Kids of Courage

Groups in Malaysia

Mann was born into a Muslim family in Malaysia. It is against the law for anyone to share the truth of Jesus with a Malay person in Malaysia. (Malaysia has many citizens whose ancestors came from China and India, and they are allowed to be Christians. However, the government expects all Malays to be Muslim.)

But Mann learned about God’s plan of salvation for sinners through Jesus, and he gave his life to Christ! Later he married a Christian woman, and they had baby girl.

When Mann and his wife tried to leave the hospital after their baby was born, a doctor stopped them. “He told us that my wife must become a Muslim,” said Mann. “They told us that we had to get married again in the Islamic faith in order to take our daughter home.” (Islam is the religion of Muslims.)

“I refused to get married in the Islamic faith,” Mann said. “To do that would be to deny Christ, and I can’t do that.”

Soon after they left the hospital, Mann and his wife began to get phone calls from religious officials, who now realized that Mann had become a Christian. He and his family moved to another town. He is fearful that he may be put in jail or forced to live apart from his family. “I live in fear,” he said. But I spend a lot of time in prayer.”

Pray that Christian families in Malaysia will not be separated. Read about a Christian family from Malaysia that was separated.

A girl about Akma’s age
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Akma, a teenage girl in Malaysia, grew up in a Muslim family. It is hard for Muslims in Malaysia to learn about Jesus, because it is against the law to share the gospel with a Malay Muslim.

Chinese and Indian people in Malaysia are allowed to have churches, but they often are afraid to let Muslims visit. They know they could get in trouble.

But Akma’s mother visited a church and decided to give her life to Jesus! Akma’s father was very angry with his wife. He yelled at her and threatened to hurt her and their children if any of them ever went to church again.

Akma still wanted to know the truth about God and Jesus. She took a bus to visit a church, with her mother’s blessing. “My mother said the important thing was that her children would attend church,” Akma said.

Akma was happy to see other teens at the church, and she began attending more often. But she worried about her father. He treated his family harshly because of their new faith. Akma trusted what the Bible said in Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose.”

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