 but here to be the hand and feet of Jesus in the midst of the dark days. And church planters in rural Indonesia say they can face persecution and oppression. What's hard is when you're starving with little support. Bruce Allen with FMI says. One pastor told me that he was fasting, he and his family, and he had a two-year-old daughter at the time. We're fasting four days a week, not because we're super spiritual, but because we have no food.