1) I am very happy
today that I have the opportunity to stand here to share God’s work with you
all.
2) Truthfully, I
have been back to Canada for six months now, but I was sick for the first four
months and my children were working hard to take care of me. Now I am better.
3) Myself and
Pastor Dan are very happy and are thankful to God for your church’s part in
supporting our ministry from the beginning until today.
4) Pastor Dan and
I did not choose to go to Thailand on our own. We were praying for God’s will
and the leading of the Holy Spirit for many years. When we knew that God wanted
us to go back, these were the goals for our ministry:
a. Evangelism
(particularly to the youth and young adults)
b. Church Planting
c. Build leaders
(leadership training)
d. Establish
student dormitory
5) We have been
back to Thailand for four years. In the first year we visited many churches in
different regions of the world, including Kenya, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
6) In the second
year, we decided to settle in Chiang Mai and bought a piece of land to begin
our ministry. Pastor Dan became the pastor of the Friendship Church. At that
time there were not many members and most of them were students. We also held
four leadership trainings at our home. Most of the people that came to attend
the training were leaders from Laos and Vietnam.
7) We worked
diligently the past two years and established different groups within the
church: the youth group and the family group. The youth group has Bible study
every Wednesday night with about 10-20 attendees. The family group meets
together once a month.
8) We taught the
church members about tithing, unity, and loving the church.
9) Our male
dormitory is far from the universities, we only have six students staying
there. We tried to find funding for students who needs financial assistance.
Thank you to your church for helping to sponsor two of our students. These two
students are:
a. Sukulwat – Sukulwat (Nyaj) has been through a lot of hardship and he has
many problems. He lost his father and his mother is poor. She could not help
him out. Many times he wants to commit suicide. Since he came to stay at the
dormitory we tried to get everyone to understand him. Now he is doing better
and is helping the church with many things.
b. Thongchai – Thongchai is a new believer who we have brought to Christ when
he came to stay at the dormitory. We help with scholarship because he has no
money. Many times his friends feel burdened because they had to share food with
him. Thongchai’s faith grew very fast. He is humble and hardworking. He does
well in school, always getting 94-97% in his studies. He is almost done with
his studies and he has been helping our ministry tremendously. Right now we are
playing for him to pursue Bible College with the focus in English. Then we want
him to learn the Korean language and to continue Bible studies in Korea. We
want him to have a foundation in evangelism. We ask that you continue your
support. The money that you are contributing is being for God’s great work.
10) Aside from
teaching our church members to be self-sufficient, to give to God, to love one
another, to be united, we also teach them to partner with other churches and to
evangelize and help others.
11) Now God has
opened our door wider and we became superintendents to over 44 churches. But
there are much work to be done since these churches don’t
have enough pastors. There are 44 churches, but only 9 pastors. We cannot do
all the work on our own, but thank God that He works with us and shown many
miracles:
a. The sick are
healed
b. The possessed
are freed
c. The bankrupt
begin to become successful
d. The opposed
have a change of heart
Through prayers
the church and its members become more eager for God’s work. We believe that
God will lead us step by step until his work and mission are done.
12) Lastly, please
think about why you came to Canada. Maybe God allowed you to come here so that you
would love God more, have more opportunities or expand God’s work throughout
the world. Please continue to pray for our ministry. God has promised in
Galatians 6:9 that if we not become weary in doing good and do
not give up, at the proper time we will reap a harvest.
Prayer
Requests
1) We received a
monthly support of $1000 from the church in Thailand. However, this amount is
enough to do all of God’s work.
2) We need a
helper because we have a lot of work and we don’t have any help.
3) We have stopped
holding leadership training for one year because we don’t have the budget for
it, which also include transportation costs for the attendees.
4) We are still
praying for funding for the female dormitory. If possible, we would like to
build one in our property so we can minister to young female students.
5) We would like
to build a retreat centre for God’s workers who are burnt out or discouraged.
This retreat will be called Hannah’s House. This is a place dedicated to God
workers to come rest, recuperate, a quiet place to pray and be encouraged. We
need about $15,000 to build this retreat. Right now we have received $3000
dedicated to building Hannah’s house.
6) We are in the
process of applying to become missionaries sent from Canada.
