughter, one night, my husband couldn't come back. The next day I heard the news that he died in a motorcycle accident and fell down the river. I continued to live at my mother-in-law's house. I wake up early every morning. Flowers are in her house when she wakes up, she prepares food for worship. And she often prays out loud. If I don't always do it on time, she clamored for me. She didn’t like me. I also became angry in my heart. Anger has become. Most of the people followed the tradition and did not study God and Dharma carefully. I knew that I could not keep the Five commands, but there was no other way. I was always upset because of worry. I don't know right from wrong anymore. I have a friend who introduced me to Yeshua from the Bible in 2013. Yeshua changed me, idol, It is not an idolatrous religion. There is no need to offer him. Yeshua taught his disciples. We know that Yeshua's love for humanity is so great that if it is necessary to help someone who is in trouble to suppress it, he will spare his life. Helping people with love changes a person's life. He also made his mind pure. If true love is already present in the heart, then you can be happy. We need God's help to escape the cycle. For my true desire to escape, I repented and received baptism to turn to the true God. From 2022 until now, I have taught my two daughters closely. I continued to share yeshua with my friends. Other languages such as Pa-Oo, Toungo, Shan, Danny and Danu can be shared by voice. By the grace of God. Healing and love are my mind and my heart. In the name of Yeshua, all sicknesses and diseases disappear. Now I can pray to His mightier name and His authority. He is my healer. Through the Father God, the Son Yeshua, and the Holy Spirit, we are blessing friends. I dedicated my new house as a training school for those who believed in me to meet often. It was difficult to get clean water from that place. Previously, they all had to travel long distances to fetch water. I told Mr. J to dig water by faith. A well was donated by a donor, so we got clean water at a depth of 360 feet. Thank you, Yeshua, to all the donors who contributed to the drilling of the water well. January 2023 Acts 16:5 Therefore, being strong in faith and increasing in number daily. I pray every day. Last month, some people who heard me doing this tried to drive me out of the city. The more I spread the message of Christ every day, the more they dislike me. I am awake day and night, praying with tears. May God prevent the unbelievers from attacking. The Lord is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will worship every day. Exodus 15:2 See my generation map. Please pray for me and my missionary, I can’t stop to share about our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen I use to go villages with my believers, this is my generation map, 187 house church in 12 villages. Total 607 believers

House Churches Total - 187 (12 Villages)
Total Believers - 607

David

My name is Kyaw Zaya Swe. My hometown is Yangon. I used to be a Buddhist, according to my parents' religion. As for me, being young, I didn't take anything seriously, and I didn't have any serious religious beliefs. In my mind, I was a person who believed that he had the right to do anything by himself. That's why I didn't follow my parents' religious beliefs. Thus, when I was 16 years old, in high school, my friends introduced me to drug use. After a while, I went from experimenting with drugs to becoming an addict. So, I need a lot of money to use the drug that I am addicted to. That's why I started a business selling drugs myself. As we all know, drug trafficking is the easiest and best business to make money. After that, I had a lot of money, and I was able to use my favorite drugs anytime, anywhere, so it was paradise on earth for me. My life was comfortable and fulfilling enough to ask what suffering is. Thus, an unexpected event happened when I was 19 years old. That is, I was arrested for drug use and dealing. I was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison under Myanmar's drug law. While I was living in prison, the troubles I didn't want came to me in droves. For someone like me, who lived a comfortable life outside of prison, everything was misery. As you all know, prison is a completely different place from the outside world. From that time on, I began to hope for someone who could save me from such troubles. After that I was released from prison. After being released from prison, the hardships are not over yet. Because there are few jobs for someone out of prison. I was also discriminated against by my parents and relatives. So, what I have to do is to make a living from the drug selling business that I am an expert at. On the other hand, I had to worry about going back to prison all the time. Just like that, the turn of life? I don't know if it's just a trick of luck. Someone came into my life who pulled me out of the world of drugs. He was the one who helped me to get good jobs and live like other people in the public with my head held high. In this way, I myself was able to give up drug use, and because of my hard work, I was also promoted to the manager level in my workplace. Now here it is again, another turning point in my life. This is because we had to stop our business due to the recent coup that happened in Myanmar more than two years ago. My colleagues and I lost our jobs. The lesson I learned there is that neither the wealth nor the suffering of the world is permanent. From that time on, I was eager to know where the real place of escape from suffering was, and who could guide me to such a place. That's how I met Ni Ni and she started introducing me to God's Word. She encouraged me to read the Bible and pray with faith. After reading the scriptures myself, I came to believe that Jesus is the true savior who sacrificed his life on the cross for the sins of our humanity, and who can guide us all to heaven, where there is true peace. After that, I was baptized myself and was able to share the good news of God's Word with others. That's why my two sons and people around me became believers and were baptized themselves. Now, I am involved in both the development of house churches and the translation of Bibles so that the ethnic groups in Burma can read them. Because only God's words can guide us to obtain eternal life, which is the true escape from suffering. Now, I have spread 1,440 house churches, and there are 11,075 believers and 4,388 baptized people.

House Churches Total - 1,440
Total Believers - 11,075
Baptisms - 4,388

Jack (MBB)

My name is Jack from Rakhine state. I am 28 years old. And student in Sittwe University. ( Distance Education) We are Rohimger ethnic. Now I live my mon and I have three brothers and sister. My testimony We Rohimger Muslims are following Koran but I never heard about 4 bible book. My father, mother and generations are traditional way. Our village Mv preaching and preaching They use to preach old laws. And we like slave. I hate that. If so we don’t like them, need to more up date. And I was growing up on the street and I live by lying. That why I face death every day. I did many bad things. All people don’t like me, I also too. 2013, conflict time in Rakhine state, my place I first met her in a crowd. She started talking to people on the street like me. She talking about Prophet ISA who is a resurrection . He is a great Prophet. ISA has been raised from death. He died on the cross for our sins. Like Kobani. He was buried and that He was raised to life three days later, this is good news all of us. He can forgive our sins,…. if he did against you seven times in one day, and each time he come to you saying “I repent” you must forget him. My understanding is that we will be Almighty God’ child and freedom. Let love make serve one another not physical desires. If the Spirit leads you, that you are not subject to the law. He is still alive. That why I need Him, I was baptized by The Allah, Ruhallah and ISA. I changed my new life happily and education. Currently I live my mon and my three brother and sister happily. No barrier, No fear and No slaves. I start share about since 2021, I can found 67 ISA Jamats and 167 mbbs in Rakhine. Please pray for my mission works. Amen

Sister Y

My previous survival was a big ego. From the moment I came to know Jesus, the burning fires subsided. There are many things deeper than changing the law of Christ's peace. 1. The physical heart must be made useful to people. 2. We must love and nurture people to benefit them. 3. How can we take care of the heart and benefit people?

Mg Mg Yah

Mg Mg Yah said that he use to pray before eat, Even facing terrible, he can eat dayly food. Because of Jesus protecting his disciples, I believed. Now he give up all his bad things, he life is new with Jesus.

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