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| Our dear friends who hosted us for several months in 2015 Gary & Alura |
This year has been a time of great change for us, and we've tried to focus on settling in to our new environment. Tammy is focusing on taking care of our daughter, Faith. I have been working with water treatment technology in order to provide our basic needs.
We are serving at Calvary Chapel, in Knoxville which has been our home church in San Diego (Horizon). I am currently ushering, and will help facilitate training in 2016 for spiritual gift inventory.
2014 we were unable to accomplish the goals that I personally believe that the Lord entrusts to us, but in the Lord's timing and if we stay faithful and stay the course, I believe the work set before us will be accomplished; especially through the faithfulness of those actually in the field who are diligently serving. It's an honor to come alongside these wonderful people, and to play a part in their success.
Here are some updates for you from 2015.
Thai Ministry:
The water factory which we helped develop for Pastor Tae and Ajarn Fang is now in the trustworthy hands of our friends Sing and Geow. They are a married couple who were discipled at the Engineering Factory we visited every week. They are faithful servants at Ao Udom church, and they are now part owners of "Levi water". They make relatinships with the community and share Christ with those around them.
Pakistani MinistryOur friends Sohail and Joshua continue to minister to the persecuted people who have left Pakistan and are currently suffering inhumaine conditions in hiding. These brothers and sisters are suffering awaiting asylum status from the United Nations in Bangkok, Thailand. They cannot work as the government will not allow them to, and they are continually hounded by Thai immigration police who are looking take them away to immigration detention centers.
Sohail and Joshua have facilitate many discipleship trainings using MM's Urdu translation. Several DOZENS have been taught through 9 foundational courses, and many have been baptized for the first time as Christians. They are working with a Thai pastor who has a heart for the Pakistani's. Our friends from the larger evangelical churches continue to minister to several Pakistani families every week, by providing food and necessities; but the needs are too many.
If you would like to help one family financially every month, even with $50, that will help. Please contact us for more information, and we can tell you about the family and give you an opportunity to speak directly with them, and pray with them.
It's a very difficult time for the refugees living in Thailand. We can't possibly help all of those we care about sufficiently, but we all can pray, and do what we can.
BurmeseWe had huge plans for Myanmar going into 2014. Unfortunately delays with necessary revision to our discipleship manual, lack of help for Pastor NineNile, and financial constraints blocked the door for the 3 day workshops we planned for 2015. But we believe, based on great fruitfulness in early 2013, that this is a very important priority that we pray can happen for 2016. If you would like to invest in this outreach to Burmese refugee camps (where many perseucted Christians who were displaced by oppressors reside), and also in Rangoon, please contact us.
Nepal
The discipleship training program has been revised by a Christian publisher in Kathmandu and is awaiting for us to send funds to print several hundreds for use with the churches.
Cambodia
Several hundred church planters throughout Cambodia now have access to MM's Khmer translation for the discipleship program through FCOP ministries.
Romania
We have made progress with translations for other discipleship plans outside of MM's products.
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