Youth Impact 2004

Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by
Your great power and Your outstretched arm.
There is nothing too hard for You.
Jeremiah 32:17

Finally we are back, home sweet home. Back to our cosy corner.
Where we have hot water, a nice toilet and lastly the internet.

The last 4 days were eventful. 155 youths from COS (BT) came to
Nong Khai to help spread the good news here in Udon Thani. Split
into 4 groups, they spread out to different districts. I went with Jeff
and Tammy to Pho Phisai district with Poo, Poy and Pastor Ed with
a bunch of 40 swell kids to spread the gospel to villagers. Pastor
Daniel and his friend Danny from Brighton something church joined
us. I did not realise that it was mixture of few differenct churches
with the same directions and goals that were working on this trip.

To sum up the whole event, we did tracting, schools outreach, night
rallies and prayer walking for the last 4 days, everyday. We see
many healed and saved. The deaf and dumb, spoke and hear again,
the crippled walked and the almost blind see again. It was great to
see God's grace and mercy upon the villages work. This area is very
spiritually bounded, and its great to see that we have so many young
prayer warriors working against the evil ones. There were many
distractions during the rallies and people rejecting Jesus, but we held
on to our prayers and prasie the Lord, mircales happen and still lifes
are saved.

Its also disheartening to hear from villagers claiming that they do not
have a church to go to. We need to pray hard, to follow up and plants
churches soon. By God's grace too, while we were having lunch on the
last day, the Governor of Pho Phisai district was too having lunch.
We approached him and told him what we were doing and who we
were. God is so good, the Governor gave us the green light to spread
the gospel and teach the children english. He did request for help for
the poor people, in the sense of providing blankets for 9,000. We
told him we could only try and he was grateful for that. We have
schools asking that we go back to speak to them about God, we have
boys home providing visas and lodgings if we could teach them
english and Jesus. We have people wanting churches so that they
can go to have praise and worship and listen to sermons. Its all so
wonderful. God is indeed awesome.

Lastly, Pastor Tamalun's grandmother is also saved. He was so
overjoyed that he teared. His mother is the head of the temple and
had a big plot of land that was about to have a temple built over it.
Praise God, that did not happen. I think that was the highlight of the
mission trip.

Next up, we have the Malaysian Team that is coming. I heard Pastor
Dan, Pastor Gideon are coming, not sure about Pastor Mark Geppart.
But this is going to another good! Can't wait for it.
I will try to post some pictures up as soon as i know how to.

Till then, keep us in prayer.

Getting the engines ready..

Well, its here or rather the Youth Impact people are here. They had spent a day in Bangkok preparing and they are finally here. They were delayed in their flight here to Udon Thani. God is good, nothing of a big deal happen on the way here, except for some bird flu thingy where they were given strict instructions that they were not allowed to eat chicken or eggs. Poor kids.

Well, we had to adhere to their rules, otherwise if anything happened, we not know how to account to their parents. Ok then so now the kids are comfortable in the hotel rooms getting ready for a great spiritual warfare the next day.

Before that we had a briefing at Pastor Tamalun's church. The kids were introduced to the local leaders and pastors and the people that they will be working with. I learnt a great deal here even in the briefing. We need to adhere to the villages culture and not to impose ourselves onto them. I guess that's also basic courtesy.

I will be joining Jeff's team, heading this team will Pastor Eddie (Thailand), BingFen (Singapore), Jeff and Tammy, Noui, Poo and Poy. We are heading out to Nong Luang Area after church services tomorrow. We will stay at XO hotel (what a name for a hotel!) in the Phon Phisai District for the whole duration of the Youth Impact outreach programme. We will be reaching out to 4 villages in Nong Luang area which is in Foul Rai district, and we be doing tracting, prayer walking and school outreach and we will end the day with the showing of the Jesus film or otherwise some skits/sketch from the kids to the audience, if time permits. That's only Day 1. (I will update daily the places and what we do, if internet services and time permits)

Also there is good news, I guess some of you might have heard that Pastor Tamalun is getting a new place or land for his new church. Thing is by God's grace, yes he has a piece of land and I saw the blueprints for the new church. It is gonna be grand and it will hold 500 people compare to one now which prob can hold 150 plus if all squeeze in like sardines! Praise God!

That's all for the updates...
Just a note, I have realised that I haven't been reading the bible and prayed so much here in Nong Khai then back home in Singapore. I am so ashamed of myself.. haha..gosh.. oh well, thank God for this chance..

Till then.. pleasant viewing..