A Father to the fatherless In the village where we have our church, the population consists mostly of grandparents and their grandchildren. The parents go to find work in bigger cities. Most of [...]

I have been enjoying teaching chronological Bible stories with third-year Education students at the student center. They have been coming to the center for a year now, and they are interested to [...]

I had no idea what to expect when I observed my first English Club at The 180° Learning Center near the campus of Mahasarakham University. I was there to observe the ministry and to see if this [...]

More than a few mission supporters overestimate the spirituality of the missionaries they support. In the minds of some, missionaries are the super-elite frontline troops in the advance of the [...]

It was Sunday, and some OMF colleagues from Bangkok had flown in that morning to attend the church service at the house church of Yaang Sisuraat, Isaan. Everything was business as usual, until [...]

Lately, in a seminar about church planting, we were reminded of the biblical notion of the man or woman of peace. Jesus tells his disciples they should look for a man or woman of peace and then [...]

“Can I stop by?” Came the familiar voice on the phone. A friend that had moved to Bangkok was in town and wanted to come and visit. I was excited to hear his voice and gladly asked him to stop [...]

The plan was to help one of the Christians who live nearby evangelize their village. When I came there she didn’t want to go anymore, so I asked what happened. ‘’If you are going to evangelize in [...]

So Being a church can be done during the dishes. Last week, being church became visible in a different way. In the village of Baan Waai Luum, not 2 or 3 believers came together this week. For a [...]

If someone is unkind to me. I better keep my mouth shut, right? “For the second time in 2 weeks, I hear this remark. This time while doing the dishes, after the church’ lunch on Sunday. On my [...]

‘Look who’s there’ our daughter shouts out. Grandfather Ohd and grandmother Dam have come and as always they also brought a snack for the kids. This time some sticky rice and sausages. For the [...]

”You can pray for rain” he said laughing. We met him during our prayer walk in his village. With some other men he was eating papaya salad and drinking whiskey. When we asked him if we could pray [...]

Last week, we listened as one of the Christian ladies shared how she was really relying on the MP3 player with an audio Bible, Christian songs, and testimonies, in order to learn the Gospel. She [...]

  After a day of hard work, we finally were able to pull out two trees besides the church. The church members had been talking about it for a while, but the concrete around the trees [...]

Mrs. Nuthiap (78), had in the past had Christian neighbours in Lopburi province, from whom she had heard about Jesus. But she did not want to be a Christian. When we went to her house to tell her [...]

What do you do when people are not interested anymore in doing Bible study? What do you do when the first Christian contact in your village (the hoped for catalyst, the reason you moved exactly [...]

After a full day’s work, I needed to do some shopping and went to one of the big shopping centers in town. I was tired and hoped to get things done quickly and go home to rest. Feeling hungry I [...]

Saturday, January 13th, was National Children’s Day in Thailand. It is a day to celebrate children and many places will sponsor special free events for children on that day. Our local church [...]

Last month, the parents of a local believer showed interest in learning more about Jesus. Praise God, that the mom has taken the step of faith and was baptized a few weeks ago! It is a joy to see [...]

The leader of the nearby church called me around Christmas, really discouraged and he sounded like he was close to giving up. An active and important church member left the church to live with an [...]

The task of clearly sharing the “evangel” (gospel) among Thai people is a difficult task. We found this out once again during a medical outreach a couple of weeks ago. Some of the evangelists [...]

Choi became a member of our church when he took baptism in October 2016. Even before he took baptism, he attended church regularly for almost a year. He cannot read or write and his speech is [...]

Celebrating Christmas with Thai people is a wonderful opportunity to share and proclaim Gods love for the world. This season, we again went out to villages. Under the open sky we set up a stage, [...]

  “There seem to be more of them than last time,” I was thinking out loud. We were passing a plot of land with many hammocks strung between the trees. It’s located next to a parking lot for [...]

Recently, I once again talked to Mrs. D. For about 3 years, she has been living in Sahatsakhan and making her living by selling grilled pork in the market. Therefore she has contact with many [...]

Sometimes life in a remote village in Isaan can be boring. For Isaan people too. What a grace for missionaries! I’m thinking about the hours in the afternoon at the market when there are no [...]

Two years ago we started a cell group at Baan Kohklam village. Phii Nii was one of the leading members of that group so we wanted to train her up to be the leader of that group. But after some [...]

It’s for the spirits, so that they don’t get confused. Because spirits travel in straight lines and this is a T-junction, that will confuse them’’ one of my neighbours replied when I asked her [...]

One day, I was giving some of the new Christians a ride into town in our car. As I drove, I noticed that one of the elderly Christian ladies raised her hands and bowed as we passed a prominent [...]

After a long and painful battle with Asthma, Taa Soda was finally ushered into heaven. He, his wife and their granddaughter were the only believers in their family. And because all of their [...]