Sharing the Story

Our team had the joy of helping with an English camp for Thai university students this past weekend. It was such a special time of fun games and fellowship with each other. During the activities, one of our stations was using the evangelism cube to share the gospel, then having the students try to retell the story. Everyone who attended got to hear the full gospel several times - both in English and in Thai! 

Pray these students will truly come to understand the freedom and love that Jesus offers, and continue to be curious about Christianity. 

-Sarah

Univeristy Pioneer Team

Bangkok, Thailand

I am interested in Christianity...

We went to dinner with two girls that we'd met on a recent last week. When I shared what we believe and my teammates shared some of their testimonies, one kept saying, “Wow, that is beautiful!” Then she made the comment, “I am actually interested in Christianity - I learned about it in history class and I have listened to podcasts about it.” She seems to be mostly curious for the sake of learning, but we told her to ask us any questions and we’re already planning when we will meet up again next week! 

Pray for Lovely as we answer her questions & share more with her about how she can have a relationship with Christ.

-Sarah

University Pioneer Team

Bangkok

Using English as a Bridge

Anytime we are on campus, we send a message in a large group chat of students we’ve met to let them know we’d love to hang out. One one girl has consistently met up with us. This week, we spent a total of about 4 hours sitting & talking with her. Her main desire is to practice English, and she always changes the subject when it comes to spiritual matters. Still, we have gotten to share the gospel with her two times and go through the creation story as a way for her to learn more English. 

Pray for stories we've shared with this student to continue to draw her toward Christ.

One afternoon, we were feeling like our conversations with students weren’t really going anywhere. We prayed and asked God to give us courage and wisdom for who to talk to. For the rest of the day, several groups of students came up to us and were so enthusiastic about getting to know us! It was so natural, and one group even invited us to go to a market with them that evening, which we did and it was such a sweet time! 

One night for dinner, we were also able to meet up with two girls. They spoke little to no English but are eager to have American friends. The Lord provided exactly what we needed at just the right time. We are looking forward to continuing these friendships for the next month.

Pray for opportunities to continue developing these relationships & have English (Gospel!) conversations. 

-Sarah

University Pioneer Team

Bangkok

 

The Light Shines in the Darkness

I sat at a table where my teammates, Sarah and Grace, were sharing the Gospel, next to a girl named Ice. Our Thai friends at that table were talking about the "ghosts" or "spirits". I asked, "Oh, are you afraid of them?"

"Yes!" They exclaimed. "Very much."

"What is it like?"

"It is very uncomfortable when they attack you." They said, "But Ice, she can sense them much more. Sometimes we will feel uncomfortable, and she will scream because she can see them." I looked at the girl next to me who seemed very troubled. 

My teammate Grace said, "Sometimes Aiden can sense ghosts, too." (We are referring to demons when we say "ghost" or "spirit").

Ice looked at me when Grace said this, and urgently asked, "Wait--what is your name?" We talked for just a moment before joining back into the big conversation. 

There is a traditional Thai house on campus that felt very dark and heavy as we were walking through it a few days before. Now the Thai girls were talking about how it is haunted by spirits. "We felt that the other day," I told them.

Ice looked at me urgently again, as if to say "I feel it, too." I asked, "What do you do when you feel the spirits?"

"We pray!"

"And then do the spirits leave?"

"No!" They said, "When we pray, the ghosts come to get us." My heart shattered. 

We shared with them that, for Christians, when we feel the “ghosts” coming we can pray to Jesus. God is more powerful than the demons & when demons see the light of Jesus they have to run away. 

"Wow. I wish the Thai people could be protected by a God like you have." 

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it - John 1:5

We are meeting with these girls again as soon as possible; they want to learn more Bible stories. 

Please pray for Ice, Popcorn, and Baby to truly understand that they can have a relationship with God like we have. 

Pray for them to understand that God, the Creator of the universe, is more powerful than any demon.

When sharing stories of Jesus with these girls, they said they had heard it before. "We were taught that it ended here," they said, pointing to a picture of Jesus on the cross. Oh, how they lit up when we told them that was not the end of the story! We have a God who could not be held by death. We have a God who died, for our sake, then rose again. 

-Aiden Grace

University Pioneer Team

Bangkok, Thailand