I am sitting here at my desk this morning and thinking
about this very important Prayer Request that we are asking all of you to pray
about. We live in a broken world that is filled with grumbling, complaining,
bad attitudes and just flat-out negative propaganda leads us down the path of discouragement
in many areas of life if we are not careful.
One of the ways that we try and offset that
negative trajectory here in Thailand is to provide “camps” from time to time
that are intentionally designed to put us back on the paths God has for us and
to rekindle the flame in our heart for both continuing to walk with the Lord
and helping train others how to walk with the Lord.
God has blessed us with an awesome facility that
we use as an English Language School, a ministry headquarters for our two
foundations, and as our place to meet as a church family called Baan Athitaan Church.
But God has also entrusted this facility to us to be used to bless the larger Christian
community including the Northern Thailand Baptist Church Association (NTBCA),
of which we are an active member. The
NTBCA has asked for us to host what we are calling a “Camp” for all of the churches
in our association. The Camp begins tomorrow (Thursday) at noon and goes until
Saturday at noon.
We are expecting somewhere between 200 – 300 to
be in attendance with some traveling as long as 4-5 hours to be with us. Some
people will be staying in our classrooms that have been converted into bedrooms
for the camp and others will be staying in surrounding hotels. Here is a picture
taken just a few moments ago before we begin tomorrow.
It is a big event for us and our Thai staff have
been very busy getting us ready for this camp that we hope provides strong encouragement
to our Baptist brothers and sisters all over the Northern Part of Thailand to
live out this verse found in 1 Corinthians 15:58 that says, “Therefore my
beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the
Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.”
I give you all this background so that you may
know how to pray. Please pray for us over these next few days.
Soon I will give you a more thorough update on
the ministry but it was important for me to ask you to pray specifically for
this “Camp” in this update.
God is truly moving in the hearts of people in
Northern Thailand and we here at Baan Athitaan Church in Chiangrai Thailand
have said to our Lord, “Here we are, Lord, use us. We want to join you in what
you are doing in the lives of people.”
As you think about missions, please remember
Northern Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM) and all the Christian organizations that
are connected with NTIM.
Please also remember to pray for me as a Bible
teacher. One of
the most important things that I do as the Pastor of Baan Athitaan Church is to
seek God’s counsel about what God wants us to Study together on Sunday
mornings. I have about 30 minutes every week to speak to our church family.
Sometimes we study through a book of the Bible. Sometimes we might take a theme
and look at that. We are now looking at 17 of most often taught about topics of
Jesus.
Here is the youtube link of a message that I
shared with our church a few weeks ago on “What Jesus Taught on the subject of
love”
Thank you for your prayers and for your financial
support as we together join God in His great work of Redemption of the Nations,
especially here in the heart of lostness in Southeast Asia.
May God richly bless you.
Thank you for your generosity and for sending us to Thailand. Any gift you would
like to make to our normal, everyday ministry, no matter how small or how large,
helps us reach and disciple people whom many are the first persons in their
entire families to know Jesus Christ.
Until the
People in and around Northern Thailand know Him,
Michael for the team
“For we
do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants
for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5
Northern
Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM), P.O. Box 26115,
Birmingham, AL 35260 USA
Main Website:
www.gontim.org
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.
All donations made to NTIM
are tax deductible and can be made either online at www.gontim.org or mailed to
NTIM, P.O. Box 26115, Birmingham, AL 35260
If you
would like to get on our email update listing, please send me an email at
pray4ntim@gmail.com
I am sitting here at my desk this morning and
reflecting on the peace and joy that has filled my heart as I reflect on this
past Sunday and I have felt compelled to write this newsletter update and give
you a chance to rejoice with us knowing that God is using your donations and
your prayers and your partnership with us to truly make an impact on people’s
lives here in Northern Thailand. Not only does your gifts and donations go to
help support us but they also go to support our Thai national staff who serve
the Lord with all their heart.
Most of you know Ja and know of her loving and
caring heart. We just celebrated her serving God with us for the last 20 years
on June 1st.
Ja is more than our finance/accounting person
even though she does that role well. She also serves as one of our key “mentors”
for the first generation of believers that come to know Jesus here and also
serves as an excellent children’s teacher and helps us head up our Thai Children’s
church.
This last Sunday July 16, Ja had around 40
children (grades 1-6) in Thai children’s church. She was teaching on the
subject of the Kingdom of God and how Jesus instructed His disciples to not
forbid the children from coming to Jesus but that the Kingdom of God welcomes
the little children to come to Jesus. It was in this context that Ja felt the
presence of God and felt an urge in her heart to explain the gospel and invite
any of these children that wanted to accept Jesus as Savior and come into the
Kingdom of God. God was truly moving in the hearts of these children and eleven
(11) of the forty (40) children repented of their sins and trusted in Jesus as
their Savior. Wow. The Bible tells us that the angels in heaven rejoice over 1
person who repents and turns to Jesus. Well, it is with great joy that we share
with you that not 1, not 2, not 3, but 11 children repented and turned to Jesus
and had their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life this past Sunday.
God is truly moving in the hearts of people in
Northern Thailand and we here at Baan Athitaan Church in Chiangrai Thailand
have said to our Lord, “Here we are, Lord, use us. We want to join you in what
you are doing in the lives of people.”
As you think about missions, please remember
Northern Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM) and all the Christian organizations that
are connected with NTIM.
Please also remember to pray for me as a Bible
teacher. One of the most important things that I do as the Pastor of Baan
Athitaan Church is to seek God’s counsel about what God wants us to Study
together on Sunday mornings. I have about 30 minutes every week to speak to our
church family. Sometimes we study through a book like we just finished studying
through Proverbs. Sometimes we might take a theme and look at that. About 10
years ago, A Bible teacher went through and counted the different subjects
Jesus taught on and the counted how often Jesus taught on those subjects. Then
he published this information on a post that we are going to use simply to
identify the top 16 topics we are going to look at over the next 16 weeks.
Please pray for us as we started this 16 Topic
series this last Sunday. Here is a link to the message from this last Sunday
which was on the most often taught on subject by Jesus: God.
“My heart is full today as I have taken some
time to reflect over the last 47 years that I have been a follower of Jesus
Christ and I just want to say to the Lord in this public setting "Great is
thy Faithfulness, Lord unto me. Thank you for letting me be a child of God and
letting me be an ambassador for You to this great country of Thailand for the
last 24 years of my life. I can truly say from my heart along with the writer
of Lamentations that "The Lord's loving kindnesses indeed never cease and
His mercy never fails. They are new every morning and great is His
faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23. I can also affirm what Jeremiah said
in Jeremiah 17:7 that "Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose
confidence is in Him."
Please remember to pray for us as we continue in
obedience to seek to join God in what He is doing and wants to do here in
Northern Thailand.
Thank you for your prayers and for your financial
support as we together join God in His great work of Redemption of the Nations,
especially here in the heart of lostness in Southeast Asia.
May God richly bless you.
Thank you for your generosity and for sending us to Thailand. Any gift you would
like to make to our normal, everyday ministry, no matter how small or how large,
helps us reach and disciple people whom many are the first persons in their
entire families to know Jesus Christ.
Until the
People in and around Northern Thailand know Him,
Michael for the team
“For we
do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants
for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5
Northern
Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM), P.O. Box 26115, Birmingham,
AL 35260 USA Main Website: www.gontim.org
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.
Today is not a normal newsletter update we do
have to make an announcement and ask you to pray with us about a few things. As
all of you know, we are finally through the Covid 19 pandemic even though we
still are getting a few cases from time to time here in Northern Thailand. But
for the most part we are through the tough time. No more. What you did not know
is that neither Hope or myself have been on a plane and able to travel now for
about 3 years.
We truly have felt some isolation and God has
opened a door for Hope to be able to make a fairly quick trip to the USA. I
would like to be on this trip as well but it is not good timing for me at all. But
Hope will be arriving in Birmingham, AL on June 13, in just two weeks, in the
early evening and will be traveling to visit family, friends, and partners for
about 5 weeks and will be leaving out of Birmingham, AL headed back to Thailand
on July 18.
Please pray for Hope as she makes the plans for
traveling to a few states in the South. We have family that she needs to visit in
Jackson, TN, Atlanta, GA, Raliegh, NC, and she needs to see her Dad and sisters
and family in Tuscaloosa, AL. Also, if you know of anyone who has a vehicle
that she might be able to use during this time, please let us know. She will be
flying in and out of Birmingham, AL. Also, if anyone would like for Hope to
come and speak to any group about God’s work here in Thailand, please let us
know and we will see if we can work something out.
May our Lord bless you. Praying that God opens
the doors for Hope to be able to connect with many of you while she is there.
Love and prayers from Northern Thailand.
Until the
People in and around Northern Thailand know Him,
Michael for the team
“Look
at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something
in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” Habakkuk 1:5
Northern
Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM), P.O. Box 26115, Birmingham,
AL 35260 USA Main Website: www.gontim.org
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.
All donations made to NTIM are tax deductible
and can be made either online at www.gontim.org or mailed to NTIM, P.O. Box
26115, Birmingham, AL 35260
If you would like to get on our email update
listing, please send me an email at pray4ntim@gmail.com
Today is not a normal newsletter update but more
of a life story of how God is mightily at work changing lives and I just felt led
from God to challenge each of you to learn to listen more intently to God’s
invitations to where He invites you to join Him in other people’s lives.
I am convinced that God often invites us to join
Him in His great work of redemption in the lives of others but for a number of
reasons, including just being overly busy, most of us do not respond by joining
God but just keep doing what we have always been doing. The result is that
because we did not join God, we will not experience that absolute joy and happiness
that comes into our hearts when we are obedient to God’s invitation and when we
realize that God has allowed us the honor of using our life to count for Jesus
for all eternity.
Most of us believe with our heads that “God has a wonderful plan for our lives,”
but living out that wonderful plan for our life involves choices that we make
about how we spend our time and whether we respond appropriately to God’s
invitations to “interrupt” our normal schedule.
As Henry Blackaby once pointed out, “We don’t
choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to
involve us.”
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am normally a
very busy person. I enjoy doing what God has called me to do here in Northern
Thailand and I want to do it with excellence and to the best of my ability so
that it brings honor to Christ. I am involved in lots and lots of things and I really
do have lots of things on my plate. However, I am also one of those followers
of Jesus that understands that sometimes God wants to “interrupt” my schedule
for something significant that He wants me to be involved in.
A little over a year ago, I sensed God inviting
me to begin meeting every Saturday morning for about two hours with a Thai man
who had lots of questions about God and about the Bible. Quite frankly some of
the questions were very good questions that I tried to answer as best I could. It
became very clear to me that God was moving in the heart of this man and so I
asked all three of my previous Thai Staff that knew him to begin praying for
him. This man’s wife had recently become a believer through the witness of
several people in our church and the whole family, including their precious
little boy, began coming to church quite regularly and I sensed God saying to my
heart that God was at work in this family in a special way and wanted me to
spend time with this family.
After I began meeting with this man and getting
to know him better, it became very clear that this man was deeply connected with
several of my previous Thai staff members (Gae, Lek, and Phet). He had seen the
huge transformation in the lives of two of them who had become followers of
Jesus over the last 15 or so years and this sparked a deep desire in His heart
to know more about this person named Jesus who was transforming peoples’ lives
at this place called Baan Athitaan Church. Sometimes we believers do not
realize how powerful our lives impact others when they see how God has
radically changed our lives.
What a great joy it was for me when the day
finally came, where his heart was ready to become the first person in his entire
family to be a follower of Jesus. God had been preparing this man’s heart and
shortly after that, God gave me the opportunity to lead this young man into the
arms of our Savior through faith in Jesus Christ. On September 24 of last year,
God gave us the opportunity to baptize his wife. Here is the link to the day
that the “wife” was baptized:
Then 3 months later on December 11, just 3
months later, we baptized both the “husband” and their son were baptized as
well as another couple in our church.
Since the baptisms, I have been enjoying spending
about 2 hours every Saturday morning with this husband and wife while one of
our awesome Staff, Pii Ja, normally spends time with their son teaching him the
Bible and the ways of God as well.
We are pouring our lives into these new
believers helping them to grow in the grace and knowledge of our great Savior. Please
pray for this family. This husband and wife are the first persons in their
entire families on both sides to become followers of Jesus. Without giving out
too many personal details, they are also both Professors at Mae Fah Luang
University here in Chiangrai and have great influence in the lives of thousands
of university students from several countries in this area including the big “C”
country.
Please pray for all of us here
in the heart of South East Asia where God is moving in mighty ways. Pray that
we would continue to join God in helping others come to faith in Jesus Christ
and then to help them grow into becoming authentic followers of Jesus Christ by
learning how love God more and more each day, learning how to love our
neighbors more and more each day, and learning how to walk humbly with our God
in this broken and confused world.
We are now going through an excellent
discipleship book that encourages us to memorize and reflect upon God's Word.
This week's memory verse is John 1:12 which says, "But as many as received
Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who
believe in His name."
Here is another picture that I wanted to share
with you that was taken last Saturday morning, May 20, as this new follower of
Christ worked with me in preparation for translating my message to our Church
the following day. He also did a great job of translating for the first time in
his life.
I deeply thank God for the relationships God has
given me and the opportunity God has given me to use this life to count for Him
in one of the places where 99% of the people around me are living in darkness
and in need of our Savior Jesus Christ.
The fields truly are ripe for the harvest and
let me affirm that the workers are few, just as Jesus said. Jesus also turned
to His disciples and He said, “Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out
workers into His harvest field.”
God has allowed us to establish and incredible
legal platform of Teaching English in Chiangrai that has been instrumental if seeing
hundreds of Thai people surrender their hearts to the Lordship of Jesus. But
let me be clear. We are in great need of teachers. Several teachers had to go
home during the covid season and we are very short handed.
I interview new students almost every day who want to study English at our
school. We have government schools who call us all the time wanting us to come
and put on English camps. We are asking you to pray that God would send us 3 or
4 more Americans who would be willing to give God at least 1 or 2 years of
their life and come to serve Him here in Northern Thailand with us and join God
in His great work of redemption. The minimum requirement for an English teacher
in our school is a Bachelor’s degree in any subject. Would you please take a moment
and pray and ask for God to send some laborers for Grace Language School to
Chiangrai, Thailand?
Who will Go? Please take 4 minutes and listen to
this wonderful music video we call “Who Will Go?”
Today we wanted to update you on God’s work here
and we wanted to thank you for your prayers and for your financial support as
we together join God in His great work of Redemption of the Nations, especially
here in the heart of lostness in Southeast Asia.
May God richly bless you.
Thank you for your generosity and for sending us to Thailand. Any gift you would
like to make to our normal, everyday ministry, no matter how small or how large,
helps us reach and disciple people whom many are the first persons in their entire
families to know Jesus Christ.
Until the
People in and around Northern Thailand know Him,
Michael for the team
“For we
do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants
for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5
Northern
Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM), P.O. Box 26115, Birmingham,
AL 35260 USA Main Website: www.gontim.org
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.
Storms. Some
of the most horrifying times in our lives are those times when we are “waiting
for the storm to pass,” not knowing if we will get another wave of strong
winds. Those times can be very frightening no matter who we are. I grew up in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama in the USA around some of the most destructive strong winds we called “tornadoes.”
I have many frightening memories of those strong winds and the damage they have
had in my life, in the lives of my friends, and in those in my community.
I now
live literally on the other side of the world in Northern Thailand and yes, we
have strong winds too. On Thursday Night just 3 days ago, on April 21, the wind
was blowing strong enough to cause the electricity to go out and that forced us
to cancel English Classes at Grace Language School for Thursday night since the
storm was just beginning to pick up steam and it is really hard to teach
English in the dark with a huge storm brewing up.
We
finally turned all the lights off, and everyone went out into the strong winds
and rain headed home. Everyone made as far as I know but not long after that,
we received word from Ball and Jay that the winds picked up so strong that they
blew some of the windows in at the building. So, I called Dallas and asked him
to go with me over to the building to check on the damage. After Dallas and I
arrived, we were quite amazed at how strong the winds must have been to blow out
3 very large windows out of the walls. Here are a few pictures that will help
you see some of the damage.
The
initial estimated cost of repairs looks to be about $4,344. The
We do
have insurance that should take care of most of the expenses but if you would
like to make a special donation to help us, you can go to our NTIM website and
make a donation online. www.gontim.org
Yesterday,
after our "live church service," the repair folks began their work
and it looks quite possible that we will be back up and ready for our regular
church service this Sunday. Praise the Lord.
Keep us
in your prayers.
Until
everyone in and around Northern Thailand has been given a chance to hear and
respond to the gospel.
Brother
Michael for the NTIM Team.
P.S. Here
is a link to all of the storm damage pictures on our NTIM Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=www.gontim.org&set=a.719201356668507
We have not updated you in quite a while so this
is a little long. We are excited about what God is doing here in Northern
Thailand. One of my favorite verses is Habakkuk 1:5 which reads this way, “"Look
at the nations and watch-- and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do
something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.”
We serve an incredibly amazing God who is at
work all over the world drawing people to our Lord Jesus Christ and this
amazing God invites us to join Him in His great work of both reconciliation and
discipleship. Here are a few highlights of what God is doing here in Northern
Thailand.
1) UPDATE: God is Building Up People Who Will
Use their Talents To Draw Others into a Deeper and More Meaningful Time of “worship”
and singing Praises to God – Our First Worship Night of Giving Thanks in our
new building on November 18, 2022.
What a wonderful night that was set aside as “A
Night of Giving Thanks” to the God who is worthy of our Worship. We put
together a video of this awesome event. It is a little long but know that it
would bless you and give you a glimpse into the moving of God’s Spirit in the
heart of lostness drawing worshipers to Himself and lifting His name up High so
that all men would be drawn to Jesus Christ. Here is the video link.
2) Update: The Months of November and December Have
Always Been “Natural” times for Us to Reach Out with Christmas Outreaches.
We started off the “Christmas Season of 2022” on
November 1 helping the Christian Club at Mae Fah Luang University reach out to
the university community with the good news of Jesus. We also had a great Youth
Christmas Outreach at Baan Athitaan Church on December 2. On December 9 we gathered
up several truck loads of people and went “Singing Christmas Carols” in the
community. After we received an Awesome Volunteer Team from FBC of Florence, Ms
on December 12 and the second Volunteer Team from Crosspoint of Gulport, MS, we
began to go into a couple of schools with what we call an English Fun Day focusing
on Christmas on December 14 and then another one in the province of Payao on
December 21. During the time the Volunteer Teams were with us we also helped
the Christian Club at Rachabhat University with their Christmas outreach and on
December 17 we did a Children’s Christmas outreach for Grades 1-6. Our largest
Christmas outreach was on December 16 and God was truly moving in the hearts of
People through these outreaches. Here is a short 3 minute video clip of our
main Christmas Program on December 16, 2022.
3) Update God has Opened the Doors Again for Volunteer
Teams From Churches to come on a mission trip.
We are so grateful for our partnership with so
many churches in the USA and around the World and because of the Covid Pandemic
have not been able to receive teams like we normally do but let me say very
clearly, Please come on a mission trip to Northern Thailand and work with us to
reach some of the least reached people groups in our world today. If you have
an interest and would like to discuss opportunities, please write me (Michael)
personally at pray4ntim@gmail.com and let’s
see how God leads our steps. Thank you FBC Florence, MS and Crosspoint Church
of Gulfport, MS for joining God in His work among the unreached peoples in and
around Northern Thailand and partnering with NTIM for the expansion of the
kingdom of God.
4) Update – Following The Lord In Baptism at
Baan Athitaan Church
Even in the midst of millions who still have
never heard the message, God is at work drawing people to himself and
transforming their lives.
It is impossible to write into words the joy it
brings to my heart, when God allow us to be a part of God reaching down into
the heart of a person who comes from a family where there has never ever been a
follower of Jesus before and then they follow our Lord in Believers Baptism. Several
people in these baptisms are genuine first-generation followers of Jesus. Some of them representing some of the least
reached people groups in our world today. Not only does it give me great joy
that God has allowed us to be a part of what He is doing to expand His kingdom
here in Northern Thailand, but it also gives me great joy to say to all of you
who are partnering with us and supporting us through prayers, through finances,
through encouraging messages from time to time, and through sending teams, that
God is using you to make a difference in God’s kingdom in this part of God’s
World.
Here is another recent baptism on January 1,
2023 with Nong Pong who is the first person in his entire family to be a
follower of Christ from the Mien unreached people group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2jWiQaskrw
5) Update – Pray for our New Series of Studies
through Proverbs at Baan Athitaan Church.
One of the important things that I get the
chance to do is to Pastor and model for 1st Generation believers what
a Pastor is suppose to do and one of those important things is to Feed God’s
Sheep.
On January 1, 2023 we started a new series of
messages taken from the Book of Proverbs. These are very helpful messages
targeting “God’s Wisdom for Life.” Please pray for all of us who either preach
or translate including Gary Pena, Jay, Ball, and Boom and many others. Here is
the video clip of the “kick off” message on January 1 on “Teach us to number
our days.” It is just a 30 minute clip in English with a Thai translation. Please
take a listen to God’s Wisdom for Life.
One of my roles here is to sense God’s direction
for the ministry and provide vision and training to help equip our Thai leaders
and others to do all that God wants us to do.
5 of our 6 full time Thai national partners are
studying “on-line” part time at the Baptist Seminary in Bangkok with our 6th
one starting soon. We at NTIM believe that providing scholarships for them to
study is something God wants us to do to invest into our Thai leaders for the
future direction of God’s work through NTIM, GLS, CBF, and Baan Athitaan
Church. We would love for you to join us in that effort. Please see the attached
flyer to see how you can help.
7) Closing Personal Thoughts from Michael.
I want to
close this update today differently than normal by sharing with all of our family,
friends, and partners in ministry something I have shared once before but feel
the need to share it again.
My heart is full today as I have taken some time
to reflect over the last 46 years that I have been a follower of Jesus Christ
and I just want to say to the Lord in this public setting "Great is thy
Faithfulness, Lord unto me.” Thank you for letting me be a child of God and
letting me be an ambassador for You to this great country of Thailand for the
last 24 years of my life. (January 13, 2023 made 24 years). I can truly say
from my heart along with the writer of Lamentations that "The Lord's loving
kindnesses indeed never cease and His mercy never fails. They are new every
morning and great is His faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23. I can also
affirm what Jeremiah said in Jeremiah 17:7 that "Blessed is the one who
trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him." Here is a short song that
reflects my heart this morning and wanted to encourage you with it today as
well.” Just click on the link and take 4 minutes and worship the Lord with me
before reading the rest of this update. You will be glad you did.
I hope you took a moment to listen to the awesome
song about God’s Faithfulness. He deserves all the praise that we can give to Him.
Amen? “The Lord is good.” “All the time.” “The Lord is good.” “His mercies
never fail and they are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness.”
Please remember to pray for us as we continue in
obedience to seek to join God in what He is doing and wants to do here in
Northern Thailand.
Today we wanted to update you on God’s work here
and we wanted to thank you for your prayers and for your financial support as
we together join God in His great work of Redemption of the Nations, especially
here in the heart of lostness in Southeast Asia.
May God richly bless you.
Thank you for your generosity and for sending us to Thailand. Any gift you would
like to make to our normal, everyday ministry, no matter how small or how
large, helps us reach and disciple people whom many are the first persons in their
entire families to know Jesus Christ.
Until the
People in and around Northern Thailand know Him,
Michael for the team
“For we
do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants
for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5
Coming Soon: 1) Update on Grace Language School,
2) Update on Hope’s Work through CRIS, 3) Update on Needed English Teachers for
Grace Language School (GLS) with a “ministry heart.”
Northern
Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM), P.O. Box 26115, Birmingham,
AL 35260 USA Main Website: www.gontim.org
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.
