Susan Henson spends time visiting women in Southeast Asia, who have been persecuted for their faith.

Why?

When I am with these women, I tell you, my faith is challenged to the core.

What would I do if I were in that situation?

So their faith just challenges my faith. And they, they are heroes.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast. It's May 20th, 2015.

If you were headed to a women's conference today, think about all the details you'd have to think through.

Well, now imagine this. In order to visit a biblically based leadership conference, you'd have to travel in secret, cross borders without gaining attention, and think about getting back home without persecution.

That's what some women did face not long ago.

Our guest will tell you about this special conference.

She spoke to Nancy Lee DeMoss during a chapel service for our staff.

I know you'll be encouraged to hear how God is working She spoke to Nancy Lee-Demost during a chapel service for our staff.

I know you'll be encouraged to hear how God is working in what seemed to be desperate places.

Here's Nancy to introduce our guest.

Well, we are so blessed today to have my longtime friend, Susan Henson, with us.

She's here with us live, and hours later in Bangkok, Thailand, is her husband who's joining us by way of Skype. Susan, would you like to say

hello to your husband? Hi, honey. Hey, sweetheart. Love you. Okay, that's enough.

Al, I wonder if you would just give us first an idea of what compassionate hope is,

and then we want to unpack some of what God is doing through that ministry,

and a way that revive our hearts has been able to partner with that ministry.

We'll tell you a little bit more about that, but just explain first what the vision is for compassionate hope. Yes, thank you, Nancy. It's a joy to do so. We ministers specifically in the region of Southeast Asia, but more uniquely among a 33 million people group

that we will not disclose where that is because there's a lot

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