After Easter visiting

After Good Friday we burden to visit people at Nong Tum Leung area. We prayed about this area for the direction then last night after Good Friday service I have met Ajarn Damrong who at early stage evangelized to the area. Many of them used to come to GPC but later all disappeared. They thought about the church the freindship with the church people but not enough to go over the burden they have at this countryside. The world withhold them more than century by the spritually binding darkness of the adversary. They still believe in false gods, false worship. The lady who has accepted Christ last year November 2006 but right now she faces more problems about her own drinking habit and her husband has found another wife some where else. As we visited them all stories came out. They really need His mercies as they desperately need His love and forgiveness. We do not visualise of what are real reasons of their seeking God. The lady in the picture who wear yellow t-shirt used to have one talisment on her neck but we have found more during this trip. They still worship everything as before even the mole hill infront of her house. Her quality of life burden us to come back to have cell meeting and some follow-up teaching.

Thank God for His mercies that as we were there another couple non-believers were also there. The good news preached but seem they were not ready. We asked for there address for next time if the Lord lead us to. They stay another area near-by. One or two spread the gospel few of us prayed for His mercies.


"Psalm 67:1 May God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause His face to shine on us. Selah.
Psalm 67:2 So that Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
Psalm 67:3 Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples thank You."

Man in yellow is Ajarn Dumrong who has heart, and burden for the area is moving up to help as Man (his name) was telling one of non-believer the good news. It is not easy to tell them, as he is not ready but we believed it's divine's appointment. Man started to tell them about God from book of Genesis and used the children's Bible story to tell the man about God. He accepted halfheartedly about God but tried to reason out. His heart heart half closed.

When we were there few addicted dropped by and asked for money from the lady in yellow. One of them breath alcohol we can sensed that would be from the early heavy drinking. A lot of works in the area. Lord we prayed that as we have limited ability and strength God, You are the only resource who can help them, pull them out from that problems. Equip us as well that we can have all we need to reach those people. Abandon children are also in this area. Christ is their only hope. Bow Win area is much better compares with this area. Thank God for the needs we have seen, both for the old people and the young young, future of the area. The area is also infested with burglars, drug addicted. Christ is their only hope.



"1Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.
1Corinthinas 1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones." -------------------
1Corinthians 1:21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
1Corinthians 1:22 For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom;
1Corinthians 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness.




We felt responsible for not taking care of these new believers properly. The Lady is unable to walk but her attitude toward life is so beatiful while crawling around praising God. They children are somewhere else at work near their working place. Her faith in God is comforting her. Her life with God in her heart make her husband seek God, and eventually accepted Christ but he still have a habit of drinking and got drunk as usual.

"Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.
Hosea 4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against Me. I will change their glory into shame.

This is another lady who ran away from the church ealier but now paralyse unable to walk. We removed idol from her house but seem people keep coming back with idols. We removed the one just next to her after asked permission from her.

" Psalm 50:16 But to the wicked, God says, What is it to you, to declare My Precepts, and to take up My covenant in your mouth? "

" Hebrews 11:16 But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

As we burden for the people of the area we pray that:

1. Ajarn Damrong or some one else strong enough to be blessed by the Lord to accept the responsibility to be able take charge of the preaching point. We can not see any possibility to raise the preaching point there. No finance, no pastor, nothing but just faith in the Lord that He is able.

"Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.

2. Preaching point to hold the meeting of that area, to teach, to hold cell group meeting, to conduct worship gathering, and expectation for the long term.

3. Potential of growth to the area that the Lord will lead this preaching point to be independent on the financial support. For us we can not see that the fund can be raised from that kumpong.

4. Church in this context have to depend upon the Lord, we thinking about house church but we know Him better enough to walk by faith to raise up this impossible. We see our burdens are too heavy to take by ourselves but He is God.

5. Let us see "Who our God is?"