Alert: Prayer's Needed

Singing during evening worship

I love to hear the children sing during worship time. Worships happen at 6:00 both AM and PM. When it is time to sing they can really make their voices ring. It just makes me smile when I hear their love for singing and hear them putting all of themselves into it. What is so amazing is they are singing about a loving God, a King, a wonderful forgiver of sins, etc, and for so many it is all a new and different concept. 95% +  of the students, (I do not know the exact statistic), are Buddhist & Animists not Christians at all, never been around any people that were Christian. 

A group of children doing a special song for worship

Registering students with Thara Sub Let's valuable help

I have been registering all the students to keep the records up to date and have a system to assist in helping to keep us organized. One of the older boys, a new student this school year, was telling Thara Sum Blet, my translator, that he does not know how to pray. He gets asked to pray at worships and after many times of refusing finally prayed but he did not know when he was suppose to stop. Sabbath, the same thing happened. It was time to have prayer during the church service and the leader asked how many needed help to pray, 17 hands went up and this group of children met with one of the teachers who helped them through the process and understanding of who they were praying to and how it is done. Please pray for these children, they really are precious, each one of them, and each one was died for and is longed for in Heaven. 

Sometimes it seems so chaotic, and disorganized, not enough help, teachers not showing up for days at a time so therefore the students have no teacher for that particular class or classes, students needing serious medical care ie. surgeries and tests, vocational training program teachers, a plan and space, and so on. But despite all the inadequacies God still can reach the hearts. He can work in the most confusing and frustrating situations. Although there are always the results of when we did not do our part when we were supose to do it with the resulting consequences. I know there are many lost opportunities that do not happen because of our slowness or stubborness or whatever, preventing us from going forward in God’s timing. I am thankful God can reach Buddhist children’s hearts right here while they are singing out praises to the God of the universe that they still do not know or understand. But He is wooing their hearts and making them want to know more so they can make a decision to follow and know Him.

One of the many temples in this land

As I worked through (I am still not even half way through), the registration process, I wrote down many children’s desires for the direction they want their lives to go, like: village Doctors or traveling Doctors to many villages, nurses, teachers, soldiers to protect their people and to become better helpers for their parents. I wish we could find sponsers for these students who really want to go on so that they can then turn around and help their own people during this difficult war torn time. Please let me know if any of you who read this blog have ideas or suggestions to go about making this happen.

One of the volunteers here from Canada, a very kind and helpful young man of 24 years, got me moving about getting the Truth 4 Youth and the health presentation programs we brought started soon. As I was going through them I realized I needed to copy off the script so we could prepare to present the programs. We thought we were going to go to town tomorrow to get that done, but found out it is Chinese New Year 2255 tomorrow, so guess we won’t be going tomorrow, but that is something to get done right away so we can begin these programs and help these young people learn more about the Bible and God. Please keep this specifically in your prayers as we prepare and then as the Truth 4 Youth and Health programs are presented. It will not happen without spiritual war. We need prayer to protect us and all who will be or should be listening and watching and the translators who will be putting into their own language. I will keep you posted as I can with the intermittent internet we get here.

Praying or sleeping which am I doing?

Two new volunteers arrived recently from Southern College. They are sisters and are real sweet, and a bit shy. I am looking forward to getting to know them better. Maria and Jabez are now down at the Sharons to do Karen language study. Emily Adams does the cooking for our 2 meals, one at 8:00 AM and the other at 1:30 PM. It is very delicious food, she does a good job making tasty things for us to eat out of very simple ingredients. When Lexi is around she assists Emily both with cooking and helping with the orphans living at the house. I hope Lexi learns how to cook Karen style so she can make some of these same dishes when we go home. Maybe we will get to cook for you sometime! 

Thanks again for your earnest prayers on behalf of the Truth 4 Youth meetings, the students, the teachers, the help needed to begin the vocational training program, for wisdom and Godliness among all who are working with the Karen people group and for the strength needed to go through all the “fires” and “polishing” that God puts His people through that they may be found “without blemish”, at His soon return!