Learning to read is an opportunity many women in Asia never have. This woman is learning to read God's Word for herself.

SOUTH ASIA (ANS) -- Four young women, Gospel for Asia–supported students, started their Bible college field internship with determination. To those who worked with them, their eagerness to serve was obvious. And it was a skill each of these women used daily that ended up being the stepping stone to reaching many women in their assigned village.

The four women were helping with a Sunday school class, where they worked with a little boy named Amal. While getting to know little Amal, the women contacted his family and asked permission to start holding a class in their home. They wanted to teach women in the village something that would revolutionize their life: how to read.

Amal’s family agreed, and soon a gathering of eager village women started meeting in the home. The Bible college students’ desire was that as these women became literate, they would be able to read the Bible for themselves—and even teach other illiterate women how to read.

As the Bible college students taught this basic skill that would mean such new opportunity, they opened the classes with Christian songs and ended in prayer. And the women started noticing changes.

“Now, almost all of the women attending the class share their prayer concerns since God started to act in their lives,” GFA’s correspondent writes. “They are starting to have faith in Jesus.”

The students request prayer that the Lord will work in each class member’s heart and draw her into a relationship with Him.

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