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God’s Arithmetic
Life Enrichment Church (LEC), a network of house churches in a rural corner of Thailand, was planted in the late 1990s with the vision of multiplication. Those first pioneer missionaries mounted their motorcycles, braving heat and dust – or monsoons and mud – to spread seed broadly, looking for the few who would respond.
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Call to Prayer: Life Lessons
“With our two-month-old fourth daughter in arms, we went through our training. It was all a blur, with the exception of one so very important word that God spoke to me while I was fetching something from our parked car. It stopped me in my tracks. ‘You think you are doing this for me. No, I am doing this for you,'” Carol writes.
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Thankful for a Life of Paradoxes
I like being a TCK because I get to see and do things a lot of people don’t get to. For example, I have learned to do Thai dancing and to cook Thai food. I have made friends who live in many countries. But sometimes I don’t like being a TCK because I don’t really fit in anywhere.
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Thai Anabaptists Gather for Encouragement on the Journey
Most of the 150 people who attended the Thai Anabaptist Gathering from September 27 to October 1, 2016, were Thai, Isaan, and Lao first-generation Buddhist background believers who are growing in Anabaptist identity.
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Gospel Openings But Few Workers in Hmong Villages
Jonah Yang was part of a team that took 730 pairs of glasses donated to the Lion’s Club to Thailand. These were distributed among seven villages. The majority of the people who received the glasses were non-Christians, and it gave him and the team a good opportunity to live and share the gospel.
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New Wineskins, New Wine
“I have been trying to put the new wine into my old skin. And a few days ago, I thought I was ready to burst,” Jeanette Strode writes. “There was anger and pain and frustration. I was sitting in a dark room while Lucy napped. So, I picked up my Bible and began to read. There it was, two chapters in.”
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Discipling Others to Tell the Story
Joi and Brother Phonthawee were beginning to prepare what they would teach in a gathering of Isaan church leaders. Worker Mark Schoenhals was asked to teach teachers and give theological foundations for their teaching of other pastors and church leaders.
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Marine, Mennonite, Missionary
People often tell my wife and me that our story is incredible. From our perspective, however, our tale is simply what it looks like to come face-to-face with the gospel. It is characterized by Jesus’ words recorded in Mark 1:15: Repent and believe.
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Orientation for tranSend Interns Held at VMMissions
Orientation for service is multi-faceted; it includes heart, mind and soul. Each morning, participants listened for God’s voice in silence, watched for him in nature, and reflected on what God said to them in various settings, encouraging them to seek God heartily.
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The Gospel in Cultural Context
Wiang was attending a gathering of followers of Jesus. Questions and cynicism dominated her life since the tragic death of her husband in a tractor accident. The things she had heard and read hadn’t broken through the hard places in her heart. But the joyful dancing she was witnessing did.
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