You may remember our blog post The Frog Prince Finds His Princess. Now let us tell you about the “and they lived happily ever after” part of the story.
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After the miraculous healing from cancer of a young tribal woman at Pilot region, Brother Li fell in love with her. He began to regularly disciple her and her family, reconciling their emotions of what truly happened with her healing. Their hearts were open and excited to learn about this Jesus they had never heard of before. God’s power was in the discipleship class that Brother Li held on the banana and pineapple mountain plantations overlooking Vietnam.
The two grew in the Lord together, and Brother Li traveled to many other villages sharing the good news with his own people. “When we get married,” he told us, “I want my wife and I to reach our own people group with the gospel.”
January 1, 2011. A momentous day for Brother Li and his wife. Their wedding was held in a small church overlooking the Mekong River on the China/Vietnam border. The sunset over the lush mountains on the Vietnam side of the border were particularly beautiful that day. It was a new year, a new season, and a new beginning for the happily married couple.
“For the last few months before we got married, we have been traveling across the border to Vietnam to a poor Hmong tribal family that we met,” Brother Li told us. “They were so poor I could not believe it.”
When Brother Li, who was born in poor Pilot region, and abandoned as a young child, tells you that a village is poor, you believe him.
“We would bring steamed bread and rice, hike up the mountains, and give it to the poor Hmong family. They were so open to hearing the gospel, and touched by our generosity.”
This kind of local missionary giving was how Brother Li and his wife began their relationship, and today they are both excited to continue sharing the message of salvation with the unreached people groups in Pilot region.
“Please pray for us,” Brother Li told us recently. “We need to trust God for more money so we can bless the tribal people in our area.”
The Frog Prince found his princess, and now the two are on a mission for Jesus: trekking up mountains in search of poor people groups who have yet to hear the gospel. God has great things in store for this couple, and we believe that at the end of their lives it will be said of them, “And they lived happily ever after.”