Prayer Letter Feb 06 Written on February 10, 2006, by admin.

Dear Friends,

Family

It has been just over 2 years now since we came to Chiang Mai, Thailand. It was about 5 years ago that we felt that God wants us to be in South East Asia. After much prayer and also meeting with some people, we felt that Thailand is the place. The first year was rather difficult in many ways especially the language study. Fortunately, our Thai neighbours were (and still are) very patience with us and also teaching us along the way.
We had our ups and downs here trying to settle, learning about the culture and the people here and finding “our feet”, where we belong. Things seem to get clearer starting the 2nd year and have improved since. We as a family is getting better and building more stable relationships especially for Tina with other mothers. Tobias will be 3 years old in March 2006 and is a lively happy boy. He is the main person for our connections with people in Thailand (evangelist). He is learning to speak 3 languages simultaneously – English, German and Thai from everybody he meets. We think that is enough for now (maybe Chinese and Malay for later).

Ministry

Though language was a challenge for us, we managed to build up many relationships with the locals in a particular area which we felt God ‘gave’ us. When we first came to Chiang Mai, Thailand, we move into a rather poor area. We felt that this is ‘where God’s heart is’. We continue to build relationship with the people in the area where we lived for a year and since we have moved, we continue to visit them regularly. Our new house is only about 10 mins drive to ‘old’ area. Stefan is spending a lot of time with the people in that particular area and led 3 people to the Lord in recent months and continues to follow them up. 2 of them received physical healing. They do not speak any English at all. Stefan is studying the Bible in Thai and is doing very well. There are many more out there need Jesus. Just continue to pray for their salvation. This is where we spend most of our time besides learning the language.

Since returning from London last year in the summer, we started English classes and playgroup. Many kids came and they enjoy playing and learning English at the same time. We never thought of teaching English but a lady approach us and asked if we could teach English as it is a need in that area. God gave us this perfect building and that place is call “kamsiri” – means Word of Glory. Isn’t that amazing! Parents in that poor area cannot afford to send their children for English classes as they were expensive. English are taught once a week in the ‘temple’ school. Most kids go to the temple school as it is the cheapest and the standard are very low. Over the Christmas period, 2005 we managed to share to the children about Jesus and what Christmas is all about. The children have no knowledge about Christmas except it is commercialised in the shopping malls. They only know about Santa and Christmas trees and snows – very westernized. We had a great party for Jesus, games and foods and lost of presents. They had great fun and so did we. We want to build relationship not only with the kids but also their parents. We will share more on Jesus towards Easter. The children know that we are Christians. On Saturdays in between lessons, some kids stayed behind and we have lunch together. We pray before having our lunch and they joined in. We have between 7 – 12 kids for each class. We have the classes 3 times a week. They range from 4 – 13 years old.

Prayer Points

Continue to go with God in ministry
Unity and good health in the family
We will be the fragrance of Jesus to the others we meet
Stefan, as the follow-up the new believers
Thai language study for Tina
Pray for the children we are teaching especially during Easter period as we want to share more about Jesus Christ and also using English to share the gospel.

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