Dedication & Acknowledgements

အဂ့ၢ်ဒ်အံၤ, ယွၤမၤလိာ်ပှၤဒ်အံၤ, ယပာ်နၤလၢ ပှၤကလုာ်တဖၣ်အတၢ်ကပီၤအဂီၢ်, ဒ်သိးနကကဲထီၣ် တၢ်အုၣ်က့ၤခီၣ်က့ၤတၢ်ပၢၢ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်အကတၢၢ်လီၤ. 
မၤတၢ် ၁၃:၄၇

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’” 
Acts 13:47

ဆူယွၤ – မ်ပတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိဟဲစိာ် တၢ်မၤလၤကပီၤ, တၢ်ယူးယီၣ်, ဒီးတၢ်စံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤနၤတက့ၢ်. အၤမ့ၣ်.
To God, may our stories bring glory, honor and praises to You! Amen. 

ဆူပဖိပလံၤတဖၣ် – မ်ပတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိမၤဆူၣ်ထီၣ်နတၢ်စူၢ်တၢ်နာ်တက့ၢ်. 
To our children, may our stories strengthen your faith in Jesus Christ!

ဆူပခရံာ်ဖိဒီပုၢ်ဝဲၢ်တဖၣ် – မ်ပတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိထိၣ်ဟူးထိၣ်ဂဲၤနၤလၢနကဟ့ၣ်ခီဟ့ၣ်နီၤလီၤနတၢ်အုၣ်သးန့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.
To our Christian brothers and sisters, may our stories inspire you to share your own testimony! 

ဒီးဆူပှၤတဂၤလၢအဖးဘၣ်ကညီဖိအတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိ – မ်တၢ်ထံၣ်ဘၣ်ယွၤအစုအတၢ်မၤတဖၣ် လၢပတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိအပူၤ ကဟ့ၣ်ဂံၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ဘါ နၤလၢနကတူၢ်လိာ်ခရံာ်အတၢ်သးခုကစီၣ်လၢတၢ်သးခုအပူၤတက့ၢ်. 
And to the person who reads Karen stories, may seeing God’s hand in our stories encourage you to receive the Good News with gladness!`

Special Thanks to:
All the contributors who shared their stories so willingly, the story-collectors, the typists, the translators, the proofreaders, the musicians, the narrators, the media team, the website administrator, the communicators, those whose work in this project cannot be defined by a singular designation, and the prayer warriors whose prayers uplifted the rest of us wonderfully so that we might be equipped for His work.

တၢ်စံးဘျုးစံးဖှိၣ်လီၤလီၤဆီဆီဆူ – 
ပှၤကွဲးတၢ်ခဲလၢာ်လၢအဟ့ၣ်ထီၣ်အတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိ, တၢ်အုၣ်သး တဖၣ် လၢတၢ်သူၣ်အိၣ်သးအိၣ်, ပှၤရဲၣ်ကျဲၤ ပှၤကွဲးတၢ် ဒီးပာ်ဖှိၣ်ထီၣ်တၢ်ကွဲးတဖၣ်, ပှၤဒိလံာ်ဒိလဲၢ်တဖၣ်, ပှၤကွဲးကျိာ်ထံတၢ်တဖၣ်, ပှၤဖးဒီးဘှီဘၣ်က့ၤတၢ်ကွဲးသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်, ပှၤမၤစၢၤတၢ် လၢတၢ်သံကျံ, တၢ်သွီကလုၢ်, တၢ်ဒိတၢ်ဂီၤ, တၢ်ဂီၤမူ တဖၣ်, ပှၤရဲၣ်ကျဲၤအ့ထၢၣ်နဲးပှာ်ယဲၤသန့, ပှၤဆဲးကျၢ ဆဲးကျိးတၢ်တဖၣ်, ပှၤအဂၤသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် လၢမၤစၢၤတၢ် လၢကျဲအါဘိ လၢပဂံၢ်ထီၣ်တလၢာ်, ဒီး ပှၤဘါထုကဖၣ် တၢ်လၢတၢ်မၤတခါအံၤ ကကဲထီၣ်လိၣ်ထီၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.

The “Karen Stories for God’s Glory” ministry is supported by:
American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS)
Friends of Burma (FOB)
Mission Flourish

Photos by Naw Amy