Hello Friends. My name is Michael Johnson. Well over
20 years ago, the Johnson family sensed God’s call on our lives to leave our
country of origin in the United States and follow God’s leadership to a place literally
on the other side of the world that we call Thailand. We moved to Thailand as an
act of willingly surrendering our lives to join God in taking the love and
message of our Great Savior to the people living in this beautiful country of
Thailand. Over the 20 years that we have lived here, God has allowed us the
great privilege of seeing hundreds of Thai people and other Asians become the 1st
or 2nd persons in their entire family lineage to become followers of
Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, just yesterday, one of our staff members was
able to lead a Chinese university student into the loving arms of Jesus. Yet,
still today, 1 in every 100 Thai persons is lost without a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ and the staggering reality that grips our hearts
all the time is that most Thai people have never even heard a clear presentation
of the gospel.
Yet in the midst of millions who have never heard,
God is at work transforming people’s lives. Here is a recent testimony of one
of our awesome Thai Staff who has been serving the Lord with us for almost 16
years. She was the first person in her entire family to become a follower of
Jesus from the 3rd largest Unreached People Group (UPG) in Thailand.
She is now serving as one of our key “mentors” and meets every single week for one-on-one
discipleship with 12 university students most of whom are also 1st generation
followers of Christ. Take just a moment and listen to her testimony before
reading on.
It is clear to us that God has been moving and
working in the hearts and lives of Thai people drawing them to Himself but we
sense that God wants to do something very special this Christmas season of
2019.
We have almost a dozen Christmas Outreaches planned
already targeting some of the least reached people groups in our world today.
But in order for these outreaches to truly make a difference for the advancement
of the kingdom of God, we are coming before the universal body of Christ and
asking you and the local church you belong too to help us make a difference in
Thailand this Christmas Season.
What are the three ways each of you can help
us?
1) The first
area you can help us make a difference is through your individual prayers.
The Bible over and over encourages us to pray and even tells us in James 5:16
that, “…The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much."
The famous Christian prayer warrior Corrie Ten Boom
once said this, “the wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of
not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is
possible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for
His love.”
Please pray for the millions of Thai people to hear
and receive the gospel this Christmas Season and for their hearts to embrace
Jesus as their Savior. The first area we need your help is in the area of your
individual prayers.
2) The second
area you can help us make a difference is through advocacy and mobilization.
Please tell others about this opportunity to make a difference in Thailand this
Christmas Season. Help move other people onto God’s Agenda and forward this message
to other followers of Jesus. Advocate and share this message with any Christian
small groups you are involved in. Share this message with the leaders in your
church family and ask them to pray as well. One person can truly make a
difference but if we mobilize others as well, then our effect is significantly multiplied
and others will be moved more onto God’s agenda. Let’s make a difference in a
special way in Northern Thailand this Christmas Season through advocacy and
mobilization.
3) The third area you can help us make a difference
is through your giving. Jesus tells us the importance of storing up
treasures in heaven. Your gifts, your donations, and your generosity toward
missions is the 3rd way you can help us truly make a difference among
some of the least reached people groups in our world today.
We seek to provide good quality evangelistic outreaches
that touch the heart. We do not consider these “expenses” per se but rather we
consider them “investments” into the lives of people for the purpose of the
expansion of God’s Kingdom and for the glory of God. We are estimating our “investments”
for all of our Christmas outreaches in Thailand to be somewhere between $6,000
and $10,000. Please prayerfully consider making a special donation to NTIM to
help and to join God in what He wants to do in Northern Thailand this Christmas
Season. We begin doing Christmas outreaches in November and do them all the way
up to Christmas. Your generous donations allow us to be the hands and feet of
Jesus here in the heart of the 10-40 Window.
We realize that some of you give to a Christmas
offering like “Lottie-Moon” and I, too, give to that as well and, we would encourage
you to continue to give to those offerings this year as well. However, let’s also
make a difference this Christmas Season specifically among some of the least
reached peoples in our world today through giving generously to NTIM on behalf of
reaching the unreached in and around Northern Thailand.
May God richly bless you and your church as we join
together to make a difference in Northern Thailand 1) through our Prayers, 2) through
our Advocacy and Mobilization, and 3) through our generous donations for the
advancement of the gospel among 100s of UPGs in and around Northern Thailand.
Until all the people in and around Northern Thailand
have a chance to embrace our great Savior,
Michael
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