Praise God for His Faithfulness and justice.
I know myself that I am below ordinary do not reach the ideal standard to serve God the Almighty who created Sun Moon stars heaven and earth. During the return to the field of the work of Ph. no D (Preach, heal but not yet Deliverance) to people in rural area out skirt of Bow Win. We eventually looking for a new preaching point.
Monday 15 January 2007after long talk about maintaining accepted Christ people in Bow Win through outreach program and through GPC in Chonburi. Every Sunday few will responded to the call but not many remain in the Church long enough to know the Lord better. We have that burden to follow them up. Bow Win's people especially spend long hours on Sunday in the church. They start their day early as 7.30 in the morning to catch the bus provided by GPC and spend an hour and a half, more or less on the road to reach the church for morning service. Thank God for this provision. Many can not afford for time to stay that early and punctuality of that bus. People who come with the bus has blessings of having lunch together after service. Lunch will be finished around 1.00-1.30 in the afternoon. Then another program will follow: to testify their blessings through the week. The bus will head back to Bow Win after 2.30. The whole day at the church.
Sunday 21 January 2007we took VIM and guests to Pattaya and Nongnooch village to see elephants acted and cultural show, dinner by the beach, brief visited Pataya by night. The program too long for the guests according to their condition as we notice. We planned to shorten the next day program.
Monday 22 January 2007VIM from Singapore and guests visited us no lesson this day. He knows of my unpreparation for the lesson. Two buses broken down and all the outreach team too busy to come. There were few members left but I decided (my flesh) to skip the teaching that day. We came back to the inner route and retired early today.
This January 2007I launch the conflicts management and the Scripture on Thursday afternoon. Only 6 leaders able to attend 3 are our group another 2 are fulltime workers, and another leader. She has her own business.
29 January 2007reflection from the commitee and sounding that the church in Boh Win is needed is become louder.
5 February 2007We took the opportunity after teaching the outreach team to look and prepare to respond to their need. We prayed before we left Chonburi but there are a lot of obstruction that day. We have not lost our joyful heart at anytime that day and at the end of the day Romans chapter 8 verse 28 clearly comes up to us...read from NKJV.... And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. We end the day of having 2 locations of equally pros and cons. We submitted to GPC's fouder of the outcome. We eventually prayed similar to Acts chapter1 verse 24 ..." You O Lord, who know the heart of all, show which of this two You have chosen...to be Your place preching Your name and become a church later.
Wednesday morning 7 February 2007Mike and Sherry Morrisey of UMC called me in the morning and wanted to see places we proposed and like to know more of the reason. They have Thai language lesson on Thursday, I am teaching those few also.
Friday 9th February 2007we went to Bow Win by the new route to radio station then stop at the first location, office buildings belong to Hemaraj Industrial Estate, to our eyes we like it even it old but so dominant and close to Bow Win people. We thought it should be easy to rent the building becuase there are not much business. Many are not occupied. Then we went to another place. It is in the market place actually adjacent to the wet market. We took all of them around to see many markets, communities and factories around 5 miles radius.
During that week end decision made to move to Bow Win even new pastor has yet accept to join. We busy telephoned whether we can come to affirm our commitment to rent the place. Office at the corner of Hemaraj Industrial Estate was consider but the higher authority of the estate refused to rent those office to do anything with religious. Another accepted as he used to study in Christian school before and like to be blessed. He even reduced further and offered not to increase the rental for the next 2 years. As the Lord works so fast we have to move in fast as well. The deposit and the contracr signed. Member of GPC and the committee must also move along fast. I took a Chinese New Year break with joy in my heart that we are going to have another preaching point in the next few monts.
We are also praying for another preaching point in our mind at Nakorn Pathom the place that Buddhist first come into Thailand few hundred years ago. As luna new year start the work of the Lord would also progressively move.
We went in the station just to see facility they have. We prayed that we can start the program before the renovation of the new preaching point finished. Ajarn Jarun is as well eager to see the new point start. My advice that only important things like air conditioning, partitioning seconfloor, raise up the stage, and flooring should be priority. Extention to the roof and other facilities can wait. So that they can schedule the date that Bow Win people can expect to see. By that time we will spend more time in spearhead giving tracts to people as well as publicise through the radio station.
We took them to see many market places around the area where the potential to evangelise to those people who work around Bow Win.