Mike and Sherri Morrissey

Tuesday, September 01, 2026

This past Sunday, my father, Mike Morrissey Sr., passed away. For the past few years, each time we have travelled to serve overseas, I have been concerned that I may not see my Dad again. My Dad's health has been in deep decline, and he has had to be admitted to the hospital frequently. My Dad has taken a few falls in the last few weeks, but this past one on Saturday was real bad. He had a brain bleed that did severe damage. Although I am grieving, I praise the Lord that I was in the States at the time to be with him right up until the end. Even though I grieve, I praise the Lord that my father is not suffering with the pain that he had been bearing for the past few years.

I looked in past blogs, and I found this picture from 2014 when my Dad visited us in Thailand. In this picture, he is praying blessings on a new Pioneer Pastor Church Plant with Pastors Jennifer, Peter, Apple, Nuch, and a lay member of God is Good Church in Chonburi. Back then, Dad was strong and robust in body and spirit.

The other blessing that Sherri and I have is that we have a great support system. We have been humbled by the showering of words of sympathy and prayers of comfort. God is good and so are His people!

Dad was a faithful supporter of the Blessing Home Centers, which save and protect children and teens from the child sex and drug trades. When he first started supporting this ministry, we had one center with ten children. Now we have expanded to five centers and provide services to over 150 children.

A Blessing Home scholarship costs $600 annually, and helps provide school uniforms, food, transportation to school, afterschool classes, Bible clubs, and medical and dental care to give these kids a different trajectory in life, a new life of hope built upon Jesus.

If you, or your Sunday School class, or small group would like to support a Blessing Home child, you can designate your donation.

If you are sending a check, put BLESSING HOME in the memo section of the check and mail to: Thailand NOW, P.O. Box 56, Mannsville, KY 42758

If you are giving online, you can select BLESSING HOME has your designation. You can give online through our website >> https://thailandnow.org/donate-2/

Thank you for your faithful prayers and generous donations that make this mission possible.

Blessings in Christ,

Mike Morrissey Jr.

Friday, July 17, 2026

Meet two of our Blessing Home University and College Graduates

It is a great victory when our Blessing Home move on to go to University or Technical College, and it is an absolute life changing event for the whole family when they graduate and move on to their careers.

You all have been very faithful and generous in your support, and we hope you are blessed reading the stories of these two graduates.

Pleng Pleng is the daughter of Pastors Sila and Wassana, who lead the Thailand Wesley Church Organization (a Thai independent Wesleyan denomination). Her mother Wassana is the Director of Blessing Home Minburi, located in Bangkok.

Pleng Pleng has always been a indispensable worker at Blessing Home Minburi, teaching English to the children and teens (English proficiency is a valuable skill, since it is the language of international commerce). Pleng Pleng also serves at Prasiri Wesley Church as Worship Team Leader and leads in ministry to children and teens at her church.

Pleng Pleng has now graduated at Assumption University in Bangkok with a B.A. in Marketing. And she is now working at Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC), a Christian ministry that provides local Christian radio and media broadcasting in 50 countries in over 152 languages.

We are very proud of Pleng Pleng, whose work with FEBC is helping to bring the gospel of Jesus to Thai people. Pleng Pleng has to spend 4 hours per day going to work and back home on public transportation, so her work days are quite long.

Our second graduate is Kai Mook, who is a graduate of Blessing Home Isan. Kai Mook and her older sister Yok (also a Blessing Home Isan graduate) are fervent workers and leaders at Blessing Home Isan and Grace Methodist Church in Nonsomboon.

Kai Mook and Yok are Sunday School teachers for the children at Grace Methodist Church. They also serve on the Worship Team. Kai Mook is a key leader in the Church Multiplication team being led by Pastor Corn, who is the Director of Blessing Home Isan. This Church Multiplication team is planting Pioneer Pastor Churches in three unreached counties in their region. We are amazed at the fruitfulness of Kai Mook's ministry. She is an effective evangelist and disciple-maker!

Kai Mook earned her Associates Degree in Business Computer Applications and now works at a Christian company in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima that makes signs. And she travels home on the weekends so she can serve with Grace Methodist Church and Blessing Home Isan.

We praise the Lord for both Pleng Pleng and Kai Mook. They have been blessed greatly and now they are a great blessing to the Thai people. God is good!

YOUR DONATIONS MAKE THIS MISSION POSSIBLE

If the Lord leads you to support Thailand NOW mission, you can donate by mail, online, or with estate gifts.

Donations by mail: Checks can be made to Thailand NOW and sent to our treasurer at Thailand NOW, P.O. Box 56, Mannsville, KY 42758

Donations online: Visit our website at > https://thailandnow.org/donate

Gifts of stocks, bonds and other estate gifts: Please contact our treasurer, Terri Gabehart via email at terrigabe@windstream.net

Thursday, June 11, 2026

A new Blessing Home Center in Kalasin Province

A new Blessing Home Center is opening in Kalasin

Thailand NOW missionaries Nhia Wahn and Mao Her have opened a new Blessing Home Center at their new home church in Kalasin province. Pastor Corn, director of Blessing Home Isan, brought a group of her Blessing Home young adults and teens to help give this new center a great start. And then the numbers have taken off, and the place is totally packed with children and teens.

Above is Pastor Korn leading the children at Blessing Home Kalasin in worship songs. Pastor Corn has been accepted into the D.Min. program at Asbury Theological Seminary and will begin her studies at the end of July. Most of the work is done online, but she will need to come to Asbury once per year. We are very proud of Corn!

Above is the young children's group at Blessing Home Kalasin with Thailand NOW missionary, Pastor Mao.

Above is the teen group at Blessing Home Kalasin, with Pastor Mao on the left and Pastor May on the right. Pastor May serves as Director of the Abundant Life Financial Training Program and also as President of the Life Upon The Rock Foundation. This new Blessing Home Center in Kalasin is registered with May's foundation. The village chief was very happy to meet with May and to discover that this new ministry was being done under a legally registered foundation with the Thai government. It is important to do things the right way.

This new Blessing Center (Blessing Home Kalasin) also has a new Pioneer Pastor church being planted. Pastors Nhia Wahn and Mao Her are veteran church planters, and we know that this new church plant will be a center for planting many Pioneer Pastor churches in the Isan region, which is the most unreached part of Thailand. Please pray for this new Pioneer Pastor church and for Pastors Nhia Wahn and Mao.

Abundant Life Financial Training for our Blessing Home teens and young adults gives them a great start

In April, the Blessing Home Isan young adults and teens joined an Abundant Life Financial Training Seminar provided by Pastor May at the Training Center in Buriram. They were joined by adults from other churches coming for training in biblical principles of financial management and life skills.

Are hope is that these young people will learn biblical financial management early on so they they will not make the same mistakes of falling into deep debt and doing no budgeting and management of finances.

Above is a group picture of everyone receiving certificates for participating in the Abundant Life Financial Training seminar. Pastor May is in the middle of the front row.

Above: Participants learn how to use the envelope system of managing family and small business finances.

Above are three of our Blessing Home Isan young adults, and all of them serve with Pastor Corn at Blessing Home Isan and Grace Church. These three are key leaders in the efforts being led by Pastor Corn to plant Pioneer Pastor Churches in the Isan region. The one in the middle is Kaimook (which means Pearl) and she is one of our newest college graduates. We will introduce her and other Blessing Home graduates in next month's blog.