A Look Back at 2011--- Thanks for praying for all of this!

Thanks for Praying for us in 2011! Here is a quick overview of how your faithfulness to talk to God about us helped carry us through:

2011

1. Safe travels on our Family Road trip through USA to visit several cousins, sisters, and ultimately watch my God daughter (niece Allie) graduate from HS with honors.
2. Water Store Finished! Levi RO is an official factory, and we've spent many months adjusting the purification process and making modifications to work out the kinks.
3. English Teaching 40 Students for Tammy! Many many students from the local university are lining up for a chance to learn from Tammy and the Ao Udom Church. This was not the case 1 year ago, so we give praise to the Lord for that!
4. FDA Approval on Christmas 2011. The government gave Pastor Tae's factory its official stamp of approval!
5. DHP class. Alex accomplished a couple water treatment certifications from a top educator in the industry, by studying and testing online.
6. MM Sent/ Horizon Sent. This was a HUGE answer to your prayers because we knew we were called to Thailand for this season, but did not have an official sending agency and did not have an official recognized ministry by our home church. But we've been hired by an outstanding agency who has been working with churches world wide for over 25 years. Afterwards, Horizon accepted us as an official ministry.
7. Discipled 12 Christians. This is HUGE because last year we were not yet equipped to teach persons in a 1 to 1 setting. We've been able to invest and finish the foundational series for Christians (MM's Knowing God Personally) with 10 from Ao Udom Church. We shared MM's more advance series with 2 friends in USA. Thank you for praying that God would bring friends that were ready to grow in the Lord this way.
8. Preached Several Times. Pastor Tae and our friends in Bangkok gave me an opportunity to preach from the pulpit many times during our stay here.
9. Get the Picture for Tammy! Tammy shared an intense Bible training using the GET THE PICTURE tools (visual aids). Tammy did an awesome job, and she's getting to be a good faciitator of the material, which is pretty intense stuff!
10. ILI course. We became alumni of International Leadership Institute and are available to train church leaders throughout the world with the 8 core values of ministry.
11. Rosetta Stone 8 Units. Thanks for praying for our ability to catch onto the Thai language. We've finished the software we've used to study Basic Thai. We need more levels though, but I don't think they exist yet for Rosetta Stone's Thai studies.
12. I had been hoping to see more answers to prayer regarding family and friends who are sickly. This Thanksgiving two legitimate miracles happened when God healed the mother of Suchia who fell on her head w/o a helmet, riding her motorcycle. God also healed the daughter of our church member, her name is Phone. She had major organ failure and was given 1 day to live, according to the doctor, but God healed her instead!
13. MM Discipleship material translated into Thai! Our dear friend took extra measures to get the training material into Thai. This usually takes years to do, but this was done in 3 months, thanks to the dedication of our friends. This was critical for the success of our ministry. Praise the LORD!!!!