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.

Global Praise and Academy

The youngest to host the rest

As far as United Methodist Church in South East Asia,
Thailand would consider to be the Youngest of all. Yet this past January we
have the opportunity to host our brothers and sisters from Laos for the Praise
and Worship Training and later, from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam for the
Academy.

                A group of Pastors and Lay from Laos and Thailand gathered in Chiang Mai for the Global
Praise and Worship training. They spent two weeks to learn how teach Sunday school, Music and preaching. This is a first time ever that an international training like this has ever been introduced our New United Methodists in these two countries.  They have learned from the basic like leading the congregation to sing to officiating the Sacrament of Baptism and Communion.

                After the Global Praise there were six pastors for each of the Indochinese countries
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand gather for the Academy where they were
also train in church growth and strategies to reach their people for Christ.

Connectional

Is the connectional really Works?

I’ve been sent here to Thailand to reach, teach and making
disciples with the Thai people, but who know I will have the opportunity to
serve a missionary colleague who is half a world away?  I am not sure how Rev. Alex Awad gets my
contact information from.  But not even a
month since wet got to Thailand, Rev. Awad call me and asked to see if I could officiate a wedding for his son and
future daughter in-Law.  He introduced
himself as GBGM missionary in Jerusalem. We have a few e-mail exchanged after that and on January 9^th
2011 I had the opportunity to officiate this beautiful wedding where a young
man and woman from two different worlds ,cultures and traditions joint their
hands and made their wows to be together in Bangkok. The wedding was as lovely
as both the bride and groom. Congratulation!