I received an update newsletter full of articles from the organization Partners Relief & Development last week. Their mission: "Through holistic action, we demonstrate God's love to children & communities made vulnerable by war in Burma". In the article Beyond Fish, Pigs & Farms by Craig Garrison, he says:
"The Shan people are primarily Buddhist. Does Jesus come into the equation? Of course! I was recently talking with a Buddhist, Shan friend. He said this to me in broken English, 'Three years ago when you first started working with us, I thought you only wanted us to be Christians. Now I realize that you wanted to be God to us. . .' What he meant was that his initial thinking about Partners' involvement was about religion; what he has found out is that we desire to represent God to him and the Shan people."
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