New Life - Baptism

Nineteen former Buddhist and Animist celebrated Easter Sunday by announcing their new life as Christians with a public baptism. The site was a new church plant that already has grown to 500 members in a few years, many of them recent converts. I asked one of the teenage boys after his baptism about his change and he answered that inside the camp he had first witnessed the love of Christ through school friends. Still wet from her baptism, a girl told me she had always felt empty in Buddhism, never knowing how she could do enough to earn happiness. She smiled brightly and told me this was the happiest day of her life. She is one of thousands of refuges finding a new freedom inside these tight walls.