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Cuba: A Link in the Chain

When Tom White was a boy, his mother gave him a book called Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. The book told the stories of people who had been killed for their Christian faith. As Tom grew older, he learned more about Christians who risk their lives to share the truth about Jesus.

He believed God wanted him to do more than just learn what others were doing. “I decided to commit myself fulltime to active duty,” he said.

Tom decided to drop Christian pamphlets out of a small airplane while flying over Cuba. Cuba is a communist country, and the government at that time did not allow anyone to share the gospel there.

Tom’s airplane accidentally crashed in Cuba, and Cuban officials took Tom and the pilot to prison.

Sunglasses Can’t Stop Prayers
A Cuban officer, Captain Santos, questioned Tom often during his time in prison. Captain Santos did not believe in God. He questioned Tom for many hours, sometimes threatening him if he did not answer the way the captain wanted.

“How can I fight this?” Tom wondered. “This could go on forever.” God helped Tom feel sorry for his questioner. Captain Santos did not know God. “God, help Captain Santos,” Tom prayed silently.

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Cuba: I Want to Be Like Christ

Cuba is just 90 miles from the Florida coast, yet many Americans do not know much about the island country. That’s because Cuba is a communist country, and the Cuban media are not free to report what goes on there. In Cuba, the communist government controls every aspect of a Cuban’s life. The government tells each family how much it can eat each month, what car to drive and what house to live in. The government even tells children who they should look up to.

Each year Cuban schools make children pledge allegiance to the government. (To pledge allegiance means to promise to be loyal.) This pledge is not like the pledge in America. Instead of promoting freedom of speech, religion and pursuit of happiness, the Cuban pledge asks children to pledge their loyalty to guerrillas who have killed many people. Every child in Cuba is required to be a pionero, or pioneer, for communism. Children are asked to shout, “We will be like Ché.” Ché Guevara was a revolutionary who helped overthrow Cuba’s U.S.-backed dictator in the 1950s. He was also a guerrilla who killed many people.

But many Cuban Christians do not believe in taking this pledge. They say children should be like Christ, not like any man. One of those Christians is Pastor Ruben.

The Voice of the Martyrs

Statement of Faith

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, authoritative Word of God who is eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His personal return in power and glory.

We believe that for salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers of Christ.

We believe in the message of the persecuted churches, a message which has been brought to the West by the founders of the mission, Pastor Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand.

We have witnessed that the blood of the martyrs is the seed which makes the churches grow; and therefore, the mention of martyrs must be brought into the teachings and practices of the church. We believe that Christians who serve and love Christ, and are persecuted for this, should be helped. We believe the Bible teaches that we should love even our enemies. How much more so should we love our brethren who are persecuted for their faith in all parts of the world? Hebrews 13:3 states, "Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them, and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body."

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