Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

military embargo, but most of them were found to be available on the country’s black market.

Myanmar’s military-ruled government did not want to publicly accept any humanitarian relief aid from America or any other free country. They did not want their countrymen to know of their weakness and failures. I saw it reported that donated bags of rice and meager food parcels had finally been distributed to starving people. The military leaders wrote the names of Myanmar generals on each parcel as if it had been a gift given by their generals. As Brother Bill and I prepared to depart for Myanmar, we connected with longtime friend and musician-ary , (musician missionary) Jerry Davis, and his friend, Lee Sims. Jerry Davis already had a very long history of missionary work to more than fifty countries around the world. We were thankful to connect with Jerry and Lee. Because Myanmar is such a closed country to the rest of the free world, very little information was being disseminated through official news reports or online. Even though it was difficult knowing exactly what was needed in Myanmar and the extent of the recent damage, we had seen plenty to know the Lord was calling us to GO. A few days before we were to fly to Myanmar, Brother Bill flew to Houston where Jerry and Lee lived and planned flights from there. I boarded a flight at Tom Bradley International Terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport headed to Tokyo, Japan, then on to Bangkok, Thailand.

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