Some Great News!
We want to express our congratulations to Thailand NOW missionaries, Allie and David Houle on the birth of their daughter Lydia. Lydia arrived a few weeks earlier then expected and we give thanks to our Heavenly Father that Lydia and Allie are both doing well.
Abundant Life Financial Training
Ratchada "May" Kuntisa, Director of the Abundant Life Financial Training ministry has been busy training Thai Christians to manage their money through biblical principles. Through this training, Thai Christians learn how to budget their family and business finances, how to make an emergency fund, how to get out of debt and stay out of debt, and how to start an Abundant Life Savings Group in their churches.
Below are pictures of:
1 Seminar participants at Muang Thai Korat Church
2. May teaching the seminar at Muang Thai Church
3. Seminar participants learning the "envelope system" for tracking and controlling their finances.
Churches that have had Abundant Life Financial training AND have had an Abundant Life Savings Group in operation for over one year see very large positive changes. The members of these churches see people lifting out of perpetual debt and poverty and moving towards financial freedom. These churches see an increase in tithing and these churches become strong and self-sustaining.
Church Multiplication "Train the Trainers" event in Bangkok in February 23-26.
We have church multipliers coming in from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand (and possibly other Asian nations as well) to learn to become Church Multiplication Trainers. We believe this event will be a watershed moment for our ministry and for the Pioneer Pastor Program, as we seek to expand our efforts across Asia.
Please lift this event in your daily prayers. Many of the church multipliers being trained at this event serve in nations where Christians are persecuted and church multipliers and evangelists (and their families) are in constant danger. They are the heroes of the church and we consider it a great honor to serve together with them.
