Christ makes a Wonderful Family

Poni and me

Today Poni got baptized. She is ten years old and her and her family have been coming to our church since 2009. Our church knocked on their door and led the parents to Christ back in 2009 and they followed the Lord in baptism back then. I remember meeting the mother at another house in 2008 and she wasn't able to take a tract from me because of her faith in Islam. It is amazing how God works on the hearts of people and begins to break down the obstacles to Christ. Now all these years later this is a fine Christian family in our church.

Our families eating lunch after service

Such a Blessing

It was such a blessing to see the Scriptures being turned last Sunday in so many different languages. My wife took a couple of pictures of some of the ladies and their Bibles. In some churches that might mean two different versions, NOT here. It means two different languages. The ladies look it up in English and then in their Burmese Bible. Then my daughter Rebekah is helping Shun Nu Tun look up the Scriptures in her Karen Bible. In our church on Sunday mornings we have people using Burmese Bibles, Karen Bibles, Arabic Bibles, French Bibles, Russian Bibles, and even sometimes Spanish Bibles. Of course the good old King James is what is preached from the pulpit.

We had a good weekend last week and a good week. We had to battle bad weather for soul winning Thursday night, but still saw nine souls come to Christ. Please pray for us to have a very productive Memorial Day Weekend.

More Souls for Heaven

We had a good amount of folks here this morning. Lah Htoo who is pictured with my wife and Nan Mary got saved two Thursday nights ago and came as a visitor this morning. Lah Htoo speaks some English, but not entirely well enough to be led to Christ in English. Nan Mary translated for my wife to make sure she fully understands. She made a public profession this morning of having accepted Christ as her Saviour.
 

I also had the opportunity to talk to Saw this morning in order to make sure that he fully understands about trusting Christ. Saw is a Buddhist, but now has trusted Christ as his Saviour. He is thinking about getting baptized and I will be visiting with him this next week to tell him more about it. Saw also made a public profession of accepting Christ as his personal Saviour. Saw speaks limited English, so I had to use on of our ushers to translate in Burmese for me.

Myself with Saw and December

Our reaching of these Burmese refugees is a process. They are often times either Buddhist or professing Baptist that don't know that they are going to Heaven. Unfortunately the ones that have been Baptist have been taught that you only get baptized one time and never again. Of course, one baptism is good enough if you are truly saved. So I have to not only convince them of their need for Christ, but also un-teach what has been wrongly taught to them. Praise God for the success we have seen thus far.

Three Different Languages at Work

This last Thursday night my wife and her soul winning partner Nan Mary were out soul winning when they came across a group of Buddhist ladies. Nan Mary is a former Buddhist herself and has told us that she has a real heart to want to tell the Buddhist about Jesus Christ. However, as they tried to witness to these ladies, they seemed mainly uninterested in hearing about Christ. My wife told me that they were invited into the apartment these ladies were at, but that there were a bunch of men inside drinking alcoholic beverages. The soul winners politely declined and moved on since the ladies seemed uninterested anyway.

As my wife and her partner continued to work the apartment complex a Karen lady that had been apart of the group separated and walked to the other side of the complex. The ladies struck up a conversation with her again and discovered that this lady wasn't really a Buddhist, but had only said that because the rest of the ladies were Buddhist. She called herself a Christian, but did not actually know for sure that she would go to Heaven when she dies. The lady invited my wife and her partner into her apartment where it was much quieter then in the courtyard.

They began to witness to the lady who speaks mainly the Karen language. My wife's partner speaks five languages, including Karen. However, her first language is Burmese, so it is this language that she speaks and reads the best. Thus, as my wife would share Scripture verses in English, Nan Mary would read them herself in Burmese, so she had the best understanding of the verse, then she would show the potential convert the verses in the Karen Bible. Praise God after about 30 minutes this dear lady accepted Christ as her personal Saviour!

God is doing a great work through our "To Every Nation Ministry." Right now the harvest has been great for the Burmese refugees, in particular the Karen people. Please pray that we will continually be reaping the harvest. Also, please pray for our other regional leaders to continue reaching their people groups.

A Mother's Day to Remember

Bamanda (left) and her two sisters with our assistant pastor

This past Sunday was Mother's Day and we gave special recognition to all of our mothers. Special prizes were given out to each mother and I preached a sermon from Proverbs 31 about mothers. We had one of our members named Bamanda bring her two sisters to church this morning that were visiting from out of town. Gloria from Florida and Brenda from Mississippi. At the invitation time both Gloria and Brenda raised their hands. Our assistant pastor dealt with them at the altar and they trusted Christ as their Saviour. Praise God!

Overall we had a very good attendance day and many other visitors were here. Including a Buddhist that I was able to lead to Christ last Thursday night. God truly gave us a Mother's Day to remember. We must never forget his continual blessings for those who obey His command to fulfill the Great Commission.