Praise the Lord! Over
100 people of Lisu and Wa in Burma plus Lahu from Thailand
have seen God’s grace and turned away from worshipping the evil ones to the Living God and
His son, Jesus Christ as their own God and Lord through faith and baptism. Several dozen Wa people are still waiting at
the moment to receive the baptism; however, our evangelist, Kalip and his
teammates could not make it to the village in the past weekend due to Kalip’s
health problem.
We are thankful to God who is moving among us and blessing
us abundantly through our evangelistic efforts.
He has stretched out his gracious hands in saving people who live in the
darkness through the Gospel of Jesus’ redemption. We are also grateful for your faithful partnership
with our mission works. Because of you,
we have been blessed greatly, without your partnering we would not be able to
do what we have done. Finally, we are
thankful for our teammates and evangelists who tirelessly serve our Living God
and Lord in carrying out the Great Commission to the lost people in Southeast
Asia and China .
Our evangelist, Kalip, with new converts among Wa people
Baptism among Lahu in Thailand (Yasa)
The Bible conference on June 17-23 at Chiang Dao area was a real blessing one. Praise the Lord! This happened because of your prayers! At first, we thought we would offer a family
conference for churches at Chiang Dao area.
It turned out to be a Bible conference due to the health problem of our
main speaker. We also turned church into
bible classes so that church leaders would be able to be rooted and based on
God’s Word. We have hardly seen such
hungry people for God’s Word like this in Thailand . A 54 year old leader came to us one night
with tears in his eyes saying, “I haven’t seen this for the past 20 years. I am very happy for this conference and I am
looking for more conferences at our church in the following years.” His words did really encourage us to continue
to be faithful to and focus on God’s Word in every aspect of our lives and ministry.
Stephen is teaching at the Bible conference
Ah Lay Bo is teaching at the Bible conference
At the moment, Asian International Seminary is considering whether we
should or we shouldn’t offer biblical exegetical courses to another group of
Christian leaders from Burma . The first group of our students, mostly are
Christian leaders from Thailand ,
has completed their studying courses.
The second group, from the central of Burma , is now at the verge of
completing their courses. Recently, we
have received a strong request from Christian leaders from the north of Burma ,
particularly Myitkyina.
If this is the Lord’s will, AIS will accept 5-7 Christian
leaders. They will come to Chiangmai to
study with us for a block of time, about 45-50 days. Then they have to go back to their homes and
to continue their ministries. They will
come back again in the next following years.
Again, our policy is not to train someone to become Christian leader or
servant. We rather equip presently
active Christian leaders to be rooted with God’s Word so that they will be able
to serve the Lord effectively and productively with the biblical sound doctrine.
Over 50 of Wa people have been baptized into His Kingdom
during the past few weeks. More people are
waiting for our evangelist, Kalip, to go to their village at Muang Jok. Kalip has to walk 3-4 hours in order to reach
to the place. Kalip is over 70 years
old. We don’t know how long he will able
to do so. We are now sending him some
funds so that he will be able to ride on a motorcycle to the village. We
are praying, if God is willing, to provide him a 125 cc of motorcycle (scooters
if you are willing!) so that he will be able to reach more people and more
villages. The cost of the motorbike is
$1500.
Baptism for the Wa people
Over 40 Lisu people at Loi
Mo Loi Mo Asian
International School Burma ; extending from the tip at the border of Burma and Thailand
to the very Northeast of Burma at the border of China . Majority of non-believer Lisu people in his
ministry area is growing opium as their main cash crop. Over all, both Lisu and Palong worship the
evil spirits. Ah Lay Bo and his family
need $ 350 a month to continue carrying out the Gospel of Jesus’ redemption to
those atheists in the Shan state of Burma .
Baptism at Loi Tong Sar, Burma
Ah Lay Bo is performing a baptismal ceremony
Baptism at Loi Mo
More mission works are needed to be done in Burma ; however,
the workers are very few. Bible training
producing more barefoot evangelists is demanded so that every village will be
swept and every person will hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If God is willing, we (led by Ah Lay Bo)
would like to train young Christians for evangelistic works in the Shan state
of Burma . Each train-group includes about 10 young
Christians. The training emphasizes on
mission field, rather than a class-room.
Like the time of Jesus, Ah Lay Bo will turn his home into lecture rooms
and his classrooms are at the mission fields so that biblical sound doctrine is
applicable daily at the mission fields.
This way we won’t have to wait for several years in producing Christian
workers. They are trained and serve at
the same time. Please lift up this need
in your daily prayers.
Ah Lay Bo is a model for a barefoot evangelist
Please pray also for this upcoming leadership conference on October
2013. This conference will be the second
time which offered to Christians at central Burma . Our goal is not only to cultivate the
Christian leaders with the Word of God, but also to mobilize them to carrying
out the Great Commission to the lost people at the neighboring houses,
villages, towns or to other ethnic groups of people.
Stephen’s trip to China on May 13-June 6 is very
fruitful. He was asked to teach not only
how to read Lisu, but also to write about the Lisu culture and Lisu traditional
songs. He has done his first volume on
the Lisu culture and traditional songs. This
book is hoping to help many Christian workers to understand the cultural context
of Lisu people so that the gospel will be incarnated into the hearts of Lisu
people. The book will be printed in China and this moment some of Lisu people in China are
translating this book into Chinese.
Stephen's helper in China for publishing his first book
Family
Everyone of the Wong is doing well. Stephen is busy for his evangelistic trips
and teaching the Bible conference. Mary
is busy on taking Isaac back and forth from school and preparing her rice field to be ready for the next
crop. The rice production from the field
is normally used for feeding the AIS’s students. It was great to see Mary taking few days off
from her daily works at home and joining the Bible conference by cooking
several meals for those attendants. Isaac
is doing great at his school. He is in
advance on his English and Thai. He begins to speak few words in Chinese. Becky is moving back to her university
dorm. She is junior at the North-Chiangmai University Thailand and to start his ministry among the
young people here in Southeast Asia and China . He is now raising his mission fund so that he
will be able to serve along with his dad and Asians For Christ.
Mary is cooking at the Bible conference
Again, thank you very much for your faithfulness in
partnering with us in carrying out the Great Commission to the lost people in
the Southeast Asia and China and equipping Christian leaders and church members
to be rooted in the Word of God so that His Kingdom will be expanded and His
name will be lifted up among the people of the Southeast Asia and China.
Prayer Requests
1.
Evangelistic works among Lisu, Lahu ,
Wa and Shan people in Thailand , Burma
and China .
2.
August-September, pray for the third group of
AIS’ students.
3.
October, pray for a leadership conference at the
central of Burma and
possibly Stephen’s mission trip to China .
4.
November, pray for the second group of AIS’
students.
5.
December, pray for Christmas conventions.
6.
January-March, pray for our evangelistic works
to the lost people in Burma
and China .