DAY 29 - "Worship – Baan Athitaan Church Style” – Tue, Dec 31, 2013

Thank you for joining us for this great time of seeking the face of God on behalf of millions who have never heard the message of our Lord Jesus. Today is Day 29 of our Season of Prayer. We originally planned to have 35 Days and close out our time with our last day being on January 1. Due to several sets of circumstance, we will be closing out this Season of Prayer tomorrow and making our time together with actually 30 Days of Updates.  We trust that this has been a good time for you to draw nearer to God and be better informed about what God is doing in and around Northern Thailand. We will share one more update tomorrow to start the year off with you praying for missions in and around Northern Thailand.

DAY 29 - "Worship – Baan Athitaan Church Style” – Tue, Dec 31, 2013

 

Today I want to simply share some of our thoughts with you about the way we worship here in this neck of the woods. God has gifted us with a very unique style and flavor of worship that is a blend of many different cultures and is what I would call very “uplifting” and “welcoming” to those who do not know Jesus but are at the seeker level and want to know more about our awesome Lord Jesus.

The term worship as I am using it here is related to describing the time in our “church service/meeting” where those who are musically talented serve together to call on the whole church body to seek the Lord together and sing praises to His Holy name.

We are very grateful that God sent us a very talented and godly young man to serve along side of us and help fill several leadership roles related to working with our young people and leading our whole worship ministry. This is a picture of Garn. He is actually not from Northern Thailand but is what we would call a “Bangkokian.” He is from the Central Thai people group. He has been serving with us for a little over a year now and is a great blessing to the work of NTIM, Baan Athitaan Church, and Grace Language School.

Like all of the other full time Thai staff folks, Garn is a first generation believer. In his “former” life, he was the singer/leader of a rock band and grew to love music and enjoy singing. Now God has taken this love for music and given Garn the opportunity to use his gifts and talents for the expansion of the kingdom of God and for the building up of His body. Today we want to ask you to join us in praying for Garn in a special way. 

Prayer Example: “Lord, thank You for loving us enough to send someone i nto our lives to tell us about the gospel. We thank You for loving Garn enough to send someone into his life to tell him about the gospel. We thank You for loving others enough to send people like Garn into the lives of others to tell them about the gospel. We want to take this moment and ask You to bless Garn 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 that You would be pleased to use him to help reach his family, his friends, his neighbors, and many others from many different people groups in Northern Thailand. 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 people in Northern Thailand and as he leads out in worship and helping others use their gifts to serve You. We pray this in Jesus name.”