ICC Note:

In 2001 two American missionaries were kidnapped by a Muslim radical group known as Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. They spent a year in captivity in the jungle. During a rescue operation by the Philippines military the husband, Martin Burnham, was killed by gunfire. Now, more than 14 years later, Gracia Burnham says that four of her captors have become Christians. The captured militants have been in a high security prison in the capital, where another missionary couple is reaching out prisoners with the Gospel. Gracia commented, “God writes really good stories. All of that could be happening in the Philippines and I wouldn’t even know about it, but the Lord let me even be in on some of it, and I’m just very grateful to Him.”

11/14/2016 Philippines (Christian Today) – “God writes really good stories.”

The remark came from Gracia Burnham, an American missionary who, together with her husband Martin and 18 others, endured horrific condition at the hands of the notorious Abu Sayyaf jihadist terrorist group in the Philippines who kidnapped them in 2001 and held them captive for a year in the jungle of Mindanao island. They were eventually rescued by the Philippine military in June 2002. However, the rescue attempt resulted in the killing of her husband Martin.

Speaking to Mission Network News (MNN), Burnham said there have been miraculous developments since she regained her freedom from the Abu Sayyaf 14 years ago.

“God writes really good stories. All of that could be happening in the Philippines and I wouldn’t even know about it, but the Lord let me even be in on some of it, and I’m just very grateful to Him,” she said.

Visiting the Philippines recently, she said she learned that some of the Abu Sayyaf militants who held them captive are still locked up in a maximum security prison in Manila.

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