GRACE Isaan

Prayer Pointers for SBC..

2009-01-04T18:38:00.003+08:00

Hey All

Some prayer pointers that all of you can pray for Isaan and SBC. All these are sent last year around November, so there are certain things that are outdated, I have deleted some points that had happened last year. Do continue to keep them in your prayers, keep praying, its the most powerful tool that God has given us!!

Programs Lined up
-Kids Club
i. Slated to begin Nov 1 through Feb18 Y2009:
ii. Now doing PR and planning as we have new ACT staff to help.
iii. Will invite all "old" kids to come back. I know some will not because they have to attend tuition classes, mostly those pri 6 and above, so we feel only p1-5 will be the target.

-English and Korean conversation classes
i. Slated to begin in Nov, to be conducted every Thursday
ii. Pray for good turn out as we do PR and send out invitations.

-Robyn, Krissie and Aunty Jane will return to teach at school.

-Presently there is Sport Clinic seminar going on at the church. Pray for us.... we will be busy now through next year.

Language Center – Aunty Jane as coordinator among church members, volunteers and missionaries. Pray for wisdom to know how structure long term and good programs, given the constraints of short term nature of most missionaries)

Leaders
-Ps. Pracha – pray for good health and time to rest. He is always busy and he works very hard

-Aunty Jane – time management, time for rest, for more support

-Pastor Pratya, Khun Suban, Aunty Oud, Uncle Pramote….

-Paow, Jiab, Nong

-OM Missionaries: Siew Lin, Robyn, Chuck & Krissie

Fundraising for New Land
-1st phase à to fill in the soil, elevate and level the ground. This is just for 1/3rd of the land and it costs a min of 2-3 million Baht (est $86 300 SGD)

- All infrastructure will cost about 12-15 million Baht ($518 000 - $650 000 SGD)

- Intend to start work asap, in Oct

Human resources
-Office person is needed

-That OM Missionaries will see themselves working for the Lord and not for OM/church

Cooperation
-Good understanding and cooperation among people working in Holy Living Foundation such as the OM Missionaries. Many short-termers come and go and sometimes work of ministry loose continuity

-Good cooperation and understanding among church leaders

-Church members to come out and "wave the banner" i.e. to actively involve themselves in the work of the Kingdom and uphold the church.

Outreach
-For many students to be reached for the youth
(We did so many outreach in schools and we have occasionally students came to church but not many stay for spiritual interests, so pray at least friendship can keep them attend the church. Our youths are growing into young adults; some leave for university out of Udon, some left for "worldly" reasons, our youth group is dying, pray for more youths age 14-22 yrs to be reached. Students that come to church on sunday are those outside Udon city, we have to pick them up and send them home which is tough - one way ride is around 20-30 km, our members are tired too, having to drive 80-120 km each sunday. Pray for God's way to reach out to these active generation.)

God Bless!!

2008-12-29T15:40:00.003+08:00

Im going around blogging on everything since im signed in to blogger.
So yeah, btw how many people actually know bout this blog? Cause like it seems only the LK people know bout it. And only LK people can blog on this or something. Hmm. Hahaha.

Isaan's over, okay yeah it was over two weeks ago, i know im a bit slow.
And it was AWESOME. Yeah, i really felt blessed by the Lord throughout the trip and im looking forward to next year's one (hopefully i can go ;D).
Continue to keep Thailand in prayer, and SBC too (:
Annnnddddddd, we may decide to go arnd and visit y'all in your churches when we're free and stuff. Heh, wait for it ;D

OKAY SO NOW I STARTED THE BLOGGING THING CAN MORE PEOPLE COME AND BLOG THANKYOUVERYMUCH.

Btw, this is Joylynn the awesome ;D

Harlow from Aunty Jane!!

2008-12-14T15:48:00.002+08:00

Hey this is new!!! Look forward to BLOG!!

Aunty Jane

Greetings all the way from Isaan!!!

2008-12-14T15:39:00.003+08:00

Hi there!!

i'm sitting with Aunty Jane and showing her how Kool! blogging can be. Hopefully we begin to connect with other communities who are interested to progress God's work in Undonthani.

Yiguang

Mission Preparation 01Nov08 (Evangelism)

2008-11-02T20:34:00.008+08:00

Dear all,

Here's a video of the team-building activity that we played on Sat:

Capturing the important points from the session on Evangelism:

Gospel presentation - 4 main points (derived from 4 Spiritual Laws)
1. God Loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life
Verses: John3:16 / 1John3:16 / 1John3:1 / Jeremiah 31:3 / Isaiah 49:15

2. Man is sinful and separated from God
Romans 3:23 / Romans 6:23 / Ephesians 2:8-9 / Isaiah 64:6

3. Jesus is the Only Way
John14:6

4. We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Lord & Saviour
Rev: 3:20

From experience, to present an accurate and consistent account of the Gosepl, try to quote the Bible verses as compared to using your own words to explain.

For more information on 4 Spiritual Laws, pls refer to http://www.godlovestheworld.com/

However, we need to present the Gospel in a way that is relevant to the culture and beliefs of the Thai people. This will be covered in the next Combine Meeting.

Yiguang

Welcome to GRACE Isaan!

2008-10-26T21:20:00.000+08:00

Dear all!

In the last combine meeting for Dec'08 Mission prep, during one of the prayer sessions, a thought dawned upon me as I ponder on how we can bring all the people past and present to be on the "same page" (in all sense of the word) on the progressive work done in the land of ISAAN. And wah lah!! Blogging came to mind. My prayer is that this blog will be that link that serves to bring the distant communities (SBC - CCBC - RBC - GBC - LKBC - CEFC ..... more in the future) together as we (i) receive updates from the ministers-on-the-ground e.g. Pastor Pracha/ Jane etc (ii) coordinate prayer as well as on-going fund-raising works ... possibilities are only limited to God's divine inspiration.

I chose the theme : Grace Isaan "for it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast." Eph 2:8-9.

All that we do are but responses to the surpassing grace which God has already lavished on us.

Post away ....

May the grace of the Lord be with you,
Yiguang