After four years of prayer, Gospel for Asia Bridge of Hope centers opened in Myanmar, giving children the chance to finally have an education and learn about Christ's love.
Many of Myanmar's children end up as child laborers in tea shops or brick kilns. Their childhoods are stripped away while they carry the burden of providing for their poverty-stricken families.
But with Bridge of Hope, all that changes. Now, 615 children are going to school and have hope for a better future.
If it weren't for a Bridge of Hope center, these children would not be able to study because of the financial hardships their families face. Now you can find them behind a desk, eager to recite all the lessons they are learning.
Often in Myanmar, parents are so desperate to give their children some sort of future that they send their children to the local Buddhist monasteries to become monks. Now there's another option, like for these little ones who are singing and dancing to songs they learn about Jesus.
In some parts of Myanmar, people consider Christ a foreign God. But now, these children are realizing Christ isn't foreign—He lives in them!
These children also receive tutoring in areas like reading, writing and arithmetic—skills that will help them in their futures and keep them from entering into a cycle of poverty.
At the Bridge of Hope centers, school supplies are given to the children.
These little ones received notebooks. Now they can jot down all the things they learn—including lessons about God's love.
Learning personal hygiene is also important.
These children received packets of laundry detergent during the opening ceremony of their Bridge of Hope center—their very first lesson on cleanliness.
Of course, we can't forget about the daily nutritious meals that fill their little stomachs, keeping them well fed, healthy and energized to keep on learning!
Now, each of these children—and the multitude of people they will impact—can rejoice because they finally have a hope to live for.
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