This is a face that asks "Why?"

This is a woman who is desperate for answers. She needs the Light.

This is a person who has been beaten up by the enemy. She is so depressed she seems to be slowly dying.

Praise God…this woman came to our team’s outreach at Umphang Baptist Church (Mae Sot) and now she will be taken to Dr. Cynthia’s Mae Tao Clinic for physical treatment.

The Great Physician will do the rest.

Read her story as translated by Pastor Bupo Newton.

Her name is Daisy and she is from a small village in Karen State, Burma. She is 38 years old and she was baptized when she was 15 years old. She was married when she was 18 years old. Her husband's name is Saw Dah La, aged 48, who was born into a non-Christian family but became a Christian later in his life. They have seven children, 3 boys and 4 girls. The youngest child is three years old.

She has had many frightening experiences which have left her to this day feeling very afraid and insecure. It all began in 1985 when a friend of Daisy's was killed in a quarrel and she saw his dead body, which placed a seed of fear in her heart. Following that in 1987 her husband's 2 female cousins were shot when caught in the middle of fighting between the Burma Army and the KNLA in their rural Karen village. Then in 1991 she went on a trip to her mother's village. On the way she saw a car which had been shot at during a robbery. She saw many wounded people and was very frightened when she saw two bodies which had been killed horribly. In 1995 when she was 7 months pregnant she was traveling on the back of a big truck and when she tried to descend the truck she slipped and fell and was unconscious for a short while. She had to continue her journey home on foot, and she was in pain and worried about her unborn child. However, when she was going through the forest a man began following her and chasing her and she had to run home. That night she could not stop thinking about how she had fallen and how she had been chased and from that time on she became very fearful. In 1996 she decided to stay with her parents because she was always so afraid. Then one night two robbers came to her parent's house and they put a gun and a knife to her head and they demanded that she give them money. They also beat her father, and they stole many things from the house. Over the next year everyone in the village became very afraid of robbers and one woman in the village was even killed by them. Then one night she heard footsteps coming to her house and she was very afraid that it was a robber who would come and kill her. She began to pray to God for help. As she prayed, the robber just stole her rooster and then walked away. She thanked and praised God that He had protected her, but she was still very fearful.

From then on she began to feel very sick and went frequently to the clinic. The Burma Army came to her village and stayed there for many days. There was a medic with the Army who realized that Daisy was sick. He decided to go to her house and to give her some medicine and he took two other soldiers with him. While they were in the house one of the soldiers began to play with a grenade in his hands. The medic turned to him and warned him not to mess with the grenade, as it was dangerous, yet as he said this the grenade exploded. The soldier died immediately and the medic and the other soldier were also injured. Daisy had been sitting very close to the soldier, so close that his blood and flesh covered her. She saw that his insides had come out and had exploded all over her. There was a large bloody hole where his stomach had been and she was very disturbed by this sight. She was desperately afraid that she would also die and she fainted.

When she came around she noticed that she was totally unharmed, everyone else who had been in the area had been injured and only her and her mother who were not hurt by the explosion. After this the rest of the village became very suspicious of Daisy and her family. Daisy's family was the only Christian family in the village and they had built their house on a piece of land which the rest of the village believed to be possessed by evil spirits. When the soldier was killed they were very angry with Daisy's family, saying that the soldier had been killed because they had built their house amongst the evil spirits and they asked Daisy and her family to leave the village as they were afraid that more bad things would happen. However, the Captain of the Burma Army was a Christian from the Kachin ethnic group and when he heard about the villager's accusations he became very angry that they were so superstitious. He went to the place where Daisy's house was built, took out his gun and began shooting in the area and shouting 'show me where these evil spirits are and I will kill them!'. The villagers were very afraid of the Captain, and they stopped accusing Daisy's family and they were able to stay in the village.

Daisy's family was very poor in Burma, and the constant needs of her family pressed upon her all the time. She could not afford to send her children to school. She has family who are living in Huay Nam Khun (Klee Thoo Klo) village in Thailand, close to the Burma border, and she has now come to live with them so that she and her husband can help them in the fields and try to build a better life for her and her family. She always felt very sad for her four oldest children who were not able to study. Now that she has come to live in Huay Nam Khun village she wants her youngest three children to have the opportunity to go to school. We pray to God that he will provide all her needs for her security both spiritually and physically.

If this woman is on your heart , STOP AND PRAY FOR HER RIGHT NOW.

God bless.