One of the great joys
that God has graciously allowed me to experience on a regular basis is the joy
of seeing 1st generation believers grow in their relationship with
God and become true fishers of men and mentors for other 1st
generation believers. Jesus said in Matthew 4:19, “Follow Me and I will make
you fishers of men.”
As I write this update,
I am sitting at my desk thinking about all of the discipleship and mentoring
that happens through the awesome Thai staff that God has surrounded our work
with. All of our 4 full time staff are 1st generation believers and
committed to evangelism and discipleship.
This is a picture of Jay. Jay one of our key
leaders who has been serving along side of us for many years now in several
different roles. Jay serves as our Thai Administrator for Grace Language
School. He serves as one of our key translators for Baan Athitaan Church. He
serves as one of our key Youth mentors and he serves as our key leader for a
new soccer outreach ministry that is developing between Baan Athitaan Church
and ABWE.
Jay came to know Jesus
when he was a student at Rajabhat University shortly after he began attending
Baan Athitaan Church services. What a great joy it was for me to baptize Jay on
Oct 21, 2007 along with Nong Wan – another 1st generation believer
from the Karan PWO unreached people group. Here is a short 5 minute video clip of
their baptismal service. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7c6R_dYflI
God has given NTIM
great access to many different people groups and one of those people groups is
the Hmong Dao of Thailand. Jay is from this people group. In the last 10 years
we have taken several 3 hour trips to Jay’s home village and partnered with a
small church there to help them reach out to the entire village at Christmas
time. Here is another short 4 minute video clip of our trip to Huay Khu Village 4 years
ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9-XXDOWMFE
There are 37,000 Hmong
Dao living in Northern Thailand but there is a total world population of this people
group of over 1 million people. According to Joshua Project statistics there are
some 1,422,000 living today primarily in China, Laos, and Vietnam but also a
large number living in the USA.
Jay deeply loves the
Lord and wants to serve Him with all his heart. Today we would ask that you
join us in praying for Jay and for NTIM’s work among the Hmong people group. Let
us join together in prayer.
Prayer Example:
“Lord, thank You for loving us enough to send someone into our lives to tell us
about the gospel. We thank You for loving Jay enough to send someone into his
life to tell him about the gospel. We thank You for loving others enough to
send people like Jay into the lives of others to tell them about the gospel. We
want to take this moment and ask You to bless Jay in a very special way. Help
him to be salt and light in all that he does. Help him as he serves You faithfully
at Grace Language School and at Baan Athitaan Church. We ask You to use him to reach out to the lost through this new soccer ministry. We ask that You would be
pleased to use him to help reach his family, his friends, his neighbors, his
own people group, and even other people groups. Thank You for his work with
NTIM and how he faithfully serves You each and every day. We pray that You would
give him great love and wisdom as he pours his life into discipling young
university students there in Northern Thailand. We pray this in Jesus name.”
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