The Grandmother Who Never Stopped Singing
Maria Santos was seventy-three years old when the soldiers came to her village outside San Salvador in 1981. They told the people to stop gathering...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 1:16.
Maria Santos was seventy-three years old when the soldiers came to her village outside San Salvador in 1981. They told the people to stop gathering for worship. They burned the small wooden church on the hillside. They said faith was dangerous. The next Sunday, Maria carried her worn Bible to the charred remains and began singing hymns alone in the ashes.…
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