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BALLOONS INTO NORTH KOREA |
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“Grandma, look at what I
found!” The young North Korean girl was so excited. She
was holding something she had never seen before. The
grandmother looked at it with her failing eyes but could
not make out the details. So she called the girl’s
mother. “Please come tell me what this child has found.”
The elderly woman’s daughter entered the room and took
the item from her mother’s wrinkled hand. Her daughter
began to reads the words printed on the well-constructed
plastic balloon. “The Lord Jesus loves you. Your
brothers and sisters have not forgotten you. For God so
loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.”
The grandmother exclaimed, “It’s Scripture! They’ve sent
us Bible verses on a balloon! Please keep reading.” The
plastic balloon held words of encouragement for the
three generations of North Koreans. It contained a
message from Christians in the West and over six hundred
Bible verses taking the reader from the creation, to the
cross, to the second coming of Jesus Christ. In the last
decade, over one hundred thousand of these “Scripture
balloons” have been floated into North Korea.
The ministry of The Voice of the Martyrs found a unique
way to reach these oppressed people with the Word of God
and the gospel. It says in Psalm 19:1, “The heavens
declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of
his hands.”
Like the balloons in this story, God longs to float
encouraging Scriptures across our minds and hearts just
when we need them most. However, he cannot bring to mind
Scriptures that were never there in the first place.
Ironically, though we live in a free
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PRAISE THE ALMIGHTY
10 YEARS CELEBRATION
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