It has been a busy couple weeks in the ministry up here!
This week we began a Bible Study for new believers, currently made up of several individuals who have recently come to the faith among the shelter clients we work with. We are focusing on teaching fundamentals of Christian living while trying to also guide in reading and understand scripture on their own. It is off to a wonderful start, and we are excited to see what God may do through it!
We have also begun connecting with a small congregation of refugees of the Karen tribe (from Myanmar and northern Thailand) and with a local pastor who is a former missionary to Myanmar (then Burma) working toward a long term strategy of reaching the refugee communities of the various Burmese tribes scattered around the city. The language barrier is great, but our God is greater, and we look forward to working with our Karen brothers and sisters to find ways to reach the unreached in our own town!
The editing of our book is coming along slower than we had hoped, but we are continuing to work toward a first printing and to explore ways to make it accessible to as many as may benefit from it's message. We prayerfully hope that God will bless our frail words and use them to make his precious gospel known!
We are also working toward an outreach effort toward the many children without families living in group homes here. We are building a team to visit periodically and show them the love of Christ and teach the word of God. The scriptures show us that our God is a friend of the fatherless and guardian of the orphan. We want them to know a Father who will never leave or forsake them. More on this as it develops.
Please continue to lift us up and prayer! It is so encouraging to know that you all remember us in your petitions to God each day, and it really helps to keep us going! Thank you all, and God bless.
Luke
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