June Update

We want to thank you for your untiring prayers. God’s blessings are pouring upon us because we know that you are all praying fervently for us and the ministries that God has entrusted to us.

• Please pray as we are going to extend our visa for another year next week. The immigration rules have been changing a lot lately and immigration officers have a hard time implementing them thus many foreigners are having a hard time extending their visa. Please pray that everything will go smoothly. We also thank the Lord for using people to help us financially specifically for this need.

• Pray for Narlin as she runs the Grace Home Kindergarten Center. We hired a staff that will help in cleaning and cooking. The salary will be taken from our personal support. She is also work as acting principal and adviser of the newly set up Mae Sai Primary School and Orphanage Center in our church. We have more than 30 pupils from grade 1 to grade 5. Please help us pray for a van that we can use as a school service. She will also be coordinating educational training in the community this year in partnership with our church and World Education Consortium (WEC). In addition to this, she is still holding English club (free English lesson) every afternoon in the community. Please pray for strength and wisdom.

• Please pray for the start of the Mission Training Center today. Five students out of seven people passed the screening and interview. The participants come from different tribal groups both in Myanmar and Mae Sai. Joey will be teaching full time (3 hours a day) together with a partner from the US. This is nine-month training for future pastors, evangelists and church planters. Joey is also acting as the Pastor of the International congregation of Mae Sai Grace Church by which the community have been working together to reach the lost people of the Mekong Region.

• Pray for the Dela Paz children—Jared, Jillian and Reuven as they struggle to adjust in the community and their home schooling. It has been different when they first arrived, when they thought everything seems new and exciting, when the neighbors are excited to see the strange neighbors. The novelty and excitement are gone and they are faced with the reality that they don’t exactly fit. Home schooling is tough for them and for us as well. We need help.

• We praise the Lord for the unexpected support that has been pouring upon us. But there are months when support doesn’t come as we expected it to be. This month of June is one of those months. Although we have received substantial help financially for our visa this month, part of it had been used for our daily expenses. Please pray for a more regular support.