Laos Shunned Christian Widow Embraces Hope

4/24/2025   (VOM)

YeanFin is persevering in faith despite total rejection from her family and community. In 2015, YeanFin became a Christian and led her four children to Christ. Already a widow at that time, she was dependent on her extended family as she raised her children alone. Her relatives and the officials of her Laotian village were at first curious about her decision. Later, though, they threatened her and told her to return to the worship of their ancestral spirits. They said they would not help her if she persisted in following what they saw as a foreign religion. “You should choose us, not choose God!” they said. YeanFin, now 58, struggles to find work after being ostracized by the community, but she has declared that she will not leave Christ. She thanks God for taking care of her and her children for the past 10 years. “I love God. Even though in this earth my relatives rejected me and have not helped me, in God I have hope.”

Please pray…

• Pray that YeanFin will continue to persevere in her faith and nurture her children in the Lord.

• Pray that the Lord will provide for her material and financial needs.

• Pray that the Lord will soften the hearts of her relatives and the village officials toward her and her family.