As I write this update, it is already evening on Christmas Day here in Thailand. For those of you on the other side of the pond, let me say MERRY CHRISTMAS. May our Lord bless you as you celebrate the birth of our Savior.
Not only is God at work changing the lives of Thai people, God is opening doors for us to go into neighboring countries through our English language platform called Grace Language School.
We are very excited about the doors that God has been opening to go into a neighboring country that is filled with lots of people from the very same ethnic people groups that live in our neck of the woods. But make no mistake there is no genuine religious freedom to share the message of Christ and to gather believers openly in this country. But God desires us to go into all parts of God’s world with the gospel and these are some of the parts that God is putting on our hearts to penetrate.
I am very pleased to report that God has been allowing our English language platform to form a special bond with the Ministry of Education of Laos and Grace Language School (GLS) was given complete freedom this past October to bring a group of volunteers from a partner church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama along with all of our staff and several teachers from GLS to provide 3 days of teacher training for their Laotian Teachers of English.
Thank you FBC Tuscaloosa for your awesome work with us. Please pray for a continued building of the relationship between GLS and the Ministry of Education of Laos so that we will have greater opportunities to be salt and light and be used of God to be His hands and feet in the days ahead.
We teach English well and our platform is a platform of integrity and because we do what we say we will do, we believe God has given us His hand of blessing in a special way to reach int
o places where most cannot reach and be much more open than others have been able to be in the past. Please know that your prayers and your financial support are being used to take the light of Jesus into many very dark places and not just in Northern Thailand but as I like to say, “In and AROUND Northern Thailand.”
o places where most cannot reach and be much more open than others have been able to be in the past. Please know that your prayers and your financial support are being used to take the light of Jesus into many very dark places and not just in Northern Thailand but as I like to say, “In and AROUND Northern Thailand.”
Prayer Example:“Lord, we thank You for the reminder that there is still so much work to be done in South East Asia. Thank You for allowing us to be a part of praying for what You are doing through NTIM as they use teaching English in a strategic way to reach into the community and bless the community. We ask You to continue to bless Grace Language School and to help them build good relationships with government officials not only in Thailand but in Burma, in China, in Laos, and other countries in that part of Your world. We pray for You to bless all those who work at Grace Language School and may You help them to be filled with Your Spirit and with Your love for all those around them. May You use them as salt and light to the nations. We pray that You would provide them with the resources in people and money that they need to expand Your kingdom and make the name of Jesus famous in that part of Your world. We pray in Jesus name. Amen.”
