A
fter seven months in the This is true both to children and
mission field God gives
us a clearer direction on
what path to walk on in our
ministry. He is giving us a focus.
As Filipino missionaries this is
crucial. We neither have a team
nor an organization who would
guide us what to do nor would just
give us roles in a structured
organization. Given this situation
it is easy to lost focus. However,
we believe that that God would
reveal His will to those who are
fully dependent on Him. God put
us in a situation where our
ministries will have a greater
impact in the local community.
Narlin’s Christian
Education Ministry
I
t is very clear that Narlin is
most effective with her
ministry with the children.
Her role in the children ministry is
essential to Grace International
Church’s vision in reaching out to
non-Christian. Besides teaching
children, she has opportunity to
minister to non-Christian parents
and lead them to a saving faith in
our Lord Jesus Christ. The
strength of her ministry lies on her
ability to make friends and make
people feel that they are important.
greater impact in community in
their parents. Her training in
community health gives here the
ability to care for the children who
have diseases and sick.
Furthermore, the church asked her
to be the Sunday School director.
She will be in charge of the entire
Christian education of the church.
The job of organizing seminars and
workshop for Sunday School
teachers and leaders of children
worship fall on her shoulders. This
includes organizing English camps
and Daily Vacation Bible School
during the summer.
For some this may look easy, but as
a foreigner working in
“unorganized” church and working
with people of different worldview
and cultures makes the task doubly
difficult.
However, we believe that God is
using her where she is most
effective and where she will have a
terms of evangelism and
empowering local people to
minister and evangelize their own
people.
Joey’s Theological
Education and Training
Ministry
J
oey preaches regularly and
considered to be the Pastor
of Mae Sai Grace
International Church. He is given
full responsibility for the morning
worship program. Since he is the
only ordained Pastor around, he is
expected to officiate the
ordinances. Together with Pastor
Shin Maung (the church’s senior
pastor), Angela (Wa Baptist
Convention Secretary General) and
Narlin, he helped organized the
international congregation worship.
The worship service is now well
attended and perhaps preferred by
Christians who happened to visit
the place.
Through preaching, he is ainstilling
the vision among fellow Christians
and missionaries to be united in
reaching the unreached people
groups in the region which is in
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abundance in this region.
Missionaries on the field need to have
a coordinated work and prayer time
together.
In addition, Pastor Shin Maung is
deeply concern with the lack of
theological training and education of
the pastors and church leaders in the
border of Thailand and Myanmar.
Together we envision a church- based
Bible school which is accessible both
to Thais and Myanmar people.
We know that this undertaking is not
possible without a working
partnership with an established and
reputable institution. This program
will be done in partnership with
Philippine Baptist Theological
Seminary (PBTS) being coordinated
through its current president, Dr.
Joyce Abugan. Theological Myanmar using different means and
education will be done through methods of teaching that includes the
Seminary Education by Extension use of the internet. We pray that
(SEE). The training will start as these trainings will be a venue for a
soon as the textbooks are available. dialogue to make the gospel—the
story of Jesus more understandable
We believe that this ministry would and acceptable to the predominantly
also have a greater impact on Buddhist country.
making Christ known in this region.
It will train local leaders in their
biblical and theological knowledge,
who in turn can transfer their
knowledge to local Christians who
obviously are more effective doing
these things than foreigner
missionaries.
Because of the lack of qualified
theological teachers, we are praying
that we can extend this effort in
other parts of Thailand and

W
e are begging you to pray
for us without ceasing. I
hope that the words of
the apostle Paul in Phil. 1:4-6 may
also be true in our lives
In all my prayers for all of you, I
always pray with joy because of your
partnership in the gospel from the
first day until now, being confident of
this, that he who began a good work
in you will carry it on to completion
until the day of Christ Jesus.
First, we want to praise the Lord for
his provisions for our children’s
schooling. A big amount was needed
just to start the home schooling pro-
gram and God provided people who
helped us arrange with Living Heri-
tage Academy in Paranaque. We are
thankful for the people who helped
us financially.
Second, we are thankful to the Lord
that we are granted 3-month non-
immigrant visa. However, a substan-
tial amount of our support went with
it. Please pray for us as we need to
extend it to one year this coming
September 21. We need at least U$ 500
more for the extension. However, after
this we only need to renew our visa
every year.
Third, please pray for a more regular
support. We are thankful to the Lord for
the financial supports that come to us.
We are doubly grateful that those sup-
ports came just at the right time when
we need them the most. However, as
time goes by, the supports become more
irregular both in amount and frequency.
Fourth, pray for our respective minis-
tries mentioned above. The Lord im-
pressed upon us that we need to focus
on these ministries (for the meantime)
as we find it very difficult to work with
local people because of language and
different culture.
Fifth, we are praying for a motorcycle
we can use in our daily ministry. We
found out lately that the old motorcycle
we are using are not registered because
it was pawned by its previous user and
it does not have proper documentation.
Sixth, please pray for our plan to hold
an English Camp this October. This is
an opportunity to share the gospel to
the students. We are also praying that
our friend who are planning this with
us will become a Christian.
Seventh, please pray as we struggle to
learn the language. A Filipino mis-
sionary who speaks good Thai volun-
teers to teach us Thai together with
another Filipino missionary family
Thai for free.
Finally, pray also for other PGM mis-
sionaries who are ministering here in
Thailand. Jepth and Apple Garcia as
their Hope Children House are also
running out of funds. Ate Imel Tabije
for her health and her MY CENTER
ministry. Pappet with their Elpis
School in Mae Sot. Pray also for Chit
Panizales for her visa and ministries.