YeanFin led her four children to Christ, even when she knew it would cost her financial support from her family.
YeanFin led her four children to Christ, even when she knew it would cost her financial support from her family.
Apr. 24, 2025 | Laos

Shunned Christian Widow Embraces Hope

[103] prayers in [9] nations have been posted for YeanFin.

YeanFin is persevering in faith despite total rejection from her family and community. In 2015, YeanFin became a Christian and led her four children to Christ. Already a widow at that time, she was dependent on her extended family as she raised her children alone. Her relatives and the officials of her Laotian village were at first curious about her decision but then threatened her to return to the worship of their ancestral spirits. They said they would not help her if she persisted in following what they saw as a foreign religion: “You should choose us, not choose God!” YeanFin, now 58, struggles to find work after being ostracized by the community, but she has declared that she will not leave Christ and thanks God for taking care of her and her children for the past 10 years. “I love God,” she said. “Even though in this earth my relatives rejected me and have not helped me, in God I have hope.”

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  • Gracious God, please continue to place people in YeanFin's path that help her materially and lift her spirit.
    Brett T - USA
  • Heavenly Father, I pray for this beloved sister, and thank You for faithfully providing for their needs for the past ten years. I pray she & her children will remain faithful to the Lord, and also ask that she be able to find suitable work to provide for her family. I also pray her family members would come to repentance and ultimately salvation.
    Curtis M - USA
  • Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and perfector of your life. The one who protects and provides for you. He will never leave you or forsake you.
    Mary C - USA
  • Heavenly Father,thank you for great care for YeanFin and her family! Please continue to guide her and her children. May their faith continue to grow. Help them through all the struggles they face. Continue to make a way for them. Provide the need these have spiritually, phyically, and emotionally.Make them shining lights of your goodness.In Jesus' Name
    Lillian B - USA
  • Father, Thank you for YeaFinn strong commitment to you. Provide for her and her children. Continue to give her hope and and may her family be touched by her witness and turn to Christ.
    Betty D - USA
  • Lord,I pray for YeanFin and her children.Strengthen, protect and provide for them.I pray for her family and other Laotian Christians.Amen.
    Robert C - USA
  • Lord You are Jehovah Jireh and faithful to provide for Your children. Thank you for YeanFin's faith in You because You satisfy her life with only good things. Lord please open the eyes of those around her to Your goodness and faithfulness to YeanFin and how You fulfill her heart in her relationship with You. Give them a hunger for what she has
    Teresa S - USA
  • Thank You for YeanFin's faithfulness and perseverance. I ask that her children walk with You. Give her the fellowship of believers and the help she needs. I pray that she could be a bold witness and see her family and neighbors follow You.
    Pam M - USA
  • I pray and thank You for the hope which this sister has, which does not disappoint. No one can rob her of this birthright of Your children, and I pray she and her children are strong and faithful to You for the long haul. Like always, we pray for changed hearts of the enemies of Your people by the power of the gospel. In Jesus Name.
    Mike D - USA
  • Dear Father, thank You for YeanFin's strong and consistent faith in Jesus Christ. Thank You for Your divine provision as she walks in faithfulness to You. I pray Your solace in her isolation, and Your absolute promise that You will never leave nor forsake her. May she know positively that she has praying family members around the world! Amen.
    Lynne W - USA
  • Heavenly Father, I pray for Yean Fin and her family. Her strength and faith that comes from you keeps her going. I pray her familys eyes can be opened to the wonders of worshipping you. In your son's Holy name, Amen
    Brenda A - USA
  • My good and gracious God, I pray you continue to provide & strengthen YeanFin. I pray you use her strong faith to convert her family & community. I pray you for peace in Laos & that Laotians will be able to freely worship our one true creator God of heaven & earth. I ask this in Jesus's name, Amen.
    Janice H - USA
  • I'm praying 2 Timothy 4:16-17 for YeanFin and her children""""¦all deserted me. May it not be charged against them. But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me"¦.."¯. I'm praying that by her courage, may family members and friends will see the reality of Yeshua and come to trust in Him. Blessings and may you be provided for each day
    Eunice T - USA
  • In Jesus Name, As it is written that "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." I declare the same for YeanFin. Amen
    vissanorita y - Indonesia
  • Heavenly Father,
    I thank you for YeanFin's faith. I pray that you would help her to continue to stand strong on your Word, and that others in her community would see her faith and be softened to both her and you. Grant her provision in her persecution, and walk with her. Bring other Christ followers into her life who can help her.
    In Your Name,
    Amen
    Sophia H - USA
  • Heavenly Father thank you for this sister, Yean Fin, holding strong to her faith, many blessings I pray for her and her children. May you walk with her daily restoring all that is lost. I pray to bind the tribal witchcraft that has come against this sister in Jesus name.
    john o - USA
  • Help our sister, YeanFin be confident and strong in her faith.
    Debbie V - USA
  • Father, thank you for living in and walking with YeanFin through these years of pressure, persecution and rejection. Thank you that she sees how You have taken care of her and her family. May Your light which is in her penetrate the darkness that her family and village are in, bringing them to faith and repentance.
    Linda T - USA
  • Oh Lord, I thank You for the strong testimony of this dear lady! Please help her to stay strong, and please provide for her amid the rejection of her family and village.
    Cheryl B - USA
  • Dear Lord,

    As stated: YeanFin struggles to find work after being ostracized by the community, but she declared she will not leave Christ and thanks You for taking care of her family for the past 10 years. "I love God, even though in this earth my relatives rejected me and have not helped me, in God I have hope.", she stated.

    Praise be to You.

    Amen!
    Chris R - USA
  • Father God, Thank You for the faith and courage You have given YeanFin. Please strengthen her but also the faith and courage of her children so all will remain faithful to You. May her relatives repent and come to You. Please help her to find an accepting, safe village in which to live, safe work, and Christian fellowship. In Jesus' name, Amen
    Rena B - USA
  • Heavenly Father, in your infinite mercy and provision, I pray that you would provide everything that YeanFin needs physically, emotionally and spiritually at this trying time. Though her community has rejected her, you have not and never will. Thank you for her inspiring faith and commitment to Christ. May more come to faith in Laos in Jesus' name amen
    Matthew E - USA
  • Father, please provide for YeanFin in such a way that it could only be from You and that it would be a witness to her family. Show them that as she chooses God, He blesses her, and expose the emptiness and darkness of ancestral spirits. May she be blessed while they learn want and may she be in a position to bless them. For Your glory, in Jesus' Name.
    Janie B - USA
  • Father, we ask that you will remove the hostility from the hearts of YeanFin's family and restore the curiosity they once had. We pray that our sister will find work and be sustained in her strong faith. We pray for her children, they they will mature in faith and not leave it behind because of this persecution.
    Brenda M - USA
  • God, thank You for this steadfast faith. Let it pass to each one of her children. Continue to provide for her and for them. Give her joy, and help her with loneliness and worry, lifting them from her. Please send other Christians there, or let others come to know You, that she may not be alone. Provide work for her, if it is good, and save her family.
    Kesse R - USA
  • Father strengthen, encourage & meet the needs of YeanFin during this difficult time. Show her your love & help her share the gospel of Jesus Christ during this difficult time. We pray Laos would allow Christian freedom & many would see the light of your glory & salvation. In Jesus name.
    Rhonda F - USA
  • Lord, thank You for redeeming YeanFin and her children. May their faith be a witness to those who oppose You so they will choose You. Unite her family in worship and honor of You, that they may receive salvation. Provide for YeanFin's daily physical, spiritual and emotional needs. May her love for You grow deeper and her hope grow stronger.
    Beth P - USA
  • Lord I pray in faith that the people of Laos will turn to you and believe in you. Let your grace, mercy, and provision rain down on YeanFin and other Christians there. "Give strength to your servant...make my enemies see to their confusion, that you, Lord, help and comfort me." Psalm 86 May hearts everywhere in Laos turn to you.
    Christine M - USA
  • Father, you have promised in your Word that you would provide for your children their daily needs. We trust you to do just that. We know you love YeanFin and her children. Strengthen their faith and help them trust you no matter how the enemy tries to discourage them. Work a miracle so that all in the village and her relatives can not deny you are REAL
    Polly C - USA
  • Father, you have promised in your Word that you would provide for your children their daily needs. We trust you to do just that. We know you love YeanFin and her children. Strengthen their faith and help them trust you no matter how the enemy tries to discourage them. Work a miracle so that all in the village and her relatives can not deny you are REAL
    Polly C - USA
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