Arunwang’s home became the community church, but it was by accident.

When the 56-year-old former Buddhist nun became a believer, there wasn’t a church for more than 60 miles. She was on fire for the Lord, so she began studying and worshipping in her home and inviting neighbors to join. For four years, they used YouTube videos for their times of worship.

“Some thought I was crazy because I kept inviting people to the church. I just had to tell them about Jesus,” she says. “I couldn’t keep the Good News to myself!”

God made her home into a church, but Arunwang needed more support to help it grow and help those around her understand the Gospel.

She didn’t know where that support would come from, but she knew she could not stop sharing the Gospel with her struggling community.

Arunwang had lived a life of emptiness and numbness before Christ. Like most in her community, she practiced the traditional Buddhist rituals like offering food and meditating in silence.

She and her husband followed these rituals and taught them to their two daughters in hope of influencing their Karma.

Despite being faithful to Buddhist rituals, Arunwang’s heart still felt empty. “I couldn’t find peace. In the temple, I felt a heaviness that burdened my soul. There was an inner tension inside me, but I saw no other way,” she says.

The heaviness in her heart only grew worse when tragedy struck her family. Her husband fell from a ladder and died. Her mantras and meditations did nothing for her.

Arunwang was so overcome with grief that she was unable even to pray.

Five months after his death, she visited a Christian cousin in a nearby province. Arunwang remembers the warmth and love of the people in her cousin’s church. The pastor, Pastor Brani, preached from Ecclesiastes 6 and discussed how little control there is in life. Following the service, Arunwang met with the pastor and surrendered her life to Jesus.

“I felt a peace that I had never experienced before,” she says.

She received a Bible from Pastor Brani that day, and once she began reading it, she never stopped.

Now, Arunwang is working with Bible League International learning to teach small group Bible studies so those attending the services can dig deeply into the Word of God.

Thanks to your faithful donations, people who attend churches like this are growing in their understanding of the Word and their discipleship.

Another missionary group has helped Arunwang build a church building in her hometown. She now welcomes more than 70 attendees each week, and thanks to you, those 70 will be equipped with Bibles and Bible study materials.

But it’s not stopping there. “Two new church planting projects have already been started!” she shares excitedly. Now that she’s connected to Bible League, Arunwang can continue to get the training she needs to effectively share the Gospel.

God is using your gifts to build up leaders around the globe who are eager to share the Word, but need training and support to build effective ministries, Arunwang says as she gives glory to Jesus.

He’s raised her up as a leader in her community.

She is inspired by Jesus’ words in Matthew:  “But seek first His kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well” (Matthew 6:33 NIV).