The Criminal from the Karen Hills Nobody Expected God to Use
In 1828, missionary Adoniram Judson purchased the freedom of a Burmese slave named Ko Tha Byu. The man was a former bandit from the Karen...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 1:43-51.
In 1828, missionary Adoniram Judson purchased the freedom of a Burmese slave named Ko Tha Byu. The man was a former bandit from the Karen hill tribe — a people so despised in Burma that the lowland Burmese considered them barely human. Ko Tha Byu himself admitted to at least thirty murders. When Judson brought him into the mission compound, fellow workers shook their heads.…
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