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Stories from Thailand

  • So what do you think happened next?
    23/12/2010 7:13 am
    I asked this question to our Thai staff as we were studying the story of Abraham in the Bible. This question was in the context of Abraham offering his son Isaac on the altar and having him bound, with the knife raised.
  • Does God use Dreams?
    23/12/2010 6:28 am
    This is the question Phii Sa-aad asked. She had heard the gospel a few weeks before and wondered if it was really true. A team of students had stayed in her house for a few days in October to do outreach in her village. Phii Sa-aad was impressed by the faith of the students. She kept asking if God really exists. In the end, we told her that it might be good to stop asking us, but to ask God instead.
  • Christmas Preparations...to Stories of Answered Prayer
    23/12/2010 3:32 am
    Christmas trees, lights, Santa's, snowmen and NativityChristmas music tracks dominate the shopping malls throughout Thailand. Churches are in the midst of Christmas planning or are already throwing outreach parties to invite contacts
  • Learning to Listen
    08/10/2010 9:25 am
    At our Bible Study Eid, a new Christian, told me a story.

    "One day about a month ago, I washed some cucumbers and cut them up for a meal. As I was going to throw out the water, I felt like God was saying to me, 'Don't throw out the water - you'll need to use it to wash the cucumbers again.'
  • New Life Sprouting Up!
    08/10/2010 9:23 am
    When we started ministry in Singburi province 15 years ago, there was only one church in the whole province. At that point, the Lord encouraged us through Isaiah 55:13:

    “Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree
    And instead of briers the myrtle will grow…”

    Thorns and briers portray barrenness – a picture of what life is like without God. A piece of land that is barren is often overgrown with thorns. When we started church-planting work in the district town of Inburi (meaning “town of the demon-god Phra In”) in Singburi Province, we claimed this promise, asking God to plant the Gospel seed in the spiritually barren hearts in this town so that we might see new life sprouting up.
  • New Life in Christ
    08/10/2010 9:19 am
    ‘Paan’ is the second year student at CTS. He was born in Northeast region (Isaan), an area with the least Christians in Thailand. In a population of 21.4 million in Isaan, only 0.16% are Christians. Paan is the youngest of 5 siblings and grew up in a strongly Buddhist culture.

    His mother thought that he had a very feminine nature and reared him as a girl, dressing him in a girl’s school uniform.
  • Rains
    08/10/2010 9:17 am
    We practice football once a week at a local school, but we have to finish early enough for some adults to have a game after us... And it is now the rainy season. Last week we lost two practice days to rain. We had arranged for 2 members of the Sattha soccer team (one is a coach based in Lopburi) to come lead our practice, and Nate (8) and Pete (6) were afraid rain would ruin our practice.
  • God Organizes Phone Calls
    08/10/2010 9:15 am
    Five years ago…
    At Manorom Christian Hospital (before it closed), Mrs. Noot picked up a booklet, Power for Living, which she had seen advertised on TV. It contained testimonies and a gospel message. The next day she came to apologize for taking it home with her, and was promptly referred to a hospital evangelist!
  • Difficult Decisions
    08/10/2010 9:06 am
    Noi is a 40 year old divorced mother of a teenage girl. She comes to church quite often and has become part of the Christian community, but she is not yet a believer. She sells food at the night market earning 5,000 baht a month but has a high paying second job. This second job is a major barrier to believing in Christ as she makes about 20,000 baht a month
  • Funerals are Opportunities
    19/07/2010 8:32 am
    "I hope you haven't had to attend any more funerals," a friend recently wrote. During my first year in Thap Than several contacts died: a student in our English club, the lay leader of our church and a good friend's husband. Each of these deaths was very different but in each case I saw how death focuses people, causing them to think about what is really important.