Jun 15, 2026 · 21 min · 12 segments
In this episode, Jim and Stephen focus on Myanmar — a country that has known almost no peace since independence in 1948. They explore Asialink's long-standing partnership with a church-planting…
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The main place that we are involved with is something called the Myanmar Center for Church Planting.
AsiaLink began an initial partnership with the father of the guy who is our main partner in Myanmar.
Rangoon was where the British had their capital, but the military, who we'll get to meet, uh, in, in a little bit, they created one of these new capitals.
You know, like you get these new capitals in a number of countries away from the main city for various reasons, and that's Naypyidaw.
But it's, it's one of these places where you go down the streets of Naypyidaw and, uh, you've got sort of these six-lane highways, and there's no traffic on them, like the odd car going through.
Uh, I'm not saying it's in a completely a ghost town, but it's, it was planned on this epic scale, but, uh, clearly hasn't been filled up yet.
So it's just one of those kind of weird places where you go to Yangon, which has built, been built up over the years organically, like a lot of cities, and it's pretty busy.
Uh, the very different place so that, so the center itself is out there on the outskirts of Yangon.
It was actually my first trip with AsiaLink that I went to and, uh, saw it and in its state then, although it's grown since then.
The main place that we are involved with is something called the Myanmar Center for Church Planting.
AsiaLink began an initial partnership with the father of the guy who is our main partner in Myanmar.
Rangoon was where the British had their capital, but the military, who we'll get to meet, uh, in, in a little bit, they created one of these new capitals.
You know, like you get these new capitals in a number of countries away from the main city for various reasons, and that's Naypyidaw.
But it's, it's one of these places where you go down the streets of Naypyidaw and, uh, you've got sort of these six-lane highways, and there's no traffic on them, like the odd car going through.
Uh, I'm not saying it's in a completely a ghost town, but it's, it was planned on this epic scale, but, uh, clearly hasn't been filled up yet.
So it's just one of those kind of weird places where you go to Yangon, which has built, been built up over the years organically, like a lot of cities, and it's pretty busy.
Uh, the very different place so that, so the center itself is out there on the outskirts of Yangon.
It was actually my first trip with AsiaLink that I went to and, uh, saw it and in its state then, although it's grown since then.
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