LAOS | MAR. 31, 2023 — Family, Village Drive Away Christians
LAOS — Family, Village Drive Away Christians
Lerm and Dow are rebuilding their life after being evicted from their village.
On April 4, 2022, Lerm and his wife, Dow, accepted Christ and started to attend church.
A few months later, Dow’s father, who was the head of a nearby village in their province in northern Laos, found out and demanded that they renounce Christ. When they refused, he used his influence to have them evicted from their village and took away the income and food supplies they usually earned from farm work. Lerm asked his own father to take them in but was rejected because his father feared losing his government job. Lerm, Dow, and their children lost everything when they were evicted. They now live in a temporary hut on the land of another Christian brother, but their faith has remained strong.