As we near the Thanksgiving season, one thing I am very grateful for is the access we have to the truth of the gospel and the freedom to share it. We take this freedom for granted but millions of people around the world live without this blessing. Check out this story from the WorldNetDaily to see to what extend some will go to get the good news of Jesus Christ to family and friends who do not have the privilege of freedom we have. Then be sure to thank the Lord for our freedom and pray that it continue.
North Korea officials are infuriated by leaflets that have been floated over the communist nation’s secured borders and dropped from plastic bags attached to gas-filled balloons, and one organization behind the effort says there’s good reason the atheists in power are upset – the pamphlets are carrying a Gospel message directly to the people.
Hundreds of thousands of leaflets have reportedly been distributed in just the past few months, and may have been the reason the North recently announced it would shut its border with the South. The North also has threatened to cut other communications, such as telephone lines, over the issue.
The leaflets have been attributed to “political” groups, but a spokesman for one organization sponsoring the effort said there’s nothing political about it, and the tracts carry a message of hope directly to the North Korean people.
The spokesman and his organization, which spreads the Gospel around the world, couldn’t be identified because of the potential for danger to affiliated activists who are dispatching the balloons.
But he told WND those who have fled government crackdowns on their faith inside North Korea are desperate to get the message of hope to their family, friends and communities behind the wall of communist information censorship.
“Each balloon carried 10,000 Gospel tracts, in three separate bags at the bottom that have a time release mechanism so that they drop at different times to spread the leaflets over a wider area,” he described.
