“A ministry in Kathmandu asked if I would travel to western Nepal to help deliver a load of Bibles to a rural community of new believers. I jumped at the opportunity, and a few days later I joined a Nepali Christian named Ramesh on a seventeen- hour bus ride to the west side of the country. It was the first stage of an arduous journey that almost ended my life.” – from Paul Hattaway’s new book An Asian Harvest.
I just read a chapter of Paul Hattaway’s newest book. You can read the whole chapter on Asia Harvest’s website and also order the book there.
Paul includes very personal accounts of pain and sorrow he and Joy have lived through, and not always at the hands of non-christians, but within their own missionary group. We need to beware in these last days, idolatry abounds in the hearts of men who can appear to be Christian leaders, yet self-pleasure has them bound to someone other than Christ Himself. Insightful and needed in the church today.
I have been acquainted with Paul and Joy for many years, and we have developed a caring friendship. They are precious servants upon whom God has bestowed miracles numerous times. Please keep them in your prayers — they are on the front lines of the spiritual, and sometimes physical, battle within God’s Kingdom.
Paul has written numerous books: The Heavenly Man — Brother Yun’s story, China’s Christian Martrys, The Blood & Fire Series, Operation China, Peoples of the Buddist World, and more… all great reading.
In the year 2000, I ended up living in Romania unexpectedly. We were in the midst of adopting our four children when it became apparent I would need to stay and live there in order to keep the process moving. What we thought would be 30-60 days ended up being 11 months. This allowed me to serve as the missions field-director of Living Waters Mission and I very much took to this task. I look forward to returning to Romania to visit and minister to women there as God provides opportunities for me to do so.
Nancy Demary 