A Christian radio broadcast ministry is sharing the good news of Jesus with the many people left picking up the pieces of their lives in Myanmar after a recent and devastating earthquake.
The 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the country of Myanmar on Mar. 28, 2025, with the initial death toll of 1,700 people.
According to news sources, in a country where political tensions are constant, the military junta extended the cease fire against rebel groups until April 30.
In addition to conflict and the recent devastation of the earthquake that left so many without a home, the rainy season is approaching. Trans World Radio (TWR) ministry is on the ground helping with immediate aid and relief.
"Monsoon [season] is always bad for the people in Myanmar because even without the earthquake, when the monsoon comes, then there will [be a] flood in many different places," says Daniel Saputra of TWR.
On top of seeking shelter where possible, as many Myanmar residents are shared to stay in buildings for fear they may collapse, a lot of people are asking big life questions.
"During that kind of [disaster] situation, people start to ask about lives: ‘Where is God in all this? [They] start to ask about, ‘If there is a God, then why [does] he let things like these terrible things happen?’ What will happen to their future life after their husband passed away, or their whole family was wiped out by the tsunami? The things like that."
To help people with these questions, TWR is working to translate a trauma response radio program into Burmese. The program is called Hope Prevails, and it was originally created for survivors of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis back in 2004.
"Our experience is that once we produce that program, that will [be] like a door opener, so that we can actually reach out deeper to the people’s heart. Then we build trust with the local communities that we are actually an organization that not just want[s] to broadcast something, but we really, really want to touch their heart. We really, really want to help them to recover from this trauma that they have in their life."
Each TWR broadcast ends with an invitation for listeners to contact and connect with any further questions.
"Some of our listeners write back to us and even call back to us and ask questions, and that actually bring us to a deeper conversations with them," says Saputra.