El’s House Gets a Facelift

El became a paraplegic about 2 years ago, after a fall in the field. A year later, El’s husband left her for a minor wife. El’s husband doesn’t support her. El must depend on the generosity of neighbors to wash her clothes, sweep her floors and give her something to eat.
Each week our team would go to teach El the Bible. It was obvious to all how dark & dingy El's room appeared. We thought the room needed brightening. So we had her room plastered with cement so that we could paint. Both of Richard & Linda put on the primer coat of paint on Monday. That first day of painting neighbors came by to see what we were doing. El (not yet a Christian) praised God for what was happening and witnessed to her neighbors as we painted. The next day, four volunteers from Granberry, TX came and painted El’s room her favorite color, light blue and part of the outside.
Thanks, guys for your willingness to serve others!

El’s husband occasionally comes by the house and when asked to study or learn anything about God, he has refused. After the painting was finished, El’s husband came to see what had been done. He fussed because we had not done his whole house. El’s response was “You had a chance to get on God’s side and you refused, if you had chosen God he would have helped you too.”

Lotti Moon Totals Announced

The beginning of June, it was announced that the total amount of money received from the Lottie Moon Christmas offering in the past 12 months reached $148,984,819.41. We praise God for His faithfulness and how this reflects the continuing commitment by Southern Baptists in these times of a challenging economy. While this amount is short of the goal of $175 million, it is the third highest amount received in the history of Lottie Moon. The total amount received enables us to continue to tell lost Thais about God’s plan of salvation & disciple those who are interested in Krabi Province.
Thank you so much for your continuing support and sacrificial giving which allows us and 5000 other missionaries to reach out into the lost world!

Volunteers Open Doors for Evangelism at Schools

We borrowed these volunteers for a day to go into 2 schools near where our Saturday cell group meets. The team from Granberry, Texas divided up into 4 groups: one team sang English praise songs, another group taught English, still another group did sports and the last team presented the Gospel to the kids through an evangi-cube. The students at the elementary school were so excited that they didn’t want the volunteers to leave. This was the greatest exposure to westerners that the students had ever had.
Thanks too to these volunteers, who did a great job and opened the door for more ministry at the schools!
One of the girls from our Saturday group (Ngam, a 16 year old) asked for some eternity bracelets while we were at the High School. She gave them to 4 of her teachers and explained the meaning of the beads. She also answered questions that the teachers had. Praise God for her bravery!
Also at the high school, we met a young woman named Tassini that we had witnessed to 2 years ago. (She is a college graduate, who has contracted with the high school to sell food to the students.) She asked for more tracts, and wanted us to visit her home again to tell her about God. She asked where the Baptist church in Krabi town was too. (Tassini’s house is about 31 miles from Krabi town and for a person to ride a motorcycle that far is hard, especially in the rainy season.) Praise God for His work in the lives of these Thais. May much fruit here be produced in the near future.

Prayer and Praise

1. Praise God for the Granberry, TX & Gastonia, NC Volunteers, who had opportunities to witness in Krabi this past month.
2. Pray for us to see our goal of starting at least one Baptist Church accomplished in the near future.
3. Pray for Dow’s profession that she loves God move her to make time to study the Bible.
4. Pray for Tossini’s interest in God to move her to receive Jesus as Savior and become part of a church.
5. Pray for more Thais to come study the Bible with El on Tuesday afternoons.
6. Pray for our annual meeting in July to be productive for those who attend and for good health for all who come.
7. Thailand has been peaceful this past month, continue praying for unity among her people & a determination to solve their problems.
8. Krabi Baptist Church’s radio station has had a bumpy start with several problems.
A. Pray that many Thais in Krabi will listen and be influenced to know Christ.
B. Pray that the English program that Richard does on Sunday evenings will draw
Thais in search of learning English to know God.
9. Pray for us to draw nearer to God and for us to see more of His leading in our work.