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Where are you doing mission?
This photo reflects the reality of cross-cultural mission today. Included in this photo are local Christians, a Thai evangelist working with our missionary teams, members of a Korean-American short-term mission team and long-term missionaries. (See if you can pick who is who!) It’s so amazing how God brings people from all over the world to...
The church as a banana tree
Seven things to pray for missionaries
There are numerous ways a church can pray in order to bless their missionaries. Because the church might not always know those immediate, pressing issues in the missionary’s life, praying from God’s Word is always valuable and applicable in every season and place. Here are seven simple ways to pray for missionaries from Paul’s charge...
Missionaries with ” tattoos”
One strange observation I’ve made during my time in Thailand is the number of missionaries who sport a distinct “tattoo” half way up the calf of their leg. The mystery was solved for me after I too received a similar marking on my calf . Thai motorcycle mufflers get very hot and people invariably rub...
Why every missionary should cook
Lesson of Endurance from a Thai Christian in Bangkok
It was Friday evening. It had been a long week filled with ministry responsibilities, and I was thinking of an excuse to skip our weekly house church meeting. I was tired. But Mr. Narong showed up at my front steps enthusiastic and ready to go. He had been delivering coals to restaurants all day, and...
What Does Theological Education Have to Do with Church Planting?
I have served in Thailand as a missionary for about ten years, of which the last four have been spent in Bangkok, teaching church history and missions at a seminary, assisting a Thai Christian book publisher, and helping lead a new church plant. Before that I was involved in small town church planting and evangelism...
Why mangoes?
It is “four-showers-a-day” weather. It is “I-don’t-need-a-microwave-to-melt-butter” weather. It is “I-feel-like-crying-when-I-open-the-closet-in-the-morning-because-everything-already-looks-too-hot-to-wear” weather. In other words, it is hot season in Thailand. It is the season of short tempers and damp hair clinging to one’s neck. It is the season of fatigue and the taste of salt when you kiss your child’s cheek. The heat sits...
Thanksgiving/Harvest Sunday
I was asked to preach on Thanksgiving/Harvest Sunday in a mainly tribal church in Chiang Mai called “Beulah Church”. It was impressive to see a huge mound of fruit pilled up at the pulpit that morning (Thailand is known for its abundance and variety of fruits – 28 varieties of Bananas!). I did not inform...
