Jesus & English

The English camp this weekend Ra Nong was amazing! God gave us many opportunities to share the gospel with our Thai friends and we saw one young lady believe in Jesus.

-Thai Village Outreach Team
Thailand

Final English Camp

Pray for us as we lead an English camp this week! We will be playing games, sharing the gospel, testimonies, and singing worship signs. Our English camp is about an hour from Bangkok and will last from Saturday to Sunday.

-Thai Village Outreach Team
Thailand

Helping the church reach out

We finished our last week in B with an outreach trip to several villages. We enjoyed teaching English at a school that our church members when to as children. We were able to share the gospel and sing worship songs! 

Pray for the ones who will follow up in these villages. Pray for fruit that will remain!

-Thai Village Outreach Team
Thailand

Finishing Well

This week has been so amazing but also very sad! We will leave Buriram tomorrow to visit some other villages for 3 days. We have grown to love the people here so much it will be hard to leave them- they are just like family! 

Praises

• Many open doors to share the gospel this week
• Our new sister in Christ
• Our supervisor is recovering well
• Lots of sweet time spent with friends here before we leave

Prayer Requests

• Continued prayer for complete recovery of our supervisor
• Safe travels this coming week as we will be visiting a few other villages and heading back to Bangkok
• Open doors to share this week and boldness.
• That the church here would continue to grow and just continue loving people well! 

-Abbey

Thai Village Outreach Team

Thailand

Visiting

We were able to go back this week to a nearby village that we visited before. While we were there before, there was a man who said he wanted to follow Jesus. We were able to visit him this week and he still has amulets, incense and idols. 
Pray that he would worship God alone and get rid of these things! 

We were also able to visit with a women who is paralyzed from the waist down and she decided to trust Jesus as her Savior. While we were there she also took off her amulets which meant she knew she no longer had to be afraid of evil spirits because Jesus has power over evil spirits. (Most Buddhists wear bracelets or necklaces called amulets that they believed protect them from evil spirits.) 
Pray for her that she would continue to seek knowing Jesus every day and the local believers would disciple her. 
Pray for Jesus to heal her from her paralysis!

-Abbey
Thai Village Outreach Team
Thailand

How many times have you heard about Jesus?

English Class
God has given us just amazing opportunities in the local school! When we teach English the school does not care what we teach them so we have been able to walk through creation, the fall and this week we share the story of Jesus. We shared the gospel with over 350 kids this week!! 

It has been amazing to see some of their faces as they hear about Jesus for the first time! Some kids have told us they want to come to church and learn more about Jesus but their parents will not let them.  

Please pray for these kids- that they would continue pursuing to know Jesus and that their parents would let them come to church.
Pray also for all the kids that heard the gospel. That they would constantly think about it and come to repentance and believe in Jesus as their Savior!!!  

-Abbey
Thai Village Outreach Team
Thailand

Planting seeds

Thai culture is very relationship-based. Sometimes our task this summer is less to do with directly sharing the good news and more to do with encouraging the church here and helping them build relationships. However, we were able to share the good news twice this week while visiting people around the village. One of the women was wearing a cross necklace. We asked if she knew what the cross meant and she said no. This was an open door our Father gave us to share the good news! We explained to her that it represented our Savior, and shared the good news with her. Neither of the women were ready to accept Christ into their hearts, but the fact that we were able to plant a seed was awesome. 

Pray for the seeds that are being planted in the lives of the Thai people and that they will bear fruit.

-Sarah
Thai Village Outreach
Thailand

New Opportunities

We have continued to teach English and go out into the village. There is definitely a learning curve to teaching English, but I think we are figuring it out! After teaching on Thursday, we ran into the principal and the principal from another school. The principal from the other school had heard about us and wanted us to come and teach at her school. 

We were able to teach at her school on Friday morning. It was so much fun! It was a very small school & the kids were very well behaved. Afterwards, the principal took us to lunch. This was so awesome as it will help our national partner build a relationship with this woman and hopefully share the Good News!

Pray for this new friend & the potential continued relationship with her school.

-Sarah
Thai Village Outreach
Thailand

Prayers for Salvation

In our village there are many funerals due to sickness, alcohol, and other diseases. In Thai culture, funerals last three days and monks will chant during those three days. We went to a funeral yesterday and have been listening to the monks chanting almost every week since we arrived. This reminds us to pray for the Thai people to receive salvation from God and repent of their sins and alcoholism. Please pray with us!

-Village Outreach Team
Thailand

Cast your cares upon Him

This week we taught a devotion on Mathew 6. We talked about how instead of worrying, we should seek first God's kingdom and His righteousness. We told each member of the devotion to go find a flower to keep with them for the week. Any time they worry they can look at the flower just as Jesus said, and be reminded to cast their cares upon Him. This is one of our grandmas, and she really took to heart the lesson and wore the flower in her hair all week! We love her devotion to God and that she's always smiling.

-Thai Outreach Team
Thailand

Principal Faith

This man is a retired Principal. He had been learning about Jesus for several months now and has prayed to put his faith in Jesus Christ. Pray that he will do away with the Buddhist idols in his home and grow in his faith!

-Village Outreach Team
Thailand

Keep Away from Drugs

A Thai evangelist came to stay with us for a week. He and his family travel across the country to do drug prevention seminars at schools. They usually get to share the gospel too! We got to help out and do some games & magic tricks during the presentations. We spoke at 5 schools and we're allowed to share the gospel and show Christian cartoons at 4 of the schools. After listening to the gospel message, a teacher told us she wanted to follow Jesus. We spoke at schools with as many as 600 students... hundreds heard the gospel. 
Pray for the seeds that were planted during these opportunities. Pray for the believers that will follow up with the students & teachers that have shown interest in the Gospel.

-Krissy
Thai Village Outreach
Thailand

P.S.  It also funny watching students get to shake a hand for the first time. It's more awkward then you think.