Dear friends, supporters and prayer partners,

Although the New Year is well under way already, I pray that the year will be a blessed one for you and your families and your church families, and that you will know the Lord’s leading and blessing as you serve Him. Thank you once again for your faithful prayers and for your financial support and for the encouragement these give me and those with whom I work in “my” countries in Asia.

I want to use this first update for the year to give you just a few examples of how your support has been and is a real blessing to those nationals who are serving the Lord in Advent Christian ministries in India, Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia and to assure you that I believe that much of what is happening is happening not only because the leaders and workers are doing tremendously good and faithful ministry, but because the Lord is answering your and their prayer for those ministries. In some cases what I tell you will be history, but some of the matters will be matters that are very much of the present and are ongoing – like the new outreach that one of our leaders in Myanmar is beginning this very month. [Read more...]

What about Thailand?

As I have often mentioned in my newsletters, John Middlewood, who with his wife Maeo ministers in the northeast of Thailand at the AC “Christian Mission Naratchakwai”, is heavily involved with teaching English in many elementary and secondary schools in the area around the city of Nakhon Phanom (NKP). His efforts to help raise the standard of English in the schools of the area have brought him into a close relationship with Education Department officials and principals and teachers of the province, and he is highly respected by those in educational circles.

John has recently sent the following advertisement seeking teachers.

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Dear friends and prayer partners,

As I type this newsletter I have been back in New Zealand a little over a week after travelling to Thailand (two days travel each way including a mind – and other parts of the body – numbing 12 hour bus trip each way between Bangkok and Nakhon Phanom in the north east of the country) for a very encouraging and enlightening meeting with John and Maeo Middlewood, the four pastor leaders of the Advent Christian Conference of Myanmar (Burma) and ACGC Executive Director Rev Ron Thomas and Director of World Outreach Rev Tim Fox.

It’s rice harvest time in Thailand – in the north anyway – and as we travelled in the bus we passed through miles and miles of rice fields, often on both sides of the highway for as far as we could see in any direction – probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres of rice in various stages of ripeness. That reminded me of course that Scripture tells us, as Jesus told His disciples…. “I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” (John 4:35 NIV)

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Greetings to you once again and thank you for your faithful prayers for those who serve the Lord under the Advent Christian banner in India, Thailand, Malaysia and Myanmar. We continue to hear of pressures and problems and difficult situations, but we also get reports of God’s power working in the lives of those who hear the message of God’s love and salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Your partnership in prayer and financial support plays a significant part in those eternal results.

Without doubt the greatest need for prayer continues to be centred on the situation in India. Immanuel, FBHC President Prabu Manuel and Treasurer Regi Christopher continue to be under tremendous pressure from the group of rebel pastors who are continuing to say and do things and instigate activities which are unbelievable for those who profess to be ministers of the Gospel.
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Greetings to friends and supporters of Advent Christian ministries in India, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia.

Thank you very much for your prayerful support and for your financial support. Because of this support, witness to God’s wonderful plan of salvation in Jesus Christ continues to be shared by wonderful men and women of God who often serve faithfully under very difficult circumstances. [Read more...]