2025-12-11 – Prayer Requests for Christmas Outreaches In Northern Thailand that Transforms lives.
Dear Family, Friends, and Partners in Ministry,
This is more of an Urgent Prayer Request for several of our Christmas Evangelism Outreach events here in the heart of what we call “lostness” where God is moving and reaching down into the lives of people who have never even had one person in their family become a follower of Jesus.
Yet, God has strategically placed us here among some of the least reached people groups in our world today to bring the light of Jesus. Here are 9 Prayer Requests with a little background we are asking you to pray about as we have entered this Christmas Season.
1) Pray for our English Corner/Coffee House event starting Thursday night Dec 11 at Grace Language School.
One of the English events that we as an English language
school try to do is to have a free English event where we spend about 2 hours
picking a theme and then helping all of our students understand that them and
learn to improve their listening and speaking skills in English. The theme for
tonight is Christmas. Pray for the team from Gulfport and for all of our
students and partners in ministry that will be at this event tonight. This is
what we call a “soft evangelistic” event that builds good solid relationships
that become the context for sharing both our lives and the message of our
Savior with our students.
2) Pray for our Volunteer Team of 8 people from Gulfport Mississippi that arrived yesterday and are busy working with our awesome Thai staff getting ready for all of the outreach events we will do together over the next week. This team was sent out of a great partner church in Gulfport called Crosspoint Church which is Pastored by a good friend named Israel Cox. They have entered into a special partnership with NTIM and sent two of their best folks, Doug and Paulette Piper, to serve with us as we seek to launch Project Payao next year as Doug and Paulette come to the end of their 2 years of language learning.
3) Pray for our Youth & University Student Christmas Outreach tomorrow night on December 12. Thai people love to have fun and celebrate and what greater way to celebrate and have fun than to do it around the theme of Christmas. Please pray for all of the young people who will be a part of this awesome outreach to our youth and university students.
4) Please Pray for God to Continue to Draw “The Little children” and their families to Jesus as we plan a “mini-English Camp” for them this Saturday morning December 13.
God has established a very natural way for us to reach out to the lost here in Northern Thailand as we serve as English teachers with a purpose through Grace Language School. We teach English to about 60-70 children in elementary school, grades 1-6 every Saturday morning. It is one of the ways that we intentionally reach out into the community and bless these children and their families. We have seen many come to Jesus through this outreach. Please pray for these kids and their families. Some of them are from homes where there has never even been 1 follower of Jesus in their whole family heritage but God is at work. Here is a practice performance they did just last year in preparation to our major Christmas outreach in 2024.
https://youtu.be/Fc6n-4UiWP0
5) Pray for our largest Christmas Outreach of the Year this coming Sunday Morning December 14.
Over the 26 years we have lived in Thailand, the Christmas
season seems to be the most fruitful time for us to share the message of our
Lord Jesus. Please pray for me as I share a brief message about the greatest
promise found in the Bible which is the promise that God promises eternal life
to those who trust in Jesus as their Savior and Lord. Please pray for the whole
program which will be filled with skits, songs, activities, good food, and lots
of celebration over the truth that our one true Creator God transformed Himself
and chose to come and live among us as “Emmanuel - God with us.” And then He
willingly paid the penalty for sin on the Cross of Calvary on our behalf. Pray
that hearts will be open to receiving the gift of eternal life only found in
Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord.
6) Pray for our “English Fun Day” outreach on Monday, December 15 in the province of Payao where we are planning to open a new school called “Grace Language School – Payao” sometime in 2026. Pray for us as we take a big step of faith. There are no “Baptist” churches in the whole province of Payao but God has put it in our heart to join Him in changing that statistic and we are ready to step out with an English language platform first which will be followed with a new church plant as God has already been leading us to do for over 2 years now. Please pray for other personnel to come and help us as we prepare to implement “Project Payao.”
7) Pray for another “English Fun Day” outreach on Wednesday, December 17 in the Doi Mae Salong area where we have sensed God wants us to go. One of the ways that we reach out into our communities is by offering to do “English Fun Day” outreaches in the various schools.
8) Pray for the Team of 8 from Crosspoint Church as they begin their travels back to the USA.
9) Pray for Michael and his Thai team of leaders on Monday, December 22 as they have their Staff Christmas time of celebration. Please pray for each of my Thai staff this Christmas.
Many of you know that we live in a part of the world where
less than 1 out of every 100 people know Jesus as their personal Savior. Put
another way, 99 out of every 100 Thai people are without a personal
relationship with Jesus and many have never even heart the message of Jesus.
Lost without Jesus? Yes, 99% of almost 70 million people.
There are also over 70 different ethnic unreached people groups that live in this country…some of these UPGs are some of the last reached peoples in our world today.
We are excited about all that God is doing on this side of the world and thanking God for each of you and your partnership with us for the sake of the gospel and wanted to bring these 9 prayer requests to your attention and ask that you spend a little time seeking God over these prayer requests on our behalf.
Your Servants to the Nations in and around Northern Thailand
for Jesus sake,
Michael for the team
"...Behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which shall be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10-11
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NTIM is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization based in the USA. We are committed to connecting people in need with people who care and are focused in the heart of Southeast Asia where poverty is high, education is low, needs are great, unreached people groups (UPGs) are all around us, and the love and message of Jesus is needed to transform lives.
Reaching, Teaching, Discipling, Equipping, Training, and
Serving some of the least reached people groups in God’s World, through acts of
love and compassionate as the light of Christ. This is what NTIM and our
ministry team is all about.
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