Praying the impossible
Mama Kwama was a Chinese Christian who dared to pray the impossible. Her story shows that even when faced with opposition, oppression and hatred, persecuted Christians still dare to pray for the big , even impossible, things.
“You pray and we will pray. God will make it happen.”
Mama Kwama was a Chinese Christian who dared to pray the impossible. Her story shows that even when faced with opposition, oppression and hatred, persecuted Christians still dare to pray for the big , even impossible, things.
Mama Kwama was a Chinese Christian who met with Brother Andrew (the founder of Open Doors) in the late 1970s.
At the time, China was just emerging from decades of Communism where churches, and Christians faced extreme persecution. But Mama Kwama had a sense that the tide was turning.
She asked Brother Andrew and his team to send her 35,000 New Testaments to help spread the good news about Jesus. She was told it was impossible.
She replied, “You pray and we will pray. God will make it happen.”
It did happen. Of the 35,000 New Testaments smuggled over the border in 60 suitcases by 30 volunteers, not one went missing.
But Mama Kwama didn’t stop there. She came back to Brother Andrew with a new request. She asked him for one million Bibles.
‘Impossible’ came the reply. And what do you think Mama Kwama said? That’s right: “You pray and we will pray. God will make it happen.”
The result was Project Pearl – an ultra-secret Open Doors project where, during one night in 1981, one million Bibles were secretly delivered by boat to a beach in China.
Those Bibles have been responsible for helping hundreds of thousands of Chinese Christians come to know Jesus and grow in their faith – one pastor has said that those Bibles ‘helped to lay a solid foundation for a large and strong church today in China’.
All because one lady prayed the impossible.
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