Your Giving to God’s work through NTIM Is Making A Difference - Update June 3, 2025

As I sit down to write this thank you letter, I am reminded of the awesome reality that GOD IS AT WORK changing lives and allowing us to join Him in reaching into some of the least reached people groups in the entire world. Your partnership in giving is what allows us do make a difference for the Kingdom of God in a very dark part of God’s world. Every day is a new day to join God in what He is doing in drawing people to Jesus who are from some of the least reached people groups in our world today. Many of the new believers are what we call 1^st generation believers and the first person in their entire family to become a follower of Jesus. One of the people groups that we would ask you to pray for are the 3^rd largest and unreached people group in Thailand with over 7 million living in Northern Thailand and 99 out of every 100 people are still lost without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Below is a prayer card that you can print out and put on your refrigerator or in your Bible to remind you to pray for the unreached people group we encounter every single day of our lives here in Northern Thailand. Below in the prayer card is a picture of Ja who just reached her 22 year of serving the Lord with us on June 1^st. Please read the Bio on the prayer card. Your giving to NTIM goes to support us as we build up leaders like this as well as reach the least of the reached here in Northern Thailand. Your giving really does matter.

I can confidently say to each donor that gives to NTIM that when you give to NTIM, you are giving to an organization that God is using in extra ordinary ways to make disciples of some of the least reached people groups in our world today. I can confidently assure you that NTIM is committed to using the donations you entrust to us to go directly to the work on the field. Not even one percent of your donation goes to administrative office type expenses in the USA or any executive salary in the USA but 99+% of your donation is sent directly to the field and the field missionaries and nationals handle both the actual work of the field and most administrative issues. I am pleased to inform you that none of our board members neither wish to receive a salary nor do they receive a salary for their services given to NTIM but all of our Board Member services are voluntarily given because it is one way that we can serve the Lord and join God in doing our part of the great commission. Even though my family personally receives support on the field, all of my services as the Vice President and Director of Field Operations are done as a volunteer just like the rest of our Board Members.

We know that each of you are concerned about the integrity of funds for your donations and with all the bad news out there these days, we don’t want you to lose heart in giving because there are good non-profit organizations out there like NTIM that are doing tremendously good work for Jesus and for His Kingdom and they need your support. Our Lord Jesus encourages us to store up treasures for ourselves in heaven and giving to NTIM is one of those ways you can do that. Thank you for partnering with us and trusting us enough to freely give so that God can continue to use NTIM, Grace Language School, Baan Athitaan Church, and other partners to reach some of the least reached people groups in the world.  If you have internet access and want to see a short summary of the work of NTIM, here is a link to our work:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIgWaSlFo64&t=167s It is a little old, and we will be working on a new video soon, but it helps you see some of what we do.

When God called us to Thailand, He was calling us to a ministry that is committed to taking the gospel of our Lord Jesus to where millions have never heard. Some of the least reached people groups in our world today. God has called us to invest our lives in making disciples of all the nations, and we are beginning to see God move in mighty ways.  We are writing you today to say thank you for the donations you have already made. Thank you. We are also writing you to ask if you would consider becoming one of our monthly key financial ministry partners through Northern Thailand Impact Ministry, if you are not already giving. Your giving matters to the expansion of God’s kingdom in and around Northern Thailand.

If you would like to know more about what it means to reach the least of the least, you can check on this link: https://gontim.org/understanding-the-task-of-reaching-unreached-people-groups-2

Giving through NTIM is one way that you can store up treasures in heaven and allow us to be your representatives to the nations in and around Northern Thailand. Thank you for your investment in the past and thank you for considering giving in a greater way in the future. As some of you know we are in the middle of expanding God’s work here in Northern Thailand and have started a new church planting project called “Project Payao” which I will write a separate update on here in the next week or so.

Until the people in and around Northern Thailand know Him,

Michael L. Johnson, Vice President and Director of Field Operations for NTIM, www.gontim.org