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First Chin Convert to Christianity
MYANMAR — The Vice President of the Yangon Siyin Baptist Church, Rev U Chin Khoke, is the grandson of the very first Chin Christian. ”In 1804, when people in the Siyin area worshipped demons, a Christian from the Karen tribe visited the village and shared the Gospel,“ he explained. ”My father was very ill at the time, and my grandfather, then in his 30s, had petitioned the demons and sacrificed cattle, to no avail.
”’God can heal your son,’ said the Karen Christian. He prayed for my father, who then rose from his sick bed. And so his father – my grandfather – became the first convert to Christianity among the Chin people.“ (WR 343/13 - 9.99)
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