Monday, February 28, 2011

New Ministry

Everything is alright in the world until you get to the rural areas of Northern Thailand. Especially, when you get to the hillsides in Northern of Thailand. There are a few villages we visited but this one catch our heart more than others.  We found ourselves in about six kilometers on a dirt road from the main Road. We have rent a van and because the van is pretty low at some portion of
the road we were almost not able to pass. But thanks the Lord we have good driver and he was certainly experienced driving in such condition too, so we made to the village. There we met with the
chief of the village who is a Christian too. We found out that the village has a little church building and a few Christian families, but they since has been abundant, some of the believers who have transportation are attending services about 25 kilometers away in other town. The rest were just really being “abundant”.  The commandment of Christ is for us to “go and make disciple of all nations”.  We felt the obligation to keep this commandment, and so we made commitment to send
a young couple whom the young man is graduating from Phayao Bible College in a month to the village to make disciples of these Christians and reach the rest of the village for Christ.

 The little old church building can be used for a couple three months, but I don’t think it will last
over the Raining Season which will begin in June and last till the end of September.  We are Pray that our sister church in the US would partner with this village and this young pastor to minister to this villagers.  A piece of land has been promised from the chief of the village to build a church building for them if we can find a partner church who can bear the cost for them. A simple building structure for them to have a place to worship would be around $5,000.00 to $7,000.00.  We will go back to the village again with our new pastor in the beginning of April to rebuild this community of faith for the Kingdom of God and His Glory.



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