December Prayer Letter – Holidays in Thailand

The last couple of months have been very exciting in the ministry here. So we will do this prayer letter bullet point style again.

We had good Thanksgiving activities here in Thailand. Its not a Thai holiday, but we just thanked the Lord anyway.
We had everyone over to our house to eat and it was a sweet time of testimonies and seeing how God is working in everyone’s life.
Right after Thanksgiving, we started hard in on working toward Christmas. It is a great opportunity here to share the Gospel since it is the one Christian holiday they are a little familiar with. Though most people think it is Santa Claus Day.
I am amazed by how the church has stepped up to work together!
We have a lady (Boo) who has been a huge blessing by getting a ton of prizes and things donated so that we can have a big festival with prizes and things for Christmas.
There are a lot of people that have been at the church almost every day building games, making decorations, getting songs ready, practicing, and on and on.
This week, leading up to Christmas, they have set up a little caroling / witnessing concert out on the street out in front of the church. They sing songs, tell about christmas, and invite people in!
Just tonight, people were gathering around, and we ended up having like 20 people come in for a spontaneous Bible study.
Church attendance is steadily increasing too. We had 45 a couple of weeks ago, which isnt a ton, but we are praising the Lord for it in a country that is 99.5% non-Christian! That is 2 weeks over the last month over 40!
Our teammates the Kellets arrived safely and are settling in nicely and have already been a blessing!
We have also had a couple of other visitors through recently on their survey trips. Praise the Lord for more laborers.
Along with ministry victories, there have also been days where we are reminded that we are in a pre-Christian country and lives are very messy! Pray for us to have wisdom in these situations!
Pray for our upcoming Christmas outreach! People have been working extremely hard for a while now, so now we just wait and pray for God to use it!