John’s Blog | April 29th

Greetings from the Christian Mission again.  It is about 8:30 Sunday morning, and I will get a little bit done before church starts at 9 am.

Where to begin is the question. Sunday, April 22 was a day of miracles and history making events for the Christian Mission. For the first time in our history every believer who was in attendance testified to the glory and power of Christ and told of an event during the past week where God had blessed them. Second, 5 of our girls who are not believers testified to the power of God and something that he had done in their lives during the past week.  More people testified at one time than have ever testified before.  This followed the week prior when we had the lowest attendance we have had in several years. God is working miracles daily here.

Please pray for Nun. She was one of our first leaders. The end of February she left to go take care of a sick aunt in another province. At that time she said she would be gone for 2 weeks or so. We have not heard from her since that time. Attempts to contact her by Maeo, myself or Bee have been unsuccessful. She has not contacted her grandmother or anyone else that we know of. School registration is the first of May and if she does not return before then she will not be able to get into school. {Note: John tell me that Nun has since made contact 🙂 ~ed}

On the brighter side, God has blessed us beyond belief in raising Bee as the leader in our youth program. You have already heard about the seminar in March that Bee, Bpun and other teens in our group attended; you have already heard about the success of our own VBS and God’s blessing of it, you have already heard of the VBS at Kuseman that God blessed mightily. And it appears it is only the start.

Currently Bee has a team of three other new believers. First is Bpun, grade 10. Left us at grade 7 and returned last year; Ploy a recent believer. Lived here for two years, went home and decided she wanted to come back. During the process this summer break she accepted Christ; Lita, grade 7, arrived about 6 months ago when her house burned down. She moved in for a month and has never left. She has no citizenship, so we are praying for that right now. She has accepted Christ and is working with Bee and the others. They are managing the complete children’s program and have been a great blessing to me, taking a huge load off my back and we all praise God for that.

During the month of April 13 of our girls participated in a camp for Thai Classical Musical Instruments and April had their final concert and were a smashing success. Since so much of what goes on in Thailand is compulsory, especially in the schools, people are having a very hard time understanding why our girls volunteer to do so much. 🙂 But we know, don’t we? The girls spent about 100 hours in this program this summer break and in addition another 100 plus hours in a variety of English things. Praise God for his blessings.

School starts about May 14-16, so we are busy getting ready for that. We have 2 English Camps before school starts and our girls will have another 20 hours or so of English so we are praying all goes well there too.

The rainy season is started and we have been warned that it is going to be very severe this year. We have already seen evidence of it in a couple of monsoon storms with very strong winds.

It is now May 9, so it is time for me to get this in the mail and try to get another newsletter out today to bring things up to date. Lots of activities and not enough time. 🙂 Pictures of the Thai band in the next newsletter. God bless, John and Maeo and the rest of us.
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