"Fear is Part of this Ministry"
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The Voice of the Martyrs
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Brother Hannu leads the VOM-affiliated mission in Finland, inviting Finnish Christians into fellowship with persecuted brothers and sisters all over the world. As a young Christian he was involved in smuggling Bibles into the Soviet Union. Later he would take Bibles and Christian videos into tightly-closed Middle East nations, including Iran and Libya.
Listen to stories from some of his Bible delivery adventures, and more importantly the "holy moment" when God grabbed Hannu's heart and filled it with love for the Muslim people of the Middle East.
Hannu will also talk about the work of VOM's Finnish sister mission, especially his burden to reach young Christians there and invite them to fellowship with Christians willing to go to jail or even die rather than deny their faith in Christ.
You can learn more about the family of ministries begun around the world by Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you're in a hotel room in a closed nation. |
| 0:04.0 | It's 1 a.m. You're deep in sleep and the phone rings. |
| 0:08.8 | You pick it up and hear this on the other end of the line. |
| 0:12.1 | This is police. |
| 0:14.0 | Immediately down the reception, we take you. |
| 0:16.0 | You have brought illegal books into this country. |
| 0:20.0 | That's exactly what happened to Brother Hanu, who was part of a team smuggling Bibles into Libya. |
| 0:27.0 | I almost got a heart attack, you know, and it didn't help me that I had just heard that then |
| 0:35.0 | other group had tried to take the Bible into Libya one week before or so and they |
| 0:41.7 | were immediately caught and put to prison. |
| 0:46.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:49.2 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's |
| 0:56.1 | words came true in the life of the Apostles and they're still coming true today |
| 1:00.1 | in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 1:02.8 | Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. |
| 1:07.6 | Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network. |
| 1:10.3 | Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton and we're in the studio today with Hano Latinan. |
| 1:17.5 | He is the leader of our Voice of the Martyrs sister office in Finland. And he has quite an amazing story of how God called |
| 1:25.8 | him into this work with persecuted believers. Hanu welcome to the |
| 1:30.5 | Voice of the Martyrs radio. Thank you very much. |
| 1:33.0 | Tell me a little bit about your early work with persecuted Christians working in |
| 1:39.3 | Muslim countries. Kind of talk about the story of how God brought you to lead V.O.M. Finland. |
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