Merry Christmas from our Missionaries!
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Merry Christmas from Jesus for Asia!
We are thankful beyond words for the greatest gift ever given – our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. His gave us a chance at life we could never deserve and a chance to share our blessed hope with those who have not heard it.
As you celebrate Christ's birth with your family and friends, please keep His precious lost children in your prayers, that they may join us in eternal celebration when He returns to take us home.
The Atwell Family - Bangkok Center of Influence
In this part of the world it’s easy to miss the holidays. There’s no snow or pumpkin spice to remind us Christmas is just around the corner. Thankfully we live in a place that constantly reminds how much we and everyone else need Jesus! Let’s be thankful Christ came to this world, not only at Christmas time, but all throughout the year. Thank you to all of the donors who are so grateful for what God has given them that they cheerfully give so others in Bangkok might have an opportunity to find Jesus too!
~Click here to read the Atwells' blog~
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Eden Blossoms
As we reflect, this time of year, upon the Son of God who came down to where we were, we are grateful for how He came down earlier this year to the level of the children of Missionland*, a small, closed Asian country. Our frail, human efforts to launch the first-ever, nation-wide children’s Sabbath school system here, complete with lesson quarterlies in the national language, were met with a success that we could neither claim, nor have imagined. As the Missionlandese celebrate this season with deeper understanding, may all our hearts be opened afresh to the amazing, way-finding gift of Immanuel. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Gayle Haberkam
Christmas is hardly noticed by BletJhaw and myself as we work alone, deep in the isolated jungles of Thailand, because we both have one thing on our minds, - a real urgency to reach these people for Jesus before it is too late. All of the suffering, sacrifices, dangers, and hardships involved in our work pales into insignificance, as we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, daily feeling His miraculous protection and power to heal the sick, and seeing people slowly added to the church! We just finished an evangelism week with Pastor Jason Sliger, and baptized a lovely family of 5 at its conclusion! Visit my web page to read the extraordinary story about this family and much more! We love you dearly and thank you for your support and prayers!
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GoBeDo Missions
It’s with heartfelt gratitude that we at GoBeDo Missions wish you all the best for this upcoming New Year. Because of supporters and prayer warriors like you, we have been allowed to continue working in the mountains even with the war raging stronger each day.
The conflicts will continue to strengthen as we near Jesus' soon coming so we continue to also lift you up, encouraging each of you to pray and draw closer to God than we ever have before.
Onward, upward is the call.
Happy New Year!
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iEAT
What an amazing year this has been in Asia for the family of iEAT! Two YD-like youth camps, multiple conversions from various world-views, 32 current students and 7 graduates all of which are now in full-time service. Our Christmas will be merry because you helped us do so much printing, translating, teaching, reviving, and sharing.
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The Bauder Family - Jesus 4 Slum Kids
We Sincerely Thank God for everything He has done for us this year! It means more than words could say, He is amazing and deserves praise all year long! We thank you to everyone who helped us this year, We are touched by your kindness and warmth. You sure put a smile on this family's faces! Thank You! Merry Christmas!
~Click here to read the Bauders' blog~
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Jim and Irene Hill
We are so thankful that the Lord brought us to Bangkok in February and that we have the privilege of struggling to learn the Thai language. Thailand is a Buddhist country, but we are confronted with Christmas trees, lights, ornaments, presents, Santas, reindeer, "snow'' and snowmen, and our hearts ache. The secular Christmas has reached Bangkok, but the best news in all the world has not. “And they shall call His name Emmanuel,…God with us." Please pray.
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Jonathan and Hannah Hill
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times we’ve experienced Satan attacking and trying to hinder our work, but time and time again we’ve seen God strengthen and protect us, and Satan is defeated. It’s exciting to see the great controversy and know that we’re on the right side. We’re also thankful for each of you who have supported and prayed for us and the whole ministry of Jesus for Asia. God bless each of you!
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Assisted Wellness
It was thrilling to contribute a small part of the ASAP training at our local church during May, June and July, for 12 young Bible workers from a limited access SE Asiacountry. It was such a joy to teach and sense the Holy Spirit’s working through my instruction and when Mike was teaching too, even though my English-to-Thai translation abilities seem so limited.
For us to be able to share about healthy spiritual lifestyle, including nutrition, connected with the
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amazing intricacies of the human body’s structure and function provided for us by our loving Creator, has been a real highlight.
I’m so thankful to be learning by fresh daily experience how to trust God with every unexpected problem He allows, knowing that He promises to provide all we need to do all His will – is a revelation especially meaningful as we enter this New Year!
Miranda Lundby - Cambodia Boarding Academy Project
I am so grateful to God for the Howell family and Christy (our new dean), and the call God has put in their lives to leave their own homes and plant their hearts in new soil. I am equally grateful for our local missionary workers: Sokhom, Yohan, and Pu Lee, and the vision, ownership, and heart they have for this project. Finally I am grateful personally and corporately that I have the opportunity to see what God is doing and to share it in His name.
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The Norton Family
God has led over the past year and a half, using miraculous provision and divine intervention. We've been in Thailand only 4 months and have been fostering children for 2 of them. We came thinking we knew Him but are learning we've only just begun to scratch the surface.
~Click here to read the Nortons' blog~
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Volunteer Ministry International
A joy exceeding language swept over my soul as I realized that while I shared my conversion experience at a health seminar held in Chiang Mai in early September, a young Thai Seventh-day Adventist woman, for the first time, yielded her life fully to Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit melting her heart with the love of God.
The privilege of daily participating in God’s process of restoring His image in our marriage, and in the
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Ayutthaya Seventh-day Adventist Church family, and to witness a Central Thai brother being baptized in early December, voicing that he wants to follow Jesus and be a real Christian – has been worth all the collective and personal sacrifices invested!
We praise God! for His abundant provision of underserved mercy and for our being desperately dependent upon His grace – in answer to the many, many earnest prayers of His people, every day of 2019.