When the boy in the hotel finally spotted the visiting “businessman,” he ran to him and grabbed his hand. The startled visitor tried to pull away but soon realized that the boy was making the sign of the cross on his palm silently with his finger. The man, actually a missionary who had prayed to make contact with the Church, looked down into the face of the thin boy and immediately understood the message: “The Church is alive in North Korea!”

The next day, the missionary met secretly with the boy. He learned that his father was a Christian who had been imprisoned years before. The boy’s family had suffered greatly under the brutal government and had to beg for food to survive.

When the missionary asked what he could do, he thought the boy would simply request food for his family. But the boy asked him for four different things: to take his tithe that he had saved up, to baptize him, to give him Communion, and to give him a better Bible.

The man was moved to tears as he realized the boy’s wisdom and hunger for God.

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