Praise God! Great is the Lord! We want to some wonderful recent victories to share.
First, there are two new church plants happening this month.
- Please pray for Pastor Gorowit as he is moving his family to the far South to Nakhon Si Thammarat province. This region is still majority Buddhist but has a significant Muslim minority. Please pray for hearts to be open to the Gospel. This is the 105th church planted through Thailand NOW.
- Please pray for Pastor Sunan, a veteran church planter, who will be planting a Pioneer Pastor Church in an unreached county called Pru Yai which is in Korat. Pru Yai county has over 10,000 souls and now there will be the first church in history in that county. This church is called Trinity Church, and Pastor Sunan already has a group of Christians who will be going there with him. This is the 49th Pioneer Pastor Church, meaning a church planted in a county that had no Christian churches.
All Pioneer Pastor churches are self-sufficient. Pastor Sunan has leased a very large building that the owner is allowing us to use for a very modest price. It is a two-story commercial building that has many classrooms (both large and small) plus a large room that is ideal for a sanctuary for worship. Teacher Palm, a member of Trinity Church, will be starting a language school at this facility, and the profits from the language school will pay for the rent of the building. Through your generosity, we have been able to help with startup costs for this church.
Below are pictures of the building from the outside and the entrance.
Below are pictures of 1. Pastor Sunan by one of the many smaller classrooms on the first floor. 2. One of the large classrooms. and 3. The large room that will be the sanctuary.
Please pray for success for the language school, and that Pastor Sunan will make many new disciples of Christ.
Second, we have more progress on the construction of the Abundant Life Training Center.
We have now received $32,150 of the goal of $47,000 needed for Phase Three of the construction (this will be for six large air conditioners for the sanctuary, installation of 220 Volt, 3-Phase commercial electricity (installing a large transformers and poles to distribute electricity across the campus), as well as a security wall around the perimeter of the Abundant Life Training Center. $14,850 is still needed to complete this phase. If you want to donate towards the construction of the Abundant Life Training Center, please designate your gift to the Building Fund.
This next week, the kitchen and restrooms building, which is behind the large sanctuary, will be complete. Below are some pictures.
The only thing left is to install the water filtration system and some painting on the outside. Also, we have ordered the air conditioning units, and those units will not arrive from the factory until April. These are special 3-phase units that will be more efficient than single phase.
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