I know the Chin state on the northern border was forever "closed" for the longest. When I went about 10 years ago (with David "Servant" of Orphan's Tear/Heaven's Family Ministry), we went to orphanages in Rangon/Yangoon. Then we flew up into Kalaymyo up north & saw a lot of the people & conditions up there (& followed around by the police/soldiers). But I remember going to one orphanage at the bottom of a mountain that I was told the other side of the mountain was the closed Chin state. But I think I was told recently that area was now accessible with the Gospel. Not openly or fully, but nonetheless some access can be made. I love the Burmese people. Some of them I still remember so well. I remember a great dear brother talking to me and telling me he just wanted to come to America, attend a Bible College & be as lucky as we were in "Christian America". I remember explaining to him that his understanding from Myanmar of America and the church and society were way off. I told him I went to Bible college/seminary, but the best learning I have ever done has been being locked away with the Word of God, praying & fasting all the time, & walking with the Lord trusting His spirit. But the picture they had? Anyways, this people & this country has forever been on my heart. And I can still see looking out the plane windows in the middle of nowhere over jungles & seeing Buddhist temple pagodas on "high places". May the Lamb get an abundant harvest from this land first dawned by Adonirum Judson.