LAOS PASTOR: “God is Real and He Healed Me”

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🗓️ 29 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

One night, TK, extremely sick, found himself in his room praying, “I am ill and if you are the one true God then I will commit my life to you.”

TK slept through the night and woke up completely healed! From that moment, he was committed to following Christ. His father—a former drug dealer who met Christ in prison for his crimes—encouraged TK to learn more about the one true God.

With passion for following Christ after he had experienced God’s power over disease, TK went to Bible school in Thailand. Returning to Laos with Christian materials to help his ministry, TK was arrested at the border and imprisoned for three months before God ordained his release from prison.

Today TK serves persecuted Christians inside Laos and holds a leadership position within Laos’s registered church organization. He says at the time of his arrest it was common for Christians in Laos to endure physical suffering for being a Christian—arrests, beatings and other pressure. Today, he says, mental and spiritual pressure for following Christ is more common, including being ostracized by family members, cut off from work or educational opportunities and even kicked out of your village.

Listen as TK shares what our persecuted church family faces in Laos today. TK will also explain how he is serving persecuted brothers and sisters there. Pray for communist authorities in Laos and for wisdom and discernment for TK as he assists persecuted Christians.

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0:00.0	in Laos a region called has many people in need and a pastor will call TK knows that he's been
0:10.0	called by the Lord to minister in this place of great need. For some reason I kept having
0:15.9	dreams and visions about something about assisting those that are hurt, fire, earthquake,
0:23.1	or orphanage or flooding. When I was in prison one of those days I had a vision or a dream that
0:29.0	angel came down and talked to me and said, will you serve me? Will you be faithful? I look at that
0:35.2	vision as a sign from the Lord that I should be today where I'm serving. Jesus never promised
0:42.4	his followers an easy path. In fact he told his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent
0:48.4	them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the life of the apostles and they're
0:54.2	still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton
0:59.4	as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. Right now on The Voice of the
1:04.1	Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome again to The Voice of the Martyrs Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton.
1:08.9	We're about to hear an interview with a pastor that we are just going to call TK for his safety. We're
1:14.7	not going to give his full name. He is one of our partners here at The Voice of the Martyrs to serve
1:20.0	persecuted Christians in Laos. We recorded this on the road in Asia so the sound quality is going to
1:26.8	be a bit different from what we get in our studio here. You'll hear some of Pastor TK's voice but
1:33.7	mostly you'll hear the voice of his interpreter and you're going to hear about how God is at work
1:38.7	in Laos offering hope in this communist country. I asked Pastor TK how he first came to faith in
1:47.3	Christ. Actually the first believer in my family was my father. My father was arrested and put
1:57.2	in prison in the Boban province on charges of drugs. At that time in that province you could say
2:02.1	my dad was like a kingpin you could say because he had a lot of money and he had five people
2:06.8	under him. Some of his underlings got caught in the inked gun and somehow it leaked up that
2:14.0	he was behind him. He lost everything and somebody evangelized to my father in prison. That's when
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