From the Streets of Bangkok to Hope

There are children in Bangkok that are born in the dark corners of the red-light district. Asias Little Ones partners with brave missionaries called by God to share the love of Jesus in these streets. Offering help, prayer, and bringing the love of Jesus to those enslaved by evil in these places is no small feat and is foolish without the power of the Holy Spirit. While visiting this ministry, I walked these streets during the day with the team and we prayed fervently for the ministry that would take place later when the streets were dark and full of people. Please pray with me for the many innocent children born into this place. Pray for the cycle of violence and exploitation to stop. Bangkok is known world wide for it’s human trafficking districts. Sin is so tangible here, and the value of life so little that people are bought and sold for selfish gratification and treated as currency.

Praise God we know that ultimately faith, hope, and love will conquer because of the blessed hope we have in Jesus! We know that even in these dark places of the world God will win. He is the God of restoration, a conquering hero, the God of Justice, and one day Jesus will return and set all things right. So we pray boldly, we walk boldly, and we declare hope even here. Pray the Kingdom of God come to the streets of Bangkok with us!

From Civil Unrest to Hope in Jesus

Following a military coup in 2021 and intense civil unrest, My*nm*r has worked hard to expel foreigners. They expelled media and isolated their people off from the rest of the world. They have also increasingly persecuted and marginalized certain people groups. Many My*nm*r peoples have fled to nearby countries like Thailand where it is better to live stateless and sometimes in great poverty than to live in fear for their lives, and the lives of their children.

In late October, I went to the border of these two countries to help dedicate a school opening for them. Thanks to the cooperative effort of Asia’s Little Ones, the local Thai church, and others, this will be the first school many of these stateless refugee children have attended in many years. 

The refugee’s focus has been clinging to survival because of civil unrest, ethnic discrimination, language barriers and so many other obstacle. But praise the Lord for a new day and the hope for a brighter future that the gift of education provides.

During my time of ministry there, I traveled with a team of missionaries that spoke B*rmese or Thai, a Thai pastor, and a short-term church team from New York. We first visited the refugee families and brought them some food. We spent time in their homes, prayed with them, and invited them to the school dedication and church service the following day. 

Every one of the new students has an incredible story, but one image that sticks with me is the light in the eyes of a young girl of 12 excited about being in 1st grade this year. Literacy and education is a gift. She knows it, and is eagerly excited to get started. 

After the school dedication ceremony, all the families stayed for the church service and fellowship time.  While visiting with the parents, one after another said, “Jesus,” was a name they had never heard before. In this place an Asia’s Little Ones education project has intersected with the Never Reached.  Please pray for these families as they now for the first time ever, have access to the gospel, and christians who desire to  explain about Jesus, and lovingly disciple them. Please pray for them that they will be able to shake off the bondages, fears and hopelessness of Buddhism that have entangled them and their ancestors for centuries.  

As you join us in praying for Buddhists, please check out changethemap.net a webpage dedicated to helping people pray effectively for the Buddhist World.

World AG Fellowship - Madrid, Spain

It was an honor and a privilege to participate in the World AG Fellowship recently. We are part of such an incredible Worldwide Assemblies of God Fellowship. I love hearing from all our brothers and sisters and the amazing things God is doing from the corners of so many nations and peoples.  

We received a double blessing in Madrid because not only did we get to be part of the gathering of the AG World Fellowship with our Asia Pacific Leadership team, by being encouraged and building stronger relationships. Tim and I also celebrated our 20 year anniversary while in Spain!  Praise the Lord for such a blessed week.

The Gospel is Going to the Hard to Reach Places

Someone is waiting…

Growing up I lived in a little trailer, and nearly all the neighbor kids around me were refugees from a peninsular Asian country that embraced communism after the conflicts that took place there in the 70’s.  These children were my first exposure to the world of Asia Pacific, so it was very exciting to go to their home country this fall and visit the Asia’s Little Ones affiliated project there that over the years has transformed the lives of hundreds of children, and has been a creative access ministry platform for our kingdom workers to serve there, share the gospel, disciple new believers and plant the church! 

Because it is a sensitive country I will not name the place and will refer to the ministry by its initials LC, but it is a ministry that has grown from small beginnings, ministering to a handful of street children of the outcast ethnicity, to now serving a hot meal to roughly 100 children daily!  These children faithfully attend classes for English and Mandarin, and receive tutoring, and life skills training that has made all the difference in their lives, and empowers them to a better future.  For the students and families they also get to meet followers of Jesus and hear the Good News of the Gospel for the first time.  So many of them have watched the followers of Jesus carefully for many years and over time LC can boast that every single person affiliated and working with them is now also a follower of Jesus!  

Recently, LC opened a coffee shop next to its campus to continue outreach and serving in the community after school hours, provide greater opportunities in skills training, and maybe someday aid in the financial cost of the ministry of LC.  

I love all the projects I get to be part of because of Asia’s Little Ones. It’s exciting that this particular compassion project for children’s health and education has become the catalyst for planting the church and providing kingdom worker’s visas! I am especially excited for what the future holds in this “closed” country. 

No place is really “closed” to the gospel if you follow the creativity and leading of the Holy Spirit.  And you can see the church birthed anywhere, if you are willing to sacrifice, and willing to endure for as long as it takes by the power of the Holy Spirit.  

I believe someone who reads this ministry update will be called to a hard place that others feel is impossible or just too difficult. If that is you, I urge you to obey God’s leading immediately. Reach out to us so we can pray for you and help you in your journey however we can, and take steps of faith even if others think you are nuts. The best Christmas present you can possibly give, is to give Jesus your “yes”. The Never Reached have waited long enough for the Gospel.  Someone is waiting for you.