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A Man Healed for the Second Time!
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It is a family we have known for over 2 years now and they are very open, especially after the family father got healed for almost two years ago. He had problems with his eyes, and he had been to regular doctors and witch doctors who couldn't help him.
We explained that for God this is not impossible, so my wife and me prayed for him over a period of months, and he got better and better. Today he is healed and has no problems.
A few weeks ago, when I was going to pick up the children for our Saturday and Sunday school, he stopped me when I picked up his youngest daughter who goes to our weekend school.
He had pain in his knees and trouble working and sleeping, and he asked me if I could pray for him there and then. I parked the car and prayed for his knees.
Last week we visited him, and he eagerly explained us that after I had prayed for him, all the pain had disappeared and he slept well at night.
Prayer Also Helped the Daughter
More Than 250 Shan Heard the Good News
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We had a successful Christmas celebration here in Northern Thailand, and we reached out to between 200-250 Shan people all together.
We had four parties at four different locations from the 14th to the 22end of December, most people had never heard about the Christmas message before, and many were encouraged.
Watch a video from the Chrismas parties under!
About 150 people came to our Christmas party on December 22end that we had on the land that we rent.
We had programs in the morning for the children and youth and food and program for adults in the evening.
Many prayed the salvation prayer in the end of our big Christmas party.
Our Sunday and Saturday school kids performed a Christmas tradition Shan dance (with the Christmas message) in all the places we were, plus in a Shan church we visited in another city.
Now we have started the New Year with about 10-15 children.
Children's Day
This last Sunday we had Children's Day at our Sunday school. Around 40 children, plus some adults came. It was a fun time with lot of games and we ate lunch together.
Arrangements and special days are always a good opportunity for us to share the Good News.
Please still pray for sponsors/donors to our ministry: Good News for the Shan. We are in need of more funds in this year too, we are especially in need for a car.
Baptism and Encouraging Visit From a Team
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There has been a lot of exciting things happening the past month, and I could probably have written several pages about it, but I just want to mention a few highlights.
Some of the highlights are: Baptism of two young people, we gathered around 60 Shan where several wanted to receive the Good News, and an encouraging visit by a Canada team.
Baptism of Two Youths
Two Shan youths, that we have known since they were born, (it starts to down on me that I've been here for almost 15 years) said one day to us that they wanted to get baptized.
One came from a Christian family, the other not.
It's a big step for those who are raised with a Buddhist background to get baptised (read more about this and see a video under).
Baptism
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Publisert av Good News for the Shan - Ministry Søndag 18. november 2018
A Woman Received Jesus
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Very Engaged Children
Our Saturday and Sunday school goes well, but has decreased some in numbers since we started it up this winter. It is mainly the oldest children/youth, from 13 years of age and upwards, we struggle to get engaged.
We have the opportunity to reach out to more children on our Saturday and Sunday too, but we are not able to do it at the moment since we only have one car.
Mawkkham does a very good job with the youngest children on Sundays (4-9 years old) and they are very engaged. The days Mawkkham does not come, the children always ask for her.
She is good at making them interested in hearing Bible stories, and even those up to 13 years listen carefully to her when she tells stories and teaching from the Bible.
We still gather between 10-17 children each week.
The following would have been a grate help for our ministry:
Volunteers who could helped us with English teaching and youth ministry- Visits by team
- A car we can use in our ministry. It will be used for picking up the children etc. We have more children we could have pick up as mentioned, but it will be a bit too much driving with only one private car
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A local couple (or one person) who could help us in the ministry. Teaching Shan, Thai, Burmese etc. (and financial support for this)
If there are anything you could help us with, from volunteers, teams, donations and not least in prayer, please contact us!
If it is only to visit us for one our two days too, you are very welcome!
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