Monday, November 30, 2009

U. S. Team is Magical


A team from Oxford, Mississippi came to Krabi. They did juggling, magic tricks, drew pictures, and did mime. They had fun going into markets, schools, doing street evangelism and performances at 2 churches in Krabi city. During street evangelism and markets, Thais accepted tracts as they saw magic tricks and got balloon animals for their children. A show in the night market of Krabi city was a venue for presenting the Gospel as well as passing out tracts to Thais. Their mime showed that our bad actions can be brought under the control of the Holy Spirit through accepting the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Students as well as teachers were enthralled by the show. Could you do this at a school in America?
Thank You Mississippi Team!

Pa’s Wake-Up Call


Pa was driving her motorcycle early in the morning. Her 19 year son was on the back. As she was thinking about something her husband said, she fell asleep. Her wake-up call was running into a large cement mileage marker. She sustained injuries to her abdomen, bruised her ribs, broke her left arm in several places and separated her shoulder. While Bow, her son, hit his head resulting in 9 stitches in his forehead. Because of her internal bleeding, the local Khao Phanom district hospital sent her to the provincial hospital in Krabi city for surgery. Staying in a hot hospital ward with about 30 other women, she waited on the surgery.
During her hospital stay, our team, and then members of the local Baptist church went and prayed for Pa. After our prayers her bleeding stopped and she didn’t have to have the operation on her abdomen. Two days later her broken arm was set and the doctors waited a few more days to make sure she was OK. Pa believed that God had answered our prayers for her. Pray for her to be patient in her recovery and be faithful in attending the cell group.

Chikungunya – Funny Name for the Effects of a Mosquito Bite


Linda got bitten by a Aedes Mosquito causing a fever, headaches and swollen joints and muscles. While the fever and rash last approximately 8 days, the fever settled into swollen joints and muscles. After 3 weeks of pain and little relief, staying at home and not recovering. Richard took her to the doctor at the hospital on the 23rd. She was given a shot and medicine to help control the swollen joints and muscles. Most of the pain has left and she has returned to work. This Thanksgiving Linda feels very thankful to God for getting better.

Prayer and Praise


1. Pray for members and leaders of Krabi Baptist Church to seek God first in their
daily lives.
2. Pray that members at Krabi Baptist will enthusiastically work with us to
accomplish establishing churches in Khao Phanom and Blai Praya.
3. Pray Linda to be completely cured of related effects of chikungunya.
4. Pray that more adults will join our present Bible studies.
5. Pray for Richard & me to not let other activities draw us away from our quiet
time with God.
6. Pray for us to see God daily at work in our lives and in establishing churches
in Khao Phanom (Cow Pa-nom) and Blai PraYa districts.
7. Pray for adults and children in our cell groups to see God working in their daily
lives.